A day after two of Rudy Giuliani’s associates were arrested on campaign finance violations, President Donald Trump appeared to be at a loss for words Friday when asked whether the former New York mayor was still his personal attorney.
 
“Well, I don’t know. I haven’t spoken to Rudy,” Trump told reporters outside the White House. “I spoke to him yesterday briefly. He’s a very good attorney, and he has been my attorney, yeah, sure.
 
Trump on whether Giuliani is still his personal lawyer: "Well, I don't know. I haven't spoken to Rudy." pic.twitter.com/UzshcZFy0M
 
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) October 11, 2019
 
Giuliani associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were arrested on campaign finance charges Wednesday as they attempted to leave the country on a one-way ticket. The men were also involved in Giuliani and Trump’s efforts to dig up bogus allegations against former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter in Ukraine.
 
According to ABC News and CNN reports, Giuliani’s business-related interactions with Parnas and Fruman are the subject of criminal investigation in New York.
 
Giuliani has texted reporters that he is still representing Trump.
 
"Yes," Giuliani just texted me, when I asked if he was still representing Trump. https://t.co/000Hig2frt
 
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) October 11, 2019

"We stand on the shoulders of American patriots who crossed the oceans, settled the continent, tamed the wilderness, revolutionized industry, pioneered science, won two world wars, defeated fascism and communism," Trump said. "And we're gonna defeat socialism and put a man on the face of the moon."

A former Deutsche Bank executive who reviewed President Donald Trump's tax returns reportedly said it is "not normal" that the institution no longer holds copies of those records.

Trump for many years relied on Deutsche Bank for loans to sustain his real estate business when many other institutions would not lend to him because of his rocky financial history.

The president is accused by some, including his former attorney Michael Cohen, of manipulating the value of his assets to either secure finance or reduce his tax bill.

He has broken with recent precedent for presidents and refused to release publicly all of his recent tax returns, despite pressure to do so.

Congress is investigating Trump's finances and attempting to get hold of his tax returns from Deutsche. But the bank told the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals that it did not hold them.

David Enrich, finance editor at The New York Times, posted to Twitter a screenshot of his conversation with the unnamed executive in which they expressed surprise that Deutsche told a federal appeals court it did not have the president's tax returns anymore.

"Holy f**k," the executive wrote, per the screenshot. "The circumstance could be that they returned any physical copies or destroyed any physical copies under an agreement with a client and cleansed their servers. Not normal though."

Deutsche Bank did not respond immediately to Newsweek's request for comment.

In previous statements, Deutsche Bank has said: "We remain committed to cooperating with authorized investigations."

At a congressional hearing in February, Trump's former fixer Cohen—who went to prison for tax fraud, campaign finance violations, and lying to Congress in past testimony—said the president reduced his real estate bills by artificially devaluing his assets, committing tax fraud.

Moreover, Cohen said Trump inflated his assets to insurance companies. He said the evidence could be found on Trump's tax returns.

On Monday, a federal judge ruled that Trump's accountant Mazars USA should hand his tax returns and other financial records over to investigators at the Manhattan District Attorney's office.

They are probing the hush payments to porn stars alleging affairs with the president. Trump's lawyers attempted to block the Manhattan DA's subpoena of Mazars for eight years of the president's financial records.

Judge Victor Marrero wrote in his 75-page ruling that the case presented by Trump's attorneys was "repugnant to the nation's governmental structure and constitutional values" for suggesting that the president, his family, businesses, and associates are "above the law."

Facebook refuse de supprimer une publicité de Donald Trump qui contient une fake news

« Joe Biden a promis à l’Ukraine un milliard de dollars si elle limogeait le procureur chargé d’enquêter sur la société de son fils. » La pub, postée le 27 septembre dernier par l’équipe de campagne de Donald Trump sur Facebook, est on ne peut plus claire

Katie Harbath, responsable des élections chez Facebook s’est justifié : «  Notre approche est fondée sur la croyance totale de Facebook en la liberté d’expression, le respect du processus démocratique et la conviction que, dans les démocraties matures disposant d’une presse libre, le discours politique est déjà le plus analysé. »

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