Opinion: White House takes another step towards putting Trump beyond accountability
By Greg Sargent Greg Sargent Opinion writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer May 15 at 3:48 PM The White House just took another big step toward declaring any and all House oversight directed at President Trump and his administration entirely illegitimate. The Post reports:
The letter from the White House counsel to Nadler is right here. One thing that’s revealing is how cavalierly it reaches the conclusion that the Judiciary Committee’s investigations don’t have a legitimate purpose. The first accusation here is that it’s not legitimate for Congress to “duplicate” matters covered by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe. In pursuance of this, the letter demands that the Judiciary Committee drop its investigation entirely into whether Trump obstructed justice, engaged in public corruption and abused his powers.
Add to that Trump’s broader defiance of any and all oversight — the administration’s alleged breaking of the law in refusing to turn over Trump’s tax returns and Trump’s vow to fight “all” subpoenas — and the effort to place Trump beyond accountability becomes even more sweeping.
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