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Attorneys for President TrumpDonald John Trump 2020 Dem hits back at Trump for giving 'firefighting advice' to Paris: 'Do your own damn job' French officials reject Trump suggestion to use 'flying water tankers' on Notre Dame fire Overnight Energy: Interior watchdog opens investigation into new secretary | Warren unveils 2020 plan to stop drilling on public lands | Justices reject case challenging state nuclear subsidies | Court orders EPA to re-evaluate Obama pollution rule MORE are urging an accounting firm not to comply with a House Oversight and Reform Committee subpoena for a decade of his financial records, according to Politico.

Two of Trump’s attorneys, Stefan Passantino and William Consovoy, have told Mazars USA to defy the subpoena, which committee Chairman Elijah CummingsElijah Eugene Cummings Dems demand documents on Trump 'sanctuary city' plan Trump lawyers urge accounting firm to refuse Dems' financial records subpoena: report House Oversight chair plans to subpoena for 10 years of Trump financial records: report MORE (D-Md.) is set to issue Monday, according to the report.

“It is no secret that the Democrat Party has decided to use its new House majority to launch a flood of investigations into the president’s personal affairs in hopes of using anything they can find to damage him politically,” Consovoy and Passantino wrote to Mazars outside counsel Jerry Bernstein, Politico reported.

The lawyers warned Mazars they were putting the firm “on notice” for potential legal action and urged it not to provide any of the documents Cummings requested before the subpoena has been litigated in court.

“[T]he House Oversight Committee is not a miniature Department of Justice, charged with investigating and prosecuting potential federal crimes. It is a legislative body, not ‘a law enforcement or trial agency,’ and the chairman’s attempt to assume for Congress the role of police, prosecutor, and judge is unconstitutional,” the attorneys added.

Cummings first requested the documents in March in response to testimony from Trump’s former personal attorney Michael CohenMichael Dean Cohen Pulitzer Prizes awarded to newspapers investigating Trump Trump lawyers urge accounting firm to refuse Dems' financial records subpoena: report Juan Williams: The high price of working for Trump MORE claiming that Trump had manipulated his net worth for “potentially improper purposes.” Mazars asked Cummings for a so-called friendly subpoena before they provided the information.