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that we send you all righty so the big news of the day is that president trump is now being subjected

to new scrutiny so according to a court president trump must now allow his accountants to turn over his

financial records according to a lower court judge this from the new york times president trump's

accounting firm must turn over his

financial records to Congress, a federal district court ruled on Monday, rejecting his legal team's

argument that lawmakers had no legitimate power to subpoena the files. Trump vowed that his legal

team would appeal rather than permit the firm Mazars USA to comply with the subpoena and the ruling,

so the legal fight is far from over. The ruling by the

judge, whose name is Amit Mehta, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia,

was an early judicial test of the president's vow to systematically stonewall all subpoenas

by House Democrats stymieing their ability to perform oversight of Mr. Trump and the executive

branch after winning control of the chamber in

last year's midterm elections. Mr. Trump's legal team led by William S. Concevoy had argued that the

House Committee on Oversight and Reform had no legitimate legislative purpose in seeking Trump's

financial records and was just trying to dig up dirt, like finding out whether the president

broke any laws for political reasons, so the subpoena exceeded its constitutional authority. Democrats claim they need the records because they're examining whether

foreigners are in a position to use business dealings with the president to exert hidden influence

over American policymaking and whether ethics and disclosure laws need to be strengthened.

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