Over 200 public record requests on President Donald Trump and his advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner’s business dealings will likely be filed by a campaign aimed at getting the President impeached.
According to the “Need to Impeach” campaign, the requests demanding records of Trump and Kushner’s business interactions with government agencies and administration members’ expenditures will be filed on Friday, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Day. They are intended to shed light on conflicts of interest, Newsweek writes.
The requests will be filed by a team of two lawyers and three researchers hired by Tom Steyer, the founder of the campaign and its major Democratic donor.
“This president entered office with more conflicts of interest than any other in history and it seems like the more you know the facts about one thing, the more you learn that you don’t know about something else,” the campaign’s lead strategist Kevin Mack told Newsweek. “Every day, things break that sound worse than the day before.”
Mack cited a CNN report on Wednesday that Department of Defense employees charged the government nearly $140,000 at Trump brand properties in the first eight months of his presidency.
“So we’re subpoenaing every single federal agency to see how much money they’ve spent on Trump-owned properties,” Mack added.
The requests will further include any emails with federal business conducted through private accounts.
“Every single person across the country has a right to know if Donald Trump’s private business dealings are intertwined with the federal government and whether taxpayers are footing the bill,” Steyer said in a statement.
Other FOIA requests seek information as to why an investigation into Apollo Global Management was halted a month after Kushner’s family-run real estate company secured a $180 million loan from the financial company.
“Both Jared and Ivanka work in the administration,” Mack said. “We think the public has a right to know about them.”
The campaign was launched last October and has since then obtained more than five million signatures from citizens calling for proceedings to remove President Trump from office. It will also hold 30 town hall meetings across the nation to pressure both Republicans and Democrats to remove Trump.
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