Folks close to Burr say he's given cover to other Rs over the last two years to say there's a bipartisan investigation going on, and they're angry over the attacks over the subpoena to @DonaldJTrumpJr.
Mollie Verified account @MZHemingway
Burr's subpeona makes so little sense and his committee has been such a non-player (apart from a staffer sleeping with a NYT national security reporter and sentenced for lying about the relationship during a leak investigation) that I'm honestly confused what he thinks he's doing
Hill sources suggest it's not intel community pulling strings or anything like that, just that he's easily controlled by Democrats on the committee and GOP Senate's anti-Trump leadership -- who aren't ready to give up leverage that Russia hoax gave them.
In any case, Burr apparently thinks he should be thanked for giving Democrats & media cover for their conspiracy theory hoax. May have been better for him to spend recent years performing oversight of agencies rather than running interference for them.
Donald Mangum @dwmangum
Here in N.C. it’s a damn good thing he isn’t running again. Folks are some kinda mad back home with him over this crap.
bbnanny @NanbumHall
I’m texting him every damn day. He’s a jerk
jim tierney @avenue62
Check his bank account, the one in the Cayman Islands 🇰🇾
Jerry Phillips @jerry_foy
He likes very much the idea that he & warner work together cooperatively. It's likely the subpoena is just because warner wanted it & burr didn't think it would hurt anything.
chickenlady @chickenldy
And WHY aren’t the texts messages of “no paper trail” Warner being front & center right now?! Why isn’t Burr concerned about that?!
lynnj123 @lynnj123
I think it’s time to have a committee hearing on Warner texts with the Russian oligarchs
Another one caught in a sex scandal?