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Dems unleash sprawling probe of Trump family, administration
The Hill ^ | 03/04/2019 | OLIVIA BEAVERS AND MORGAN CHALFANT

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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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: coup; democrats; jamescomey; jerroldnadler; lisapage; newyork; peterstrzok; robertmueller; trump; witchhunt
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To: M Kehoe

If they are subpoenaed, they simply have to state: “I do not recall” as many times as necessary. Right out of the POS rats playbook. He needs to bring on some A list lawyers.


21 posted on 03/04/2019 9:07:17 AM PST by jersey117
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To: immadashell

They let BJ’s wife run that “probe” into the Clinto Foundation. Her handlers found only rightdoing.


22 posted on 03/04/2019 9:08:23 AM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: Toespi

If the pro-lifers can turn out 700,000 on a freezing day in January, surely we can mobilize a million patriots right up the capitol steps.


23 posted on 03/04/2019 9:08:47 AM PST by jersey117
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To: GIdget2004

I think this is going to be an overreach. People seemed okay with the Mueller probe because they wanted questions answered and Mueller, to most uninformed people, is a non-partisan guy. But Democrats investigating the President’s children? No, too much. Only the crazies elected them to railroad the President’s kids, everyone else who misguidedly voted for them is going to say “what have I done?”


24 posted on 03/04/2019 9:09:19 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Army Air Corps

“Pond scum would look down on Nadler.”

Yes, he’s out there in the sewage treatment pond, sinking with the rest of the turds.


25 posted on 03/04/2019 9:09:21 AM PST by vette6387 (Fire Mueller)
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To: jersey117

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.


26 posted on 03/04/2019 9:10:26 AM PST by dpetty121263
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To: JoSixChip

“Is anybody ever going to fight back? Trump has stood alone in DC long enough, where the hell is the republican leadership?”

Well they are right there hoping, along with their RAT bretheren, that some how he’s taken out. They have mastered “the art of picking up turds by the clean end!”


27 posted on 03/04/2019 9:11:39 AM PST by vette6387 (Fire Mueller)
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To: GIdget2004

If the acquisitions against Trump were true he would qualify to be a democrat.


28 posted on 03/04/2019 9:12:12 AM PST by TruthWillWin ([[[MSM]]])
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To: GIdget2004

Good! Let them run on this in 2020.
They are the party of do-nothing-but-investigations.


29 posted on 03/04/2019 9:13:03 AM PST by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: madison10

Given that these members are impacted by foreign groups and they are actively working by their own admissions to unseat the President, the FBI should be immediately tasked to certify that none of these people or their family members have taken any monies or have any relations with foreign sources. A full recorded investigation by the FBI under oath of each House member about their conversations with foreign people/parties would be a great place to start!

Jerrold Nadler, New York, Chairman
Zoe Lofgren, California
Sheila Jackson Lee, Texas
Steve Cohen, Tennessee
Hank Johnson, Georgia
Ted Deutch, Florida
Karen Bass, California
Cedric Richmond, Louisiana
Hakeem Jeffries, New York
David Cicilline, Rhode Island
Eric Swalwell, California
Ted Lieu, California
Jamie Raskin, Maryland
Pramila Jayapal, Washington
Val Demings, Florida
Lou Correa, California
Mary Gay Scanlon, Pennsylvania, Vice Chair
Sylvia Garcia, Texas
Joe Neguse, Colorado
Lucy McBath, Georgia
Greg Stanton, Arizona
Madeleine Dean, Pennsylvania
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, Florida
Veronica Escobar, Texas

The Attorney General Barr should order such action to take place to ensure fairness.


30 posted on 03/04/2019 9:13:25 AM PST by son of terrence
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To: GIdget2004

Witch Hunt on steroids.


31 posted on 03/04/2019 9:13:42 AM PST by Redleg Duke (We live on a tax farm as free-range humans!)
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To: Toespi
”THEY will overturn the election of the POTUS, the man WE elected. THEY will make sure WE never go against THEM again.”

They don’t have enough security to shield them from the people.

32 posted on 03/04/2019 9:15:55 AM PST by Redleg Duke (We live on a tax farm as free-range humans!)
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To: GIdget2004
James Comey repeatedly told President Trump that he was NOT the subject of any investigation. After Comey confirmed that fact in his sworn testimony before Congress, Trump fired him. So what exactly was President Trump supposed to be obstructing?

Anything that President Trump does is considered by the democrats to be obstruction of justice. In fact, it is simply obstruction of the democrats' agenda.

Guess what democrats?


33 posted on 03/04/2019 9:16:26 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: GIdget2004

The destruction of Trump is on! This committee will jail dozens of Trumps followers along the way. The Republicans and Trump have no way to stop it.


34 posted on 03/04/2019 9:16:57 AM PST by Logical me
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To: immadashell

Forget the Dems...what about the Repugnants? When have they ever launched a probe into the Clinton Crime Family and the Foundation?


35 posted on 03/04/2019 9:17:06 AM PST by nfldgirl
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To: GIdget2004

Perhaps this is supposed to happen. Think of it - if they go through all of this noisy and expensive hoopla, which harms the country, and find NOTHING, they will look like the corrupt power-hungry fools they are, and Trump and his family will be exonerated.


36 posted on 03/04/2019 9:17:19 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: P-Marlowe

“This is a declaration of war.”

Yes, but will the other side show up to fight?


37 posted on 03/04/2019 9:17:34 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE (I hate baby killing pedophile socialist gun grabbers)
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To: madison10

I’m beyond LOATHING them.

The one silver lining is that they are spending so much energy on ths that I don’t see them being able to legislate diddly squat.


38 posted on 03/04/2019 9:18:01 AM PST by DaxtonBrown
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To: GIdget2004

The Dems are total losers, no ideas, nothing to appeal to America, just dirty rotten investigations.


39 posted on 03/04/2019 9:19:08 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: GIdget2004

The last time the CommieCrats accepted the results of an election they didn’t win was 30 years ago. I don’t believe this $hit will ever end.


40 posted on 03/04/2019 9:19:44 AM PST by CMailBag
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