Democrats Grab Trump By The Throat

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives launched a wide-ranging investigation Monday of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, his businesses, his transition to power and whether as president he has obstructed justice to thwart probes of him.

House democrats launch wide-ranging Trump investigations

The House Judiciary Committee sent letters to 81 people and entities linked to Trump, demanding documents within two weeks about a lengthy list of events involving the country’s 45th president. In addition to focusing on obstruction allegations, the committee said it is looking at possible public corruption and abuses of power during the two-year Trump presidency.

“Over the last several years, President Trump has evaded accountability for his near-daily attacks on our basic legal, ethical and constitutional rules and norms,” Congressman Jerrold Nadler, the panel’s chairman, said in announcing the investigation.

“Investigating these threats to the rule of law is an obligation of Congress and a core function of the House Judiciary Committee,” he said.

Trump has long denied wrongdoing involving his campaign’s links to Russia and during his presidency. Asked about the Nadler investigation on Monday, Trump replied, “I cooperate all the time with everybody…You know the beautiful thing — no collusion. It’s all a hoax.”

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, in a statement, said the Democrats had launched the investigation “because they are terrified that their two-year false narrative of ‘Russia collusion’ is crumbling. Their intimidation and abuse of American citizens is shameful. Democrats are harassing the President to distract from their radical agenda of making America a socialist country, killing babies after they’re born, and pushing a ‘green new deal’ that would destroy jobs and bankrupt America.”

The White House said its lawyers and “relevant White House officials” would review the Judiciary Committee’s demand for documents and “respond at the appropriate time.”

Aside from the White House, the panel sent its requests for documents to the Justice Department; senior campaign officials; the Trump Organization, the president’s global business empire, and his two oldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump.

Nadler said Sunday he believes the president has obstructed justice. He said that Trump’s former long-time personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, in his lengthy public testimony to Congress last week, “directly implicated the president in — in various crimes, both while seeking the office of president and while in the White House.”

“We don’t have the facts yet,” Nadler said. “But we’re going to initiate proper investigations.”

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