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Trump: 'No reason' for White House to comply with congressional investigations | TheHill

posted onApril 24, 2019
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Article snippet: MORE’s report. In an exclusive interview with The Washington Post, Trump said complying with further investigations was not necessary after the White House cooperated with Mueller’s investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible obstruction of justice by Trump. “There is no reason to go any further, and especially in Congress where it’s very partisan — obviously very partisan,” Trump said. The comments come amid reports that the White House is preparing to go to legislative war with several House committees as they continue their sprawling probes into the Trump administration. White House officials are reportedly planning to exert executive privilege after the House Judiciary Committee filed a subpoena for testimony and documents from former White House counsel Don McGahn, who was known to have a contentious relationship with Trump and played a starring role in Mueller’s report. The administration directed former security clearance official Carl Kline to ignore a subpoena from the House Oversight and Reform Committee regarding its probe into the White House security clearance process. The direction prompted a threat from Chairman hold Kline in contempt of Congress. The Treasury Department also missed a second deadline to hand over six years of the president’s tax returns. The newest back-and-forth between the two ends of Pennsylvania Avenue has brought the White House’s relationship with Capitol Hill into arguably its most... Link to the full article to read more

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