More details are starting to emerge in the federal investigation into former president Donald Trump and his business dealings with the Saudi Arabian-backed LIV Golf.
According to a report from The New York Times, federal prosecutors overseeing the investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents have issued a subpoena for “information about Mr. Trump’s business dealings in foreign countries since he took office, according to two people familiar with the matter.”
The Times report notes it remains “unclear precisely” what prosecutors seek with the subpoena but that it “suggests” investigators “cast a wider net than previously understood as they scrutinize whether he broke the law in taking sensitive government materials upon leaving the White House and then not fully complying with demands for their return.”
Jack Smith, the prosecutor leading the office of the special counsel, seeks details of the Trump Organization’s dealings in China, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Emirates and Oman, according to the report.
This investigative push is part of a previously known inquiry into Trump’s dealings with LIV Golf, which hosts tournaments at some of his resort properties. The report notes Mr. Trump’s arrangement with LIV Golf was “reached well after he removed documents from the White House.”
This would suggest that prosecutors are casting a wider net than previously thought into Trump’s relationship with LIV Golf and the theft of classified documents when he left office.
The internet was quick to react to the latest allegations against the former president:
The most evil incarnate creature ever in American politics.trump is a malignancy of epic proportions.he fouls, soils & festers every thing it touches. It is time to destroy the rotten republican soulless devil. ag garland sadly can’t,but Mr Jack Smith,will. America will survive! https://t.co/kkhy5gJxNa
— H R Wells (@Herbwells7) May 23, 2023
The Witch Hunt continues.
— Joseph Pino (@JosephPino_) May 22, 2023
https://twitter.com/Jackson_McBrid3/status/1660773922852175877
Carter sold his peanut farm but this fraud was able to keep dealing despite us already knowing he is a financial liability in the US and took most of his investments from Russia…
I'll never understand.
— Lindsey (@LindseyNowak1) May 22, 2023
— Nonna (@BestNonnaEver11) May 22, 2023
