Red line
House Democrats issued subpoenas Monday for records from Deutsche Bank and other financial institutions, seeking information regarding President Trump’s business ventures as several congressional panels took steps to intensify their scrutiny of the president’s personal accounts and corporate dealings.
The subpoenas, first reported by the New York Times, were issued by the House Intelligence and Financial Services committees, which have been leading the Democrats’ probe of Trump’s finances. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Financial Services Committee, said in a statement Monday that Trump’s “potential use of the U.S. financial system for illicit purposes is a very serious concern.”
This was reportedly one of Trump’s red lines for Mueller—Trump was so angry over reports that Mueller had subpoenaed Deutsche Bank for records about their relationship that he sought to fire him in Dec. 2017, per NYT https://t.co/7RJME39f1T https://t.co/S3cNXE59d5
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) April 15, 2019
The NY AG has also sent subpoenas to Deutsche Bank. If there’s nothing there, the President has nothing to worry about. https://t.co/uLzaV4k3po
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) April 16, 2019
And if there is…
…sweet fuck all will happen in the senate. Senate Republicans have nailed their colours to this orange mess and will support him no matter what. Trump could serve the next football team to visit the White House a banquet of barbecued babies and Republicans would mumble a quick “no comment” to reporters as they hurried off to anywhere-else-but-there. Meanwhile, Trump’s base would be sharing tales of how those babies had it coming and deserved what they got.
Trump was shady and crooked before he got the nomination. He was known to be shady and crooked before he got the nomination. (He was a smug, pompous asshole, too, but being a smug, pompous asshole isn’t illegal). There are enough people in all the right places, with enough power, who don’t care, that it doesn’t matter what Congressional Democrats find. The response to more shadiness and crookedness will be another shrug. What’s one more smocking gun in Trump’s arsenal of smocking guns?
Shrug.
We’ve been lucky that this dress rehearsal for dictatorship has been held with someone who is evil but stupid sitting in the Oval Office. If Americans do nothing to prevent something like the Trump junta from happening again, the United States is well and truly screwed, because the next time it could be someone who actually isn’t a raging, demented pillock.
#1 Bruce
I’m reasonably certain it will help in the next federal election for one thing, and I think it a good thing to press for impeachment even if the Senate will never sign on.
I hope it helps in the next election. I would love to see the Republicans soundly thrashed at the polls and that they interpret this punishment as having been for choosing Trump. With so many short term losses for “our side” in the realm of poltical norms, accountability, tranparency, civility, integrity, and rule of law, one has to put one’s hopes in the long game. ( I know there are lots of things still working properly, but there’s enough that’s gone south or pear shaped that I’m looking for sunscreen for the resulting friuit salad…) But with the effects of jerrymandering, voter supression, Russian interference, the Electoral fucking College, and short attention spans of too much of the electorate, I’m not so sanguin about the results coming presidential election cycle.
I would be surprised if it helps the Dems in the next election. I think for a lot of people, the proceedings look like petty spite, and they will condemn the Dems and not the law breakers. I hope I’m wrong.