WASHINGTON (AP) — The attorneys general of the District of Columbia and Maryland plan to file subpoenas seeking records from the Trump Organization, the Internal Revenue Service and dozens of other entities in their lawsuit accusing Donald Trump of profiting off the presidency.
The Maryland attorney general’s office confirmed the subpoena details to The Associated Press as they were being prepared on Tuesday.
Their case alleges that foreign and domestic government spending at Trump’s Washington, D.C., hotel amounts to gifts to the president in violation of the U.S. Constitution’s emoluments clause.
The Justice Department has indicated it plans to appeal to a higher court. It declined to comment.
The subpoenas target more than 30 Trump-linked private entities and the federal agency that oversees the lease for Trump’s D.C. hotel, plus multiple federal agencies.
Trump’s world is falling apart
why the fuck is DOJ defending Trump’s private business interests? Using Federal Money to defend about a lawsuit involving private conduct is likely illegal. We need to sue the fucker for stealing public resources this way.
Talk talk talk, get’r done. The sooner the better, today already.
All that rigmarole back in the late 90s, regarding Bill Clinton’s donors sleeping in the Lincoln bedroom, seems rather quaint today.
https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=yt0GXLzpLMeIggfCjo74Dw&q=Bill+Clinton+donors+Lincoln+bedroom&oq=Bill+Clinton+donors+Lincoln+bedroom&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-hp.12..33i160.5639.8823..9987...2.0..0.151.1001.1j7…0…1…5…0j46j35i39j0i131j46i39j46i131.UXaW6zrHZPU
How does DOJ get to intercede between the state AGs and various business entities? The IRS I guess they can get involved with. But not the trump org or tower I wouldn’t think.