It seems most likely that Trump was referring to document requests related to the “Fast and Furious” gun trafficking scandal, in which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives allowed suspected gun smugglers to purchase hundreds of weapons from U.S.
So we are left to guess to what Trump may have been referring. After Republicans took control of the House in 2011, the Obama administration faced a number of congressional inquiries. We reached out to the White House press office for clarification of the president’s remarks, but it did not respond. Many requests were made they didn’t give a letter.
They didn’t give one letter of the request. Trump, March 5: President Obama, from what they tell me, was under a similar kind of a thing - didn’t give one letter. Trump then suggested he might not comply with the document requests, and cited Obama as precedent. Eighty-one people or organizations got letters. And they want to do that instead of getting legislation passed. “The fact is that, I guess, we got 81 letters. “The witch hunt continues,” Trump told reporters after announcing an executive order on efforts to combat veteran suicides. Trump called the investigation a “disgrace” and “presidential harassment.” Trump’s comments came after the Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee announced on March 4 that it is opening an investigation into the “alleged obstruction of justice, public corruption, and other abuses of power by President Trump, his associates, and members of his Administration.” The committee said it was launching its investigation by serving document requests to “81 agencies, entities, and individuals believed to have information relevant to the investigation.” In fact, the Obama administration handed over hundreds of thousands of documents in response to various congressional inquiries - and it turned over tens of thousands more under court order. The Obama administration did resist turning over some documents sought by congressional investigators in at least two cases, but it hardly refused to hand over any documents. In response to a sweeping document request from a congressional committee looking into potential criminal activity, President Donald Trump wrongly claimed that in the face of similar congressional inquiries, his predecessor, President Obama, “didn’t give one letter.”
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