Opinion: Sorry, Mr. President. Congress has every right to investigate you.
By Editorial Board April 24 at 6:55 PM “THERE IS no reason to go any further, and especially in Congress,” President Trump told Post reporters Tuesday, explaining why he was preparing to stonewall congressional requests for administration documents and testimony, possibly by invoking executive privilege. “We’re fighting all the subpoenas,” Trump said on Wednesday. “These aren’t like impartial people.
As we said at the time, “No doubt a lot of congressional investigations are partisan fishing expeditions. For better or worse, that comes with the democratic territory. Absent very strong countervailing considerations — stronger than some of those the administration has asserted in this case — Congress is generally entitled to disclosure.
Even so, administration officials say they will fight a congressional subpoena of former White House counsel Donald McGahn, whose testimony to Mr. Mueller proved damning for the president in the special counsel’s report. Mr. McGahn insisted that Mr. Trump told him to fire Mr. Mueller. The former White House counsel also said the president told him to deny that the episode ever occurred after reporters publicized that Mr.
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