President Donald Trump on Tuesday described the document request that the White House and 80 other Trump-affiliated individuals and organizations received from the House Judiciary Committee the day prior as “presidential harassment” and said the requests had been made because Democrats “could not stand losing in 2016.”
During a signing ceremony for an executive order that the White House said would lay out a “National Roadmap to Empower Veterans and End Veteran Suicide,” Trump focused on the investigations into his and his associates’ behavior.
“It’s a disgrace to our country,” he said of the document request. “The campaign begins, but their campaign’s been going on for the last two-and-a-half years.”
“Instead of doing health care, instead of doing so many things that they should be doing, they want to play games,” Trump said of Democrats.
The President said he would rather “see them do legislation.”
“We negotiate out legislation where so many things, actually things that we agree on like infrastructure,” he said. “But they want to focus on nonsense.”
Trump: House Judiciary Committee's request for documents is "a disgrace to our country" and "presidential harassment." pic.twitter.com/cwikeQRhJ2
— Matt Shuham (@mattshuham) March 5, 2019
