It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House Judiciary Committee will seek documents from more than 60 people and organizations as it begins investigations into possible obstruction of justice and abuse of power by President Donald Trump, the panel’s chairman said on Sunday.
Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler told ABC’s “This Week” the panel wanted documents from the Department of Justice, the president’s son Donald Trump Jr. and Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, among others.
“We are going to initiate investigations into abuses of power, into corruption ... and into obstruction of justice,” Nadler said. “It’s our job to protect the rule of law.”
“It’s very clear that the president obstructed justice!”, Nadler said.
Several U.S. congressional committees are pursuing investigations focusing on Trump.
The House Intelligence Committee’s Democratic chairman, Adam Schiff, said his panel would look at negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, which Cohen said continued well into the 2016 presidential campaign.
“That was a deal that stood to make him more money than any other deal in his life and it was a deal where he was pursuing help from the Kremlin, from (Russian President Vladimir) Putin himself, at a time when Putin was seeking relief from sanctions,” Schiff told CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
“That is the most compromising circumstance that I can imagine.”
Source: www.foxnews.com...
“For the Democrats to interview in open hearings a convicted liar & fraudster, at the same time as the very important Nuclear Summit with north Korea, is perhaps a new low in American politics and may have contributed to the “walk.”
Never done when a president is overseas. Shame!”
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: BrianFlanders
Maybe. Donald Trump had friends across the political and business spectrum, for decades.
Here is a list of 34 individuals and three companies who have pleaded guilty, been indicted or otherwise swept up in the inquiry, which has clouded Trump’s presidency and has recently intensified.
originally posted by: WeRpeons
a reply to: carewemust
Trump made his children part of his business, election campaign, and his administration. So why wouldn't they be investigated if there's documentation and/or witnesses that tie them to illegal campaign dealings or improper government confirmations? You Trumpster's whine about everything, but if Trump is so clean and honest, why should you even worry about it?? The truth will always comes out in the end!
In America, authorities can NOT investigate you, hoping to find a prosecutable crime in your past, simply because they don't like you.
originally posted by: rickymouse
If you are a Republican, it is guilty till proven innocent, you better not have done anything wrong in your life,...
originally posted by: carewemust
But in America, you're supposed to have evidence of a crime, before investigating specific individuals.
originally posted by: drewlander
a reply to: carewemust
Even if they ever found a crime it wouldnt matter. There are only two things that can land a politician in hot water; being found with a dead girl, or a live boy.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: carewemust
But in America, you're supposed to have evidence of a crime, before investigating specific individuals.
Actually, you need 'probable cause' or 'reason to believe'.
originally posted by: Lumenari
But it appears in this case that "probable cause" is "we don't like the way the election turned out".