Trump seeks to block Treasury Department from giving his tax returns to Congress
Source: NBC
Lawyers for Donald Trump urged a federal judge Wednesday to block the Treasury Department and the IRS from handing his tax returns over to the House Ways and Means Committee.
The committees stated reason for seeking the returns, to examine how the IRS audits presidents, is simply a pretext for wanting to look for something embarrassing, the lawyers said in a filing in federal court in Washington, adding that the legal authority invoked by Congress has never been used against a president, a former president or any elected official.
While House Democrats had offered countless justifications for obtaining the presidents tax returns, no one at the time had ever mentioned a desire to find out how the IRS audits presidents," they said
The committee chairman's request for Trump's tax returns "bore little resemblance to an effort to investigate how the IRS audits presidents. It asked for the information of only one president, asked for open files for which audits have not been completed, and never asked the IRS for the most relevant information namely, how it audits presidents, they said.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-seeks-block-treasury-department-handing-over-his-tax-returns-n1275907
walkingman
(7,577 posts)twodogsbarking
(9,664 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,787 posts)He continues to laugh his ass off as he has for the last decade about anything that they want from him.
He will die of old age before they ever get near getting him into the court system on anything, you just watch.....
Tiger8
(432 posts)Trump has never done a damn thing for the endless parade of stupid enablers and sycophants who have enabled him.
Except for the racism, corruption, brutality, theocracy and other forms of evil that he promises....like the fat bastard con man he is.
The Judge will dismiss it with prejudice, as the law is quite clear on the authority of the House to access tax returns.
Harker
(13,957 posts)BlueWavePsych
(2,635 posts)Turbineguy
(37,285 posts)He doesn't want people to know how generous he is on paying his taxes. Just like Jesus said:
"Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward." Matthew 6:2
Maybe that's because every single other president in recent history simply released all of their tax returns to the public so everyone could see that nothing shady was going on, until this asshole came along.
padah513
(2,494 posts)Dude always plays the victim.
Evolve Dammit
(16,694 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,563 posts)And the ridiculously rich, of course. "Why does everyone think I should pay taxes? Don't they know how many people I employ to build my yachts and rocket ships?"
Orrex
(63,169 posts)Hed explode like the orange balloon full of liquid pig shit that he is.
poli-junkie
(996 posts)sdfernando
(4,923 posts)...and I think it would take longer than 2 minutes! LOL!!!!
Orrex
(63,169 posts)Perhaps he could employ some sort of prosthetic in this balloon popping endeavor.
pandr32
(11,548 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,028 posts)Those presidents released them voluntarily. So the "facts" behind their logic are pure vapor.
rickford66
(5,521 posts)He got nailed for under reporting I believe.
bucolic_frolic
(43,028 posts)Could be for Nixon too. Of course that was 50 years ago.
Texin
(2,589 posts)hibbing
(10,094 posts)I thought that was why he was not releasing them. If anyone is the market for a bridge..
Peace
Justice matters.
(6,915 posts)NellieStarbuck
(265 posts)I seem to recall that no other President has refused to turn over their tax returns, so that was never necessary before.
Bayard
(22,004 posts)Was that Congress doesn't need a reason. If they want them from any citizen, you have to hand them over.
TFG acts like he has a choice. Besides, doesn't NY already have them?
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)Justice matters.
(6,915 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....the returns, and then open the audits again.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)that he doesn't want Congress to see. Interesting to say it's something embarrassing. Maybe he's broke!
bucolic_frolic
(43,028 posts)Did I mention I'm worth a billion six in my own mind?
I have to compound at 34% for 80 years, but still ... I'm on the way.
NNadir
(33,457 posts)The other was pardoned before the complete investigation even started.
Escurumbele
(3,374 posts)it is a vicious cycle, republicans take power the country goes to crap, Democrats take power and they fix it, then republicans take over and the country goes to crap, Democrats take over they fix it again, and the vicious cycle repeats itself...why is it that people don't learn!
housecat
(3,121 posts)Snackshack
(2,541 posts)Does a person get to go back to a judge and ask for a do over? FFS.
jaxexpat
(6,795 posts)Except for where it had said "racketeer or mob boss" was changed to president or slum lord.
dianaredwing
(406 posts)to be found, what is the problem? And since when did tfg care?
Jon King
(1,910 posts)Its amazing this will drag on and on and on. The statute is simple, shall furnish does not mean only sometimes, for some people.
Steelrolled
(2,022 posts)I won't take interest until something actually happens.
jmowreader
(50,528 posts)We're really trying to figure out how big of a crook you are.
riversedge
(70,051 posts)The Trump legal teams court filing Wednesday asked a federal judge not only to block Treasury from handing over the tax returns, but also to order the Ways and Means Committee "to end all ongoing examinations" of Trump and his companies.
Justice matters.
(6,915 posts)Escurumbele
(3,374 posts)to it?
What is in their minds? They are not going to get paid, they will be thrown under the bus sometime later, his peers won't look at them in a favorable light again, some may be suspended or disbarred...I mean, WHY???
bucolic_frolic
(43,028 posts)Just sayin'
intrepidity
(7,272 posts)stall, stall, stall, and then for good measure, stall some more.
That's all he is doing and ever does. Because it works.