Let them try and court. You can’t force someone to hand over their tax returns. At least not legally. Thank God for Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.
Request.
Not demand, because they can’t.
Let the games begin and watch the slim House majority slip away in 2020 as moderates who voted for legislative action and not investigations vote for Trump candidates next time. The more I think about it, I think Trump isn’t too disappointed with this as it can only help him and his movement.
They can request all they want.
They’ll find just what Rachel Maddow found - nothing!
They think there’s some secret in his tax returns. There isn’t.
They’re going to look at two things, his actual tax rate and his charitable giving, so they can compare it to democrats. This is why the Clintons released their tax returns with their 32% tax rate (they intentionally paid extra taxes or didn’t take credits to hike this up) and high charitable giving (which mostly went back into the Clinton Foundation, so they got a twofer).
And any large tax breaks Trump took way back were written into law by democrat congresses.
So go for it, democrats. You’ll get nothing but headlines and talking points.
President Trump should fight it all the way to SCOTUS. They will decide. In 2 or 3 years...Maybe.
Dems are going to be disappointed. The Republicans just found out how little power the house actually has. They request for documents for two years...
He can hand them over when Hillary submits her e mails.
“You have my tax returns. The NYTimes published them TWICE on their front page weeks ago.” Donald J Trump.
Everyone knows that Trump won’t surrender his tax returns.
The Dems are over-exposed as over-playing their hand especially after the Kavanaugh hearings and the Mueller witch hunt.
The problem for the Dems is that this doesn’t change the narrative. We all have heard from the Dems and the fake news media that Trump is a corrupt fascist dictator. So, what’s new? Even if the fake news actually found something, only the Dem supporters would believe it.
Gowdy and Nunes and Goodlatte have been requesting all kinds of docs for two years. They have gotten crumbs, even with a supportive Senate and White House.
Dems can make noise. That is all.
This is an amazing red herring trump is using.
By refusing to release them, he makes conspiracy-minded leftists that there’s something nefarious in them, so they chase like lemmings.
So they waste time on this, annoy voters who don’t care about it, and if Trump is ever forced to release them after years of legal wrangling, it’ll go over like a lead balloon when there’s nothing in them anyone cares about.
Good luck, weirdos.
Counter with a request for Nancy’s tax returns ,insider trading
I wonder if it would be worth it for Pres. Trump to look into if\how he could have his tax returns declared as “Presidential” and have them covered under the “Presidential Records Act”.
Pres. Trump could always “modify” E.O. 13489 to suit, as Obama did.
No they cannot demand Trumps tax returns. And he’s not ever going to provide them.
Republican House demands documents from the DOJ.
(((((crickets)))))
Democrat House demands documents from the President.
(((((crickets)))))
....and they are not going to get them.
Hand over the tax returns, now! Fully redacted, of course.
Trump started this during his campaign. He said after the audit he would turn them over. That was27 months ago