Donald Trump, his businesses sue Democrats
US President Donald Trump and his businesses filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking the quashing of a subpoena issued by the chairman of a committee of the Democratic-led House of Representative seeking financial statements from Trump’s accountants.
US President Donald Trump and his businesses filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking the quashing of a subpoena issued by the chairman of a committee of the Democratic-led House of Representative seeking financial statements from Trump’s accountants.
The lawsuit alleged that the subpoena issued by Elijah Cummings, chairman of the House committee on oversight and reform, was part of an “all-out political war” launched by Democrats after they took control of the House and subpoena was their “weapon of choice”.
“Instead of working with the president to pass bipartisan legislation that would actually benefit Americans, House Democrats are singularly obsessed with finding something they can use to damage the president politically,” said the lawsuit filed in a Washington court.
Cummings issued a subpoena on March 27 to Mazars USA LLP, the long-time New York-based accountants for Trump and his businesses, seeking “statements of financial conditions, annual statements, periodic financial reports and independent auditors’ reports” from 2009 up until now. The documents were needed, the chairman’s office had said at the time, to investigate allegations that Trump had “inflated and deflated financial statements for potentially improper purposes”.