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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2019.Trump loses lawsuit challenging subpoena for financial records
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Ah_so
Trump had something to hide.
Whether it is illicit or just embarrassing, we'll find out soon
CrazyJoe
Judge today:
Deadforgood
HA! You people are just admitting that there is something guilty being hidden by Trump and you don't care if he broke laws, cheated Americans, and sold out the country to foreign powers.
SuperLib
We know the rules for Trump fans. Appointed by Obama = activist judge who makes rulings based on emotional, personal vendettas. Republican judges = OK.
Strangerland
The Trumpets are going to freak out about this one.
Get ready for cries of "Obama judge", together with attacks on his character.
Humans see the world through the inner lens of their own behaviors. Hyper-partisans can only see the world as being hyper-partisan due to this inner lens, and lack the ability to view the world from an objective viewpoint. I figure this blocks them from being able to accept the logic in the judge's decision.
SuperLib
Score one for checks and balances.
Deadforgood
Again, you guys are wiping the sweat off your forehead hoping the financial records don't show anything and the tax records are kept private, You do realize, Trump doesn't care about you. He isn't going to reward you for protecting him.
In other words, "OH thank GOD it's not his tax records. That would be incriminating..."
Deadforgood
Than why are you and Trump so hell bent on keeping the records private? If there is nothing to hide and getting them is only going to hurt the democrats, why do you want them kept secret?
Ha, he cares about the country...right. Good one.
Jimizo
Trump said he’d disclose these details willingly but he lied.
I can’t see why anyone would be against him being forced to do something he himself thought was important enough to lie to the electorate about.
Chip Star
Hahaha. Congress can exercise oversight of the president?! What a shocker! It won't be long before Trumpophiles are here disparaging this judge as biased and oegiskatingbfrim the bench. They know simply based on the ruling.
Chip Star
Tax info coming soon. The law that allows the chairman of the ways and means committee to request the records is very, very clear cut.
I'm sad you didn't disparage the judge as being biased and legislating from the bench because that's what you've done every time a judge rules against Donny.
theFu
So, which tax-attorney office will be catching fire to hide the data?
Gotta love karma ... and separation of powers!
Chip Star
It never takes long for a Trumpophile to disparage the institutions that underpin our democracy when Donny doesn't get his way.
You do see thevisdie with this line of attack, correct? Barr is an angry, biased, corrupt partisan hack, so anythingvhe says cannot be trusted. Anytime a judge rules in favor of Donny, that just is legislating from the bench out of hype-partisanship.
You guys sure shot yourselves in the foot and kept our country going down the toilet with that line.
starpunk
GOOD!!! Impeach him for this and ALL of his crimes. Make him accountable.
Ah_so
How about they are published in line with due process rather than leaked? Then no need to leak anything.
Or even better, why doesn't Trump willingly publish everything? If he has nothing to hide it should not be a problem.
Chip Star
A deep, deep dive into right wing conspiracy territory that degrades our fundamental institutions just to protect a proven con man and compulsive liar. Yikes.
Deadforgood
Why? Trump will just pardon him if it keeps him in office and out of jail. Mnuchin has nothing to worry about, if he stays loyal. Trump Mafia.
stormcrow
Just keep following the money.
And in the future, there should be firm agreement, if not a law, between the major political parties that anybody running for president has to disclose all of their financial records immediately. What's not to like about it? If you're Donald Trump you probably don't like it, but that's just the point and by making such an agreement (or law) the presidential race would attract a much better class of people to the highest office in the land.
TumbleDry
Quick! Get the shredder out!
We’ll blame some intern later for solely deciding to destroy the documents...
takeda.shingen.1991@gmail.com
So Congress IS a coequal branch of government! Huh, who knew? Donny et Al, ain't gonna be happy ;)
Chip Star
Yeah, the WH is fine with it, which is why it sued to block the subpoena.
Demonstrably false. A helping of hyperpartisanship anyone?
plasticmonkey
The SC will not touch a dumb case like this. The law is crystal clear.
I can't for the life of me figure out why Mnuchin would want to stick out his neck for Trump on this issue. He's breaking the law.
Deadforgood
Wrong...a simple google search would have helped you out there...
Can you name a sprawling urban black community that is thriving and wealthy in a red state? Nope, didn't think so.
Keep on rolling your pathetic race ball.
Yes, you should decide the rule of land Mr. Blacklabel. Lol
Chip Star
Going down, down, down . . . In a burning ring of fire.
theFu
The US President should be someone that the people of the US trust, yes?
By working so hard to hide things, President Trump isn't helping himself.
I gave him a few years, hoping he would become "Presidential." That never happened. The man is a liar and he lies about stupid things, for no reason. I don't trust him and think he's committed multiple unethical actions while in office.
He was voted in to change things, teach the life-time politicians from every other party how to get things done and be transparent. I'm so very disappointed. Not just in Trump, but in the 15% of nasty Trump-uber-alles fans. Trump is using his office like a personal job, trading favors like a thug. That's why he prefers talking with Putin and Kim, but dislikes leaders who actually represent their people. I'm sorta shocked that he didn't have kissing dates with every other dictator in the world, including Maduro.
This isn't about "activists judges." Clearly Congress has oversight over the President. It is seldom needed, but when it is, like now, at least it keeps Trump busy so he doesn't make more under-the-table deals.
Chip Star
The law is black letter.
Holder didn't write the law and is not the chairman of the ways and means committee, which means your question is completely irrelevant.
Some nuance to attacking the judiciary. If Fox "News" tells me the records are no big deal, the judge is professional even though he's an Obama appointee.
Chip Star
What are the deficits under Donny?
Trar doen the system and drain the swamp! Sound familiar?
Chip Star
They aren't mutually exclusive.
Chip Star
Someone has no idea what's in Mueller's report.
arrestpaul
Some people claim to be lawyers. Any lawyer should know that this judge's ruling can, and will be, appealed. And appealed again.
My question is why this judge was in such a hurry to hear this case, and to issue his anti-Trump ruling? It sounds to me as if Trump Derangement Syndrome suffering Democrats are trying to find something/anything that they can use in order to stop Barr's investigation of the investigators who used the unverified/unverifiable Steele dossier to overthrow the President who beat Hillary.
arrestpaul
Elected Democrats are hoping that this latest request will finally uncover something tangible, something better than their usual misinformation propaganda, which will finally allow them to do something other than babble about impeachment.
otherworldly
Seems like he has won already. He has forever changed the face of American politics.
otherworldly
Nothing
Chip Star
Limiting the damage Donny and his supporters are doing to our institutions and the Constitution is nothing? Trumpophiles are odd.
Blacklabel
So what exactly have the Dems done for the American people since January?
Blacklabel
What exactly did they block from happening and how does help people who need things to get done.
Blacklabel
So let’s just keep doing nothing, thanks Dems.
“Democrats are growing skeptical about working withPresident Trump on an infrastructure deal, fearing it would help him score political points as he campaigns for reelection.”
bass4funk
I did and it stated the same thing.
I wasn’t talking about Red States, I’m talking about the Blue States, most Blacks vote Democrat, so what has the party done for them and their community.
https://www.tamerasgrove.com/blog/2018/7/7/how-the-democrats-destroyed-the-black-communityand-no-one-noticed
bass4funk
Claiming constitutional executive privilege for one.
Which was his right and his choice, as with the presidents write and choice to not to.
What’s very sad is there a more blacks in the highly urban and prosperous Democrat area City dwellings.
For one thing there is nothing that the Democrats have that can even come close to competing with trumps tax cuts and you have more jobs than you have people to fill them, so the Democrats can try and run a debt, but good luck. The president may not be that popular with a lot of liberals but his economic policies are at 56% that’s no chump change.
bass4funk
Oh I doubt that and I don’t think the last crystal clear on that one, but the Democrats can try, and try, and try. Lol
Maybe he thinks the way the rest of us are thinking that the Democrats I just driven by power and nothing else it will do anything to tear down a duly elected president to achieve more power and he probably thinks he’ll do anything to fight their corrupted souls and I wouldn’t blame him
Blacklabel
Financial records for the last decade are nothing more than looking for dirt to use in the election. How about whoever leaks them and anyone who then publishes them goes to prison for 10 years? Then I am fine with then being released.
This ruling will be overturned like everything else these Obama judges do.
Serrano
Congress is on a quest to"turn up something that Democrats can use as a political tool against the president now and in the 2020 election."
As opposed to being on a quest to actually do something for the American people.
bass4funk
I seriously doubt it, that’s a whole different can of worms, on that an Obama appointee liberal judge won’t have that power. So let’s see what the SC says.
Did you feel that way about Holder?
Again, these are financial records, not a big deal.
bass4funk
Actually, that’s what liberals are thinking. I think the records will show the same thing about his business dealings and casinos. Other than that if the Dems want to waste their time chasing more rabbits down holes, I’m fine with it ans I think the WH is as well, the more distractions, the less the Dems can deliver on their message for trying to make America a socialist..... I mean a better place for everyone.
He cares about the country, and the Democrats they don’t care about anyone go to California and you’ll see, go to LA, go to San Francisco, go to San Diego, go to San Bernardino, go to Manhattan, go to Chicago and go to Baltimore and go to Detroit and then you’ll see on the streets how much the Democrats really care about any of these people.
No, more like thank God the Democrats are more distracted with rabbit hole chasing. Lol
Blacklabel
Luckily there is a 7 day appeal process where the documents can’t be released. The goal is to get these leaked somehow before the appeals court rules against Obama judge.
bass4funk
Well, these are financial records, not his tax records, so no biggie, they thought they might lose that one anyway, but the tax records a different story, so the Dems might get frustrated again at not being able to get their hands on them. Lol
Blacklabel
Here is all you need to know:
“Mehta was appointed in 2014 by Democratic former President Barack Obama, who was often investigated by Republicans in Congress during his two terms in office.”
so it’s basically an Obama appointee way to avenge the guy who gave him his job. Judge even admits he knows these will be immediately leaked once they get them.