If you thought you were going to see an ease of partisan battles on Capital Hill between Donald Trump and the Democratic controlled House you’re sorely mistaken.
According to CNBC, Trump has filed suit against Democratic House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings in an effort to try and block a subpoena sent last week seeking information about the president’s finances.
Last week, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee subpoenaed Mazars, an accounting firm that Trump had used to prepare several years of financial statements, according to the lawmakers’ document.
The subpoena requested a slew of financial documents and related materials from Trump, his trust, the Trump Organization, the Trump Corporation, Trump’s holdings company, the Trump Foundation and the Trump International Hotel in Washington. Mazars told the committee that it would not be able to comply with demands for those documents without a subpoena, according to Cummings.
Mazars and Peter Kenny, the Oversight Committee’s chief investigative counsel, are also listed as defendants in the lawsuit.
Trump’s lawyer in the lawsuit, William Consovoy, said in a statement that the attempt by Cummings’ committee to “obtain years’ worth of confidential information from their accountants lacks any legitimate legislative purpose, is an abuse of power, and is just another example of overreach by the president’s political opponents.”
Everyone had to know this was coming at some point. Democrats have been in hot pursuit of Trump’s taxes and financial information ever since he refused to release said documents during the 2016 Presidential Campaign. Trump I’m sure had to expect this as well and something you really can’t feel sorry about considering this is the kind of shit that happens when you run for public office, especially the highest office in the World.
Something that needs to be highlighted here, isn’t the obvious political move this presents itself as, especially if it further reveals any further inequalities between the upper and middle class in the United States. But will a win by the Democrats in obtaining these financial documents aide in any effort for socioeconomic reform? Or is this just another neoliberal effort to get another neoliberal candidate elected in 2020 who’ll continue to implement more neoliberal policy that only helps the upper class?
