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Trump official abruptly flees DC before 'avalanche' of investigations
What happened
AlterNet, citing Bloomberg Law, reports that Patrick Davis, the Justice Department’s top congressional liaison, planned to resign at the end of October after roughly a year leading the Office of Legislative Affairs. The report placed his departure before the November elections and an anticipated increase in congressional investigations if Democrats won either chamber. It did not establish that those investigations caused his resignation, so the headline’s claim that he “fled” Washington goes beyond the evidence presented.
Davis had also considered seeking compensation from a…
The skinny
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