Justice Thomas Said Forcing Trump to Release His Taxes Weakens the President

[Judi Lynn]

BY
Chris Walker, Truthout
PUBLISHED
May 12, 2020

The United States Supreme Court heard two different cases on a single matter: who may (or may not) have the legal right to access President Donald Trump’s financial and tax records.

The two cases involve investigations at the Congressional level as well as within the state Trump once called his home, New York.

The District Attorney from Manhattan, Cyrus Vance Jr., is seeking to obtain financial statements from Mazars USA, an accounting firm used by Trump in the past, in order to ascertain whether the president acted improperly in allegedly disbursing hush-money payments to two women, adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal, in exchange for their silence prior to and during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Meanwhile, in Congress, House committee heads had sought to subpoena records from Deutsche Bank and Capital One, to view tax and financial records in order to help them in oversight matters.

More:
https://truthout.org/articles/justice-thomas-said-forcing-trump-to-release-his-taxes-weakens-the-president/

[secondwind]

1. So what??!!

[onecaliberal]

2. Having a president that can be BRIBED by a foreign power weakens the fucking country.

[Jamastiene]

6. This ...Or extorted.

Exactly.

[The Blue Flower]

3. Lack of trust in a secretive president is what weakens him

Openness and transparency strengthen him.

[pamdb]

4. Judge Thomas

He is such an Uncle Tom.

[brewens]

5. If it weakens Trump, it's only because he's made it that way. Why wouldn't he want to show

what a brilliant operator he is?

[Eliot Rosewater]

7. if it was Hillary or Obama he would say the exact opposite, doesnt belong on this or any court

None of the cons do, they are all partisans and none of them care about the law or the constitution.

None of them.

[duforsure]

8. Since we employ him, we have a right to know if he's a criminal

And weakening this country against us because of being compromised , and controlled.

[Skittles]

9. try to imagine him saying that about, say, President Hillary Clinton

it's the usual Clarence Thomas hypocrisy

[WePurrsevere]

10. Others have released theirs. Heck even Nixon did. The only way it "weakens" is if...

they show that person to be full of hooey and/or there's something in them that is evidence of criminal behavior.

A president is not above the law and if Trump has nothing to hide why is he fighting so hard to do so. Innocent people don't act like Trump.

[MFM008]

11. And if it was Obama

They would not feel that way.
Amiright?

[yellowcanine]

12. Justice Thomas is why we cannot trust Republican presidents.

Appointed by Poppy Bush, who was foisted on us as a "moderate" Republican.