The House Judiciary Committee is launching a sweeping new probe of President Donald Trump, his White House, his campaign and his businesses, sending document requests to 81 people linked to the president and his associates. 9News
The move all but guarantees that potentially damaging allegations will shadow Mr Trump for months to come as Democrats try to keep them in the public eye.
The House Oversight and Reform Committee has launched multiple investigations. Several other committees are probing related matters as well, and while many might overlap, the committee chairmen and chairwomen say they are working together on the investigations. In a letter to the White House, the committee asks for information surrounding former FBI Director James Comey's termination, communications with Justice Department officials, the Trump Tower meeting and multiple other matters. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said today the White House had received the letter and that "the counsel's office and relevant White House officials will review it and respond at the appropriate time".
It also includes his embattled charitable foundation, which he is shutting down after agreeing to a court-supervised process, and officials at the FBI and Justice Department. The announcement of the new investigation follows a bad political week for Mr Trump. He emerged empty-handed from a high-profile summit with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un on denuclearisation, and Mr Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, in three days of congressional testimony, publicly characterised the president as a "con man" and "cheat".
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