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Trump says voters don’t care about his personal tax returns
Associated Press ^ | May 11, 2019 | Andrew Taylor

Posted on 05/11/2019 9:47:50 PM PDT by Olog-hai

President Donald Trump is scoffing at Democrats’ attempts to pry loose his tax returns, saying his refusal to release the records as a candidate didn’t hurt him in 2016 and voters “didn’t care” about the issue.

A leading House Democrat has issued subpoenas for six years of Trump’s tax documents and given Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig a deadline of this coming Friday to deliver them. […]

The subpoenas came from Rep. Richard Neal, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, on Friday, days after Mnuchin refused to comply with demands to turn over Trump’s returns. Mnuchin said the committee’s request “lacks a legitimate legislative purpose,” as Supreme Court precedent requires. […]

Trump tweeted on Saturday that he won in 2016 “partially based on no Tax Returns while I am under audit (which I still am), and the voters didn’t care. Now the Radical Left Democrats want to again relitigate this matter. Make it a part of the 2020 Election!” …

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020; irs; liberalagenda; mnuchin; neal; rettig; tds; trumptaxreturns
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1 posted on 05/11/2019 9:47:50 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Absolutely right.


2 posted on 05/11/2019 9:49:18 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: Olog-hai

Unless they’re hostile dems.


3 posted on 05/11/2019 9:49:23 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Olog-hai

PDJT is absolutely correct.
Nobody gives a damn about his old tax returns.
If he wanted to release them, he could have.
He chose his privacy, which is 1000 percent his right as an American.
End of file.

It is disgusting to see the Dimocraps even mentioning the topic, more or less making fools of themselves “demanding” someone else’s tax returns. (Which they could never understand anyways, ha!)


4 posted on 05/11/2019 9:51:43 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Olog-hai

USA should return to having no federal income tax!


5 posted on 05/11/2019 9:52:25 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Olog-hai

I couldn’t care less about President Trump’s tax returns. I would like to know about Obama’s sealed records on pretty much everything.


6 posted on 05/11/2019 9:54:40 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Olog-hai

All he has to say is “If they are allowed to dig into MY personal finances, what’s to stop them from diggin into YOURS?”


7 posted on 05/11/2019 9:56:49 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: faithhopecharity

Agreed. There was a reason why there was no such thing in the original Constitution. And it still remains a point of contention as to whether the Sixteenth Amendment was properly passed.


8 posted on 05/11/2019 9:58:03 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Trump’s right.

I couldn’t imagine how to give less of a ####.

It would actually be difficult to think of something I DID care less about.


9 posted on 05/11/2019 10:07:44 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: Olog-hai

they dont


10 posted on 05/11/2019 10:21:20 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Olog-hai

If there was a problem with DJT’s taxes it would have come out in 2016. DemRATs know that, but they’ve proved to be as tenacious as any of the most treacherous adversaries this country has ever known.


11 posted on 05/11/2019 10:26:19 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: Innovative

If anything, I’m focused, like a laser, on my future tax returns.


12 posted on 05/11/2019 10:28:10 PM PDT by Paladin2
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I certainly don’t care.

I can’t imagine anyone with an iota of sense thinks that his tax returns are going to contain any sort of “Gotcha!” He has people, probably a number of them, whose jobs are to be sure that all the “t’s” are crossed and all the “i’s” dotted.

I don’t think he’s witholding them because he’s afraid of what will be seen. I think he’s witholding them because they are nobody else’s business. And because he can. And because it causes his opposition to become unglued.

I agree with a meme I saw today. I’m not interested in the tax returns of a rich man who became a politician. I’m a lot more interested in the returns of politicians who became rich men and women.


13 posted on 05/11/2019 10:31:20 PM PDT by susannah59
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Sonce all the dems want them for is to make political points with them, I don’t care.

They have no right to anyones tax returns.


14 posted on 05/11/2019 10:54:50 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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i want to see Pelousy's and Fineswine's
15 posted on 05/11/2019 10:57:26 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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I like the idea of all sitting members of Senate and Congress provide their tax returns from past 10 years first.

I would also like an accounting of the tax money that was spent covering up sexual harassment by senators, reps, and their staff.


16 posted on 05/11/2019 11:05:38 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (#KATE'SWALL Build it Now)
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To: Chode

California is in the process of forcing him to show his returns to be on the ballot. I say fine, make anyone who runs for any elective office show their returns. I think the board of supervisors or city council would be a lot more enlightening.


17 posted on 05/11/2019 11:06:03 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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To: Olog-hai

The Constitution does not require anyone to release their tax returns in order to be President. It does, however, require a warrant issued by a court based on probable cause that there’s a crime in order for someone’s private records to be released without their consent. Congress is not a court and is not authorized to issue such a warrant.

It’s called the Fourth Amendment.


18 posted on 05/11/2019 11:06:18 PM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: Olog-hai

He’s right, they don’t...


19 posted on 05/11/2019 11:07:34 PM PDT by northislander
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If the Democrats go after Trump's tax records, then it's fair game on Bronco Bama's records - birth certificate, adoption papers, application to Occidental, application to Columbia, transcripts from both universities, SAT scores, LSAT scores, and application to Harvard Law School.

Do the Democrats really want to open that can of worms?

20 posted on 05/11/2019 11:13:20 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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