US attorney and Senate Dem spar in dueling letters demanding records preservation: 'I will not be intimidated'
Blumenthal, the ranking member on the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, fired back in a letter to Reitz also dated Nov.
Key points
- A footnote points to an October Blumenthal press release about the senator issuing letters demanding information from individuals and the heads of companies that the Washington Post indicated had committed donations for the construction of President Donald Trump's planned White House ballroom project.
- I will work on behalf of the American people to vigorously pursue investigations into this Administration’s misuse of taxpayer dollars and any corporate entity that has enabled its boundless corruption," Blumenthal continued.
- "The public deserves to know the terms under which dozens of American companies were persuaded to donate millions of dollars to the President’s vanity projects, and whether lawsuits were dismissed, contracts were awarded, or regulations went unenforced in exchange for that money.
'LAWYER UP': DEMS IMMEDIATELY PUT TRUMP ON NOTICE AMID REPUBLICANS' MIDTERM BLOODBATH "As incoming Chair of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, I will not be intimidated.
Additional details
- "You are obligated to preserve all potentially relevant evidence related to your efforts to suppress associational activities for philanthropic projects throughout the nation's capital," the U.S.
- This is just the latest in a series of unlawful actions on the part of the Trump Administration attempting to intimidate Members of Congress for engaging in constitutionally protected activity.
- "In recent weeks, you have threatened citizens for associating themselves with the President and other public officials," Reitz claimed in his letter to Blumenthal Wednesday.
- "It is also extraordinary for an elected official to intimidate citizens for engaging in philanthropic practices that will benefit our nation for generations.
- The American people are entitled to freely associate without elected officials terrorizing them with aggressive, harassing government action," Reitz wrote.
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