Announcement comes the day after Trump criticized ‘ridiculous partisan investigations’ in his State of the Union speech
The House intelligence committee will launch a broad new investigation looking at Russian interference in the 2016 election and Donald Trump’s foreign financial interests, the chairman, Adam Schiff, announced on Wednesday, moving ahead with the aggressive oversight that Democrats have promised now that they are in the majority.
Schiff said the investigation will include “the scope and scale” of Russian intervention in the 2016 presidential election, the “extent of any links and/or coordination” between Russians and Trump’s associates, whether foreign actors have sought to hold leverage over Trump or his family and associates, and whether anyone has sought to obstruct any of the relevant investigations.
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