D.C. Federal Judge Tosses Trump Suit To Block NY From Giving Congress His Tax Returns | Talking Points Memo

Trump sued NYS in this case, not the other way around.

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ā€œHe said that there was death and taxes, and taxes was worse, because at least death didnā€™t happen to you every year.ā€
ā€• Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

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ā€œIā€™m the smartest genius who ever lived ā€“ but I canā€™t let you see my grades.ā€

ā€œIā€™m the most successful businessman who ever lived ā€“ but I canā€™t let you see my books.ā€

ā€œIā€™m the healthiest man who ever lived ā€“ but I canā€™t let you see my medical records.ā€

ā€œIā€™m the most loyal patriot who ever lived ā€“ but I canā€™t let you see my draft documents.ā€

ā€œIā€™m the most honest man who ever lived ā€“ but I canā€™t let you interview anyone in my administration.ā€

ā€œIā€™m the richest man who ever lived ā€“ but I canā€™t let you see my taxes.ā€

ā€œIā€™m the most transparent President who ever lived ā€“ but I canā€™t let you see ANYTHING.ā€

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ā€œEven if Mr. Trump alleged that either New York Defendant was involved in the legislative process, he cites no authority for the proposition that enacting or helping to enact a state statute in another state would constitute ā€˜transacting businessā€™ in the District of Columbia,ā€ the judge wrote[.]

Wait!! Wait!! Wtf!? tRump canā€™t invoke the following:

(1) L ā€™ Ć©tat , cā€™est moi (Translation: The state is me.ā€“Louis XIV (FR))

(2) Dieu et mon droit (Translation: God and my right.ā€“British Monarchy)

If those reasons canā€™t be invoke, then thatā€™s one hell of a democracy we have. Isnā€™t Americaā€™s founding myth that the reason for the Revolutionary War was preserve the colonial relationship with Great Britain? And doesnā€™t Article ZERO, SExTION ZERO of the Constitution read that in the far away future, formerly British-American subjects, but eventually Russian-American subjects shall obey their Putin-appointed, Russian-American Satrap. Donald J. tRump?

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That was fun. I knew you had something planned at the bottom and it took a while for my pictures to loadā€¦worth it and it heightened the suspense.

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Itā€™s getting hard out there to be a crook.

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You guys see this?

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And again Trump never pays attention to what has come before.

The day after he is no longer president for whatever reason,
There are those ready willing and able to begin indictments on a whole bunch of issues he is protected from as president.
He will be pursued for eternity and hopefully his spawn will be included along with a whole bunch of his faithful congress critters.

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ā€œIn his lawsuit, Trumpā€™s attorneys argued that the state law was simply an effort to get information about his personal finances to embarrass him politically.ā€œ

Yes. And?

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Just hand them over. Enough of this. How much Russian oligarch money are you taking, Trump?

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In the clanā€¦
No embarrassment gene
No irony gene (see DJT jrā€™s UCLA extravaganza)
No empathy gene
No intelligence gene
among many others.

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Just a pipe dream, but it would be fun if some nameless NYS bureaucrat surreptitiously dumped Trumpā€™s returns on the interwebs. A state crime, obviously. Iā€™m sure NYS AG Letitia James would be very vigorous in her detection and prosecution of the guilty party. And Iā€™m sure Iā€™m King Zog of Albania.

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O I like it! hahahahaha

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Scoff if you like, but I have a recent photo.

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Thatā€™s only part of it. Thereā€™s the money laundering thru Deutsch Bank and Bank of Cyprus that amounts to many hundreds of millions of dollars. There is the lack of payment of any tax, federal or state, over decades that show his greed and lack of any semblance of patriotism, Thereā€™s his coziness with the mob, both Russian and American. And all that is before we get to politics.
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In some ways I feel like I am reliving the era of Watergate all over again. I realize these scandals are completely different but it feels the same. I was a much younger man in 1973-4 and now I am a retired guy but Nixon was got rid of. Hereā€™s hoping the same can happen again.

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I really wasnā€™t scoffing, my dear, for Iā€™m Marie, the Queen of Romania.

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Somehow, I knew that was coming. :wink:

We should marry, and unite the thrones.

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