In yet another indication that special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe is expanding and intensifying, Bloomberg reported Tuesday that Deutsche Bank—President Donald Trump’s biggest lender—faced with a subpoena issued several weeks ago has been forced “to submit documents on its relationship with Trump and his family.”
The reporting is based on a “person briefed on the matter” who asked not to be identified as the action had not been publicly announced. According to Bloomberg:
Mueller’s decision to hone in on Trump’s finances—described by Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington as a move to “follow the money”—indicates that his investigation is “entering a new phase,” Bloomberg adds.
The subpoena also demonstrates that Mueller is plowing through Trump’s so-called “red line,” which the president attempted to establish in an interview with the New York Times in July. Trump argued that any attempt to look into his or his family’s finances would constitute a “violation.”
“My finances are extremely good,” Trump claimed.
As Common Dreams has reported, most Americans disagree strongly with the president’s insistence that the special counsel should be barred from probing his banking information. According to a poll published in August, 70 percent of Americans believe Mueller should be free to investigate Trump’s financial dealings.
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