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    Trump Wrong About Obama Documents

    by Robert Farley Mar 07, 2019 4 minutes

    In response to a sweeping document request from a congressional committee looking into potential criminal activity, President Donald Trump wrongly claimed that in the face of similar congressional inquiries, his predecessor, President Obama, “didn’t give one letter.”

    The Obama administration did resist turning over some documents sought by congressional investigators in at least two cases, but it hardly refused to hand over any documents. In fact, the Obama administration handed over hundreds of thousands of documents in response to various congressional inquiries — and it turned over tens of thousands more under court order.

    Trump’s comments came after the Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee on March 4 that it is opening an investigation into

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