Posted on 03/04/2019 8:58:03 AM PST by GIdget2004
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee unleashed a sprawling probe of President Trump's family, campaign and administration on Monday, that includes more than 80 requests for documents from associates of the president.
Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Judiciary Democrats are expanding their probes into the president’s inner circle and family, as well as individuals involved in the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting; plans to build a Trump property in Moscow; and a scheme to pay off women to alleged affairs with Trump before the 2016 election.
Less than a week after the president’s former attorney Michael Cohen delivered explosive public testimony against him on Capitol Hill, Nadler rolled out the expansive investigation that will focus on three key areas: obstruction of justice, public corruption and abuses of power.
In a statement, Nadler accused Trump of evading “accountability for his near-daily attacks on our basic legal, ethical, and constitutional rules and norms.”
“Investigating these threats to the rule of law is an obligation of Congress and a core function of the House Judiciary Committee,” Nadler said. “We have seen the damage done to our democratic institutions in the two years that the Congress refused to conduct responsible oversight. Congress must provide a check on abuses of power.”
The committee is demanding a trove of documents from the White House, including those related to the removal of former national security adviser Michael Flynn; the termination of former FBI Director James Comey; and any conversations about the removal of special counsel Robert Mueller.
The committee is also asking for documents from a slew of current and former White House and administration officials, including Flynn; Trump son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner; former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus; former White House communications director Hope Hicks; and former White House counsel Don McGahn.
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“About 1/2 the country supports Trump about 1/2 of the country hates Trump...So unless Joe and Jane Six Pack stand up and say enough of this horseshit then I fear the Powers of the Deep State will drown Trump in the end.”
It’s more like 1/3 true Conservatives, 1/3 stinking Libs, and 1/3 who simply DON’T GIVE A SH@!%T. And that’s what scares me the most !
It appears Nadler’s subpoena list of Trump family, friends and associates was compiled under suspicious circumstances.
How would Nadler know all the Trump people...unless he was stalking them, their whereabouts, and their activities.
Stalking is a crime if carried out on anyone........
Cong Jim Jordan and the rest need to ask:
<><> how, when, where, and why Nadler compiled the list .....
<><> why did he pull it out only when he got subpoena power.
<><> what did Nadler intend to do with the list IF he had not gotten subpoena power?
Nadler’s lengthy “Get Trump” subpoena list of 81 did not come together overnight.
<><> It appears, Nadler has been “lying in wait” to nail Trump.
<><> As well, Nadler has been stalking Trump’s family, friends and acquaintances to determine their whereabouts and activities.
Conceivably, Nadler could be charged with “lying in wait”, stalking, and criminal premeditation for political purposes.
POINTS TO PONDER——famed attorney Alan Dershowitz warned that House Democrats may have gone “too far”
and could face lawsuits for allegedly abusing their oversight powers.
DERSH ON HANNITY: “Congress has a legitimate oversight function but it can’t go too far. It can’t use oversight,
(designed to help get legislation passed), in order to prevent a president from finishing out his terms.
They’re interfering with the executive branch if they do so.”
“A balance has to be struck between the legitimate function of Congress to investigate.
The framers didn’t intend for Congress to become another prosecutorial branch, yet another investigative branch.
They’re supposed to pass laws. So it seems to me these investigations look like they’re going too far.”
(hat tip magua) This is a Gestapo trial. Making Ivanka and Don Jr. rat out their parents.
Sending a Prussian to break down your door at 5 AM with guns drawn. Yesterday, someone used the word McCarthyism. I say no.
These people are worse-—they are Gestapo thugs. 80 people could be rounded up.
Remember they are not after the president they are after you!
Every person named should tell Nadler to pound sand!
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