White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Tuesday threw her support behind Rep. Kevin Brady’s (R-TX) call for a probe into the sources of the New York Times’ bombshell report revealing President Trump’s decades-long history of tax avoidance.
“While many critics question the article’s accuracy, equally troubling is the prospect that a felony crime was committed by releasing the private tax return information of an individual — in this case [by] the President’s.”
What about Trump’s tax returns for the last 2 years? I’m sure he is now willing to add that to the pile, what with having nothing to hide and all… right?
Trump says the NYT is reporting fake news. As in their tax story has no basis in fact. I assume that means the purported tax returns they allegedly have in their possession do not exist. Thus the fake news accusation. What is there to investigate if the reporting is fake? The DOJ is supposed to investigate them for lies?
“We’ve seen the politicization of taxes before,” McEnany said, before echoing Trump’s gripe that the IRS treats him like the tea party. “We’ve seen the IRS targeting tea party groups and it’s an unacceptable proposition for that to happen and unacceptable for the documents to president to leak illegally to the “New York Times” who then publishes the information.”
Oh God is she and Trump really going to resurrect the fight over 501c3s and 501c4s? I thought that the IRS fixed the wording problem between what the law and their regs states?
Almost certainly it came from the accounting firm. Such a leak might violate professional standards, but there is no law covering that so far as I know. Donnie should have used TurboTax and paid whatever it said he owed.