Former President Donald Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo arrives to testify Before the House Intelligence Committee in July 2017.
Former Trump adviser says he does not plan to cooperate with House Judiciary inquiry A former campaign aide for President Donald Trump, one of 81 people to receive a request for documents this week from the House Judiciary Committee, has already informed the committee that he has no records responsive to their inquiries and he does not plan to testify in front of the panel.
The letter from an attorney for Michael Caputo, who worked for Trump during part of the 2016 campaign, represents the first skirmish in what is likely to be broad resistance from Trump aides and associates to new inquiries issued this week by the Judiciary Committee.
Caputo told The Washington Post that he has already begun talking with four other Trump associates who received requests from the committee this week to begin a joint strategy of resisting requests for testimony. All four are reluctant to appear because they believe it’s a perjury trap designed to move toward impeachment of the president, he said.
Many of those who received the requests this week have already been interviewed by the House and Senate intelligence committees, as well as special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
But the Judiciary Committee, which has the power to impeach the president, has launched its own wide ranging probe of Trump campaign aides, business associates and family members as part of what Chairman Jerrold Nadler D. N.Y. said was a way to explore whether the Trump administration has abused its power.
Nadler took control of the committee in January with the new Democratic majority in the House.
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