“Today, Rep Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, sent a letter to Chairman James Comer pressing him to launch an immediate investigation into the apparent efforts of Trump’s counsel to deliberately mislead counsel for Mazars, former President Trump’s accounting firm, by falsely claiming the Committee had no interest in requiring Mazars to complete document productions under a court-supervised settlement agreement. The request follows recent public comments in which Chairman Comer explained that he ‘had no involvement’ to cut off the flow of Trump documents from Mazars to the Committee in early 2023. Noting Chairman Comer’s claims, Ranking Member Raskin also urged him to issue a new subpoena to former President Donald Trump’s former accounting firm, Mazars USA, LLP (Mazars), so that the Committee can receive all responsive documents pertaining to payments Trump illegally accepted while in office in violation of the US Constitution,” writes the House Oversight Democrats in a press release.

“The letter follows an Oversight Democrats staff report that found Trump violated the Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause by illegally accepting $7.8 million from foreign governments while he was in office. As the report makes clear, the $7.8 million is likely only a small fraction of the total payments President Trump received from foreign governments as this figure is based on incomplete ledgers and receipts from Mazars covering just two years of his presidency and payments from just 20 countries to just three of his more than 500 businesses entities – and a lease payment to Trump Tower recorded in a public document. Unless the Committee obtains records pertaining to all the payments former President Trump received from all foreign governments during the entirety of his presidency, the American people will be denied an accounting of the full extent of Trump’s flagrant violations of the US Constitution while president,” the statement continues, going into how Raskin’s letter details how Trump’s lawyers were caught in a lie and Comer didn’t give a shit about it.