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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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To: onyx

Democrats are disgusting frauds & losers.

The fact that they had to be told to f_off from their criminal bullying.

If Democrats ever get their U.S. dictatorship, they will be coming for your throat. They can only attract foriegn voters.


41 posted on 04/06/2019 3:23:36 PM PDT by TheNext (Democrats kill people with Gun Control)
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To: onyx

Would the democrats accept my tax returns for the last 50 years instead of POTUS Trump? That will keep them busy for at least 50 minutes. And many will die of boredom.


42 posted on 04/06/2019 3:26:18 PM PDT by entropy12 (Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.)
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To: palmer
...is not likely to withstand Constitutional scrutiny.

We would like to think so. It would be interesting to review whether the statute was in and of itself the key to the Nixon tax return inquiry.

43 posted on 04/06/2019 3:27:52 PM PDT by frog in a pot (The Socialists have the House, with the Senate it's lights out, they will "Ballsy Ford" an R pres.)
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To: TheNext

I truly hate them all.
They’re the evil enemy within.


44 posted on 04/06/2019 3:35:34 PM PDT by onyx (Join 300 CLUB BY DONATING $34 MONTHLY! TRUMP'S WAY IS THE WINNING WAY!)
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To: onyx

But the Dhimmicraps will find a way.


45 posted on 04/06/2019 3:37:56 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: onyx

But the Dhimmicraps will find a way.


46 posted on 04/06/2019 3:37:56 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: lurk

Maybe a release date of 2039 or so.”””

I think you have a typo...

S/B 2139 or so.


47 posted on 04/06/2019 3:40:32 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: shelterguy

Makes you wonder what he’s hiding, doesn’t it?


48 posted on 04/06/2019 3:41:26 PM PDT by pleasedontzotme
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To: an amused spectator

The NKVD was disbanded in the 1930’s.


49 posted on 04/06/2019 3:42:46 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: onyx

Obama has never produced an authentic Birth Certificate.

Obama has sealed all his grade school-—high school— college records-—

And this Congress thinks they are entitle to see Trump’s TAX RECORDS?

I would bet that NO ONE in this Congress can tell me the 3 different kinds of depreciation.......


50 posted on 04/06/2019 3:42:56 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: shelterguy

A Balance Sheet tells more than a tax return.


51 posted on 04/06/2019 3:44:41 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: palmer

Interesting thought, the idea he may have crafted it to fail.

Thanks.


52 posted on 04/06/2019 3:48:54 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: onyx
A President's tax returns are automatically audited every year he is in office.

The dumb Dem slob Nadler? said he wants them to make sure the IRS is doing their job of auditing him. Now that's the stupidest thing I ever heard of.

53 posted on 04/06/2019 3:53:30 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: onyx

Trump should ORDER the IRS, very publicly, to not release this information.

Notify them, and the Congress it is privileged information protected by the doctrine of Separation of Powers.

Then use all the power and force at his disposal to prevent it.


54 posted on 04/06/2019 3:56:33 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: shelterguy
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.

Not only that, it is quite possible that many Trump schedules says "details upon request"

55 posted on 04/06/2019 4:01:55 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: onyx

I listened to MSLSD news this morning.

Their total line was about President Donald Trump telling the IRS not to release his tax records.

They then went on to say the President broke the law but talking to the IRS..lol.

Excuse me, how many times did Lois Lerner visit the Obama oval office?


56 posted on 04/06/2019 4:06:03 PM PDT by South Dakota
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To: ridesthemiles
Good point.

Tax returns are profit and loss or commonly, income and expense, statements over a fixed time period, like a year.

Over that year, how much did you make versus how much did you spend to make it? The difference is considered net income and that's what you pay taxes on.

A balance sheet is a snapshot at one moment in time of your assets and liabilities. What you own versus what you owe, basically.

All simplified, of course.

But these congressional committee democRATS don't want his tax returns to learn anything from them except what they can use against him.

He is correct in telling them to go fly a kite. In a nice attorney-sounding way of course. :-)

57 posted on 04/06/2019 4:10:29 PM PDT by HotHunt (Climate change is not an "inconvenient truth" but many convenient lies.)
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To: Mariner

Nah. Democrats would happily latch on to anything he did like ordering the irs not to do that. They’re trying to trip him up any way they can, then impeach him if he so much as steps on a crack. (Of course, it was ENTIRELY different when Odiablo was President. He was under no such restraints. And the lily livered corrupt Republican leadership wouldn’t do ANYTHING to stop HIS abuses of power.)


58 posted on 04/06/2019 4:15:39 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: pleasedontzotme

I don’t think he’s hiding anything. He’s standing up to a bunch of bullies.


59 posted on 04/06/2019 4:28:52 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (I trust President Trump.)
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To: onyx

Is there a way to sue the House for abuse of power? I suppose it would have to happen at the SC.


60 posted on 04/06/2019 4:38:57 PM PDT by richardtavor
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