DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump spiked partisan tensions to new heights Wednesday [4-24-19], saying his administration will challenge ‘all the subpoenas’ sent his way by congressional Democrats. The president’s comment came the same day the Justice Department sent a letter to House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) stating it would not comply with a subpoena demanding that a department official testify in the committee’s investigation of the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. The refusal was the latest clash in an increasingly hostile standoff between the White House and Congress. Since the publication last week of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, the Trump administration is aggressively responding to lawmakers’ efforts to push forward with probes into all aspects of the presidency. Trump said Democrats’ ramped-up investigatory efforts — which this week have also included fights over subpoenas of the president’s financial records and former White House counsel Don McGahn — are a ploy to defeat him in 2020.”
–Katie Galioto, “Trump vows to fight ‘all the subpoenas’ as partisan tensions spike,” Politico, April 24, 2019 9:41 pm