Trump Renews Fight to Halt ‘Bad Faith’ Bid for Tax Returns (2)

July 27, 2020, 10:49 PM UTC

President Donald Trump renewed his fight to prevent a New York grand jury from reviewing his tax filings, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled he doesn’t have absolute immunity from state criminal investigations.

Lawyers for Trump filed a new complaint on Monday raising objections to a subpoena sent by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. to the president’s accounting firm Mazars USA. Vance is investigating hush-money payments made before the 2016 presidential election to Stormy Daniels, a porn actress who claims she had an affair with Trump.

“The Mazars subpoena is wildly overbroad and is not remotely confined to ...

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