Pence Refuses To Comply With House Request For Docs

October 15, 2019 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies

Vice President Mike Pence’s office Tuesday said it will not comply with a request from the House to turn over documents related to President Donald Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. In a letter to the chairman of the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight committees, Pence counsel Matthew Morgan called the request part of a “self-proclaimed impeachment inquiry,” noting that the House has not yet taken a vote to open the inquiry.

“Never before in history has the Speaker of the House attempted to launch an ‘impeachment inquiry’ against a president without the majority of the House of Representatives voting to authorize a constitutionally acceptable process,” the letter says, echoing the same argument used by White House Counsel Pat Cipollone in the White House’s reason for not cooperating with Congress.

NEWS: @VP won’t comply with House Dems document request, dismissing the impeachment inquiry as a “self-proclaimed ‘impeachment inquiry.” Story coming in a minute. pic.twitter.com/VpXTRvbBJp

— Leigh Ann Caldwell (@LACaldwellDC) October 15, 2019