The House Judiciary Committee, under its new Democratic leadership, on Monday issued 81 document requests as part of a multifaceted investigation into President Donald Trump.
The requests went to some familiar individuals and entities as the Democratic majority laid out a game plan for seeking to build a case of obstruction of justice, public corruption, and abuse of power by the president.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said Congress cannot simply wait for special counsel Robert Mueller or the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York to complete their investigations.
“We must protect and respect the work of special counsel Mueller, but we cannot rely on others to do the investigative work for us,” Nadler said in a statement.
Mueller is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign, and whether the Trump campaign colluded in it. The Southern District of New York has investigated an alleged campaign finance violation.
“We have sent these document requests in order to begin building the public record,” Nadler added. “The special counsel’s office and the Southern District of New York are aware that we are taking these steps. We will act quickly to gather this information, assess the evidence, and follow the facts where they lead with full transparency with the American people.”
Even as some House Democrats have clamored for the president’s impeachment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other Democratic leaders suggested it’s best to wait for the federal prosecutors to complete their work.
Monday’s moves are a sign that the committee that would initiate impeachment proceedings isn’t waiting on federal prosecutors to complete their work. Nadler, however, said nothing about impeachment in his announcement.
Among those who received document requests were American Media Inc. and its publisher David Pecker, who was allegedly involved in trying to cover up a story about an extramarital affair by Trump before he was president.
Former Trump White House officials Reince Priebus, Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon, and Don McGahn also received document requests, as did Trump campaign aides Carter Page and Corey Lewandowski.
Nadler’s committee also sent document requests to some of the president’s family members—sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, as well as his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. The committee also seeks documents from the Trump Organization and the Trump Foundation.
The president was dismissive of the investigation.
“I cooperate all the time with everybody … . You know the beautiful thing—no collusion. It’s all a hoax,” Trump told reporters during a White House event on...
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This country's "Law Enforcement" had better be kissing their families good bye when they go in to work, because those families will be dead when they get home. It is this country's "Law Enforcement" and its "Legal" system which let this fraud, corruption, treason, and sedition continue unmolested. That is, when THEY aren't neck-deep in it as well. God damn them to hell for what they have done to this country. And God damn their families with them.
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