Dem Rep. Stephen Lynch: Comey ‘Ultimately Handed the Election’ to Trump

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LYNCH: "Comey did — he ultimately he handed the election to then-candidate Trump by questioning with 11 days without time to respond he -- he -- he basically threw the question of whether the investigation was continuing regarding Hillary Clinton and the e-mails back into the mix. Our problem has been with -- with getting subpoenas of some of these activities of Trump’s associates within the committee, myself and the full committee ranking member Elijah Cummings. There have been zero subpoena requests granted on behalf of the -- the committee with respect to -- to the White House. This is despite the fact that we’ve got four Trump associates that have pled guilty. We’ve got five under indictment, and you would think that when the lawyer for Manafort and -- and Gates plead guilty — when the lawyer pleads guilty you would think that that would give rise to sufficient suspicion to -- to issue a couple of subpoenas, but we’ve got zero from Trey Gowdy. Instead Devin Nunes with the cooperation of Mr. Gowdy are investigating the FBI. So it is -- it is confusing, it is counterintuitive. You would think that they would be interested in enforcing the rule of law but that’s not the case with this White House."