The president's lawyers are mimicking Jim Jordan's arguments to try to thwart subpoena demands
“The chairman should turn it over. And that’s what I’ll encourage the chairman to do,” Jordan said. “First, he didn’t tell anyone on the committee that he entered into this agreement with another committee chairman. My understanding is that there’s more than one of these agreements out there.”
“I’ve always in my mind, in a general sense, viewed the Mazars request kind of in the same framework as the request to Capital One. Because it’s all about the Trump business records,” Jordan said. Even if Consovoy and House Republicans aren’t working in tandem, Trump’s lawyers are picking up on the same lines of attack as Jordan and Meadows, who have teamed up to highlight what they say is a coordinated Democratic effort to politically damage the president ahead of his reelection bid.At Tuesday’s federal court hearing, Consovoy relied on many of Jordan’s arguments when responding to questions from Mehta.
Republicans have said that even if the arrangement was improper, it’s not the business of the Oversight Committee to be poring through the president’s finances dating to his time as a private citizen.
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