The White House is expected to move to block former top aide Annie Donaldson from answering the House Judiciary Committee’s written questions about her tenure as White House deputy counsel, according to sources familiar with the matter
block former top aide Annie Donaldson from answering the House Judiciary Committee’s written questions about her tenure as White House deputy counsel, according to sources familiar with the matter.
But the White House, which has been involved in the negotiations, is expected to assert its claims that former aides have “absolute immunity” from testifying to Congress about their service in the White House, sources said. Democrats have said that claim is legally baseless and are vowing to defeat it in federal court. A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201906/489/1155968404_6050037397001_6050032901001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404"Donaldson provided Mueller’s investigators with voluminous contemporaneous notes detailing Trump’s efforts to thwart the special counsel’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Her notes documented a West Wing in chaos after Mueller was appointed, and after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.
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