House Democrats demand Chaffetz probe Trumps finances

[riversedge]

Source: washington post





By Mike DeBonis November 28 at 3:16 PM



Democrats on Monday made their strongest call to date for a congressional investigation into President-elect Donald Trump’s business entanglements and possible conflicts of interest, asking the GOP’s top House investigator to launch a formal probe.

Seventeen Democratic members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee called on the panel’s chairman, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) to “begin reviewing [Trump’s] financial arrangements in order to identify and protect against conflicts of interest.” The demand, in a seven-page letter, comes two weeks after the committee’s ranking Democrat, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), made a similar request to Chaffetz.
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“You have the authority to launch a committee investigation, and we are calling on you to use that power now,” Cummings and 16 other Democrats wrote. “You acted with unprecedented urgency to hold ‘emergency’ hearings and issue multiple unilateral subpoenas to investigate [Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton] before the election. We ask that you show the same sense of urgency now.”

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Before Trump’s win on Nov. 8, Chaffetz had pledged to continue vigorous investigating of Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. Afterward, he said the email investigation would continue. “I still have a duty and obligation to get to the truth about one of the largest breaches of security at the State Department,” he said on Nov. 9.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/11/28/house-democrats-demand-chaffetz-probe-trumps-finances/?tid=sm_tw

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Cummings has not gotten a reply from @jansonintheHouse from the first letter. Very disrespectful of him. Shame!




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House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz leaves a Republican conference meeting with Vice President-elect Mike Pence on Capitol Hill on Nov. 17. (J. Lawler Duggan for The Washington Post)


Here is the letter (lots of details):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp-content/uploads/sites/47/2016/11/2016-11-28.EEC-et-al-to-Chaffetz-re-Trump-Conflict-of-Interests_0.pdf?tid=a_inl

[riversedge]

1. BTW--I bet the Repups will not investigate the Comey letter or Russian hacking either!

[wordpix]

2. Chaffetz pursues HRC emails while DonCon skates thru

Chaffetz should be put on notice this makes a great ad for his opponent in the upcoming re-election campaign if that is Chaffetz' priority. Tweeter-in-Chief's real estate development conflicts with the presidency. Choose, Donald!

[cstanleytech]

3. My money is on Chaffetz doing whatever it takes to actually protect Trump thus

there will never been any investigation of a Republican with a Republican majority in control.

[wordpix]

5. please do not hand over the presidency, Pres. Obama, until

we get questions answered about the er, irregularities.

[cstanleytech]

7. There isnt anything Obama can do about it legally. nt

[LenaBaby61]

11. "My money is on Chaffetz doing whatever it takes to actually protect Trump thus ....

there will never been any investigation of a Republican with a Republican majority in control."


Totally agree.

There will be no investigations done at all or anytime on his president dOnald tRump. Wouldn't shock me if they tried to re-investigate the dead horse that IS Benghazi to KEEP the focus off of tRump as he and his buddy pUtiN, crooked fBI/doJ do their dirty dealings and running with conflicts of interest up the yang yang and on steroids the next 4 years.

[Wellstone ruled]

13. Have heard this comment from someone who

knows him. Little Jason wants to score a Federal Judgeship for life.

[wordpix]

4. whatever I read about Chaffetz, I read a sleaze

He's the repugs' new poodle.

[still_one]

6. don't hold your breath

[NastyRiffraff]

8. "Cummings has not gotten a reply"

Nor will he. But this is Elijah Cummings, who is like a bulldog with a big, meaty bone. He can and likely will make Chaffetz's political life a living hell.

[George II]

9. He and the others continue to talk about Clinton's "breach of security" for having that server....

....but they ignore the fact that the State Department servers were hacked more than once and her's never was.

So, Chaffetz, whose server was more "secure"?

[Gothmog]

10. The House Republicans will not investigate trump

[Justice]

12. Chaffetz's Kimono Policy -- need to put pressure on him to enforce it!

Last summer Chaffetz spoke about Trump: 'If you’re going to run and try to become the president of the United States,” Chaffetz replied, “you’re going to have to open up your kimono and show everything, your tax returns, your medical records. You are . . . just going to have to do that.”'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/an-ethical-double-standard-for-trump--and-the-gop/2016/11/27/40f88624-b344-11e6-8616-52b15787add0_story.html?utm_term=.f83b3f795944.

[WhiteTara]

14. He needs some phone calls. Here's

his phone number
Washington [phone]

Utah [phone]

I'm calling too.

[OldRedneck]

15. Write your Congresscritter

Use the Democrats' letter as the basis for a letter that you write to your Representative and Senators, demanding an investigation into Trump's conflicts of interest, his tax returns, and his illegal use of the Trump Foundation.

Send a similar letter to the editor of your local newspapers. Keep it up.

[Retrograde]

16. Good. Even though Chaffetz isn't going to do

a damn thing, the Democrats in Congress need to keep pushing for it, and keep letting the press and media know that they are asking for it.