Lawmaker's 'peculiar midnight run' endangers Trump-Russia inquiry
Source: The Guardian
Lawmaker's 'peculiar midnight run' endangers Trump-Russia inquiry
House intelligence chair Devin Nunes reportedly disappeared from
Uber ride, fueling further questions over his role in committees
investigation
Julian Borger in Washington
Sunday 26 March 2017 16.36 BST
The House intelligence committee investigation of the Trump campaigns alleged links with Moscow looks in danger of unravelling as a result of the unexplained behaviour of its chairman, Devin Nunes, a former Trump adviser.
Such behaviour reportedly includes an unexplained disappearance from an Uber ride with a staffer on Tuesday night, described by his Democratic counterpart as a peculiar midnight run.
The investigation subsequently appeared to stall, with Nunes calling off a critical hearing scheduled for Tuesday 28 March, at a time when his Democratic counterpart on the committee, Adam Schiff, said he had seen more than circumstantial evidence of collusion between the Trump camp and Russia.
At an extraordinary committee hearing last Monday, the FBI director, James Comey, confirmed for the first time that the bureau was investigating Trump associates for possible collusion with Moscow.
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