House Dems Seek To Intervene In Trump Suit Over Deutsche Bank Subpoenas

WASHINGTON, DC - July 12:  Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D-CA) looks on as Federal Reserve Board Chairwoman Janet Yellen testifies before the House Financial Committee about the State of the economy on July 12, 2017 in Washington, DC. Yellen said the Federal Reserve expects to begin shrinking its $4.5 trillion bond stimulus later this year. (Photo by Pete Marovich/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 12: Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D-CA) looks on as Federal Reserve Board Chairwoman Janet Yellen testifies before the House Financial Committee about the State of the economy on July 12, 2017 ... WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 12: Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D-CA) looks on as Federal Reserve Board Chairwoman Janet Yellen testifies before the House Financial Committee about the State of the economy on July 12, 2017 in Washington, DC. Yellen said the Federal Reserve expects to begin shrinking its $4.5 trillion bond stimulus later this year. (Photo by Pete Marovich/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Two House committees on Friday asked Friday to intervene in a lawsuit filed by President Trump, his eldest children, and the Trump Organization seeking to block lawmakers’ subpoenas of their financial records.

In a joint motion to intervene filed in Manhattan federal court, the House Financial Services Committee and Intelligence Committee asserted their “broad” authority to oversee the executive branch. The subpoenas of Deutsche Bank and Capital One were necessary to carry out that work, the letter from House general counsel Douglas Letter said.

“The committees have broad legislative, investigative, and oversight authority. Pursuant to this authority, the committees are conducting various investigations on issues of national significance,” it read.

Trump, his children and their family real estate company swiftly responded, seeking a preliminary injunction that would stop the banks from complying with the subpoenas while the lawsuit is underway. The Trumps brought the suit on Monday.

In their own Friday letter to U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos, the Trumps said they would suffer “irreparable harm” without the order, accusing Democrats of seeking their private financial information purely “for the sake of exposure.”

Democratic lawmakers are pursuing wide-ranging investigations into the Trump Organization’s financial practices and whether the President’s business interests influenced his political decisions.

Read the Democrats’ new letter below.

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  1. Trumps said they would suffer “irreparable harm” without the order

    I believe that’s exactly what a majority of Americans are hoping for.

  2. Dont expose our financial records, sort of what cockroaches must think when the kitchen light goes on.

  3. Avatar for paulw paulw says:

    just what kind of irreparable harm will they suffer if all their transactions are aboveboard?

    In addition, funny to say, reponsible lawmakers don’t cherrypick material to mix with dishonest speculation and leak to their favorite outlets.

  4. Trump cannot win on this. There will be an airing of all of Trump’s wrongdoings…and it will be within months. As far as the polling on Impeachment: Polls cannot assess the changes in perspective and opinion by the American people as a result of an Impeachment proceeding. There is dirt on Trump the damage of which is precisely related to the maniacal zeal with which Trump is exerting to HIDE everything about him, his Administration, his staff and his Administration’s documents.

    In addition, there are separate investigations which will be taking place concurrent to these proceedings.

    Lastly, Mueller is in contact with HJC. That is a Pandora’s Box which Trump is terrified of.

    Trump is a master of TV and mikes thrown up in his face by stenographers masquerading as “journalists”. Every time things happen which would have felled most politicians, Trump digs into the Roy Cohn Playbook and brazens it out (helped by the aforementioned stenos).

    • On March 25, 2019, most people believed that Trump was let off the hook

    • On March 25, 2019, most people believed that Barr was not a fascist pig

    • On March 25 2019, more people thought that Mueller was a GOP stooge for Trump than now

    It’s different, now.

    But I would hardly guess that to be the case

  5. You would think that the entity issuing the subpoenas would be a necessary party in the lawsuit trying to stop compliance with or enforcement of the subpoenas.

    I’m sure leaving the Congressional committees out was just an oversight on the part of Trump’s attorneys.

    “We never did anything illegal. We have nothing to hide. So please, PLEASE, Your Honor, help us to hide it all. Or people will see how totally honest we are, and we will thus suffer irreparable harm.”

    Good luck with that argument, Crime Family.

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