Posted on 11/18/2019 10:15:01 AM PST by gwjack
The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily blocked a ruling that requires accounting firm Mazars to turn President Donald Trump’s tax returns over to Congress.
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If I were PDJT I would just release the tax returns and dare the Left to find any irregularities. The longer Trump delays releasing his tax returns the more it looks like he has something to hide. He may not have anything to hide, but that is how it will appear to the average low-information voter.
Which organization will leak them faster?
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!
“OK, can someone please explain to me this obsession with Trump’s tax returns?”
It is an attempt to provide more angles of attack on Trump.
They are trying to turn the $130,000 he paid to Stormy Daniels into an illegal campaign contribution. etc.
“If I were PDJT I would just release the tax returns and dare the Left to find any irregularities. The longer Trump delays releasing his tax returns the more it looks like he has something to hide. He may not have anything to hide, but that is how it will appear to the average low-information voter.”
You HAVE heard of “principle”? I’ll bet Trump is hiding NOTHING. It’s the principle of the thing.
My guess, absolutely not based on any special, private information I don’t have, is that it’s an effort to gain a road map to his organization and, especially, vendors, customers, lenders and all others with whom he and/or the Trump organization(s) interact so his enemies can go after those other persons and entities, try to destroy them and, thereby, to get them to cease doing business with Trump, his family and organization(s). It is, after all, exactly what they do to any lesser person they can identify who either supports Trump or positively interacts with him.
The conventional wisdom is it’s to get his tax returns to show how he’s used every legal device in the book to minimize his taxes and yell, “BAD GREEDY BILLIONAIRE.” I doubt that’s it because his finances and financial adventures have been pretty much an open book for the thirty or so years he’s been a NY celeb, meaning such disclosures would have about as much an impact as proving the average bear living in the Smoky Mountains pooped in the woods yesterday
“is this a fishing expedition in which Trump’s private financial information is leaked to the public to discredit him.”
Maybe Trump wrote off the expense of hiring Russian Prostitutes ? /s
It’s not in America’s interest to have ANYBODY subjected to witch hunts originating anywhere.
No word or sighting of RBG.
Same as with Russia, collusion, Ukraine, etc. ad nauseaum. It's not about finding actual wrongdoing. It's about creating a false impression of wrongdoing, so that the talking heads in Big Media have something to yak about. It's about smearing Trump in particular and Republicans in general with a false appearance of wrongdoing, so that the people will vote for demonicRATs.
In the mind of a leftist zelot, it is not possible to be rich without having done something unethical, imoral or down right illegal. Therefore, a billionare MUST be guilty of .... something.
The hope is that somewhere in his tax records they can find something that will “prove” just how mean he is.
Yes
The general ignorance of the taxation of wealth can be used to create the illusion that President is a wealthy criminal stealing from the poor and down trodden
“When it goes to the Supremes, Trump usually wins.”
if Roberts doesnt get a phone call from his handlers..
Which it already was under the Clintons and Obamas.
Years ago, in Clinton's first year, I sent a printed postcard that I'd received from a site I had donated money to. The card was demanding that Bill Clinton, known draft dodger not be allowed to attend the Veteran's Day ceremony at Arlington, and lay the wreath at the grave of the Unknown Soldier. I'd signed my real name and address to it. The following year I was audited by IRS...very funny because I had filed the short form for that year, owned nothing, and had nothing to claim. I always figured the audit had to do with that card. I've never been audited since, and in my retirement, I always file the short form.
Trump has been audited up one side and down the other, and there’s nothing to “find.” This is just harassment. They obviously plan to come at him from every side, like the pack of wild dogs they are.
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