I've Seen Trump's Tax Returns and You Should, Too
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- President Donald Trump took to Twitter early Sunday morning, elated: So great to see our Country starting to open up again!
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Is Trump pushing businesses to reopen despite ongoing perils attached to the coronavirus because its best for the country? Or is it because Covid-19 has battered his familys fortunes? Or is it simply because he has the upcoming presidential election in mind? Who knows. But we are more than three years into this presidency and the same questions that have hung over Trump from the moment he launched his bid for the White House still linger: What are the contours of his personal finances and how do they inform his actions and policies?
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will help shape our understanding of some of this when it hears arguments involving efforts by Congress and a New York prosecutor to get access to Trumps tax returns, bank documents and bookkeeping records. Trumps lawyers and the Justice Department contend that the president shouldnt have to comply with subpoenas or can block his financial advisers from complying because the requests are overly intrusive or undermine the sweeping immunity from criminal investigations he should enjoy while in office.
Congress says it wants Trumps tax returns so it can craft legislation modernizing federal ethics and disclosure laws and protecting the 2020 election from foreign interference. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. is conducting a probe into the Trump Organizations efforts to mask hush money paid to two women who said they had sexual encounters with Trump. He wants to explore whether Trumps team falsified business records as part of those maneuvers.
While the Supreme Courts decision will likely touch on crucial Constitutional matters such as the separation of powers and the legislative branchs ability to monitor the executive branch, the animating force guiding the court in this matter may be even more basic: whether or not any president is above the rule of law. If the courts decision pivots off of that, then youd do well to read George Conways recent op-ed in the Washington Post. The Constitution is concerned with protecting the presidency, not the person who happens to be the president, Conway writes. Thats because no one in this country is above the law.
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BComplex
(8,036 posts)They're going to dance with the ones that brought them to the dance, and right now, EVERYONE who brought the majority of the supremes to the dance are trying to protect this president.
The entire republican set-up with the judgeships is criminal.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Do you believe that a guy who has lied his entire life with every breath he takes will be totally honest when he files his taxes?
We're about to see the greatest works of fiction since Steinbeck.