The Manhattan district attorney told a federal court judge that President Donald Trump can’t assume that the scope of the grand jury investigation involving his tax returns is limited to “hush” money payments made in 2016, while adding that the president also isn’t entitled to ask for information about the probe.
In a pair of court filings (pdf) on Aug. 14, New York County District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr.’s legal team pushed back on Trump’s bid to persuade the court that the subpoena seeking his eight years of tax returns is overbroad and hence issued in bad faith, by claiming that the scope of the grand jury probe is limited to certain payments made by former Trump attorney Michael Cohen to two women in 2016.
