Defense Sec. Esper will not comply with a subpoena from House Democrats related to their impeachment inquiry, according to a letter sent Tuesday from the Department of Defense.
Democrats are investigating whether President Donald Trump improperly withheld military aid for Ukraine as leverage to compel Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate former vice president Joe Biden, a potential rival of Trump’s in the 2020 election.
House Democrats are seeking information and documents from Esper relating to the decision from the White House to withhold the authorized military aid., giving him until Tuesday to comply. The House has warned that failure to do so would be evidence of obstruction of justice. In the letter sent Tuesday, the Department of Defense pushed back on the notion that failure to comply would constitute obstruction of justice. “Invoking reasonable legal defense to a subpoena, including invoking legal privileges that are held by the President, in no way manifests evidence of obstruction of otherwise warrants an adverse inference,” the letter reads.
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