White House rejects Dem request for documents on Trump-Putin communications

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The White House is rejecting a sweeping request from House Democrats for documents and interviews related to President Trump’s communications with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In a letter obtained by The Hill, White House counsel Pat Cipollone asserts that the president’s diplomatic communications are confidential and protected by executive privilege and describes the requests as beyond Congress’s legitimate realm of inquiry.

Cipollone also argues that such a disclosure could have a detrimental impact on the ability of Trump or future presidents to conduct foreign relations.

“The President must be free to engage in discussions with foreign leaders without fear that those communications will be disclosed and used as fodder for partisan political purposes. And foreign leaders must be assured of this as well,” Cipollone writes in the letter sent Thursday to House committee chairmen Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.).

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/435135-white-house-rejects-dem-request-for-documents-on-trump-putin

[Socal31]

1. Yea this is never going to happen.

Eyes on the prize....plenty of fire to attack under all of the smoke. More is coming out every moment.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Congress has a right to know these things...

By the House Intelligence Committee when it concerns the National Security of the United States and her allies.