Should executive privilege apply to Trump's tax returns?

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  1. Robert

    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Every citizen has the right, created by law, to have his or her irs records kept secret.
     
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    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The IRS Tax returns are not designed as a confession one commits crimes. There are no IRS schedules that describe crimes.
     
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    Why? All you have to do is pay some sort of logical attention to his IRS history! What possible reason would the left need to look into something the IRS has already done? Other then to apply some devious bullshit that would be nothing more than another act of empty sensationalism to feed their base with is all.. The IRS has everything the leftist needs, they didn't have him in court so logically no one else is going to find anything either :)
     
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    They have the right to see them. They are investigating a number of matters including possible violations of the Emoluments Clause which the IRS has no mandate to reveal. If there's nothing to hide why doesn't Don embarrass the Dems by releasing them to prove it?

    "The IRS has everything the leftist needs"

    But the Orange Turd is preventing the IRS from giving the returns to Congress.
     
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    When or if a Democrat president is in that office, they will appreciate there being no law forcing them to disclose their IRS tax returns. Democrats will not argue their own president must submit to congress private matters.
     
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    No Dem running for prez stands a chance of being nominated without pledging to release their taxes.
     
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    All nonsense, he has shown his returns to the proper agency, that's why we have the IRS, they're the specialist! Christ people, look at history and all the gangsters like Capone and todays and todays drug dealers.. Bottom line is the IRS is the front line in matters of money and business practice, offshore and foreign holdings and capture and seizures..

    This is a waste of time THAT has already been allotted towards Trumps affairs for decades..
     
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    Would you terminate your rights merely to please a political party ?
     
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    Trump's handpicked IRS chief and IRS legal counsel both have ties to Trump businesses

    https://theweek.com/speedreads/8334...legal-counsel-both-have-ties-trump-businesses

    Trump Asked That Confirmation of I.R.S. Counsel Be a Priority

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/us/politics/trump-michael-desmond-irs.html
     
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    No they don't, if they really wanted to see them or have them explained by a professional agency they would simply have the IRS relay their finding for ten years! And anyone with a the slightest bit of logic would know there is nothing there or he would have been in court long before he was in the white house LOL.

    Be real, the only logical reason the left want this is so they can spin bullshit about the President and the very best they could achieve is discrediting the IRS not Trump ;)
     
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    Not a political party, the country's voters.
     
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    Was he hand picking them 20 years ago too :) Why not start at the source, have your democrat goons on the hill investigate the IRS if you're so certain they are on the take lolol
     
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    Learn yours, has the IRS charged Trump with anything criminal? That's all the left is going to get from his tax returns. Unless the left think the IRS is and has been in the tank for Trump over the last 20 years! At that point the left is wasting time on Trump when they should be going after the corruption inside the IRS ;)
     
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    The voters may be willing to vote to end abortion. Would you support that?
     
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    This charade by the Democrats has an official title. It is called the resistance.
     
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    Resistance has a logical plan, this is a state of total desperation and confusion at this point..
     
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    Try to stick to the subject. Candidates who aspire to be prez are expected to release their tax returns........and will do so voluntarily.........because they have nothing to hide. The Orange Fraud got away with it because..........the minions let him get away with anything and everything.
    Some states are moving to require taxes to be released in order for a candidate to be listed on a state ballot. So it may not be a voluntary matter in the future.
     
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    No. That would mean the president is above the law. That was dealt with during Watergate.
     
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    Finally, we agree. The Grifter-in-Chief is desperate to hide the facts.
     
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    That's what the IRS does, only they please all parties and honest tax payers :)
     
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    How many of the tax returns filed by citizens have you ever obtained?

    I have had returns sent to me by the IRS. But not without the express consent of the client.

    I do not accept that congress has more rights than we all have.

    Request the returns for any family member Try getting them without the members expressly written consent.
     

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