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Via: krishna • 6 years ago • 5 comments

Key House Republican says 'Russia attacked this country in 2016'

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Outgoing South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy took Russia to task over alleged interference in the 2016 US elections and suggested President Donald Trump ask Russia to extradite its recently indicted nationals.

"Russia attacked this country in 2016," Gowdy, the chairman of the influential House Oversight Committee, said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation."

Gowdy broke again with Trump in the interview by declaring the special counsel investigation led by former FBI Director Robert Mueller is decidedly not a "witch hunt".

"My focus is on the first thing: what did Russia do," Gowdy said. "And that's not a witch hunt. That's an attack on our country."

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1 seeder Krishna 6 years ago

Gowdy's comments came a day ahead of Trump's meeting with Putin in Finland, where the two leaders were holding an extended sit-down Monday.

Gowdy said he wanted Trump to give "serious consideration" to a point blank request of Putin to give the US all 13 Russians that Mueller indicted in February and the 12 members of Russian intelligence the US charged last week.

"Your first requests of Vladimir Putin needs to be: tell us which airport we can pick up the 25 Russians that tried to interfere with the fundamentals of our democracy," Gowdy said.

"If you really claim you had nothing to do with it that you should be as shocked as we were that your military was being used to impact our election. Tell us where you're going to extradite those folks because an American grand jury indicted them for undermining our democracy."