Reuters reported Tuesday -- Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed bank records for President Donald Trump and the Trump family from Deutsche Bank, expanding and extending the Russia investigation beyond its mandate and predicted timeline.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has asked Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) to share data on accounts held by U.S. President Donald Trump and his family, a person close to the matter said on Tuesday.
Germany’s largest bank received a subpoena from Mueller several weeks ago to provide information on certain money and credit transactions, the person added, confirming a report by German daily Handelsblatt published on Tuesday.
Deutsche Bank rejected demands in June by U.S. House Democrats to provide details of Trump’s finances, citing privacy laws.The subpoena is likely aimed at determining whether money for various Trump family business ventures — including those of Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner — came from Russian sources.
The Special Counsel will likely be looking for any payments that appear to come from the Russian government, or any evidence of money-laundering that might have happened through real estate transactions possibly unrelated to the 2016 presidential campaign.
The bank subpoena is the latest sign that the Special Counsel is casting a wide net, potentially going far beyond the original investigation into Russian interference in the election and searching for any past wrongdoing by the president, his family, his aides, and his associates.
White House lawyer Ty Cobb, who was brought aboard over the summer to deal with the Russia investigation, once predicted that the Special Counsel probe would be over by Thanksgiving. He doubled down on Monday morning, insisting that any part of the investigation having to do with the White House would be over by January.
But the Deutsche Bank subpoena means that the investigation will likely drag on for months or even years, and could target White House personnel on matters totally unrelated to the presidential campaign.
Speculation has also mounted in the days since Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI that the Special Counsel may be building a case for obstruction of justice against the president. Congressional Democrats have also indicated that they may be focusing their investigative efforts on that claim, in preparation for a possible impeachment bid.
Blog Author's Comments: Special Counsel and so-called honorable man, Robert Mueller, will have none of this talk about closing his investigation. He and his team of leftist lawyers will keep this farce going until they can build any sort of case against President Trump, his administration, his aides, associates or members of his family. This may well continue past the midterm elections in 2018. You can be sure that whatever he finds, though not reported on, will be shared with the DNC.
This Mueller/Deutsche Bank column has nothing to do with Russian collusion and the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. There has not been a single shred of evidence that Trump did anything wrong aside from winning the election that Hillary was supposed to win. But, all of this is hurting the White House and the country. Between this 'investigation' the MSM and some members of the Republican Party the president is having to battle through all of this to do what he campaigned on and was elected to do.
I also believe what Robert Mueller, the DNC and media are unknowingly doing, is helping to build a larger base for President Trump and the coming elections, and convince those who have any concern and pay attention to what is happening within their country that Trump was most certainly the right choice for our president. But, every path Mueller takes and no matter how small a mistake someone close to the president might have made, it will be reported to be the final act that will take Trump out of office.
They will convince some of the gullible people that something significant has been found and that somehow cheated Hillary out of her chance to win the election and be the president. Which, I suppose shows how completely idiotic some people are, because we have known that Hillary and Bill Clinton have been criminals for decades. Hillary Clinton is the person who should be under investigation.
After the above column and comments were posted, I have seen from another source that though Special Counsel Mueller may have asked for and still wants the bank records, Mueller did not subpoena Donald Trump bank records from Deutsche Bank. Never happened. Fake News?
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