alt Hacker NewsThere's already bipartisan talk of inherent contempt being applied in the House, so the teeth might not wait for a future justice department.
There's already bipartisan talk of inherent contempt being applied in the House, so the teeth might not wait for a future justice department.
The discharge petition to all the bill that forced this release was going nowhere until President Trump declared that he was onboard, and then it happened. Until then it was going nowhere.
My guess is that someone suggested to Trump that they could redact most of the bad bits and plausibly deny that they were doing that, and he decided that this was the path of least resistance.
So I don't think there is any chance that he will easily allow any more votes to go the way of putting more pressure. Unless the pressure gets so bad that he has no choice (read: Newsmax and FoxNews both start pressure campaigns).