Democrats Vow to Unleash ‘Absolute Avalanche’ of Trump Investigations

This is what the Democrats meant by “affordability.”

A preview of things to come.

Financial Times: One of the Democrats poised to lead US congressional investigations into Donald Trump has vowed to expose an “avalanche of corruption” but warned his party not to be distracted by efforts to impeach the president again. Jamie Raskin, the Maryland Democrat expected to chair the US House judiciary committee in the next Congress, told the FT that his “overriding priority” would be to restore the “rule of law and constitutional government” as it launches probes into the Trump administration next year…. Raskin also took aim at the diplomatic role of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner in the Iran war while leading a private equity firm backed by sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East, saying it appeared to be an “outrageous conflict of interest”. “He’s never been able to answer us whether he was acting 100 per cent in the interest of his business clients in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Qatar, or he was acting 100 per cent in the interest of the American people, or was it 50-50, or somewhere in between?” Olivia Wales, a White House spokesperson, said Kushner’s personal business had “nothing to do” with his diplomacy, which was conducted “on a volunteer basis at the president’s request”. Kushner said in a statement that he had “never taken a diplomatic action to benefit Affinity, myself, or any investor”, referring to his private equity firm, and said “no one had ever identified a single American position I changed, government favour I sought, or diplomatic decision I made” to benefit himself, his fund or investors. He said his diplomacy was “solely in furtherance of America’s interests” (Financial Times).