NO IT HAS NEVER HAPPENED TO MY RECOLLECTION AT LEAST IN THE LAST 90-100 YEARS
EXCEPT FOR NIXON AND WATERGATE POSSIBLY AND I DONT THINK EVEN NIXON TRIED IT.
President Trump on Tuesday said he is opposed to current and former White House aides providing testimony to congressional panels
In an interview with The Washington Post, Trump said that complying with congressional requests was unnecessary
THE ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OF WE THE PEOPLE WILL DECIDE WHAT IS NECESSARY FOR CONGRESS TO EXAMINE.
Trump’s comments came as
the White House made it clear that it plans to broadly defy requests for information from Capitol Hill, moving the two branches of government closer to a constitutional collision.
On Tuesday, two White House officials said the administration
plans to fight a subpoena issued by the House Judiciary Committee for former White House counsel Donald McGahn
Separately, the administration directed a former White House official not to comply with a subpoena from the House Oversight Committee
the Treasury Department
defied a second demand from House Democrats to turn over six years of President Trump’s tax returns.
White House deputy counsel Michael M. Purpura wrote a letter Monday instructing Kline, who now works at the Defense Department, not to show up for a scheduled deposition before the committee Tuesday.
the House Oversight Committee
moved Tuesday to hold former White House personnel security director Carl Kline in contempt of Congress for failing to appear at a hearing investigating alleged lapses in White House security clearance procedures. Newbold told the panel more than two dozen recommended denials for security clearances had been overturned during the Trump administration. She said that Congress was her “last hope” for addressing what she considered to be improper conduct that left the nation’s secrets exposed.
The panel subpoenaed Kline following testimony from a White House whistleblower, Tricia Newbold, who alleged that the White House recklessly granted security clearances to individuals — including presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner — over the objections of career staff members.
Efforts to block Congress have also extended to Trump’s finances. On Monday, the Trump Organization filed a lawsuit to prevent an accounting firm from complying with a committee subpoena for eight years’ worth of Trump’s financial records.
And Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Tuesday told a key lawmaker he would make a final decision as to whether to furnish Trump’s tax returns by May 6, committing for the first time to a specific deadline in what has become a major power struggle.
“Now we see the administration engaging in stonewalling of the facts coming to the American people,” Pelosi said
former Watergate prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste. “I don’t see how the White House can assert executive privilege with something that has already been revealed.
Public testimony by McGahn could create a spectacle that would parallel the June 1973 testimony of President Richard Nixon’s former White House counsel, John Dean, whose live, televised appearance before a Senate committee painted a vivid portrait for the country of the White House coverup of the Watergate burglary.
“The White House and Mr. Kline now stand in open defiance of a duly authorized congressional subpoena with no assertion of any privilege of any kind by President Trump,” Cummings said in a statement. “Based on these actions, it appears that the President believes that the Constitution does not apply to his White House, that he may order officials at will to violate their legal obligations, and that he may obstruct attempts by Congress to conduct oversight.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...cf30147bdca_story.html?utm_term=.39beb45abba3
ITS TIME FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND ALL ITS SUPPORTERS TO DECLARE WHETHER THEY
THINK NO MAN IS ABOVE OR WHETHER THEY THINK ONE MAN IS ABOVE THE LAW.
MORE PROOF THAT WHAT I SAID LAST NIGHT IS TRUE - WE ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING OUR DEMOCRACY.
