It comes as a House of Representatives committee launched contempt proceedings against US Attorney General Bill Barr for failing to turn over the documents.
Image: SIPA USA/PA Images Image: SIPA USA/PA Images US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump has refused to release materials demanded by Congress, asserting his presidential authority for the first time in an escalating conflict with Democratic Representatives.
“Neither the White House nor Attorney General Barr will comply with Chairman Nadler’s unlawful and reckless demands,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said, referring to the Democratic head of the House Judiciary Committee. “This decision represents a clear escalation in the Trump administration’s blanket defiance of Congress’s constitutionally mandated duties,” Nadler said at the start of the contempt hearing.
The president, she said, “seeks to take a wrecking ball to the Constitution of the United States of America.” “I think that the attorney general should be held in contempt,” Pelosi told a conference in Washington. Barr declared Trump cleared of conspiracy with Russia and obstruction of justice shortly after Mueller presented his 448-page report to the Justice Department in March.
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