President Trump in a Tweet on Tuesday knocked Rep. Jerrold Nadler, who’s leading an investigation into White House, for opposing a development project Trump wanted to build years ago in Manhattan.
“Congressman Jerry Nadler fought me for years on a very large development I built on the West Side of Manhattan. He wanted a Rail Yard built underneath the development or even better, to stop the job,” Trump posted on his Twitter account.
“He didn’t get either & the development became VERY successful. Nevertheless, I got along very well with Jerry during the zoning and building process,” the president continued in a second tweet.
“Then I changed course (slightly), became President, and now I am dealing with Congressman Nadler again. Some things never end, but hopefully it will all go well for everyone. Only time will tell!” Trump said.
Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has subpoenaed information from a number of White House advisers and Trump associates, including former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and former adviser Steve Bannon.
His panel, voting along party lines last week, also authorized a subpoena to compel Attorney General William Barr to release special counsel Robert Mueller’s report in its entirety.
Trump, according to a report in the Washington Post, tore into Nadler last week during a meeting at the White House with Republican lawmakers.
Trump referred to Nadler as “Fat Jerry,” mocking him for his stomach-reduction surgery in 2002, and saying he’s been “battling Nadler for years.”
The dispute, the newspaper said, involved a development Trump wanted to build in 1985 along the Hudson River between 59th and 72nd Streets in Nadler’s then-state Assembly district.
There was a lot of community opposition to the project, and Nadler wanted the city to buy the property and upgrade the dilapidated rail yard that Trump had bought for the development.
Ultimately, Trump built a scaled-down version of his original plan for the neighborhood. He sold the property in 2005.
Barr so far has just released a four-page summary of the findings of Mueller’s nearly two-year investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
In his synopsis of the nearly 400-page report, Barr wrote that Mueller did not find evidence that Trump or his campaign associates colluded with the Russians.
But Mueller stopped short of determining that Trump obstructed justice, saying “it also does not exonerate him.”
Barr, who examined Mueller’s report with deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, concluded that Mueller didn’t have evidence to pursue an obstruction case against the president.