DOJ’s election-year conundrum
 

Welcome to the world ruled by Floridaman, who desperately wants it to be illegal to investigate him.

Legal experts see signs that DOJ is laying the groundwork for a potential criminal probe into whether the president and his top advisers broke federal laws by withholding a White House meeting and nearly $400 million dollars in foreign aid from Ukraine unless the country’s new leaders agreed to investigate Trump’s political rivals.

In Washington, the FBI has already contacted an attorney for the whistleblower who first revealed the scheme. In New York, federal prosecutors are expanding a probe into Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney, who played a pivotal role in the Ukraine campaign. And on Capitol Hill, lawmakers busy with impeachment are collecting documents and testimony that could help fuel any DOJ probe into the president and others around him who were involved in the scheme.

“While the FBI cannot duck an investigation because it’s politically fraught,” said one former senior law enforcement official, “they would need this one like they need a hole in the head.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/1...r-trump-074408

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