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VIDEOIs Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. doomed to become Mueller II? The answer appears to be a resounding YES. We already have a couple of big tells that the investigation into President Donald Trump's tax returns is going nowhere. One of the tells is that Vance, after receiving the desperately desired tax returns, announced that he would NOT be seeking re-election this year. The other big tell is an Associated Press report just out that the investigation is focused on what they think might be an inflated assessment of one of Trump's properties that was used to reduce his...

The Blaze -Last week, CNN ran a series of “exclusive” stories that revealed the Supreme Court’s private deliberations over President Donald Trump’s taxes. But how did CNN reporter Joan Biskupic get a hold of such sensitive information? On the latest episode of “LevinTV,” BlazeTV host Mark Levin argued that Chief Justice John Roberts is likely the leaker. Levin told his followers, “The chief justice of the United States — is enormously political, and I believe he is a leaker,” adding, “If there’s leaking going on, and there clearly is, one justice against another, it is a huge problem.” Levin referenced...

Rep. Kevin Brady is calling for an investigation into the source behind the New York Times’ access to President Trump’s tax documents. Brady (R-TX) is the head Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee. He states there is a possibility that “a felony crime was committed by releasing the private tax return information” of the President. “To ensure every American is protected against the illegal release of their tax returns for political reasons, I am calling for an investigation of the source and to prosecute if the law was broken,” Brady announced. The New York Times report, released on...

A federal judge on Thursday issued an order blocking New York state from turning over President Donald Trump's tax returns to congressional Democrats for now, should the House Ways and Means Committee request them through a newly passed New York law. The limitation will be in place, Judge Carl Nichols wrote, while allowing New York to challenge whether Nichols' courtroom in Washington is the proper place for this case, brought by Trump, to move forward, and in what form it could proceed. In a court hearing on Wednesday ahead of the order, Nichols said that his intention was to ensure...

Donald J. Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns, a tax deduction so substantial it could have allowed him to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years, records obtained by The New York Times show. The 1995 tax records, never before disclosed, reveal the extraordinary tax benefits that Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, derived from the financial wreckage he left behind in the early 1990s through mismanagement of three Atlantic City casinos, his ill-fated foray into the airline business and his ill-timed purchase of the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan....

Former Governor Jennifer Granholm (D-MI), a Hillary Clinton supporter, responds to a New York Times report that Donald Trump may have avoided paying federal income taxes for 18 years. "Donald Trump is the guy who has been tweeting that half of America doesn't pay their taxes when there is a big deficit. Not every American looks for every loophole under every rock," she said on MSNBC's 'MTP Daily' on Monday. (snip) "....He's not paying for that. We're paying for that. There is a fairness issue that is very important." "He says he wants to run America like he runs his...