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President Trump fired in all directions Thursday after the Supreme Court ruled to release his tax returns, claiming he’s a victim of “political prosecution” and accusing Democrats, New York prosecutors and former FBI officials of “spying” on him.
The president made the unsubstantiated charges in a fusillade of frantic tweets after the high court gave the green light for Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, Jr., to subpoena eight years’ worth of the president’s personal and corporate tax returns as part of a criminal investigation.
“This is all a political prosecution. I won the Mueller Witch Hunt, and others, and now I have to keep fighting in a politically corrupt New York. Not fair to this Presidency or Administration!” Trump tweeted.
Listing off a usual cadre of his perceived enemies, Trump went on, “We have a totally corrupt previous Administration, including a President and Vice President who spied on my campaign, AND GOT CAIGHT (sic) and nothing happens to them … Major horror show REPORTS on Comey & McCabe, guilty as hell, nothing happens. Catch Obama & Biden cold, nothing.”
Trump’s return to his old unsubstantiated allegations contrasted reactions from Democrats, who were relieved that the Supreme Court affirmed that Vance can get his hands on the president’s long-sought financial records.
“No one is above the law,” tweeted House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.).
Mayor de Blasio offered a similar sentiment.
“Donald Trump’s the only public servant in America who thinks he can get away with withholding his financial disclosure. It’s outrageous,” the mayor said at a press briefing from City Hall. “It’s been perverse and I applaud the Supreme Court.”
The Supreme Court gave Trump a partial victory in ruling in a separate case that three Democrat-led House committees cannot, at least for now, subpoena a similar set of tax returns and financial records from the president.
But Trump appeared too upset to appreciate the second ruling.
“The Supreme Court sends case back to Lower Court, arguments to continue,” he wrote as part of his Twitterspree. “Courts in the past have given ‘broad deference.’ BUT NOT ME!”