The United States Supreme Court dealt a blow to US President Donald Trump Thursday, by affirming the right of a New York prosecutor to ask him for documents relating to his financial condition and tax data, but she has now suspended the case of transmitting his financial records to Congress.
The US Supreme Court passed a unanimous ruling barring the House Oversight Committee from viewing President Donald Trump's tax records.
In return, the court ruled that the New York Attorney General should have access to Trump's financial records, including tax returns.
Unlike all of his predecessors since the 1970s, Trump, who has made his financial situation one of his campaign axes, refuses to publish his tax data. His lack of transparency fueled speculation about the size of his wealth and potential conflicts of interest.
The court declared that "no citizen, not even the president, can avoid showing documents during a criminal investigation." She added, "The president does not gain absolute immunity from the orders of state prosecutors."
Consequently, it is the right of a New York prosecutor - who is conducting investigations into possible financial violations in election campaigns - to ask Trump to provide documents, referring to a set of financial documents in this case related to his business between 2010 and 2018.
A harsh defeat
The New York Times has described this ruling as a harsh defeat for Trump, adding that the president's tax records will not be available for public scrutiny before the November 3 presidential election, according to secret rules governing the jury's work.
For his part, the US President said that the Supreme Court returned the case to a lower court.
Trump added, in a tweet on Twitter, that all this is political prosecution, and that he must continue to fight in New York, which he described as politically corrupt, explaining that this is not fair to either the presidency or the administration.
Trump indicated, in another tweet, that in the past the courts were more broadly observed, but that did not apply to him.
In an attempt to clarify the reality, 3 committees in the House of Representatives dominated by Democrats requested in 2019 from the Mazars Accounts office, the German "Deutsche Bank" and "Capital One" a series of financial documents related to Donald Trump's business between 2010 and 2018, and others related to close From him and his children.
In parallel, a Manhattan prosecutor asked Mazars' office to hand him the financial archive to Donald Trump for the same period, to illustrate a payment received by pornographic actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election campaign.
It is believed that this amount was paid to Daniels in exchange for not disclosing her relationship with the billionaire, in violation of the campaign financing law in effect in the state.