Rep. Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, on Sunday said the panel will be issuing document requests to more than 60 people as it begins an investigation of President Donald Trump for ‘obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power.’
‘Tomorrow we will be issuing document requests from over 60 different people from the White House, to the Department of Justice, Donald Trump Jr., Allen Weisselberg to begin the investigations to present the case to the American people about obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power,’ the New York Democrat told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week.”
Nadler said the full list would be released Monday.
Weisselberg, chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, was singled out by Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen last week during testimony to Congress in discussion of possible crimes relating to campaign finance. Weisselberg was granted immunity last summer by Manhattan federal prosecutors to testify against Cohen.
“What we learned from the Cohen testimony,“ Nadler said Sunday, “is that he directly implicated the president in — in various crimes, both while seeking the office of president and while in the White House.“
Nadler said that he believes “impeachment is a long way down the road” and they “don’t have any facts yet,” although he did state he believed that Trump is guilty of obstructing justice concerning the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Nadler also said he considers the act “of seeking to sabotage a fair election” would “be an impeachable offense.”
In response, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said that Nadler “decided to impeach the president the day the president won the election.”
McCarthy (R-Calif.) also said the Democrats are beginning their own investigations as an end run around the results of the upcoming Mueller report.
“Nadler is setting the framework now that the Democrats are not to believe the Mueller report. They’re now saying we have to do our own investigation,” McCarthy said.
