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Article snippet: PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla.—MORE’s full report, predicted congressional Democrats’ investigations would propel him to a reelection victory in 2020. Trump did not directly address his administration’s decision to defy a subpoena from House Democrats, a move that raised the specter of a constitutional crisis, but he said the party’s desire to probe his administration, campaign and businesses would backfire politically. “They want to do investigations instead of investments,” the president told a crowd of supporters at an outdoor amphitheater just steps from the Gulf of Mexico. “I think it drives us on to victory in 2020.” Trump said Democrats’ focus on investigations is a “disgrace” and that they should instead work with him on infrastructure, lowering drug prices and improving veterans’ health care. As he routinely does at his campaign rallies, Trump hit a number of familiar targets: Democrats, the news media, China, illegal immigration, social media companies and even what he said was the venue’s faulty stage. But Trump largely tiptoed around the subject that dominated the day’s discussion in the nation’s capital: his decision to assert executive privilege over the Mueller report, which preceded a House Judiciary Committee vote to cite Attorney General William Barr for contempt. After an hours-long hearing, the panel voted on party lines to hold Barr in contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena to provide an unredacted version of the report. The citation w... Link to the full article to read more