Dispute over issuing of tax returns: Appeal Court grants Trump reprieve

Supplement Federal Judge Victor Marrero vs. Donald Trump, prompt return of Trump defenders: On Monday morning, a US federal court in Manhattan had decided Donald Trump's accountants should hand over his eight-year accounting records to the Procuratorate in Manhattan. In harsh words, Marrero had criticized in his decision in the strategy of Trump's defense, for the President apply comprehensive immunity.

A few hours later, an Appeals Court in New York ruled on an urgent petition from Trump's defense team: The US President is given a reprieve to decide whether his tax records need to be given to the prosecution or whether his office protects him.

It's about eight years of tax records requested by the Procuratorate in Manhattan: Donald Trump and his lawyers are trying to prevent the documents from being released.

In this case, judicial authorities in Manhattan had requested the transfer of all documents of the tax consultancy Mazars USA, which concern their clients Trump and his family and the joint real estate company.

US judges: Presidents are not above the law

Trump's lawyer team had argued that the requirement did not apply to the president because he enjoyed immunity because of his office. Federal Judge Victor Marrero had declared on Monday morning, he could not resolve the dispute final and reject the complaint Trumps therefore.

At the same time, however, the judge criticized the Trump defense counsel, the president, his family, and his business, "who could have allegedly engaged in illegal private activity, were above the law."

Such a "categorical and unlimited assertion of presidential immunity" he could not grant. Trump's assumption that he could not be prosecuted while he was president was "extraordinary."

US President Trump responded via Twitter with a complaint that the search for his tax records was apparently an attempt left radical Democrats to harm him politically. Such a thing had never happened to any president before him.

A Twitter user commented under Trump's tweet that US Presidents John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln had indeed been assassinated by political assassins. Therefore, President Trump should no longer "howl". He was dismissed from office.