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Attorney For Pres. Trump: IRS Cannot Release President’s Tax Returns
OAN Newsroom ^ | April 6, 2019 | OAN Newsroom

Posted on 04/06/2019 1:48:18 PM PDT by onyx



A lawyer for President Trump has bad news for congressional Democrats crusading to release the president’s tax returns.



In a letter Friday, William Consovoy said the IRS is forbidden from divulging tax information without a “legitimate legislative purpose.”He also maintained that doing so would set a “dangerous legal precedent”

This, after House Ways and Means chair Richard Neal petitioned the IRS for six years worth of the president’s tax returns. Consovoy called the move a “transparent effort” to harass a sitting president, simply out of dislike for his politics.





TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: coup; irs; richardneal; taxes; taxreturns; trump; trumptaxes
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1 posted on 04/06/2019 1:48:18 PM PDT by onyx
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In a letter Friday, William Consovoy said the IRS is forbidden from divulging tax information without a “legitimate legislative purpose.
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Yabbut, Russia Russia Russia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


2 posted on 04/06/2019 1:54:07 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: shelterguy; onyx

And speaking of Russia - if the IRS becomes politicized like the NKVD in Russia, to go after its conservative political enemies, the enforcers should be treated like the NKVD enforcers should have been treated by honest citizens...


3 posted on 04/06/2019 2:00:20 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: onyx
Consovoy called the move a “transparent effort” to harass a sitting president, simply out of dislike for his politics.

He couldn't be more correct with Pelosi, Neal, Nadler and Schiff leading the pack of Rats in the House in this fiasco.

4 posted on 04/06/2019 2:00:57 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: onyx

The WH should release absolutely nothing to these partisan rat whores.


5 posted on 04/06/2019 2:01:17 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: jazusamo

Precisely!
All the Demonic-Rats can go directly to Hell.


6 posted on 04/06/2019 2:02:21 PM PDT by onyx (Join 300 CLUB BY DONATING $34 MONTHLY! TRUMP'S WAY IS THE WINNING WAY!)
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To: Bullish

Right.
I don’t think President Trump is in the mood to accommodate Demonic-Rats.


7 posted on 04/06/2019 2:03:46 PM PDT by onyx (Join 300 CLUB BY DONATING $34 MONTHLY! TRUMP'S WAY IS THE WINNING WAY!)
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To: onyx

Winning!!!


8 posted on 04/06/2019 2:05:46 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: Bullish

He should seal all of his records by executive order.


9 posted on 04/06/2019 2:06:56 PM PDT by dgbrown
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To: onyx

File a constitutional challenge, if necessary

The Democrats are trying to use Soviet tactics to destroy a legally-elected President that they can’t defeat at the voting booth ... this is disgraceful


10 posted on 04/06/2019 2:07:34 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: onyx

Perhaps the president can compromise. Maybe a release date of 2039 or so.


11 posted on 04/06/2019 2:07:47 PM PDT by lurk
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To: onyx

Does anyone have any doubt, any doubt at all, that they did this, and used the intel apparatus to spy on Romney in 2012?.


12 posted on 04/06/2019 2:08:45 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: onyx

“Consovoy called the move a “transparent effort” to harass a sitting president, simply out of dislike for his politics”

Pretty much sums it up.

If people don’t like it that Trump hasn’t released his taxes...don’t vote for him.

Me? I could care less. Income taxes should be abolished anyway.


13 posted on 04/06/2019 2:10:09 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: onyx
Mueller's Gang Tried To Take Down Our Superman

Donald Trump battles the evil General Mueller and his henchmen in this parody of Superman 2

Whoever made this video should be given an Emmy

https://youtu.be/fZ8MZrH2nwU

14 posted on 04/06/2019 2:11:01 PM PDT by Evil Slayer ((Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war....))
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To: onyx

Bump!


15 posted on 04/06/2019 2:13:47 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: onyx
In a letter Friday, William Consovoy said the IRS is forbidden from divulging tax information without a “legitimate legislative purpose.”

Who gets to decide what constitutes "legitimate legislative purpose"? My guess is it'll be the courts.

16 posted on 04/06/2019 2:19:27 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: onyx

As is the case with most any topic, the democrat politicians rely on the fact that their voter are stupid.

In this case they are trying to say tax returns will reveal every aspect of Trumps financial world. It does not.

I don’t recall submitting any tax returns showing how much money I owed or to whom. I don’t recall any of my returns indicating if I am worth a dollar or a billion.


17 posted on 04/06/2019 2:19:58 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: tcrlaf

Does anyone doubt that Obama Inc. didn’t see Trumps tax returns within 24-48 hours of Trump bringing up the Birth Certificate?


18 posted on 04/06/2019 2:28:22 PM PDT by digger48
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To: onyx

Orange Man flips bird!


19 posted on 04/06/2019 2:29:43 PM PDT by rlmorel (If racial attacks were as common as the Left wants you to think, they wouldn't have to make them up.)
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To: onyx

Yet here is Lindsey( POTUS’s newest best friend) saying the following:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/04/lindsey-graham-trump-should-release-his-tax-returns.html

Someone should ask Lindsey if he released his tax returns when he ran for President.


20 posted on 04/06/2019 2:31:40 PM PDT by pugmama (Come fly with me.)
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