The Democrats reveal the contents of Al Capone’s vaults Trump’s tax returns….
…and find nothing. They even have trouble pretending to find something.
What was wrong with the House Ways and Means Committee requesting Trump’s tax returns, and SCOTUS granting their release? Just about everything. Here’s the statement on it from the Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee:
…[T]he Committee Majority’s action set a dangerous new precedent. It is apparent from the proceedings that the Committee Majority set out with the goal of obtaining and publishing the former President’s full tax returns. Everything since then has been a search for a rationale or justification that would be acceptable to the courts. Committee Republicans are not focused on whether the former President should have made his tax returns public, which has been tradition. Nor are Committee Republicans focused on the accuracy of those tax returns – that is for the IRS to determine in the ongoing audits of the former President.
Committee Republicans are concerned that this politically motivated action unleashes a dangerous new political weapon reaching far beyond the former President and overturns decades of privacy protections for average Americans.
Going forward, the new precedent is that the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee have nearly unlimited power to target and make public the tax returns of private citizens, political enemies, business or labor leaders, or even Supreme Court justices.
And it was all for nothing. Trump always knew it. I strongly believe that the Democrats knew it, too, but thought they could spin it into something nefarious anyway. They certainly have been trying, but I think it’s one of those things that will be forgotten very soon, if it hasn’t been already. But the terrible precedent has been set.
I also blame SCOTUS for allowing it. Did they really buy the argument from the Democrats on the committee that it was just for a legislative purpose?
I think the SCOTUS allowed this to give cover to criticisms of being beholden to President Trump.
They are going to have to make many decisions going forward to defend the future of the Republic and the left is going to continue to be outraged at each one.
Picking their battles.
The media has certainly been trying hard. I’ve scrolled past quite a few headlines about “foreign bank accounts” and “business losses”.
They’re skating awfully close to the prohibition on bills of attainder. If they get him, can hanging, drawing, and quartering be far behind?
John Roberts keeps trying to split the baby in every case he is involved in.
I think in his mind that means he is being fair. What he seems to forget is the actual lesson of that parable.
On side needs to win, and the other needs to lose. Other wise each was gifted one half of a dead child.
Every time they scrape bottom we discover that they’re digging ever, ever deeper.
It’s a collective pathological illness…beyond pathetic, full-bore projection and verging on the criminally insane.
To be sure, they’re convinced it’s the epitome of morality, patriotism and Democracy…and that their self-perceived “virtue”—and their markedly successful demonization of all oppponents—gives them a free pass. Carte blanche.
Not sure what their Russian-at-the-gates-of-Berlin moment will be…also not sure they’ll even recognize it as such; but if they do, it’s guaranteed that they’ll blame someone else for it.
Someone with orange hair, most likely…
Maybe this brings us closer to abolishing income tax. Some politicians might realize nobody can release their tax records if there aren’t any taxes.
I continue to be amazed how clean Trump is. Almost unimaginable.
Doubt many other big business people or any politicians could survive the scrutiny.
We normal people would be squashed by similar attentions.
I presumed the dems knew it would amount to nothing in legal terms. I’m sure they have their sources inside the IRS.
But I figured the plan was to spin “TRUMP PAID NO TAXES!!!” while misrepresenting arcane real estate law to generate yummy headlines.
Trump is apparently the cleanest President to ever serve.
Seriously this Trump guy has good lawyers.
“What a surprise,” he said, sipping from his beer.
Tax returns, ya say?
“EXCLUSIVE: Justice Department is concealing 400 pages of ‘sensitive documents’ laying bare payoffs and gifts to Hunter and Jim Biden from China, Russia and Ukraine – after acknowledging the records exist – lawyer claims in suit”—
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11585719/DoJ-concealing-documents-lay-bare-Hunter-Jim-Bidens-payoffs-China-Russia.html
H/T Blazingcatfur blog.
This “dangerous new precedent” is justification to demand and release the tax returns for the Biden Crime Family, Joe, Hunter, Valerie, Frank and James.