WASHINGTON _ Just days after the Senate's top Republican declared "case closed" on the Trump campaign's involvement with Russian meddling in the 2016 election, a GOP-led Senate committee investigating the issue subpoenaed the president's son, setting off howls from Republicans aimed at Sen. Richard Burr.
Burr, a North Carolina Republican in his third term in the Senate, has largely been able to shield the Senate Intelligence Committee from partisan bickering. But Republicans teed off on Burr for the decision to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. _ after the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report and after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's declaration on the Senate floor.
"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, a Kentucky Republican, wrote on Twitter, linking to the Axios story breaking news of the subpoena.
