Donald Trump slams Democrats’ ‘stone cold crazy’ corruption inquiry

Donald Trump accuses Democrats of going ‘stone cold CRAZY’ in launching wide-ranging corruption investigations into him.

Donald Trump has slammed the “crazy” Democrats’. inquiry into corruption claims. Picture: AP.

Donald Trump has accused Democrats of going ‘stone cold CRAZY’ in launching wide-ranging corruption investigations into him, describing them as the “greatest overreach in US history.”

His comments came as House Democrats prepare to formally demand Mr Trump’s tax returns, which he has refused to release.

In a series of angry tweets the president said the decision by Democrats to demand documents from 81 people and organisations in one of its new investigations amounted to ‘presidential harassment.’

“The greatest overreach in the history of our Country,’ Mr Trump tweeted. “The Dems are obstructing justice and will not get anything done. A big fat fishing expedition in search of a crime.’

“The committees have gone stone, cold CRAZY,” he tweeted. “81 letters sent to innocent people to harass them. They won’t get ANYTHING done for our country.’ In a separate tweet he wrote: “PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT.”

Now that they realize the only Collusion with Russia was done by Crooked Hillary Clinton & the Democrats, Nadler, Schiff and the Dem heads of the Committees have gone stone cold CRAZY. 81 letter sent to innocent people to harass them. They won’t get ANYTHING done for our Country!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 5, 2019

The greatest overreach in the history of our Country. The Dems are obstructing justice and will not get anything done. A big, fat, fishing expedition desperately in search of a crime, when in fact the real crime is what the Dems are doing, and have done!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 5, 2019

The president was responding to news that the Democrat-majority House Judiciary Committee was launching a wide-ranging investigation into multiple aspects of Mr Trump’s life and business affairs.

These include his business dealings with Russia, his personal finances and tax returns, his payment of hush money to two women and multiple other aspects of his personal and business dealings.

The probes will also examine his behaviour as president, including the sacking of FBI chief James Comey in 2017.

The House Ways and Means Committee is also preparing to request 10 years of Mr Trump’s tax returns, a move that the president is likely to challenge in the courts.

Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler claimed that his committee’s probe was needed to hold Mr Trump “accountable for his near-daily attacks on our basic legal, ethical, and constitutional rules and norms.”

But Republicans say the broad and vague nature of the investigation proves that it is aimed at digging up any dirt it can find to use against the president in the lead up to the 2020 election.

Among the 81 letters send by the committee requesting information were letters sent to Mr Trump’s two eldest sons, as well as to his business associates and political confidants.

One of Mr Trump’s sons, Eric Trump, said the investigation was a desperate attempt by the Democrats to obstruct the president.

“I mean, these people are so desperate,” he said of the Democrats. “I mean, that’s what it comes down to. If you can’t win, what do you do? You obstruct, you try and impeach, you try and harass, you try and distract. I mean, that’s all these people know how to do. I mean, they can’t win.”

Meanwhile former White House lawyer Ty Cobb has said in an interview that he disagrees with Mr Trump’s criticisms of special counsel Robert Mueller and said he considered him to be “an American hero” and a “class act.”

“I think the world of Bob Mueller,” Mr Cobb said, adding that he believed the special counsel was a “very justice-oriented person.”

Mr Cobb resigned last May in part because of a dispute over plans by the White House to become more aggressive towards Mr Mueller. Mr Trump has portrayed Mr Mueller as a conflicted Democrat who is conducting a politically motivated witch-hunt.

“I don’t feel the investigation is a witch hunt,” Mr Cobb said.

“They (the White House) have ratcheted up the public’s concerns about the investigation and its legitimacy. I object to that approach. But it’s his choice. He’s the president.”

However he said he did not believe Mr Mueller’s report would uncover evidence of collusion between Mr Trump’s team and Russia during the 2016 election.

He said he did not “buy” the notion the Mueller report will unearth a terrible secret that will help the Democrats end Mr Trump’s presidency.

Cameron Stewart is also US Contributor for Sky News Australia