Posted on 08/04/2021 11:52:20 PM PDT by blueplum
Former United States President Donald Trump has lodged a legal challenge to a Justice Department (DOJ) order that his long-sought tax returns be turned over to a House of Representatives committee.
In a filing in federal court in the District of Columbia on Wednesday, Trump’s lawyers said the House Ways and Means Committee lacks a legitimate basis for seeking his federal tax returns, and that the Justice Department erred when it backed the committee’s request....
The Democratic-led Ways and Means Committee has said it wants the tax data to determine whether the IRS is properly auditing presidential tax returns in general and to assess whether new legislation is needed.
In the filing, Trump’s lawyers called that a “pretextual” rationalisation.
“The requests are tailored to, and in practical operation will affect, only President Trump,” they said.
“The requests single out President Trump because he is a Republican and a political opponent.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
um hm..
I hope he doesn’t end up with some Democrat federal appeals judge with Trump Derangement Syndrome.
He can take it to SCOTUS congress has NO RIGHT to his tax returns NONE!!!
It is only a persecution complex when they aren’t actually persecuting you. Problem for the left it, Trump fights back.
How’s bout all the criminals in Congress and Joe’s administration clowns provide THEIRS, first??
How about Clinton, Obama, Carter, maybe even Truman and the biggest crook in Texas - LBJ.
Hear Hear.
I’m itching to see Pelosi’s, Water’s, Schumer’s, and numerous others.
All swamp departments are owned trained dogs.
Please tell me that none of them are Rudy Giuliani, Sydney Powell, or Jenna Ellis.
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