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Media Claimed Trump DOJ Went After Twitter Troll On Behalf Of Devin Nunes. That’s Not True.

Ashe Schow
Media Claimed Trump DOJ Went After Twitter Troll On Behalf Of Devin Nunes. That’s Not True.
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The media this week attempted to paint a Justice Department subpoena as an abuse of power by the Trump administration. It was no such thing.

The story, according to MSNBC, is that the DOJ under Trump went after a parody Twitter account that got under the skin of Trump ally Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA). The truth, however, is that Nunes had nothing to do with the DOJ’s subpoena, which was actually about a threat made to then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

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