The Trump administration is being accused of “stonewalling” Congress by ignoring a deadline for the Treasury to hand over Donald Trump's tax returns and defying a subpoena requesting ex-personal security director Carl Kline appear before a House investigative committee.
“It appears that the president believes that the Constitution does not apply to his White House, that he may order officials at will to violate their legal obligations, and that he may obstruct attempts by Congress to conduct oversight,” said Elijah Cummings, chairman of the House Oversight Committee.
President Trump made his feelings on Democrat-led investigations in the wake of the Mueller report perfectly clear in an interview on Tuesday, stating: “There is no reason to go any further, and especially in Congress where it’s very partisan - obviously very partisan. I don’t want people testifying to a party, because that is what they’re doing if they do this.”
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It should be noted that Washington Post’s Robert Costa previously confirmed he called Donald Trump with a question before the president returned his call. “President Trump called me this evening, in response to my request for comment,” the journalist wrote on Twitter.
The president wrote this morning: “I didn’t call Bob Costa of the Washington Post, he called me (Returned his call)!”
So basically, Mr Trump confirmed the reporting was not, in fact, “more Fake News.”
Speaking now to reporters, Donald Trump just said he intends to fight “all the subpoenas."
An explosive new report says Donald Trump’s acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney urged former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to refrain from mentioning future Russian election meddling when speaking with the president.
Donald Trump is now tweeting about Washington Post journalist Bob Costa, seemingly disputing the notion he called the reporter in a recently published story. The president says Mr Costa instead called him.
“Just more Fake News,” Mr Trump tweeted.
It comes as border patrol agents try to find the parents of a three-year-old child found abandoned at the border.
Mr Trump tweeted that "Mexico's Soldiers recently pulled guns on our National Guard Soldiers, probably as a diversionary tactic for drug smugglers on the Border," but he didn't support the drug-smuggling claim.
Democrats, who control the House and could launch impeachment procedures, remain divided over the issue.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders have remained cautious over impeaching Mr Trump ahead of the 2020 presidential election while others in the party's more liberal wing have demanded such proceedings begin.
