Donald Trump thinks that he can thumb his nose at Congress because the federal courts will protect him. But that’s not the way our Constitution works. It’s also not the way the courts have held in cases going to the early days of our Constitution.
But since tens of millions of Americans take Trump’s words as gospel, let’s look at the facts, starting with Trump’s blanket declaration of noncooperation with House inquiries.
“There is no reason to go any further, and especially in Congress where it’s very partisan — obviously very partisan,” Trump told The Washington Post Tuesday night in declaring that cooperating with House investigations is not going to happen.
View the complete April 26 article by David Cay Johnston on the DCReport.org website here.