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Only a small fraction of the 81 individuals and entities connected to President Donald Trump has turned over documents to the House Judiciary Committee by Monday’s deadline as part of the panel’s sweeping obstruction of justice investigation, according to Republican aides.

The committee had received just eight responses as of Tuesday morning, GOP counsels to the committee said. The vast majority of the 8,195 pages of material the committee received was provided by former Trump adviser Stephen Bannon, who handed over 2,688 pages; Trump confidant Thomas Barrack, who supplied 3,349 pages; and the National Rifle Association, which turned over 1,466 pages, the Republicans said.


The committee's Democratic chairman, Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York, said on Monday that the panel had heard from a “large number” of recipients who “either sent or agreed to send documents to the committee” — documents which Nadler said “already number in the tens of thousands.”

Nadler said that witnesses pledged to provide additional documents, but the committee hasn’t yet received them. He also said some people were seeking “friendly” subpoenas in order to compel their compliance with the request.

A spokesman for Nadler did not respond to a request for comment. On Monday, the spokesman said the panel would not answer questions about specific responses the committee had received.

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In addition to Bannon, Barrack and the NRA, former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos submitted 47 pages of documents; another campaign adviser, J.D. Gordon, turned over 51 pages; former Soviet military officer Rinat Akhmetshin, who attended the 2016 Trump Tower meeting arranged by Donald Trump Jr., provided 467 pages; ex-campaign adviser Sam Nunberg turned over 23 pages; and the Trump Inaugural Committee, chaired by Barrack, provided 104 pages.

William A. Brewer III, counsel to the NRA, said the gun-rights organization is “responding to the committee’s information request in a cooperative manner.” Brewer declined to comment on the contents of the documents it provided to the committee. The panel had asked for documents related to the organization's contacts with Russians and with Trump campaign officials.

At least one additional response may have arrived on Tuesday. Brittany Kaiser, a former employee of onetime Trump campaign data firm Cambridge Analytica, said through an attorney that she had provided documents to the committee.

“As has been true for a long time, Brittany is fully committed to cooperating with the many committees and other federal law enforcement agencies that have sought her help and information. She has already produced documents to House Judiciary," said the attorney, Jim Walden, who added that physical copies of the documents were sent via FedEx on Monday.

POLITICO contacted nearly all of the 81 individuals and entities that received requests for documents. The list includes Trump’s adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump. It also includes the Trump campaign, Trump Organization, an executive of the National Enquirer’s parent company, and a slew of other longtime Trump associates.

Most witnesses and their attorneys did not immediately respond to requests for comment, while others declined to disclose their level of cooperation. Most of the documents the Judiciary Committee requested had already been provided to special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, and to federal prosecutors at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Both entities are conducting investigations that have ensnared Trump, his family members and his longtime associates.

One witness, Keith Davidson — the former attorney for two women who have accused Trump of extramarital affairs — said he had pledged to cooperate with the committee but has asked the committee to issue a subpoena first to formalize the process.

“Counsel for the House Judiciary has informed me that based on the type of documents they are requesting, (legal files), they understand my reluctance to transfer documents until such a time I am compelled to do so,” Davidson said in an email. “Counsel for the House Judiciary has informed me that a subpoena is forthcoming.”

A second participant in the 2016 Trump Tower meeting, Ike Kaveladze, intends to cooperate with the committee, according to his attorney Scott Balber.

“We have nothing to hide,” Balber said. Kaveladze already provided documents and testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee in an investigation in the previous Congress.

A spokesman for AMI, the parent company of the National Enquirer, said "American Media will comply with the request," from the Judiciary Committee.



Several AMI officials were included among the witnesses sought by the committee, including CEO David Pecker and Chief Content Officer Dylan Howard.

An attorney for former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who is awaiting sentencing after admitting he lied to the FBI in 2017, declined to comment, deferring instead to the committee to disclose his client’s level of cooperation.

Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, who also received a document request from the committee, pledged earlier this month to “do everything to facilitate this investigation.”

As of Tuesday morning, the White House had yet to issue a response to Nadler’s broad request, despite Monday’s deadline.

Anita Kumar contributed to this report.

CORRECTION: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated Rinat Akhmetshin's affiliation with Russian intelligence.