Good morning,The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus Vance, has told a judge he ought to be granted access to Donald Trump’s tax records, given the public reports of “extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization”. Vance is seeking eight years of the president’s personal and corporate tax records and has revealed little about why. But in a court filing on Monday, Vance’s lawyers made clear that the scope of their grand jury investigation is far wider than just the so-called “hush-money” payments to women to silence them about alleged affairs with Trump, and may also include possible bank and insurance fraud. The supreme court has already ruled that the Manhattan grand jury can see Trump’s tax returns, rejecting the president’s lawyers’ arguments that he cannot be criminally investigated while he is in office. But under grand jury secrecy rules, it remains unlikely the returns will become public prior to the November election. On a day when the country surpassed 4.7 million confirmed cases of Covid-19, Trump insisted that under his leadership the US has done “as well as any nation” in tackling the coronavirus. Later, in a testy TV interview, the president produced several graphs that he claimed demonstrated America’s successful response to the pandemic. Having described his administration’s top scientists Dr Anthony Fauci and Dr Deborah Birx as, respectively, “wrong” and “pathetic” in recent days, Trump praised Birx at his daily press briefing as a “person I have a lot of respect for”.

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Article Link:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/04/first-thing-the-manhattan-da-is-going-after-trumps-tax-returns


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