President Trump described himself as being the victim of a politically motivated prosecution after the Supreme Court ruled that the president is not immune from a grand jury investigation.
In a 7-2 ruling, the high court ruled on Thursday that the president’s accountants will have to hand over years of financial records and tax returns, allowing prosecutors in New York to see them. The Trump administration won a separate decision in which the court blocked Congress from obtaining tax and financial records, kicking the case back to the lower courts.
“The Supreme Court sends case back to Lower Court, arguments to continue. 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!” the president tweeted shortly after the ruling was revealed. “Courts in the past have given ‘broad deference’. BUT NOT ME!”
The president later tweeted about the “Russiagate” controversy, claiming that former President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, who is now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, “spied on my campaign, AND GOT [CAUGHT].”
Trump’s attorney, Jay Sekulow, said his team is “pleased” with the decisions.
“We are pleased that in the decisions issued today, the Supreme Court has temporarily blocked both Congress and New York prosecutors from obtaining the president’s financial records,” he said in a statement. “We will now proceed to raise additional constitutional and legal issues in the lower courts.”
Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s two nominees to the high court, joined the majority in New York case decision.
