Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., has asked that the chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to request billionaire Democrat donor George Soros and an associate to testify regarding declassified documents that allegedly tie them to the 2016 Russiagate scandal.

The declassified 29-page annex to special counsel John Durham’s 2023 report, released Thursday by the Senate Judiciary Committee, alleged that Hillary Clinton’s campaign, with help from a figure linked to Soros’ Open Society Foundations, created the narrative of Russian interference to damage Trump politically. Documents released last month by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard alleged that top members of the Obama administration, including Barack Obama, were in on the scheme.

An email allegedly written by Leonard Benardo, senior vice president of the Open Society Foundations, showed him “plotting to discredit the incoming Trump Administration,” Burchett wrote to Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., in a letter posted on social media.

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