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If the president (and his three eldest children) seem worried about Deutsche Bank telling Dems everything it knows, it’s probably because they should be.
BY BESS LEVIN
APRIL 30, 2019 7:55 AM
"As Robert Mueller’s report laid out in exhaustive detail, Donald Trump tried his hardest to obstruct justice when it came to the special counsel’s investigation into possible collusion between his 2016 campaign and Russia—efforts that were seemingly only unsuccessful because a number of (since departed) White House officials refused to do Trump’s bidding. Now, the president appears intent on stopping another probe into his behavior, one that could potentially have far worse ramifications for his presidency, his family, and his desire to stay out of prison once his time in Washington draws to a close.
The New York Times reports that Trump, Don Jr., Ivanka, Eric, and the Trump Organization filed a federal lawsuit late Monday against Deutsche Bank and Capital One, in an effort to stop the banks from responding to congressional subpoenas. In the suit, the president’s family and his private business—which he continues to profit from while running the country—argue that the House committees that issued the demands for information are engaging in a political fishing expedition. “This case involves congressional subpoenas that have no legitimate or lawful purpose,” the suit reads. “The subpoenas were issued to harass President Donald J. Trump, to rummage through every aspect of his personal finances, his businesses and the private information of the president and his family, and to ferret about for any material that might be used to cause him political damage. No grounds exist to establish any purpose other than a political one.”
The subpoenas in question were issued by the House Intelligence and Financial Services committees roughly two weeks ago, demanding information about the German lender’s famous client, as well as documents related to “possible money-laundering by people in Russia and Eastern Europe.” In a joint statement, Representative Maxine Waters, the chairwoman of the Financial Services Committee, and Representative Adam Schiff, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, called the lawsuit “meritless,” saying it demonstrated “the depths to which President Trump will go to obstruct Congress’s constitutional oversight authority . . . As a private businessman, Trump routinely used his well-known litigiousness and the threat of lawsuits to intimidate others, but he will find that Congress will not be deterred from carrying out its constitutional responsibilities. This lawsuit is not designed to succeed; it is only designed to put off meaningful accountability as long as possible.”..."
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/04/trump-deutsche-bank-lawsuit-subpoena
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