Sad to see what was once a great Congressman and Governor who had the makings of a Presidential candidate so completely self-destruct as Mark Sanford has.
Posted on 07/17/2018 12:56:42 PM PDT by jazusamo
Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) is renewing his call for President Trump to release his tax returns after the president's controversial press conference with Russian leader Vladimir Putin this week.
Sanford told The Washington Post’s Robert Costa on Tuesday that he doesn’t know if Putin has any compromising information on Trump, but said he wants more information about Trump’s finances in light of the president's comments while standing alongside Putin the previous day.
Trump's remarks during a joint press conference with Putin in Helsinki were widely panned by U.S. lawmakers, with many Republicans and Democrats condemning his comments siding with Putin's denial of Russian interference in the 2016 election over the conclusions of his own U.S. intelligence advisers.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) blasted Trump's press conference as “one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory,” while a former Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee called Trump's actions "shocking."
Trump was the first presidential candidate in decades to not disclose his tax returns, citing an IRS audit, though the agency has said that taxpayers can release their own information at any time. The president has suggested that he may not release them until he leaves office.
Democratic lawmakers have failed in multiple attempts to pass measures forcing Trump to release them.
Sanford, who has been critical of Trump throughout his presidency, has urged the president to release his tax returns in the past.
Last year, the South Carolina Republican endorsed a Democratic effort to obtain Trump's tax returns through the House and Senate committees with oversight of the IRS. Sanford also penned a New York Times op-ed ahead of the election calling for Trump to release them.
Trump and Sanford have recently butted heads after Trump attacked him and endorsed his opponent hours before Sanford's GOP primary last month.
Sanford was defeated by state Rep. Katie Arrington, who portrayed the congressman as a traitor to Trump.
Sad to see what was once a great Congressman and Governor who had the makings of a Presidential candidate so completely self-destruct as Mark Sanford has.
Need to see Trump’s tax returns because Hillary received $400,000,000 in unreported donations from Russia.
Amen to that.
Because it obvious ( to this Sanford clown) that President Trump’s tax returns are somehow related to the Putin summit.
No, don’t ask me how, I don’t function on a level that low.
Has been . Go eat worms .
No doubt a message from the Appalachian Trail
Sanford and all of the rest of them are pathetic.
Take a hike Sanford!
This time for real...
This slob’s hypocrisy knows no bounds. Talk about compromising positions, Sanford made himself ripe for blackmail when he financed his Argentina wanderlust on the tax payer’s dime. He had to eventually pay it back when a reporter did some digging.
And he wonders why he lost? (From Bluffton, SC)
Does this guy expect to find an entry saying Bribe from Putin Xmillion dollars?
He should head back to South America.
Go see another mistress down in South America, Mark. What a worthless, vindicative nimrod.
Who needs enemies when these are your friends.
Sanford is gone Jan 2019.
5.56mm
Sanford, like all of SC’s Congressional delegation, is a Cheap Labor Express stooge.
Bush League Republicans control that state and only open borders people are elected.
He’s a nobody.
The only way he gets any press is to bash our President.
MAGA!!
So, Mark “Appalachian Hike” Sanford is now reporting to Chuck U Schumer?
LOL...so, this is the ‘patriot’ that Schumer and Brennan have referred to, when asking Repubs to demand Trump’s tax returns/NSA investigation/impeachment/XX action??
Keep right on stepping in it, hiker boy.
Actually it’s tragic to see someone as accomplished as Mark Sanford so completely self-destruct.
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