Impeachment Investigation Is Underway, Judiciary Committee Says
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Quote:Lawyers for Deutsche Bank and Capital One repeatedly refused Friday to tell an appellate court in New York whether the banks are in possession of President Donald Trump's tax returns.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol whatever
Do Right, Be Right. :)
"Should we go to court and seek an order? I'm serious. We need to know," US Circuit Judge Peter W. Hall told a lawyer for Deutsche Bank. After several minutes of argument on the subject, the court directed the lawyers to file letters under seal within 48 hours saying whether the banks have Trump's tax returns.
"Why is it that Deutsche Bank would lend him money when no other bank would touch him?" Douglas Letter, general counsel for the House, said Friday. Letter said the committee intends to use the subpoenaed material to determine whether there should be additional banking regulation that might curb the type of loans Trump received.
www.cnn.com/2019/08/23/politics/trump-tax-return-hearing/index.html
Trump would not be so ridiculously obstinate about his tax returns if he wasn't a tax cheater. Maybe in the next 48 hours he will order, secretly, that those tax returns be shredded. That way nobody can know what was in them, making it impossible to charge Trump with tax evasion. Congress will have to sue to discover whether copies exist anywhere. Trump's lawyers, as directed by their client, will refuse to answer for months and months about what happened to the returns. Trump will tweet about a witch hunt for his tax returns, all the while pretending he can't make his returns available to Congress, but only because he is being sued by Congress. If only Congress would drop the lawsuit, Trump would be glad to give Congress a copy. It's another version of "I can't give you my tax returns because I'm being audited."
About that audit:
A federal whistleblower is alleging possible improper interference with the IRS process of auditing President Donald Trump's tax returns, according to multiple reports Wednesday. In separate reports, Politico and NBC News said the federal worker made the allegations to the House Ways and Means Committee, citing a court motion by House Democrats in their lawsuit to force the release of Trump's tax returns. According to NBC News, the court filing included a letter from committee chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, which said the House panel "received an unsolicited communication from a federal employee setting forth credible allegations of 'evidence of possible misconduct' - specifically, potential 'inappropriate efforts to influence the mandatory audit program.'" Details of potential interference were not mentioned.
www.marketwatch.com/story/whistleblower-alleges-possible-interference-
in-trumps-tax-audit-reports-2019-08-21
There’s an easy fix for the President. He should release his tax returns as he promised during the campaign and follow the precedent of every president since 1973.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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I feel 98% certain that at some point we'll see his returns. Will I be confident they are his actual returns? They've almost become like Obama's birth certificate or Epstein's "suicide." And even if they are shown and they reveal the kind of corruption that Cohen pointed to, will anything happen? I know the NY AG is pressing hard, but until I hear that an action or crime by Trump can lead to the FBI doing a Manafort on him, I won't get too excited.
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Quote:I'm confident we will never see Trump's returns to the same level of detail as Obama's.
Originally posted by captaincrunch:
I feel 98% certain that at some point we'll see his returns. Will I be confident they are his actual returns? They've almost become like Obama's birth certificate or Epstein's "suicide." And even if they are shown and they reveal the kind of corruption that Cohen pointed to, will anything happen? I know the NY AG is pressing hard, but until I hear that an action or crime by Trump can lead to the FBI doing a Manafort on him, I won't get too excited.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/pdfs.taxnotes.com/2019/B_Obama_2009.pdf
When the IRS does an audit of real estate tycoons, the IRS does NOT go to sellers/buyers who dealt with the tycoon to discover the price paid for the real estate. Many buyers/sellers won't voluntarily share that number with anyone, but it is essential to know those numbers to prove if the real estate tycoon cheated on his reported income.
Luckily, Congress can subpoena buyers/sellers for the real numbers. It might take thousands of manhours to figure out if Trump cheated, but it can be done if the Speaker of the House wants it done. In the past, Speakers didn't want to know.
Vice President Spiro Agnew's tax return is one example where the Speaker didn't care to know. Agnew only got into trouble because the person who was paying Agnew bribes talked. Agnew never did pay the taxes he owed on those bribes because he made a deal to resign, very quietly, in exchange for clemency. Trump might be another case where all Republicans in Congress (and a few Democrats) don't care to know. They might let Trump go free if he agrees to go quietly, after losing an election. Congress knows Trump could really stir up a crisis if he doesn't get an agreement to ignore his tax cheating. The stubborn old fool might flat-out refuse to leave the White House until he gets tax forgiveness. He is crazy. There is no way to know how ridiculous and shameless he will be at the end.
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Just impeach the guy already.
I don't understand why we're still talking about it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Just impeach the guy already.
I don't understand why we're still talking about it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I agree. This is as bad as the Mueller 2+ yr striptease.
JEEEEEZE!
Just get on with it already!
The insane never-Trumpers will be driven even more insane in the wash/ rinse/ spin/ repeat/ cycle they mistake for the real world.
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Trump is making threats that he can do any nutty thing that comes to mind:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump tweeted
For all of the Fake News Reporters that don’t have a clue as to what the law is relative to Presidential powers, China, etc., try looking at the Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977. Case closed!
8:58 PM - 23 Aug 2019
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1165111122510237696
The above tweet was launched after the two tweets below. He can't do the things he thinks he can do in those tweets: order the Federal Reserve to do as Trump pleases; order American companies to do as he pleases; order China to do as he pleases. But if he tries mightily, he will make a mighty mess of it. He is just not mentally competent to do the job. He is too emotionally unstable and too stupid.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 1h
As usual, the Fed did NOTHING! It is incredible that they can "speak" without knowing or asking what I am doing, which will be announced shortly. We have a very strong dollar and a very weak Fed. I will work "brilliantly" with both, and the U.S. will do great.......My only question is, who is our bigger enemy. Jay Powell or Chairman Xi?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1164914610836783104
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 1h
Our Country has lost, stupidly, Trillions of Dollars with China over many years.
They have stolen our Intellectual Property at a rate of Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year, & they want to continue. I won't let that happen! We don't need China and, frankly, would be far........better off without them. The vast amounts of money made and stolen by China from the United States, year after year, for decades, will and must STOP. Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing......your companies HOME and making your products in the USA. I will be responding to China's Tariffs this afternoon. This is a GREAT opportunity for the United States. Also, I am ordering all carriers, including Fed Ex, Amazon, UPS and the Post Office, to SEARCH FOR & REFUSE,........all deliveries of Fentanyl from China (or anywhere else!). Fentanyl kills 100,000 Americans a year. President Xi said this would stop - it didn't. Our Economy, because of our gains in the last 2 1/2 years, is MUCH larger than that of China. We will keep it that way!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1164914959131848705
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Might be best to just keep gathering facts until Trump loses in 2020. Then put him in jail and fine him into bankruptcy.
After all, Barr will be gone first thing and they can put Mueller back in charge. Fun to think about.
T 
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Originally posted by THG:
Might be best to just keep gathering facts until Trump loses in 2020. Then put him in jail and fine him into bankruptcy.
After all, Barr will be gone first thing and they can put Mueller back in charge. Fun to think about.
T
You've got all the time in the world buddy. No need to rush anything.
Trump isn't going anywhere.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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T
41 Dems have come out "in favor of impeachment since Mueller testified before Congress in July. Congressman Steve Cohen argues the investigation is 'beyond the stage of simply having an inquiry' but Trump 'should be impeached.'
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