CONGRESS/DEMS/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Donald Trump on Monday [4-22-19] filed suit to keep U.S. lawmakers from obtaining his financial records, the first salvo in what promises to be an escalating legal battle with Democrats in Congress. The suit seeks to block a subpoena issued by the Democratic chairman of the U.S. House Oversight Committee for information about Trump’s personal and business finances, alleging Democrats have launched ‘all-out political war’ on Trump with subpoenas as their ‘weapon of choice.’ The committee’s subpoena sought eight years of documents from Mazars USA, an accounting firm long used by Trump to prepare financial statements, related to its investigation of allegations Trump inflated or deflated financial statements for potentially improper purposes. Elijah Cummings, the House Oversight Committee chairman, issued the subpoena to the president’s accountant after Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, testified to Congress in February that Trump had misrepresented his net worth.”
–Reuters, “Trump Sues to Block Congress Subpoena for His Financial Records,” The New York Times online, April 22, 2019