President Donald Trump is, again, turning to the Supreme Court to keep his tax returns and financial records away from prosecutors investigating possible hush-money payments during the 2016 presidential race.
in early October that Trump's accountant must comply with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office's subpoena for his tax records. The court rejected Trump's other claims that the subpoena was too broad and was issued in bad faith to harass the president.
Trump's legal team has also claimed that the grand jury's investigation is limited only to hush money payments allegedly made to two women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump before the 2016 presidential election. Trump has denied the affairs. But in its 35-page opinion, the appeals court said this"amounts to nothing more than implausible speculation," and grand juries"must necessarily paint a broad brush" when issuing subpoenas. During oral arguments in September, the appeals court judges seemed equally unpersuaded.
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