“He isn’t coming after me because of mean tweets, but because I am considering running for President”
On Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that Trump’s personal law firm, the Department of Justice (DoJ) launched an investigation into him and his wife “about specific financial transactions.” In other words, the DoJ does not have a specific crime they are investigating; they are looking for a crime.
In a call with reporters Monday afternoon, aides to the governor said that more than a dozen people were contacted by FBI and IRS agents about the governor and his wife. The aides said some of the questions to those people were about specific financial transactions “that would be possible to ask only if the investigators have business records” or “credit card statements” that made it clear to the governor’s team that investigators had subpoenaed various financial records. They added that they were aware of any subpoenas for the governor or his wife.
The FBI declined to comment, and the IRS did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday night.
The reported probe follows a spree of federal indictments and investigations against Trump’s perceived political enemies, including former FBI Director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. In all of those cases, Trump had publicly urged Justice Department officials to go after them. All have denied wrongdoing.