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WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee delivered a flurry of document demands to the executive branch and the broader Trump world on Monday that detailed the breadth and ambition of a new investigation into possible obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power by President Trump and his administration.
In the two months since they took control of the House, Democrats on several committees have begun scrutinizing members of the president’s cabinet, his businesses, his campaign, his inaugural committee and his ties to key foreign powers, including Russia and its attempts to disrupt the 2016 presidential election. They have also
laid the groundwork to try to obtain Mr. Trump’s long suppressed tax returns.
But the newest requests from Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York, the Judiciary Committee chairman, opened perhaps the most perilous front to date for President Trump — an inquiry that takes aim at the heart of his norm-bending presidency and could conceivably form the basis of a future impeachment proceeding. Mr. Nadler was explicit Monday in saying the House is no longer content to await the findings of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, and will delve into many of the same issues, but with a different standard of evidence not wedded to a criminal indictment.
The letters from Mr. Nadler, dated March 4, went to 81 agencies, individuals and other entities tied to the president. They included the Trump Organization, the Trump campaign, the Trump Foundation, the presidential inaugural committee, and the White House. The Justice Department, and the F.B.I., which have collected substantial evidence on Mr. Trump’s actions toward federal investigators, were also recipi