How Nixon's tax trouble could influence quest for Trump's returns

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Questions were mounting over the president’s taxes.

A drip, drip, drip of news reports stretching out over months suggested he had seriously underpaid his taxes.
Donald Trump? No, Richard Nixon.

The mostly forgotten story of Nixon’s tax troubles, long overshadowed by the simultaneous Watergate scandal, is now getting a new look from lawmakers and legal experts.

That’s because Democrats want to tap a rarely used law to seize and release Trump’s tax returns when they take control of the House next year.

“The president should have to tell the American people what, in God’s name, he is doing with his money,” said Rep. Bill Pascrell of New Jersey, a senior Democrat on the House tax-writing committee. “The law is on our side.”


The law is clear, experts say, that the president is supposed to turn over his returns if they're demanded by the chairman of the tax committee in either the House or Senate, who may examine them with colleagues in private.

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there is a lot of hope involving the next House of Representatives using various subpoena and other such powers to dig into Trump, but it may not work out our way. All other Presidents have been loathe to take actions that would set potentially dangerous precedents, and have found ways to give in rather than risk an adverse SCOTUS decision that would hamper not only them, but any of their successors, including ones from their own party.

Trump has no such qualms, and will resist everything to the ultimate degree. With his stacking of the makeup of the Court, there is a significant chance that he will get his way, at least in part, no matter what damage is done to the Presidency from the decisions that do not go his way.

We have a wrecking ball of a chief executive right now.