An arm of Congress is launching an investigation into President Trump’s transition operation, including its public spending, private fundraising and how it managed communications with foreign governments.
In a letter dated April 5, the independent, nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) told Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) that it would undertake the probe.
The investigation will focus on four major areas of interest, a GAO official wrote: federal ethics guidelines that governed Trump’s transition; the financial operation behind the effort, including expenditures by the government; conflicts of interest and financial-disclosure rules; and how the transition arranged phone calls and other contact with heads of foreign governments.
“As discussed with your staff on Feb. 27, 2017, we plan to complete our work and send a draft product to the agencies for comment in June 2017,” wrote a GAO official, whose name was redacted before Warren’s office posted the letter online this week.
Warren and Cummings had asked the GAO to review the transition’s practices in late November, citing rising concerns about conflicts of interest between Trump’s about-to-be leadership of the government and his private business activities.
Okay so we have the Congressional Intelligence Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee investigating possible collusion with Russia, the FBI doing the same, the Senate Judiciary Committee is investigating the events that led to Mike Flynn's resignation, and now the GAO investigating Trump's transition operation.
Did I leave any out?
I really feel I might have left something out.
Well anyhow I think that we can all agree that this is absolutely unprecedented by any standard, and that it is very unlikely that all of these investigations are going to come up empty.
If I were Donald Trump, or associated with Donald Trump's White House, I would be more than a little worried right now.
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