Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) on Saturday knocked President Trump's defense for not releasing a Democratic memo meant to rebut GOP claims of political bias in law enforcement, calling Trump's move a "nice try" and questioning his motives.

Trump decided Friday not to declassify the memo written by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee over administration officials' “especially significant concerns” for “national security and law enforcement interests.”

"The Democrats sent a very political and long response memo which they knew, because of sources and methods (and more), would have to be heavily redacted, whereupon they would blame the White House for lack of transparency," Trump tweeted Saturday.

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While Trump effectively withheld the Democratic response to a controversial GOP memo, Beyer pointed out that the president brushed aside objections by the Justice Department and FBI that the Republican memo would release sensitive information on federal surveillance procedures.

"Nice try. You said you wanted to release the Nunes memo before you even read it, and your appointees at the FBI and DOJ warned you it was inaccurate and misleading," Beyer tweeted. "You didn’t care then. Got something to hide, Mr. President?"

Nice try.



You said you wanted to release the Nunes memo before you even read it, and your appointees at the FBI and DOJ warned you it was inaccurate and misleading. You didn’t care then.



Got something to hide, Mr. President? https://t.co/OFSDhqynZi — Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) February 10, 2018

The House panel voted earlier this week to make the 10-page document from Democrats available to the public, following a vote last week to release the Republican document and submit the Democratic one for further examination.

Trump and Republicans on the committee have pointed to the GOP memo to argue anti-Trump bias on the part of some law enforcement agencies. The memo alleged that senior FBI and Justice Department officials improperly secured surveillance warrants to target a former Trump campaign adviser.

Democrats have said that the GOP memo cherry-picked information. The countermemo is reported to say that a dossier of unverified allegations about Trump's ties to Russia was only one of many pieces of evidence that led to the FBI warrants for surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.