Many of the individuals who received a letter from Nadler—including Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr.; his son-in-law, Jared Kushner; and the former top White House aides Hope Hicks, Sean Spicer, and Steve Bannon—have already testified before Congress and provided documents in conjunction with the various probes into Trump’s ties to Russia. In the new letters sent out on Monday, which addressed everyone from the Trump Organization’s Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg to the Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, Nadler wrote that the House Judiciary Committee is investigating “a number of actions that threaten our nation’s longstanding commitment to the rule of law, including allegations of obstruction of justice, public corruption, and other abuses of power.
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The document requests varied in subject and scope. In a request to the former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, for example, Nadler appears to be homing in on alleged collusion between the campaign and Russia. [...] In a letter to the FBI, meanwhile, Nadler seems to be zeroing in on questions of potential obstruction. [...] And in a letter to the CEO of American Media, David Pecker, Nadler requested more information about payments made to the benefit of the Trump campaign that might have violated campaign-finance laws. The Trump campaign’s digital director, Brad Parscale (now Trump’s 2020 campaign manager), received one of the most extensive document requests, covering everything from plans for a Trump Tower Moscow in 2016 to Trump’s conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2017 and 2018.
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Even more document requests could be sent out to additional witnesses as the investigation moves forward. “This is just the first wave,” one source said. “The committee will continue to make news as the weeks go on.”
The Atlantic
“There are many requests about why certain people did not receive letters today,” a spokesman for the committee said. “I want to reiterate … that this was the first phase of document requests. We have more letters coming soon.”
The announcement that more individuals would receive document requests came after public speculation about why, for instance, Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump was not listed in the original list that was made public Monday morning.
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[I]t’s not just the House judiciary committee that demanded documents from Trumpworld on Monday. Three other Democratic-run House committees have asked the White House and State Department for all the material they have in their possession about the highly secretive meetings between President Trump and Vladimir Putin.
The chairman of the House intelligence, foreign affairs and oversight committees wrote to White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday for information on the one-on-one discussions between the U.S. and Russian leaders.
Daily Beast
The first wave list is here.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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