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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Mar 21, 2019, 03:25 PM Mar 2019

Trump White House Lawyers Plan To Tell House Judiciary to 'Go F*ck Themselves' [View all]

Source: The Daily Beast



House Democrats want documents from the White House they think can shed light on internal corruption. You’ll never guess how the White House is responding.

Asawin Suebsaeng, Spencer Ackerman

03.21.19 2:35 PM ET

Donald Trump’s White House attorneys are preparing to tell a key congressional panel investigating the administration “to go fuck themselves,” as a person familiar with the deliberations characterized them to The Daily Beast.

According to three sources familiar with the situation, the White House counsel’s office, currently headed by Pat Cipollone, was still, as of Thursday morning, in the process of drafting a letter responding to the House Judiciary Committee’s request for a wide array of documents.

The documents requested by the Democratic-run committee are part of the sweeping and long-telegraphed inquiry into a range of Trump administration and Trump-associate activities earlier this month.

Cipollone’s letter response to the committee is essentially similar to one he sent to the oversight, foreign affairs and intelligence committees, which Politico reported on Thursday. Those committees, along with the Ways and Means panel, coordinate regularly over their complementary investigations into the administration.


Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-white-house-lawyers-plan-to-tell-house-judiciary-to-go-fck-themselves?ref=home

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