DOJ lawyers seek to stop release of Trump financial records

Source: The Hill | August 17, 2018 | Jacqueline Thomsen

Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers have filed a request in federal court to halt a lawsuit surrounding President Trump’s hotel in Washington, D.C., while they file an appeal, a move that would stop the release of the property’s financial records.

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.

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 President’s 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.

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    Of course. Can’t have his worshipera find out that Trump is in debt to the Russians and that he is no longer the wealthy, successful businessman his PR says he is. That is — if he ever was that successful.

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