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Donald Trump has launched a fresh attack on “corrupt” Puerto Rico and the mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulin Cruz, as Storm Dorian bears down on the island, also raging on Twitter against Fox News and joining in the mockery of New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, who was driven from social media after objecting to being called a “bedbug”.

The president is also facing questions after allegedly promising officials he would pardon them if they found themselves having to break laws in order to get his US-Mexico border wall completed in time for the 2020 election, according to a Washington Post report.

Deutsche Bank has meanwhile revealed it has Mr Trump's tax returns, with one source suggesting the lender also has possession of loan documents to Mr Trump co-signed by Russian billionaires known to be close to Vladimir Putin, according to NBC News' Lawrence O'Donnell.

The bank said in court papers it has the returns in question in response to a subpoena sent this year, in which Congress asked the bank for a host of documents related to the president and his family.

Mr Trump has long declined to release his tax returns and wants to block two House committees from getting the records, calling their document requests unlawful.

A federal appeals court ordered Deutsche Bank to say whether or not Mr Trump’s tax returns were in its possession after an attorney for the bank refused to answer that question during a hearing last week.

The bank, in its court filing Tuesday, blacked out the name of the person or people whose tax records it had, citing privacy rules. It said it also has tax records “related to parties not named in the subpoenas but who may constitute ‘immediate family’” of individuals named in the document request.

Messages were left with a Deutsche Bank attorney seeking comment on the filing.

Deutsche Bank has lent Mr Trump’s real estate company millions of dollars over the years. Lawmakers have said they are seeking the banking records as they investigate possible “foreign influence in the US political process.”

Mr Trump and three of his children sued to stop the House Financial Services and Intelligence committees from getting the records on the grounds that the requests were overly broad and unconstitutional.

The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals indicated last week it would take a hard look at the legality of the subpoenas.

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