Trump officials hindered at least nine key oversight probes, watchdogs said.

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Trump officials hindered at least nine key oversight probes, watchdogs said. Some may finally be released in coming months.

By
Lisa Rein,
Tom Hamburger,
Michael Laris and
John Hudson
March 23, 2021 at 5:30 a.m. EDT

Almost as soon as she opened a politically charged investigation in 2019 into whether the Trump White House blocked hurricane relief to a devastated Puerto Rico, the internal watchdog at the Department of Housing and Urban Development ran into obstacles.

HUD demanded that their attorneys sit in on witness interviews, a tactic inspectors general said was unusual and could shape witness testimony. White House officials told top agency appointees to withhold their communications, documents and interviews show. Other records took months to obtain.

Four months after Donald Trump’s defeat, Inspector General Rae Oliver Davis still hasn’t announced whether her investigators found that Trump inappropriately held up federal disaster aid from an island reeling from a brutal hurricane.

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Tensions between federal watchdogs and the administration they monitor are not uncommon. But 11 inspectors general or their senior aides who served under Trump, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal government deliberations, said hostility to oversight reached unprecedented levels during his time in office.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-stymied-oversight/2021/03/22/0d3d6d8c-828d-11eb-81db-b02f0398f49a_story.html

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[BSdetect]

2. k&r

[Hortensis]

3. A bunch of hidden wrongdoings by the Trump admin are going to come out.

You know, the less irrational Trump voters must be getting tired of the need to deny news items that get through to them, and that's only beginning. Denial fatigue?

Studies in the past of "Trump fatigue syndrome" showed Republicans were actually more affected by the constant barrage of news and scandals, and presumably that was even with heavy filtering through Fox et al.

If many were tired of it then, how about now that the great hope and glory days of Trumpism are past and mountains of the cleanup are left? While the craziest go uberinsane, what's happening with those who don't have that emotional tesseract to escape into?

[Qutzupalotl]

4. Kick

[uponit7771]

5. K&R, I'm thinking Barr should be investigated for at least one obstruction of justice charge

... the shit he pulled is gob smacking