In an ongoing efforts to probe the president’s financial dealings, A Washington, D.C.-based federal judge has aligned with House Oversight Committee Democrats seeking to enforce their subpoena of Trump accounting firm Mazars USA.

The subpoena intends to obtain Trump’s financial records and transaction dating back to 2011, including personal records and records of various affiliated business and entities.

Democrats requested for his Financial dealing after former Trump lawyer

turned Rat Michael Cohen testified to Congress in February that the president’s accountants routinely and improperly altered his financial statements – including some signed by Mazars – to misrepresent his assets and liabilities.

Barack Obama-appointed judge Amit P. Mehta’s‌ in a 41-page statement started by comparing President Trump’s concerns about congressional overreach to those of President James Buchanan, asserting that Trump “has taken up the fight of his predecessor.”

“[T]he court is not naïve to reality,” Mehta wrote, admitting there “is a chance that some records obtained from Mazars will become public soon after they are produced.”

Mehta added that he was “well aware that this case involves records concerning the private and business affairs of the President of the United States,” dating back to well before he declared his candidacy.

But, Mehta said, Democrats’ subpoena fell within established congressional investigative and oversight powers, which generally only require that subpoenas serve some “valid legislative purpose.”

The judge noted that the probe could uncover conflicts of interest in the White House, as well as potential violations of the Foreign Emoluments Clause or the reporting requirements of The Ethics in Government Act of 1978.

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