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Dem wants Trump officials jailed for not turning over tax returns
Fox News.com ^ | May 22, 2019 | Brooke Singman

Posted on 05/22/2019 7:47:07 AM PDT by Kaslin

Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett said Tuesday that IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin should be jailed or fined for stonewalling congressional subpoenas for President Trump’s tax returns.

Doggett, D-Texas, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, said Tuesday that congressional Democrats need to employ what's known as "inherent contempt" for Trump officials defying committee requests and subpoenas for Trump’s financial information.

“I believe that there is no legal advice that will stop the lawlessness and lies of this administration, and that is why Congress needs to act firmly now to use every tool it has available to get this information that Trump so fears that the public will see,” Doggett told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Tuesday night.

“To take action, I believe it’s going to require fines or confinement under our power of inherent contempt to get the information we need and to get all these other people that, under what seems to be gang rule, are told don’t say anything and don’t provide anything,” he continued. “Total silence, total obstruction.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: democrats; demonrats; irs; mnuchin; taxes
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To: Kaslin

How about “I do not recall?”


21 posted on 05/22/2019 8:16:17 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Gene Eric

How about President Clinton’s medical (cocaine and STD) records????


22 posted on 05/22/2019 8:29:31 AM PDT by buffyt (Not a Choice, it's a CHILD in the womb. We may have aborted the person with the cure for cancer!)
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To: Kaslin

When will Lois Lerner be imprisoned for her crimes?

FOAD!


23 posted on 05/22/2019 8:37:50 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Kaslin

Doggett would look good at the end of a rope.


24 posted on 05/22/2019 8:39:52 AM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

This is just one more reason we need another type of tax system. One that doesn’t discriminate and one where we don’t have the government watching every transaction we perform.

F the IRS.

See tagline.


25 posted on 05/22/2019 8:40:03 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: DarthVader
I say arrest him military style and beat his brains in if he resists.

Nothing like a good curb-stomping to get his mind right...

26 posted on 05/22/2019 8:40:55 AM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: Kaslin

Unless they are accusing President Trump of some specific violation, that demand is nothing more than a fishing expedition. Tell ‘em to pound sand.


27 posted on 05/22/2019 8:43:13 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Kaslin

After you, Lloyd.

He’s such an embarrassment to Texas and only gets re-elected time and time again on name recognition.


28 posted on 05/22/2019 9:07:02 AM PDT by bgill (when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
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To: Kaslin

Do it! Do it, you f$&@!


29 posted on 05/22/2019 9:34:34 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: Kaslin

Not gonna happen Lloyd.


30 posted on 05/22/2019 9:34:44 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of today be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Kaslin

Well, I’m neither Dem nor Republican, but I want all current Democrat scumbag politicians to be hanged until dead.

Neither have grounds, well okay I think my proposal has more grounds with the current bunch.


31 posted on 05/22/2019 10:00:31 AM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood (Fox Shadowbans People On Comments)
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To: Kaslin

Well, I’m neither Dem nor Republican, but I want all current Democrat scumbag politicians to be hanged until dead.

Neither have grounds, well okay I think my proposal has more grounds with the current bunch.


32 posted on 05/22/2019 10:00:31 AM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood (Fox Shadowbans People On Comments)
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To: Kaslin

This is interesting -— Who is going to execute the order to jail?


33 posted on 05/22/2019 10:03:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: Kaslin

4th amendment !


34 posted on 05/22/2019 10:27:21 AM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: Steely Tom

The problem for us is that the media are on the dims side.

And you know what? The PROBLEM WITH THE DIMS IS THAT THE MEDIA IS ON THEIR SIDE.

Americans are beginning to see just what the media is doing.
There will be hell to pay if the dims keep on doing this.
People WILL NOT STAND FOR IT IN THE LONG RUN.

Larry Elder just said President Trump’s approval rating in the Black community is 24 per cent! That’s 3x what it was. And the Spanish community is 45 percent!

Bad news for the Left.


35 posted on 05/22/2019 10:28:48 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Kaslin

Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett said Tuesday that IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin should be jailed or fined for stonewalling congressional subpoenas for President Trump’s tax returns.
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The Dems are following their Dear Leaders (Obama/Hillary/Pelosi/Schumer), and doubling down, by continuing to weaponize the IRS against any and all, who question their agenda.


36 posted on 05/22/2019 10:32:11 AM PDT by Yulee
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To: Kaslin

I want EVERY LAST DEMOCRAT jailed and tried for treason. Their primary party objective is to destroy the US from within. They have no interest in maintaining our CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC!


37 posted on 05/22/2019 10:42:59 AM PDT by PLOM...NOT! (With guns, we are citizens. Without them, we are subjects.)
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To: Kaslin

“I believe that there is no legal advice that will stop the lawlessness and lies of this administration, and that is why Congress needs to act firmly now to use every tool it has available to get this information that Trump so fears that the public will see,”

Because Congressional Democrats will violate the law and release the info to every news organization in the US.

Take it to court Bozo.


38 posted on 05/22/2019 10:56:01 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: marron

Thank you.

I’ve been saying that very thing all along


39 posted on 05/22/2019 12:28:23 PM PDT by digger48
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To: marron
You know if there was anything there, they’d have been leaked long ago.

The returns are too complicated to leak, They want to reveal items DAILY out of context to kill Trump by a thousand paper cuts.

40 posted on 05/22/2019 12:30:37 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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