U.S. President Donald Trump will invoke executive privilege concerning special counsel Robert Mueller’s unredacted report as well as other documents subpoenaed by the House Judiciary Committee, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. By using executive privilege, Trump will be allowed to withhold those materials from Congress, the report said. The House Judiciary Committee led by Democratic Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) is scheduled to meet later Wednesday morning to decide whether to vote to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt for failing to turn over the full report and certain other critical and related materials, the AP reported. 2019-05-08 03:31:14 20658 BREAKING: Wednesday at 10 a.m. to markup contempt report for AG Barr after DOJ rejects Committee’s… https://t.co/KR1dcWznZU 2019-05-08 03:44:27 1941 NEW: Barr threatens to ask the WH to invoke executive privilege over the Democrats’ demands for the Mueller report… https://t.co/NcFI75ku9k 2019-05-08 02:35:02 2728 In a statement released a short time ago, White House spokesperson Sarah Sanders said “Chairman Nadler’s blatant abuse of power, and at the Attorney General’s request, the President has no other option than to make a protective assertion of executive privilege,” the report said. WN.com will update this report. – WN.com, Jack Durschlag
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