Trump Distorts Facts on Collins, Hunter Indictments
by Eugene Kiely
Sep 04, 2018
3 minutes
President Donald Trump distorted the facts in a Labor Day tweet complaining about the Justice Department’s indictments last month of two of his earliest congressional allies, Reps. Chris Collins and Duncan Hunter Jr.
In the tweet, Trump described both cases as “long running, Obama era, investigations.” That’s wrong in Collins’ case and misleading in Hunter’s case:
- The investigation that led to the charges against Collins began after Trump took office. The Department of Justice alleges that Collins used insider information that he obtained on June 22, 2017, to help his son make illegal stock trades in a biotechnology company. Collins is a board member and shareholder of the company.
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