Democrats resume search for a 'smoking gun' to bring down Trump by writerknowles
With former special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s appearance before two House committees Wednesday failing to touch off a hoped-for groundswell of support for impeachment, House Democrats are returning to their search for the “smoking gun” of impeachable crimes by President Trump.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon that Democrats would continue to fight Trump in court.
“As you know, the Mueller investigation could not do the president’s personal or business connections and one of those connections could be to the Russians and that’s what we want to find out,” Pelosi said. Trump’s tax returnsStory continuesHouse Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal sued Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on July 2, seeking six years of Trump’s tax returns, which the committee is entitled to receive by law.
In May, Mnuchin refused to honor a subpoena for the records, and this week, Trump filed a countersuit against the House committee. Bank recordsIn May, a federal judge in New York ruled in favor of Democrats on the House Financial Services and Intelligence committees by refusing to block subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and Capital One for bank records on billions of dollars in loans made to Trump. Trump and three of his children had filed suit to block the subpoenas, and they have since appealed the judge’s decision.
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