On Friday, President Trump asked whether House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) would explore Hillary Clinton’s “acid washed” emails in an extensive investigation into the president himself.

“Will Jerry Nadler ever look into the fact that Crooked Hillary deleted and acid washed 33,000 emails AFTER getting a most powerful demand notice for them from Congress?” he tweeted.

Will Jerry Nadler ever look into the fact that Crooked Hillary deleted and acid washed 33,000 emails AFTER getting a most powerful demand notice for them from Congress? — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 17, 2019

In March, the House Judicial Committee, chaired by Nadler, initiated its own large-scale investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign, including members of Trump’s family. Like the Mueller Report, the committee’s inquiry will focus on possible obstruction of justice, public corruption, and abuses of power.

The White House fired back against Russia’s probe-related paper demands from Democrats on Capitol Hill, accusing the House Judiciary Committee chairman of attempting to repeat the inquiry made by the special counsel for political benefit.

“Congressional investigations are intended to obtain information to aid in evaluating potential legislation, not to harass political opponents or to pursue an unauthorized ‘do-over’ of exhaustive law enforcement investigations conducted by the Department of Justice,” Pat Cipollone, counsel to the president, wrote in a letter to House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y. on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the Obama White House kept tabs on a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for information on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email accounts that the State Department improperly denied, according to newly released emails.

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