Always with the dam games. They wont just say they wont do it, but instead stall like crazy making up reasons of why they aren’t doing it.
Sort of “The Dog Ate My Homework” ?
Keep after them, Wyden! I really like that guy.
The position has yet to be filled.
Just set them next to the dumpster for chrissakes…
seriously, just create a special committee to consider whether impeachment articles are necessary. It meets the criteria that guarantees access to everything.
Wyden then grilled Rettig on whether he had communicated with any Trump administration officials regarding the request, or whether he had been instructed to refuse.
“No,” Rettig repeated.
<img src="/uploads/default/original/4X/7/3/a/73a9e5ebe9964d5bcd295eed4cfe19b3f2c95b9f.png" width="236" height="236">Don’t worry, when the House gets a court order they’ll figure it out.
As in most bureaucracies, “If more than one person is involved, no one is responsible for the outcome.”
Where is the outrage. I mean if a Dem did this, refused a congressional request in accordance with established law, they would be attacking the Treasury Department and IRS headquarters with pitchforks.
At the very least, someone needs to put together a petition that can be signed on the internet demanding the IRS comply with the congressional request for Trump’s taxes.
You’ve got to pace it, running out of outrage under this administration would be a disaster…
Wyden then grilled Rettig on whether he had communicated with any Trump administration officials regarding the request, or whether he had been instructed to refuse.
“No,” Rettig repeated.
FFS…Nobody needs to tell him directly. They’ve been all over the news since the request went public saying there is no way in hell anybody is seeing Trump’s tax returns. Unless this guy literally lives in a cave, he got the freaking message.
He doesn’t have to say whose job it is.
The law will do it for him.
Oh fer fuck’s sake.
I would like them to ask this question:
Is Donald Trump under audit?
If not, another lie by Trump is revealed.
If so, has he been under audit since 2016 and why isn’t the audit finished yet?
If he won’t say, citing some new form of privilege, ask whether this means that any President can by claiming an audit, truthfully or falsely, legally avoid releasing his tax returns.
That lie is obvious, and only works on deplorables. The rest of us know that being under audit in no way impedes you from releasing your own tax returns, should you want to do so.
I never hear anyone ask how in the hell returns from 2012-2013-2014 can still be under audit? If they deserved an audit that would have been determined seemingly closely after filing. And thus completed in the intervening years. And if a decision to audit a 2013 filing was made recently it had to be due to something significant coming to light recently, which itself needs explaining.
Well democracy, you had a good run. Banana republic time is near.
I apparently have a limitless supply, as do most people I know… Maybe they can figure out a way to generate electricity with outrage. Barr’s loose talk about “spying” on the Trump campaign has me shooting off sparks.
I think I’ve figured it out.
They all know they have to provide Trump’s taxes. It’s black-letter law. They all expect it will happen.
But they fear Trump’s displeasure, and it’s widely understood that scrutiny of his finances is his kryptonite, and that Trump expects (i.e. silently demands) that someone bite the bullet and refuse to furnish his taxes to the House. So, they all evade and demur in public because none of them want Trump to conclude it was within their power to lie down in front of the tank for him.
Well have we considered Rudy is the person Rettig asked?