Blumenthal Defends His Plans to Investigate Trump’s Ballroom Donors
The Washington Sun reports Sen. Richard Blumenthal defending his planned oversight investigations into the Trump administration after U.S. Attorney Aaron Reitz posted a letter accusing him of threatening citizens' free association and warning him to preserve records — a demand Blumenthal turned back on Reitz, calling the threat baseless intimidation. Blumenthal, incoming chair of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, says the public deserves to know the terms under which companies donated millions to the president's ballroom, while White House Counsel Will Scharf separately warned Rep. Robert Garcia that probes crossing into criminality would invite investigation.
