BREAKING NEWS ! Justice Department rules Trump tax returns to be handed to Congress
The Piper is about to be paid.
Get ready for a whole lot of even more whining from the orange clown.
Moments ago from The New York Times.
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Treasury must turn over Trump’s taxes to Congress, the Justice Dept. says.
By Katie Benner, Katie Rogers and Nicholas Fandos
July 30, 2021, 2:13 p.m. ET
The Treasury Department must turn over former President Donald J. Trump’s tax returns to congressional investigators, the Justice Department said in a legal opinion issued on Friday that potentially paves the way for their release after a years long fight.
The House Ways and Means Committee had requested Mr. Trump’s tax returns for the years immediately before he became president as part of its review of the Internal Revenue Service’s presidential audit program. The Trump administration stymied the request and the committee sued to obtain the documents.
That review is a valid reason for the request, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel said in an opinion. “The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee has invoked sufficient reasons for requesting the former president’s tax information,” the opinion said. “Treasury must furnish the information to the committee.”
The determination by the Justice Department comes more than a year after the Supreme Court ruled that Mr. Trump’s tax returns must be shared with the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which had sought them as part of a criminal investigation into the Trump Organization.
The Treasury Department intends to provide the documents to Congress as part of ongoing litigation, according to an administration official.
But the development does not necessarily mean that Mr. Trump’s tax information would immediately become public. Rules governing the sharing of sensitive tax information with the Ways and Means Committee require the panel to hold formal votes if it wants to share any of the information with the broader House or the public, or even include it in a committee report released to the public.
“As I have maintained for years, the committee’s case is very strong and the law is on our side,” Representative Richard E. Neal, Democrat of Massachusetts and chair of the Ways and Means Committee, said in a statement. “I am glad that the Department of Justice agrees and that we can move forward.”
Speaker Nancy Pelosi called access to Mr. Trump’s tax returns “a matter of national security” and said that “the American people deserve to know the facts of his troubling conflicts of interest and undermining of our security and democracy as president.”
Later on Friday, the committee and the Justice Department will inform the court that the executive branch intends to furnish the documents to Congress, according to multiple administration officials.
The court will then set a briefing schedule that will determine the next steps.
Treasury must turn over Trump’s taxes to Congress, the Justice Dept. says.
By Katie Benner, Katie Rogers and Nicholas Fandos
July 30, 2021, 2:13 p.m. ET
The Treasury Department must turn over former President Donald J. Trump’s tax returns to congressional investigators, the Justice Department said in a legal opinion issued on Friday that potentially paves the way for their release after a years long fight.
The House Ways and Means Committee had requested Mr. Trump’s tax returns for the years immediately before he became president as part of its review of the Internal Revenue Service’s presidential audit program. The Trump administration stymied the request and the committee sued to obtain the documents.
That review is a valid reason for the request, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel said in an opinion. “The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee has invoked sufficient reasons for requesting the former president’s tax information,” the opinion said. “Treasury must furnish the information to the committee.”
The determination by the Justice Department comes more than a year after the Supreme Court ruled that Mr. Trump’s tax returns must be shared with the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which had sought them as part of a criminal investigation into the Trump Organization.
The Treasury Department intends to provide the documents to Congress as part of ongoing litigation, according to an administration official.
But the development does not necessarily mean that Mr. Trump’s tax information would immediately become public. Rules governing the sharing of sensitive tax information with the Ways and Means Committee require the panel to hold formal votes if it wants to share any of the information with the broader House or the public, or even include it in a committee report released to the public.
“As I have maintained for years, the committee’s case is very strong and the law is on our side,” Representative Richard E. Neal, Democrat of Massachusetts and chair of the Ways and Means Committee, said in a statement. “I am glad that the Department of Justice agrees and that we can move forward.”
Speaker Nancy Pelosi called access to Mr. Trump’s tax returns “a matter of national security” and said that “the American people deserve to know the facts of his troubling conflicts of interest and undermining of our security and democracy as president.”
Later on Friday, the committee and the Justice Department will inform the court that the executive branch intends to furnish the documents to Congress, according to multiple administration officials.
The court will then set a briefing schedule that will determine the next steps.
Comments (31)
I don't know but I'm guessing that Jimbobs breaking news is that he's cured his flatulence problem?
Anyway, stay tuned for Jimbobs expose hit piece concerning the Clintons
Not the Judicial Branch (Courts).
Sooo ...
Folks under the Biden Administration are of the opinion that the 'Crat Congress should have access to the tax returns of a 'Publican former POTUS.
Unless some Court gets involved -
I'm not seeing this going anywhere ...
Trump is clean compared to your guys: Joe Biden and his son.
THAT is a fact.
Ok, Jim I'm outta here.
the Supreme Court ruled that Mr. Trump’s tax returns must be shared with the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which had sought them as part of a criminal investigation into the Trump Organization.
Is this another loop in the ride Jim?
On the Vaccine blitz...
..is for Dee jay Trump to have taken a more vocal stake in the game...or to have handed that task off to Mr. Kushner...) Lmtd. Biz. Partner of G. $0R0$.
Is this another loop in the ride Jim?
that will go down.
wishing doesn't make it so.
He's VERY Likely the Most Investigated Person In The History Of The Republic.
He hasn't lost court cases, paid out fines, and paid out lots of settlements for no reason.
Do a search on Joe Biden and see how many court cases he lost, he had to pay out fees, and/or had to pay settlements on. Zilch.
Maybe, concentrate on ole Joe’s son’s dealings with other countries and making himself a millionaire...
Who would’ve thunk..they just wanted equality for all...LMAO
maybe they would just leave ole Don alone.
It's a Mutual understanding between the Political Parties ...
We'll ignore the crimes that Were committed by your Outgoing Prez -
And Y'all ignore the crime that Will Be committed by our Incoming Prez
It's kinda goofy - But it seems to Work ...
As Jim say; time will tell. Maybe we can go to Bet24 and put money on behind bars/ not behind bars...
Any internet savy here who can find out what the odds are per today at Betson?
that will go down."
How many loops to get to Trump?
The world may never know.
with No exceptions to date.
Wasn't Trump forced to end his illegal 'charity' where he used charity money for personal expenses ?
Wasn't his business CFO just indicted ?
Weren't his tax filings just approved to be given to Congress for investigation ?
Isn't the January 6 committee investigation taking place ?
Do you really think it is leading nowhere ?
So, he was shielded from legal action.
He's no longer AG and Trump is no longer the ("so-called") president.
Thus, the timing is right.
That's why all the above legal actions have waited until recently.
The reason no president has been indicted before, it that none of them have been as
corrupt as Trump. Apparently, voters in the past more prioritized honesty & integrity as
key attributes. It seems they were wiser than many of the ones in 2016.
Perhaps a 12 Step Program would facilitate a Re-Connect with Reality ...
L A R G E
..B O L T- action
JABBERWOCKY..) KILLED HIS OWN SISTER !..among other abominable crimes.
"I ASK YOU TO REMEMBER
YOUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT I$ LARGE.- LBJ, 1964