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Entangled in a controversy that led to the triggering of impeachment proceedings, Donald Trump suffered this Monday, October 7 a judicial setback in another file, that of his tax returns.
Threatened by impeachment proceedings , Donald Trump never stops receiving bad news. The latest is Monday and is for the President a real snub: the Manhattan prosecutor Cyrus Vance has obtained permission to access the returns of the tenant of the White House, as part of an investigation on a payment made to the pornographic actress Stormy Daniels to buy his silence on a supposed connection with the US president.
Donald Trump and his lawyers had tried everything to avoid having to hand them over, citing the judicial immunity of the president. Arguments swept by Federal Judge Victor Marrero. Immunity does not put the president above the law, so it can not protect the president from any legal action, he says.
Judge Marrero also went against the doctrine of the Department of Justice that a sitting president can not be prosecuted. But in his highly argued, lengthy 75-page decision, the judge argues the arguments of some jurists that immunity is not applicable in acts that would have been carried out before his election, which is the case of the payment of $ 130,000 to Stormy Daniels in 2015
Donald Trump's lawyer has already told Agence France Presse that he intends to appeal. A suspensive appeal, which means that the prosecutor in Manhattan will still have to be patient.