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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,939 posts)
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 09:25 PM Oct 2021

TFG to judge "Please block the IRS from giving my tax returns to Congress!!!!!!!"

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump urged a federal judge late Tuesday to block the Treasury Department and the IRS from giving his tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee.

Trump's taxes have long been the Democrats' "white whale," the lawyers said.

The reason given by the committee chairman, Rep. Richard Neal, for seeking the returns, to examine how the IRS audits presidents, is simply a pretext for wanting to search for something embarrassing, they told the federal judge.

The committee sued the Treasury Department when it refused to hand over the returns during the Trump administration. But the Biden administration changed positions and agreed to provide the returns, so the committee sought to dismiss the lawsuit. Trump and his companies then intervened, seeking to block the release.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-urges-judge-block-irs-144740849.html

As the right likes to put it: If you've done nothing wrong what do you have to fear?

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Response to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Maraya1969

(22,479 posts)
4. I know. Our current justice system is so fucked if a wealthy person can get their way
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 10:34 PM
Oct 2021

by using continuous law suits to block up the courts.

I really wish someone in the IRS would leak the damn things and the NY Times would just print them - ALL of them.

marble falls

(57,079 posts)
8. You get all the justice you can afford. And like Lenny Bruce said, "in the halls of justice ...
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 10:55 PM
Oct 2021

... the only justice is in the hall."

Response to marble falls (Reply #8)

marble falls

(57,079 posts)
11. He's about run his string out. His fall will be entertaining and will unfold all over a bunch ...
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 11:04 PM
Oct 2021

... GOPers.

Deuxcents

(16,193 posts)
3. TFG will do anything to keep from paying his fair share
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 09:37 PM
Oct 2021

Like he’s done his whole life. Will we ever be rid of that guy?

 

elevator

(415 posts)
10. His lawyer meant criminal and not embarrassing.
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 11:04 PM
Oct 2021

I doubt if Trump has ever been embarrassed by his crimes. He feels something bordering on compulsive inadequacy, especial regarding his so-called business acumen and his sexual behavior.

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