Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley arrives for a hearing on 'Oversight of the Foreign Agents Registration Act and Attempts to Influence U.S. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)President Trump called the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee to talk about one of his most important parochial issues — ethanol — shortly before the committee is slated to interview his son in its ongoing Russia probe. Foy said that it was Trump who called Grassley, and that Grassley told the president he would tweet about their conversations and the president’s support for ethanol. A White House official said Wednesday that in recent days, Trump has heard from a few outside advisers about rumors within the ethanol industry that the president was abandoning his campaign pledge on ethanol. Trump decided to call Grassley on Wednesday to kill the rumors and reassure Iowa’s senior senator that he supported ethanol and would not walk away from his campaign promise, the official said.

Source: Washington Post August 31, 2017 00:00 UTC