These documents will make it easier for the committee to get “to the bottom of the egregious conduct” of the former Republican president
The House Committee on Policing and Reform announced Thursday that reached an agreement to access the financial records of the former US president Donald Trump (2017-2021), who had been refusing to hand them over for years.
The battle over that information dates back to April 2019, when the committee issued a legal summons to have access to that information as part of its investigation into his “unprecedented” conflicts of interest, his “self-serving” transactions, and his financial ties abroad.
In turn, Trump and Mazars USA, an accounting firm used by the former president and his companies, sued the then leader of that committee, Democrat Elijah Cummings, in an attempt to block the subpoena.
“After numerous court victories, The committee has reached an agreement to obtain key financial documents that former President Trump fought for years to hide from Congress.“, the committee said in its statement on Thursday.
According to your note, those documents will make it easier for the committee to get “to the bottom of the egregious conduct” of the former Republican president and ensure that future White House tenants “do not abuse their position of power for personal gain.”
The Oversight Committee had requested in March 2019 from Mazars USA the statements of the financial situation and the audits prepared by Trump and some of his companies, including that of the Trump International Hotel, located in downtown Washington, according to The Washington at the time. Post.
The newspaper pointed out that for more than a decade Mazars USA and a predecessor firm had signed the financial statements that Trump used to access credit, some of which included “frequent exaggerations or inaccuracies” that were accompanied by a note from the firm that said that it was not responsible for any inaccuracies in the information.
In August 2021, the Justice had already stipulated that the committee had valid legislative reasons to request these documents, and the agreement reached now underlines that Trump has agreed not to issue any appeals in the Washington courts and that Mazars USA agrees to deliver the documents to the committee “as soon as possible.”
The resolution of this conflict does not affect another legal battle between Trump and another committee of the Lower House, which has been asking him for years to make his tax returns public.
Trump was the first US president since Gerald Ford (1974-1977) to you did not publish your tax return every yeara tradition that his predecessors considered part of their duty of transparency and accountability to the population.