It’s perfect
Another lose -lose for Trump
All the other Presidents did it Donnie
What you trying to Hide?
The longer he fights it the worse he looks.
I don’t suspect anything earthshaking (he probably had good tax lawyers)
but he probably did stupid things never thinking they would see the light of day
What it will do is corroborate that he has been lying about a lot of stuff and that is Mr. Mueller’s bread and butter
Besides that you know Mueller has seen them and the accountant has immunity
I think the way they’re handling this is the right way to do it.
The goal, more than forcing Trump to release his returns, is to discourage any future Trump-wannabes, and likely Trump seeking a second term.
"legislation that would force presidential and vice-presidential candidates to disclose 10 years of their tax returns "
Right there is how Trump (and Pence) will fight it.
Cheeto Mussolini will claim he is NOT a “candidate” because he is ALREADY PRESIDENT.
Trust me. They WILL use this dodge (transparent as it is.)
The fact that Trump and his GOP enablers in Congress all want to stifle these returns is reason enough to bring them out in th open. What are they afraid of if these returns are on the up-and-up? I wish to god some White House reporter would ask Trump why he never released the returns when he promised he would when the “audit” was over. There are years and years of returns and they can’t all be under audit.
I wondered about that, too. But perhaps because Trump has already established a campaign committee for 2020 and is already grifting money off it, he is now considered a “candidate” and thus this will apply to him.
Knowing Trump will put up a fight to release them it will make the perfect slogan for the Democratic Party: “What Are You Hiding?”
Esp. since he works for us these past 2 years.
What was the last batch of lawyer hires ? ? …… 17 ? ? ……
Ya can expect that to go up …. pdq —
I fully expect Trump to veto it anyway (assuming that McTurtle even allows it to come up for a vote in the Senate.)
There are piles and piles of Rubles to be sorted through
doesn’t matter ……
It doesn’t change the fact that Congress wants to prove that ’ pending ’ legislation is warranted ……
By establishing that tRump is a cheat ……
They will show in court that that is why they wrote the bill in the first place —
“We are worried about leaks,” Politico cited a Republican close to the administration as saying. “Once we share it with any member of Congress, we assume it becomes a public document.”
I love how the fact that it should be a public document, that this whole thing is the result of Trump breaching of a norm going back to Romney’s dad in '68, isn’t even a thing that occurs to them in formulating talking points.
Excellent, Smithers, excellent!
What this does is allow all of this to play out in front of a televised nation.
Every week, a new hearing, a new revelation, a new round of Hannity BJ’s and slurps.
It’s putting POTUS and Circus Team on constant fight back and deny/lie mode where they can’t control the narrative or hide things in Committee/Executive Privilege.
Sunshine is the best antiseptic.
POTUS may squash Mueller, but it’s too late. His Orange Goose will be cooked for when he leaves office and becomes a regular citizen. (See sealed indictments in NY).
“Republicans are eyeing a strategy in which they will claim that Congress cannot be trusted…”
What a novel, and utterly insane, legal position to take.
That the institution exclusively empowered by the Constitution to make laws…cannot be trusted to make laws.
Fascinating.
Reporters have asked him this–he says Americans “don’t care” about his tax returns. (By “Americans,” he means his base, of course.)
Seems to me that the best approach would be to tie the request for tax returns to an investigation for the purpose of determining whether the Congress will consent to emoluments. As consenting or not to emoluments is a power directly given to Congress by the Constitution, I’m having a hard time imaging the Courts getting in the middle of that.
I’m so happy someone like you is a fellow South Carolinian (I’m guessing). It gives me hope. Here’s hoping our Lindsey will also struggle mightily with this sinking ship.
Trump will be a candidate again come 2020.
Besides, this is an Very good idea, just in general.
I think Dems ought to embrace it in their party rules.
I was expecting this would involve a fake accountant, a bag of hamberders, and a very big net.