Crossing the red line
Well, if Barr won’t and Mueller can’t and the Senate won’t, the House can and will.
House Democrats are planning to cross one of President Donald Trump’s red lines: investigating his personal finances.
With special counsel Robert Mueller expected to wind up his work soon, Democrats are launching an investigation to discover why Deutsche Bank was willing to lend the Trump Organization money when other banks wouldn’t and whether Russia was involved.
For more than two years we’ve known there was this Deutsche Bank issue but it’s been buried because the Republicans successfully stole everything.
The House Financial Services and Intelligence Committees have been staffing up for their probes into the bank and Trump’s Russia ties. Democrats on the panels say that with Deutsche Bank they are willing to pursue a key area that Mueller may have avoided — crossing what Trump sees as a “red line” into his personal finances.
Who cares what Trump “sees” as a “red line”? Trump wants to keep his crimes hidden; no shit. Can we move on now?
Democrats won’t be confined by boundaries set by the president as they ramp up their probes, so any perceived omissions by Mueller will be prime targets for House committees.
It’s ridiculous that Trump has been able to “set boundaries” that prevent investigation of his many apparent crimes. Ridiculous, shameful, and a disgrace.
Maybe, if we’re lucky, we’ll see some gesticulating.
Don”t Congress also have the power to examine an individual’s tax returns. That could be fun. Trump’s tiny hands will just be a blur.
They can subpoena them, I gather from the past couple of years of news coverage. The subpoenaed can fight the subpoena. See for instance: the Watergate tapes. (Which were not tax returns but you get the drift.)