As we learned from Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony in February, a New York Times exposé last month, and documents obtained from The Washington Post shortly after that, Donald Trump’s long history of lying about his wealth has not been confined to bragging about it on TV, but also allegedly made its way into financial statements sent to banks and insurance companies, in which the ex-real-estate developer inflated his assets to obtain certain loans. For example, in a 2011 document, Trump purported to own 55 home lots ready to sell for at least $3 million apiece at his Southern California golf course; in reality, he’d only been zoned for 31, thus overstating his future revenue by roughly $72 million. A year later, in another “Statement of Financial Condition,” he tacked an extra 800 acres on to the size of his 1,200-odd-acre Virginia vineyard. At one point, he claimed Trump Tower had 68 stories, despite the fact that anyone with eyes could tell you there are 58. In a 2013 document titled “Summary of Net Worth,” which was used for his failed Buffalo Bills bid and also fell under the umbrella of fan fiction, he conveniently omitted ownership of a hotel in Chicago, and another in Last Vegas, to hide those debt loads from anyone reviewing the statement. Because these documents were so full of lies, they came with literal warning labels. Mazars U.S.A., the accounting firm that prepared them, noted, per the Post, that the figures were neither verified nor audited, that they perhaps didn’t follow “generally accepted” accounting principles, and that readers of the financial statements “should recognize that they might reach different conclusions about the financial condition of Donald J. Trump” if they had more information, like that they were dealing with a pathological liar.

Shortly after Cohen’s testimony, the House Oversight Committee sent a request to Mazars for 10 years of Trump’s financial statements to corroborate aspects of the former fixer’s testimony, to which the accounting firm replied with a request for a “friendly subpoena” so it could comply. And you’ll never believe it, but the president’s attorneys are trying to prevent that from happening! Per Politico:

Trump attorneys William S. Consovoy and Stefan Passantino are urging Mazars U.S.A. not to comply with a subpoena that Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) issued on Monday for Trump’s financial documents, calling it a politically motivated scheme to take down the president.