GOP senator on Trump Jr subpoena: ‘Time to move on’

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Thursday criticized the subpoena issued to Donald Trump Jr. by the Senate Intelligence Committee earlier this week.

“The Mueller Report cleared @DonaldJTrumpJr and he’s already spent 27 hours testifying before Congress,” Tillis, who is up for reelection in 2020, wrote Thursday morning. “Dems have made it clear this is all about politics. It’s time to move on & start focusing on issues that matter to Americans.”

I agree with Leader McConnell: this case is closed. The Mueller Report cleared @DonaldJTrumpJr and he’s already spent 27 hours testifying before Congress. Dems have made it clear this is all about politics. It’s time to move on & start focusing on issues that matter to Americans. https://t.co/11THs9LE0j

— Senator Thom Tillis (@SenThomTillis) May 9, 2019

{mosads}The Senate Intelligence Committee is led by fellow North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr (R). Several other congressional Republicans also blasted the subpoena since it was announced Wednesday afternoon.

“Apparently the Republican chair of the Senate Intel Committee didn’t get the memo from the Majority Leader that this case was closed,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) tweeted, referencing a speech by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) declaring “case closed” on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) also condemned the subpoena, tweeting Wednesday, “Endless investigations — by either party — won’t change the fact that there was NO collusion,” while acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said issuing the subpoena without notifying the White House was “bad form.”

President Trump’s eldest son previously testified behind closed doors to the House and Senate intelligence committees in December 2017, also testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2017 and telling the panel he was “peripherally aware” of plans to expand his father’s businesses into Russia. Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen testified earlier this year to the House Oversight and Reform Committee that Trump Jr. was more involved than his testimony indicated.