Mr. Schiff has been investigating President Trump, his family and businesses, the Trump Organization, over the congressman's suspicions of blackmail, money laundering and bribery.
Mr. Trump alluded to a new impeachment push Thursday.
Mr. Schiff said: "During the prior Congress, the Committee began to pursue credible reports of money laundering and financial compromise related to the business interests of President Trump, his family, and his associates. The President's actions and posture towards Russia during the campaign, transition, and administration have only heightened fears of foreign financial or other leverage over President Trump and underscore the need to determine whether he or those in his Administration have acted in service of foreign interests since taking office."
Mr. Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen, told the committee he knew of no Russia money flowing into the Trump Organization, the president's real estate development firm.
"He'll probably go back after Trump-Russia money laundering, which is one of Schiff's favorite conspiracy theories. He doesn't know if it's Russians laundering money for Trump through the NRA, Trump properties, Deutsche Bank, or the Trump Tower Moscow project, but he's convinced that somewhere, somehow, something happened."
Mr. Nadler also has been investigating whether Mr. Trump obstructed justice in the Mueller probe, but did not include that offense in his impeachment articles.
"Just because President Trump has been acquitted by the Senate, paradoxically that doesn't mean the congressional investigations will end," J.D. Gordon, a Trump campaign national security adviser, told The Times.
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/6/second-impeachment-could-be-on-horizon-for-trump/
Mr. Trump alluded to a new impeachment push Thursday.
Mr. Schiff said: "During the prior Congress, the Committee began to pursue credible reports of money laundering and financial compromise related to the business interests of President Trump, his family, and his associates. The President's actions and posture towards Russia during the campaign, transition, and administration have only heightened fears of foreign financial or other leverage over President Trump and underscore the need to determine whether he or those in his Administration have acted in service of foreign interests since taking office."
Mr. Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen, told the committee he knew of no Russia money flowing into the Trump Organization, the president's real estate development firm.
"He'll probably go back after Trump-Russia money laundering, which is one of Schiff's favorite conspiracy theories. He doesn't know if it's Russians laundering money for Trump through the NRA, Trump properties, Deutsche Bank, or the Trump Tower Moscow project, but he's convinced that somewhere, somehow, something happened."
Mr. Nadler also has been investigating whether Mr. Trump obstructed justice in the Mueller probe, but did not include that offense in his impeachment articles.
"Just because President Trump has been acquitted by the Senate, paradoxically that doesn't mean the congressional investigations will end," J.D. Gordon, a Trump campaign national security adviser, told The Times.
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/6/second-impeachment-could-be-on-horizon-for-trump/
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