Democrats asked 81 Trump affiliates for documents — but not Ivanka. Here's why.
House Democrats served up document requests to nearly everyone affiliated with President Trump and his campaign on Monday. Well, everyone except Ivanka Trump.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler's (D-N.Y.) request is part of what he calls a plan to "build the public record" of potential "obstruction of justice," "public corruption," and "abuses of power" in the Trump administration. He's looking for payments between National Enquirer publisher David Pecker and Trump, translation records of Trump's discussions with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and a whole bunch of things from Trump's two eldest sons.
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One Democrat, Rep. Gerry Connolly (Va.), did mirror that language in telling CNN last week the "optics" of "compelling testimony from members of the [Trump] family ... could backfire." But Connolly didn't single out Ivanka, except to say the two Trump sons are already under investigation in the Southern District of New York, and that "it may be better to let that play out" before the House talks to them.
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