Last week CNN reported that Deutsche Bank begins process of providing Trump financial records to New York’s attorney general: Deutsche Bank has begun the process of providing financial records to New York state’s attorney general in response to a subpoena for documents related to loans made to President Donald Trump and his business, according to … Read more
The authoritarian Trump regime’s policy of “total obstruction” of Congress will be put to the test this week. By week’s end, contempt proceedings may be invoked and jail space made ready to enforce subpoenas for witnesses under the inherent contempt power of Congress. House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings has pulled back from plans to … Read more
Last week House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) issued a “friendly” subpoena to Mazars USA, Donald Trump’s accounting firm, directing the firm to turn over the president’s financial records. Mazars had previously stated it would comply with the subpoena. Almost immediately, Trump’s shyster lawyers – hired to keep Trump’s finances secret – sent a … Read more
I want to borrow an idea from Roderick Kefferpütz at Medium last year. Trumping Trump: A Gulliver Strategy: “What seems to be effective in countering Trump is a “Gulliver strategy” — a convergence of many different smaller actors to contain him, as in Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels.” This is effectively what the House congressional committees are … Read more
The purposefully misleadingly-named GOP House Freedom Caucus — they are crypto-fascists who do not believe in freedom or democracy — have been sabotaging Congress since they were elected as part of the Tea Party rebellion in 2010. Former leader of the GOP House Freedom Caucus Mick Mulvaney is now President Trump’s “acting” White House Chief … Read more