President Trump vowed to fight a host of congressional efforts to scrutinize his conduct, business and policies, opening the path toward a constitutional clash that could last for the rest of his term or longer.
Wednesday that “if the partisan Dems ever tried to Impeach, I would first head to the U.S. Supreme Court.” The tweet seemed more emotional than tactical, since justices do not have authority under the Constitution to supersede Congress if it impeaches a president.
In addition to probing the findings of Mueller’s report and demanding an unredacted version of it, House Democrats are seeking Trump’s taxes, information on his business dealings, and testimony about the process for granting security clearances to officials including Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and senior advisor, over the objections of career staff.
Trump’s latest comments were prompted by questions over whether he would fight a congressional subpoena issued to Don McGahn, his former White House counsel who served as a star witness for Mueller. According to Mueller’s report, McGahn resisted Trump’s pressure to fire the special counsel and subsequently to falsely deny he was asked to do so. At one point McGahn complained that the president wanted him to do “crazy shit,” the report said.
Though Trump argued during the inquiry that any investigation into his finances would constitute a red line, he said on Wednesday that he assumed Mueller had looked at all of his tax and financial documents. And though he was the first president in decades who has not released his tax returns, he misleadingly claimed that his financial documents have been widely seen by the public.
In another inquiry, Atty. Gen. William Barr is blocking a top official at the Justice Department from testifying about the administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, in response to a subpoena that all the Democrats and one Republican on the Oversight Committee approved.
Cummings has said the White House has refused to “produce a single piece of paper or a single witness in any of the committee's investigations this entire year.”
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