DEMS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/NEW YORK/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rep. Jerrold Nadler’s first battle with Donald Trump came in the 1990s, when the future president sought federal money for a project that would have benefited one of his developments on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Mr. Nadler, a New York Democrat, opposed the subsidies and had them stripped from congressional spending bills. The feud soon degenerated into acrimony and name-calling. Mr. Trump called Mr. Nadler dumb and suggested he lose weight. A spokesman for Mr. Nadler fired back: ‘If Mr. Trump thinks Mr. Nadler is so dumb, we would ask why Nadler never went bankrupt and had to spend his father’s fortune to keep his family’s business afloat.’ Messrs. Trump and Nadler may go a few more rounds. Though the election is more than five months away, many political analysts say Mr. Trump’s unpopularity and a surge of enthusiasm among Democrats give the Democrats a good chance at taking control of the House. That would place Mr. Nadler, a fixture of New York City politics since the late 1960s, in line to take the chairmanship of the House Judiciary Committee. From that perch, the 70-year-old Democrat would conduct oversight over federal law enforcement and the U.S. Department of Justice and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elections.”
-Byron Tau, “Democratic House Takeover Would Set Up Rematch for Trump’s Old New York Foe,” The Wall Street Journal, May 29, 2018 8:00 am