Legal experts say Rudy Giuliani’s apparent hopes of invoking the privilege to avoid providing documents or testifying to Congress may be undercut by his own words.
Ian MacDougall | ProPublica
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Trump’s dark deregulation
At a recent event to tout his administration’s efforts to rid the federal government of what he contends is burdensome red tape, President Donald Trump used oversized gold scissors to cut a piece of red ribbon strung between two stacks of paper. In short order, he promised, his administration would excise some 165,000 of the more than 185,000 pages in the Code of Federal Regulations.