Jeffries vows immediate anti-corruption push next year: ‘Hold the crooks accountable’

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is vowing that Democrats, if they win the House in next month’s midterms, will launch immediate investigations into corruption allegations against President Trump, his family and other associates who have benefited financially during the early years of his second term.

“What we’ve seen from the Trump cartel is that they’re more focused on enriching themselves, their family members, their friends and their donors than they are with making life more affordable for the American people,” Jeffries said Thursday during a press conference in his Brooklyn district. 

“And our promise to the country in the new Congress is that, beginning on Day 1, we’re going to hold the crooks accountable.”

The remarks come amid a flurry of new reports about administration officials, donors and advisers profiting, or seeking to profit, from their connections to the White House. 

Last week, The New York Times reported that the administration’s efforts to broker a peace deal between Russia and........

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