Democrats prepare ‘subpoena cannon’ with more than SIX DOZEN targets in list that includes Trump’s tax returns, the Stormy Daniels payment, and Jared’s compliance with ethics rules
Newly powerful committee chairman are preparing to summon top officials
New House Judiciary Democratic chair says he will bring in acting AG Whitaker
Democrats vowed to gain access to Trump’s tax returns
Can exercise subpoena power to probe obstruction, Sessions firing
Lawmaker also want to find out about payment to Stormy Daniels
Trump family members including Jared Kushner also face potential scrutiny
By GEOFF EARLE
DAILYMAIL.COM
12 November 2018
Soon-empowered House Democrats have so many ready targets for subpoena and investigation in the Trump administration they are vowing to sort them strategically – but that still leaves more than six dozen targets.
The avenues of potential inquiry for Democrats who take over the investigatory machinery of the House include President Trump’s finances, his family’s ethics disclosures, and the president’s firing of FBI Director James Comey and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Democrats raised the prospect of getting hold of the president’s tax returns even before the elections – where a Democratic wave took down close to 40 Republican seats once California results came in.
The heads of congressional tax-writing panels have the authority to get any return under existing law, though Trump has resisted making his returns public for years.
President Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki this past summer, which attracted a flurry of criticism when Trump explained Putin’s position on election meddling, also may be the subject of investigative oversight, which each congressional panel is empowered to conduct.
A list generated by Axios based on public comments and other information lists a whopping 85 potential targets for investigation before Republicans even hand over the gavel.
A Democratic aide referred to it in the report as a ‘subpoena cannon.’
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