The Washington Post on Wednesday said Congress «has every right to investigate» President Trump. The Post, in an editorial titled «Sorry, Mr. President. Congress has…
The Washington Post on Wednesday said Congress «has every right to investigate» President Trump.
The Post, in an editorial titled «Sorry, Mr. President. Congress has every right to investigate you,» pushed back against comments Trump made in an exclusive interview with the newspaper just one day before.
Speaking to the Post on Tuesday, Trump said he believed “there is no reason to go any further” with any more investigations after the White House cooperated with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible obstruction of justice.
“There is no reason to go any further, and especially in Congress where it’s very partisan — obviously very partisan,” Trump told the Post.
Trump also told reporters on Wednesday that he intends to fight «all the subpoenas» issued by the House for further investigations, and brushed off a subpoena from the House Judiciary Committee calling for former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify as «ridiculous.»
«If that were the standard, then Congress could never investigate anything,» the Post’s editorial board wrote.
