Democrats attempt cover up on their collusion with Ukraine in the 2016 election

Red States:
Republicans believe that the Department of Justice and the FBI may have evidence of efforts into alleged “collusive actions” taken by the Democrats with Ukrainian officials to undermine the candidacy of Donald Trump in 2016.

But a Democratic senator is discouraging the DOJ and the FBI from turning over that evidence.

From Washington Examiner:

Chalupa said she developed a network of sources in Washington and Kyiv, and met with Ukrainian Embassy officials during the 2016 campaign about her research focused on the nexus between Manafort, Trump, and Russia, according to a 2017 Politico article. Chalupa has denied being an opposition researcher for the DNC, telling CNN in 2017 that “the DNC never asked me to go to the Ukrainian Embassy to collect information.” Manafort, who is now serving a seven-year prison sentence for federal convictions on bank and tax fraud, resigned as Trump’s campaign chairman in August 2016, as reports emerged about his work on behalf of pro-Russia Ukrainian officials.

Although there was no collusion, the information that came out was then used against the campaign and fed the “Russia connection” theory that the Democrats and Hillary Clinton promoted while the campaign was still going on. Manafort resigned. While Chalupa denied she was told by the DNC to collect information, she was connected to the DNC, she was in charge of the Democratic National Committee’s “ethnic outreach” efforts.

According to a Yahoo report from October 2016, Chalupa began suspecting in the spring of 2016 that she was the subject of a “state-sponsored” cyberattack. FBI agents questioned Chalupa — and imaged her laptop and smartphone — as part of an investigation into the cyberattacks.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) who is chair of the Finance Committee and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) who is chair of the Homeland Security Committee sent a letter to the Attorney General Bill Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray in November asking for relevant material and asking for the FBI interview notes.
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But Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) tried to head that off at the pass, with his own letter to Barr and Wray asking that they not turn over the information, calling the request “outrageous,” attacking the reports the Republicans cited and claiming their request raised privacy issues.
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So for Democrats, it is OK to falsely accuse the President of collusion with Russia and spend $40 million investigating it, but it is not OK to investigate Democrats working with Ukraine against the Trump campaign.  They should be held to their own standards and the government should produce what evidence they have on that cooperation with Ukraine. 

Democrats denied due process to the President during their impeachment hearings and now they are trying to deprive the GOP of evidence of their own conduct.  The GOP should be entitled to discovery on the issue.

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