DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/INVESTIGATIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After three months in power, House Democrats have finally hit their investigative stride. They’ve teed up invasive probes of President Donald Trump’s finances, uncorked subpoenas and set the stage for court battles that could consume Washington through the 2020 election. But everything could change Thursday [4-18-19] when Attorney General William Barr releases a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s long-anticipated report on the Trump campaign’s links to Russia. Mueller’s findings — and whether they’re damning, benign or too heavily redacted to understand — are certain to be a major factor guiding the direction of Democrats’ probes. Such a realignment may be inevitable. While Democrats have vowed to press on with their investigations regardless of Mueller’s report, they’ve continued to publicly lean on the special counsel’s findings in order to determine what comes next. According to a senior Democratic aide, the six House committees conducting Trump-related investigations will immediately determine which revelations in the report apply to which panel and where there might be overlap as lawmakers move forward.”
–Andrew Desiderio and Kyle Cheney, “Mueller looms over Dem investigations,” Politico, April 16, 2019 6:23 pm