.MaddowBlog: Trumps file new lawsuit to keep finances hidden from investigators.
After the House Oversight Committee issued a subpoena to Mazars USA, directing the firm to turn over Donald Trump’s financial records, the president and his lawyers didn’t just urge the firm to ignore the subpoena; they also sued the committee’s chairman in the hopes of blocking disclosure.
The House Intelligence and Financial Services committees have issued subpoenas to several banks as part of their investigations of alleged foreign influence on U.S. elections. At face value, it’s extraordinary to see a sitting president’s lawyers try to invalidate congressional subpoenas – an effort that’s likely to fail, though the litigation process may take a considerable amount of time, which is very likely the point.
The new lawsuit insists the subpoenas “have no legitimate or lawful purpose.” That’s a tough argument to take seriously. For one thing, Michael Cohen recently gave sworn testimony that alerted lawmakers to a series of alleged financial misdeeds he claims Trump personally committed.
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