The purpose is to delay everything until primary season.Why Is Trump So Worried About His Finances Going Public? – Rolling Stone
"On Monday, the president went so far as to sue House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD), as well as his own accounting firm, in an attempt to block a subpoena of Trump’s accounting firm...."
"Cummings initially wrote Mazers USA, the accounting firm in question, seeking Trump’s financial records on March 20th, weeks after the president’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, testified publicly before the Oversight Committee that Trump had lied about his finances in an effort to mislead lenders.
"The company responded, Cummings said, by requesting a 'friendly' subpoena to formalize the process, after which it planned to comply with Congress.
"Last week, Trump’s attorneys tried to pressure Mazers USA into not honoring a subpoena from Cummings, writing that it 'would not be valid or enforceable.'"
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Trump wants Democrats to pay his legal bills in this obfuscation.
Is it simply taken for granted that this president holds himself above all legal accountability and Republicans will inevitably support him to the hilt?
And he's going to lose. Congress has absolute power in Article 1 oversight, and no court is going to rule otherwise. The courts do not get involved in disputes between coequal branches, and even when they have, they demanded a good faith effort from both sides. Trump just flatly refusing to honor the oversight powers of Congress, is a flagarant disregard of a good faith effort.Trump doesn't have a legal leg to stand on. All financial institutions have legal liability for not handing over any documents subpoenaed by Congress, and will not wait for any court decisions before doing so, and there is nothing Trump can do to stop them from handing them over, and Deutsche Bank already is as we speak.