All posts tagged "Compass Legal Group"

Donald Trump is delaying disclosing his personal finances for a second time this year, meaning Americans will be denied the latest details about the former president's ever-shifting personal finances before he debates President Joe Biden later this week.

Trump's lawyer, Scott Gast, requested a second, 45-day extension for filing his public financial disclosure report, a requirement for all presidential candidates.

"While President Trump has made diligent efforts to prepare his report, due to the complexity of his financial holdings, President Trump needs additional time to complete the report," wrote Gast, of Compass Legal Group, on Tuesday....

In April 2023, as Donald Trump continued to delay submitting a personal financial disclosure required for all presidential candidates, federal government officials responsible for compelling Trump’s compliance mused over whether the former president would simply ignore them.

After all, these government officials are lawyers at the U.S. Office of Government Ethics — the very kind of “deep state” denizens that Trump has vowed to purge if he wins the White House in November.

And they had good reason to believe Trump might simply go rogue: the former president and 2024 Republican presidential candidate had already blown past a final, mid-March federal deadline for offering up details about his personal wealth. ...