{"id":36320,"date":"2019-04-23T09:49:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T16:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36320"},"modified":"2019-04-23T09:49:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T16:49:09","slug":"stupid-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/23\/stupid-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Putin&#8217;s Puppet, Resident Donald Trump, does not think his financial records should be investigated.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; He does not want the hundreds of crimes and torts, above and beyond the purview of the Mueller Investigation, to be exposed for the world to see.&nbsp; In a thoroughly incompetent attempt to stop it, he&#8217;s actually suing Elijah Cummings to prevent the House Oversight and Reform Committee from getting the records.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0423ElijahCummings\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0423ElijahCummings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0423ElijahCummings.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\">  <\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump on Monday filed a lawsuit against House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings to block a subpoena of the president&#8217;s financial records from an accounting firm, escalating tensions between the White House and congressional Democrats who are investigating his business empire.  <\/p>\n<p>In a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=0000016a-4546-d50f-a96a-ed5763d30000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">court filing<\/a>, Trump\u2019s attorneys asked for an order to block Cummings\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/04\/12\/cummings-subpoena-trump-financial-records-1273464\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subpoena<\/a> to Mazars USA. The Democratic lawmaker is attempting to obtain eight years of the president\u2019s financial records from Mazars, which had asked the committee for a so-called friendly subpoena so that it could comply with the request.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not allow congressional presidential harassment to go unanswered,\u201d Trump attorney Jay Sekulow said in a statement Monday.  <\/p>\n<p>The committee is investigating allegations from Trump\u2019s former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen that the president at times artificially inflated and deflated his assets for his personal benefit&#8230; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/04\/22\/trump-sues-oversight-committee-chairman-finance-records-1284995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politico<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Foolish Fuhrer is in for a surprised.&nbsp; Rachel Maddow has a 35 minute explanation on how this issue became settled law.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Txmp9zLcVuY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In other worlds, Trump can run but he can&#8217;t hide.&nbsp; Long term, the men in the white coats are coming to throw a net over him.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/lJCTgICYkjA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putin&#8217;s Puppet, Resident Donald Trump, does not think his financial records should be investigated.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; He does not want the hundreds of crimes and torts, above and beyond the purview of the Mueller Investigation, to be exposed for the world to see.&nbsp; In a thoroughly incompetent attempt to stop it, he&#8217;s actually suing Elijah Cummings <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/23\/stupid-suit\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}