{"id":35995,"date":"2019-04-30T21:30:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T01:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35995"},"modified":"2019-04-30T21:30:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T01:30:49","slug":"how-is-this-not-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35995","title":{"rendered":"How Is This Not Harassment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/04\/29\/trump-sues-deutsche-bank-capitol-one-1292575\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politico<\/a> posted an article about the Democrats in Congress&#8217; ongoing quest for all of President Trump&#8217;s financial records. The article reports that President Donald Trump and his family are suing Deutsche Bank and Capital One to block subpoenas issued by House Democrats seeking Trump\u2019s financial records. The President&#8217;s attorneys argued that the subpoenas serve \u201cno legitimate or lawful purpose.\u201d The scope of the subpoenas is ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The committees, the Trumps\u2019 lawyers said, have refused to provide copies of the subpoenas to the Trump family, and their scope was learned from Deustche Bank and Capital One. But according to the lawsuit, the committees are seeking \u201call banking and financial records not just concerning the individual plaintiffs, but also their own family members.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8220;This means the subpoenas request documents about accounts of the plaintiffs\u2019 children (and in some cases, grandchildren),\u201d the lawyers said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>For most of the documents, the lawyers added, the committees are demanding records from the last 10 years but, for others, the request is \u201cunbounded,\u201d going back to the childhoods of individual Trumps.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8220;The House of Representatives is demanding, among other things, records of every single checking withdrawal, credit-card swipe, or debit-card purchase \u2014 no matter how trivial or small \u2014 made by each and every member of the Trump family,\u201d they said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have people in Congress who are seeking the bank records of children and grandchildren. This is harassment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Politico posted an article about the Democrats in Congress&#8217; ongoing quest for all of President Trump&#8217;s financial records. The article reports that President Donald Trump and his family are suing Deutsche Bank and Capital One to block subpoenas issued &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35995\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[735,853,8809,1065,451,5837,11342,1064,1289,7920],"class_list":["post-35995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-congress","tag-democrats","tag-deutsche-bank","tag-harassment","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-lawyer","tag-lawyers","tag-politico","tag-president","tag-subpoena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35996,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35995\/revisions\/35996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}