- Congress members’ phone records targeted by Trump DoJ
- Schumer calls for Barr and Sessions to testify before Senate
- Trump DoJ secretly seized House Democrats’ data in crackdown on leaks
The justice department has asked for an internal investigation into the Trump-era seizure of phone data from House Democrats in 2018, the Associated Press is reporting.
Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco asked the department’s inspector general to open the investigation on Friday, a senior Justice Department official told the AP, after Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, and Senate judiciary committee chair, Dick Durbin demanded that Trump-era attorneys general William Barr and Jeff Sessions testify about the seizures.
“The reports of the behavior of the attorney general under Donald Trump are appalling,” White House comms director Kate Bedingfield tells @mitchellreports. “He obviously has a very different relationship with his Department of Justice than Trump did his” she says of Biden.
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