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A powerful United States congressional panel yesterday demanded documents from a who’s who of President Donald Trump’s turbulent world, targeting 81 people, government agencies and other groups as part of an investigation into possible obstruction of justice or abuse of power.
Family members, current and former business employees, Republican campaign staffers and former White House aides, as well as the FBI, White House and WikiLeaks were listed as recipients of documents requests by the Democratic-controlled House Judiciary Committee.
The House of Representatives panel also named the president’s sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, White House aide and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and former White House counsel Don McGahn.
“We have seen the damage done to our democratic institutions in the two years that the Congress refused to conduct responsible oversight,” said U.S. Representative Jerrold Nadler, Judiciary Committee chairman.
“Congress must provide a check on abuses of power.” Trump faces investigations from several congressional committees, as well as the 22-month-long federal special counsel probe into whether the Trump campaign worked with Moscow to sway the 2016 election.
Republicans in Congress accuse Democrats of pursuing an impeachment agenda against Trump as part of a political strategy to reclaim the White House in the 2020 election. Democrats say talk of impeachment is premature. They say the first step is to initiate proper investigations, which were missing in the first two years of Trump’s presidency, when his fellow Republicans controlled the House of Representatives.
At the White House, Trump was asked if he would cooperate with Nadler’s investigation. “I cooperate all the time with everybody,” he said.
