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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/402433-doj-lawyers-seek-to-stop-release-of-trump-financial-recordsriversedge
(70,259 posts)He is not doing his job now.
...............DOJ lawyers argued that conducting discovery, including the release of the financial records on Trump and his properties, on a sitting president could trigger significant separation-of-powers concerns.
Moreover, the public interest is decidedly in favor of a stay because any discovery would necessarily be a distraction to the Presidents performance of his constitutional duties, the document states.
Officials in Maryland and D.C. have sought financial records on Trump and his properties. They argue, as alleged in the lawsuit, that Trump has personally benefitted from his presidency and is harming other competing businesses.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)in 'the interest of Justice" they SHOULD be revealed bc his "duties" as he see's them is to dismember the American Democracy through directions from others, expressly russia'r. Mind you, he's far from smart enough to dismantle the place by himself, he's getting top level "mastermind" help from Soviet/Red/russians top spy putin. And lo and behold...top spies are getting annihilated here in the USA so the red one can surgically attack our country. He's already working on the 5th columnists w people like "Better russian than Democrat" type lunatics., and people who shout menacingly at the press corp. Lights go out...the internet gets bombed, wit a week and corporate America will be the first to try to pursuaid everyone the russian thing won't be so bad bc...they're losing profits. Ensue the inevitable snowball, and we are the new beginnings of the global soviet union...Putin-phoenix, as our leader and 30% of the population perfectly fine w that. SO Un American. Such a slap in the face to such a brilliant and kind nation overall. Resist.
spanone
(135,854 posts)world wide wally
(21,748 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)The request was made to U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte, who last month ruled that the lawsuit alleging that Trump was profiting from foreign governments spending money at his D.C. hotel in violation of the Emoluments Clause could move forward.