House Democrats on Friday issued a subpoena to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, while investigating whether he helped Senate Republicans advance alleged conspiracy theories about alleged Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
“Secretary Pompeo has made the State Department an arm of the Trump campaign and is not even trying to disguise it,” House of Representatives Committee for Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel said in a statement.
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The committee said the subpoena requires all records related to Biden and Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings that the State Department has submitted to Senate Committees on Finance and Homeland Security and Government Affairs, which are controlled by Republicans.
“After trying to hamper virtually all oversight efforts by the Foreign Affairs Committee in the past two years, Pompeo is more than happy to help Senate Republicans advance their conspiracy theories about the Bidens,” he said. “I want to see the full record of what the department has sent to the Senate and I want the American people to see it, too.”
Burisma Holdings was at the center of impeachment proceedings against President Trump, after pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a phone call to investigate the Biden family deals in Ukraine. Biden’s son Hunter held a lucrative position on the Burisma Holdings board of directors.
The Obama administration had lobbied for the dismissal of a prosecutor who had investigated Burisma, Viktor Shokin. Shokin was removed in April 2016 and the case was closed by the prosecutor who replaced him. Biden once boasted on camera that when he was vice president he successfully lobbied Ukraine to fire Shokin.
However, Biden’s allies argue that his intervention had nothing to do with his son, but was rather linked to the administration’s concerns about corruption in Ukraine. At the time, Biden was executing US and Ukraine policies and anti-corruption campaigns.
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The committee alleged that while the State Department provided more than 16,000 pages of records to Senate committees, it rejected Engel’s request to provide duplicates to his office.
Request department records by August 7. The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News.
Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
