Posted on 05/20/2019 4:15:51 PM PDT by Cubs Fan
A Washington, D.C.-based federal judge has sided with House Oversight Committee Democrats seeking to enforce their subpoena of Trump accounting firm Mazars USA, in a major ruling that breathes new life into Democrats' ongoing efforts to probe the president's financial dealings.
The subpoena seeks access to a slew of Trump financial documents dating back to 2011, including personal records and records of various affiliated business and entities. Democrats pursued the subpoena after former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen testified to Congress in February that the president's accountants routinely and improperly altered his financial statements -- including some signed by Mazars -- to misrepresent his assets and liabilities.
Barack Obama-appointed judge Amit P. Mehta's 41-page opinion began by comparing President Trump's concerns about congressional overreach to those of President James Buchanan, asserting that Trump "has taken up the fight of his predecessor."
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Mazars should send them 500 pages of blank spread sheets and unfilled pie charts
The actual data belongs to Mr. Trump. You get it from him
Do like dems. Ignore. Repeat as needed.
41-page opinion ,LOL ,bag of wind
“...Barack Obama-appointed judge Amit P. Mehta’s 41-page opinion...”
And Obama told this filthy dot how to rule on this one.
Give the tax records - redacted.
DOJ .... subpoena records of some congressmen
Did he also say in his 41-page opinion that Trump can’t appeal it ,LOL
This is no-holds-barred corruption. Liberals will lie, cheat, steal, whatever, to get their way. If it meant murdering their children to defeat and destroy conservatives, they would do it. And they love their children.
If we had a political party the opposition party would not treat our elected officials this way.
They are too stupid to realize once they open this door, it will in time be used against them.
If the house can demand the tax records of a sitting President, any future house can demand the tax records of any politician.
Disagree. Democrats get to have everything their own way all the time. Republicans are, for the most part, co-conspirators who don’t care what happens as long as they keep their seat at the table.
No it won't. 99.9% of republicans that run for office don't have the stones to play like this.
President Trump’s financials do not harm any member of Congress.
Therefore... THEY DO NOT HAVE STANDING
Tell this ‘judge’ to pound sand
Mr President,
How do Members of CONgress become so Wealthy after serving just a few short years????
26 USC 6103(g), the same law Schiff is using
g) Disclosure to President and certain other persons
(1) In generalUpon written request by the President, signed by him personally, the Secretary shall furnish to the President, or to such employee or employees of the White House Office as the President may designate by name in such request, a return or return information with respect to any taxpayer named in such request. Any such request shall state
(A) the name and address of the taxpayer whose return or return information is to be disclosed,
(B) the kind of return or return information which is to be disclosed,
(C) the taxable period or periods covered by such return or return information, and
(D) the specific reason why the inspection or disclosure is requested.
The Democrats are writing the NEW RULE BOOK from this point forward on what an opposition party in control of the house can and can not do.
They are too stupid to realize once they open this door, it will in time be used against them.
If the house can demand the tax records of a sitting President, any future house can demand the tax records of any politician.
The Democrats are tuning us into a Banana Republic
Actually, they are smart enough to realize that the GOP will never employ these police state tactics against Democrats.
We've never seen his academic records, documentation about what he was doing in Pakistan back in college, any real documentation of what hospital he was born in - and who the OB was, documentation of who paid for his education, what his relationship with Frank Marshall Davis was, what his true relationship with terrorist Bill Ayers was/is, etc., etc. Nonetheless, even though Trump has been one of the most well known and media covered celebrity ever in America, they need to dig deeper, and deeper.
Liberals are the Stasi, KGB, Cammora, Yakuza, Brownshirts, Nazis, and the Ministry of State Security, all wrapped up together.
Democrats know they can do whatever they want, there are never any repercussions.
Correct. Because there is no opposition party to the progressive corportist agenda. I always thought the Uniparty stuff was tin foil hat stuff but then POTUS arrived on the scene and proved it was all too real.
The financial records of all elected officials and high level bureaucrats should be fair game.
This is very good news. This Obama appointed judge has delivered an opinion and a 40 page fantasy adventure ride through his confused mind. It will be great fodder when real lawyers and real judges consider the Constitutional issues with this matter. The stupid is very strong with this guy.
WOW..! How would you like to see that far back on Dianne Feinstein’s records..?? From what I hear she’s as crooked as a snake... :)
All it would take is McConnell siccing one of his committee chairs on Democrat corruption and this nonsense with POTUS would end. That won’t be happening, of course, because he is fully onboard with Democrats hamstringing the MAGA agenda.
No it won’t. 99.9% of republicans that run for office don’t have the stones to play like this.
Oh, they have “stones.” They just don’t play for Team USA. They play for Team get filthy stinking rich while servicing the beltway donor class.
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