Courtesy of Pam Martens
Jay Sekulow
A lawyer who is part of President Donald Trump’s legal defense team, Jay Sekulow, has denied the news reports that Deutsche Bank has received a subpoena from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office for banking records related to Trump and his family members.
But in the same article that relayed that statement from Sekulow, Reuters’ reporters Arno Schuetze and Karen Freifeld undercut the credibility of Sekulow’s statement by writing the following:
“A U.S. federal investigator probing alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election asked Deutsche Bank for data on accounts held by President Donald Trump and his family, a person close to the matter said on Tuesday, but Trump’s lawyer denied any such subpoena had been issued.”
The German newspaper, Handelsblatt, which broke the original story on the Deutsche Bank subpoena, shot back with this headline yesterday: “Yes, Deutsche Bank did get a subpoena from Mueller,” adding the following:
“According to our information, the subpoena from Mr. Mueller, who is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 US elections, is in connection with Mr. Trump’s camp, requiring the bank to provide information on financial transactions and loans. It remains unclear whether the subpoena relates to the US president personally or a family member. Given that qualification, we are standing by our reporting.”
Sekulow is not the most credible legal voice to be speaking for President Trump. In June, comedians ridiculed Sekulow for his flip flops on Sunday talk shows on whether the President was or was not under investigation by the Special Counsel. During Sekulow’s appearance on Fox News, he first told Chris Wallace that the President was not under investigation, only to minutes later state that Trump was under investigation. (See the bizarre video clip below.)
Long before Trump ever emerged as a candidate for President, Sekulow had come under the investigative cross-hairs of Wall Street On Parade. In May 2013 we published a two-part investigative article on Sekulow, writing in Part One the following:
“Jay Sekulow will never be accused of a lack of audacity. The man who has orchestrated and pumped the ‘scandal’ that the IRS was unfairly targeting nonprofits tied to the Tea Party, is the same man who filed 27 applications with the IRS in recent years seeking tax-exempt status for Tea Party and related groups. He’s also the man who together with family and business interests have reaped at least $40 million since 1998 from a tangled web of IRS approved nonprofits with eye-popping conflicts of interest.”
