> “This is probably why Schiff is now ramping up to go after Trump’s finances (going back — decades?), because it’s becoming clear to him that he’s not going to get anything helpful from Mueller.”
There are a few motivations driving Schiff. One is to provide cover for his own law violations such as leaking sensitive matters and for meeting with members of GPS Fusion.
Another is to find out who Trump’s business partners are so they can be harassed, sabotaged, framed. This can be done by examining the Trump tax returns under U.S. Code Title 26. INTERNAL REVENUE CODE Section 6103 (see related thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3726020/posts).
It’s fairly certain the tax returns themselves will be clear as Donald Trump has hired the best tax accounting firms to do his taxes and he has been audited each and every year by the IRS including Obama’s politically weaponized IRS. So that leaves only a few motivations for prying into his tax returns and that would be to find the extent of Trump’s network of business interests and target them for political attacks in much the same way Mueller attacked associates, managers, partners of Trump. Why did Carl Icahn, an acknowledged genius level leader in business and close friend of the President withdraw as the President’s Special Advisor? Ans: To escape political prosecution.
And there you have it! Schiffy is "buying insurance" or "getting an inoculation" against the Schiff-storm that's coming his way down the pike. All he has to do now is screech the song of political vindictiveness when his situation gets hotter than it already is. And he'll, of course, have the MSM covering every square inch of his backside. (Eewww...)
I wish there was one word, and all-encompassing term that defines the "getting an inoculation scenario". The Germans seen to have terms like that: schadenfruede and fingerspitzengefühl are so darned efficient.
The killer is section (f)(4)(A) allows the senate and or house committees to release the info to the full house & senate.
How it doesn’t get leaked to the MSM would be a miracle.
If the President would want to get vindictive,he could use Section (g) to get anybody’s tax return and it looks like he doesn’t have to keep it confidential.