Over two decades, Deutsche Bank lent Donald J. Trump billions of dollars, even as his tarnished financial record put him off limits for most of Wall Street.
“You are a great friend,” Mr. Trump wrote to his Deutsche Bank contact in 1998. “We have a great relationship,” he said in 2013. “They are totally happy with me,” he declared three years later.
Now, Deutsche Bank is putting the president on the defensive.
Lawyers for the bank have spent months cooperating with investigators from two Democratic-controlled congressional committees, which issued what one lawmaker called a “friendly subpoena” to the bank in mid-April. The bank could end up sharing decades of his personal and corporate financial records.
That prospect prompted Mr. Trump to file a lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan on Monday in an attempt to block Deutsche Bank and another financial company, Capital One, from sharing documents. Mr. Trump’s lawyers said the subpoenas had no legitimate purpose and were an attempt to pry into his finances for political gain.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:LOL. If Trump wants to spend his money fighting a perfectly legitimate subpoena in a long-shot quest to keep his shady finances secret, that's his decision. Typically the RNC is paying his legal bills anyway, so it's just less money they have to spend in 2020.
Except, he is spending your money.
Still laughing?
Not PP, but he’s not spending taxpayer money on this.
Isn't it money from his 2020 campaign? He's spending his followers money on his. They get what they get.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:LOL. If Trump wants to spend his money fighting a perfectly legitimate subpoena in a long-shot quest to keep his shady finances secret, that's his decision. Typically the RNC is paying his legal bills anyway, so it's just less money they have to spend in 2020.
Except, he is spending your money.
Still laughing?
Not PP, but he’s not spending taxpayer money on this.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:LOL. If Trump wants to spend his money fighting a perfectly legitimate subpoena in a long-shot quest to keep his shady finances secret, that's his decision. Typically the RNC is paying his legal bills anyway, so it's just less money they have to spend in 2020.
Except, he is spending your money.
Still laughing?
Anonymous wrote:LOL. If Trump wants to spend his money fighting a perfectly legitimate subpoena in a long-shot quest to keep his shady finances secret, that's his decision. Typically the RNC is paying his legal bills anyway, so it's just less money they have to spend in 2020.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hmm, is he trying to hide something?
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/04/29/donald-trump-sues-deutsche-bank-capital-one-block-subpoenas/3624327002/
+1 If he's not hiding anything, let him share his financial data, just like every President in modern US history. Transparency should be a bipartisan issue.
+1000
What doesn't he want the American people to know about his finances?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hmm, is he trying to hide something?
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/04/29/donald-trump-sues-deutsche-bank-capital-one-block-subpoenas/3624327002/
+1 If he's not hiding anything, let him share his financial data, just like every President in modern US history. Transparency should be a bipartisan issue.
+1000
What doesn't he want the American people to know about his finances?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hmm, is he trying to hide something?
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/04/29/donald-trump-sues-deutsche-bank-capital-one-block-subpoenas/3624327002/
+1 If he's not hiding anything, let him share his financial data, just like every President in modern US history. Transparency should be a bipartisan issue.
Anonymous wrote:Hmm, is he trying to hide something?
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/04/29/donald-trump-sues-deutsche-bank-capital-one-block-subpoenas/3624327002/
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Everyone who is asking the "What is he hiding" question should think back when they asked the same question about Trump's actions with regards to collusion. Turns out he wasn't hiding much in that regard.
These subpoenas have no basis in suspicion of an underlying crime, nor do they serve a legislative purpose. They are a fishing expedition.
It's harassment. The Mueller report didn't give them what they wanted, so they are turning to other methods of trying to find SOMETHING - ANYTHING.
Keep it up, folks. You are making the American people sympathetic toward the Trumps.
Anonymous wrote:Everyone who is asking the "What is he hiding" question should think back when they asked the same question about Trump's actions with regards to collusion. Turns out he wasn't hiding much in that regard.
These subpoenas have no basis in suspicion of an underlying crime, nor do they serve a legislative purpose. They are a fishing expedition.