WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Thursday he had not spoken to the U.S. Justice Department about its investigation into whether some of Senator Richard Burr’s recent stock sales were tied to the coronavirus pandemic, adding he had not heard that Burr will temporarily step down as the intelligence committee’s chairman.
“I never discussed it with anybody,” Trump told reporters at the White House.
Reporting by Lisa Lambert; Editing by Chris Reese
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