Oh boy! Talking about the CHAIN OF CROOKS!
All of Trump’s top dogs are linked with corruption!
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thanks to Trump’s likely extensive tax planning, his personal return “[i]s unlikely an accurate overall financial picture,”
That’s fancy lawyer talk to say he lies on this taxes.
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My head is going to explode. I can’t take much more corruption like this.
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Conflict of interest. Such a quaint concept.
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The law was used to get Nixon’s taxes as well. It is designed to enable Congress to ferret out corruption.
Teapot Dome, Nixon, Trump. It makes perfect sense.
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Rettig wrote in a February 2016 Forbes column. “Would any experienced tax lawyer representing Trump in an IRS audit advise him to publicly release his tax returns during the audit? Absolutely not.”
This says nothing about the IRS Commissioner producing the returns to a Congressional committee in compliance with a request under applicable law. Although I’m sure Mr. Rettig can expand his “Do not release” opinion.
And, to be on the safe side, he’ll probably start an audit of all of Trump’s returns and backdate it to before the request was made … said audit to be held in abeyance until forever.
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Given the clarity of the law that Neal has cited in his demand, can’t Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Chuck Rettig be charged with obstruction of justice if he refuses? Possibly corruption?
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In a sane world, maybe.
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A point of clarification - after the 2018 elections the Democrats are in the majority of both the State House and Senate. Democrats were also elected to the offices of Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State and Treasurer.
The forced reading was a stall tactic of the GOP minority which the Democrats countered by having the bill read by a bank of computers at a speed too fast for human comprehension.
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This administration is so dirty…from top to bottom and the Republicans in Congress are as complicit at this point as is the President. Disgusting, alarming, and frightening.
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It’s not a matter within the director’s discretion.
And, actually, the statute says the Secretary of the Treasury is to produce the returns. But it doesn’t give him discretion, either.
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What’s to stop Democrats from repealing the old law?
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and Gerald Ford’s taxes, and Nelson Rockefeller’s taxes.
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Bought and paid for. What a country. What a government. It’s time to TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK!!!
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To be fair, he’s not saying he won’t release them (that will be Mnuchin). He’s saying if he were Trump (this was before the elections) and he were being audited, he himself wouldn’t release them. Of course, that’s not well-explained in the article.
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Indeed not, nor is it uncommonly used:
The straightforwardness of the command in §6103(f) is clear from the neighboring section, §6103(i), employed by prosecutors to inspect tax records, which “shall be open” to inspection or disclosure based on an ex parte order from the court. The practice is entirely routine and swift, usually taking less than a week.
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Dirty, that’s the key word for this administration. All those Trumpies heading various agencies do not really like Trump as a person, they like the fact that he is so dirty and spreads that dirt on everything he touches. This allows the fake Trumpies to get away with tons of dirt themselves. Trump has built a tower of dirt.
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Is there anything in the AP style guide forbidding relative clauses in opening sentences? In this case, I think the clause in paragraph four provides information that is highly relevant to paragraph one. I suggest that it would be better to start off with
Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Chuck Rettig, who owns a condo at a Trump-branded development in Hawaii, let everyone know he believed one thing before he was tapped to head the IRS: Trump should not release his tax returns.
Also, this isn’t so much a belief as a plan of action.
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But it induced doom and glooming and handwringing… that’s the main thing they want
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