“The Committee’s purpose in requesting President Trump’s tax returns has nothing to do with funding or staffing issues at the IRS and everything to do with releasing the President’s tax information to the public,” Trump’s non-pretending attorneys wrote to the court in October. However, today the Supreme Court maintains the pretense of a valid legislative purpose.
(Washington DC) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to block a request by the House Ways and Means Committee for former President Trump’s tax returns. There were no noted dissents.
The decision likely means that the returns will be released to the Committee immediately, ending a multi-year legal battle.
Trump filed an emergency application at the Supreme Court on Oct. 31 to block the release of his tax information at least until the court considered whether it wanted to hear full argument on the issue. Trump similarly lost his case in the lower courts, most recently with a panel of the D.C. Court of Appeals ruling unanimously that the Committee’s request for tax returns was constitutional.
The House Ways and Means Committee argued that it needs the information contained in Trump’s tax returns to meaningfully evaluate the IRS’s presidential audit program. The Committee says it is considering implementing greater legislative oversight of financial activities conducted by presidents. In particular, it is investigating whether the current IRS audit program is able to adequately enforce the nation’s tax laws against a president, like Trump, who has complex business holdings. (read more)
Wreck it all….
All of it…
When you are a successful billionaire, you don’t do your own taxes – and, you don’t cheat. Most of your wealth is linked to the corporations that you control.
What the swamp-rats in DC detest most of all is that “Donald Trump came by his billions honestly.” And if you don’t believe me, spend one night in a Trump® hotel. You will be treated like a member of the family who just happens to be royalty, and yet you will pay a competitive price for the room. (The only other person who ever came close to this level of service was the late and very much mis-named “Queen of Mean,” Leona Helmsley.)
Donald Trump did not “sell his soul to Satan” to get where he is today. And yet, his net worth is thousands of times greater than that of those who did. You can feel their envy.
There is no criminal investigation to be had – just gotchas. it will come fast and furious. I would find it hilarious if he just releases them all tomorrow.
Donald Trump, like Sir Richard Branson, has utterly no incentive and utterly no need to “break the law.” Because, he is successful.
Unfortunately, the City and State of New York simply do not appreciate that “Donald Trump is probably the very best thing that ever happened to them.” He bought up the properties that others had neglected, and made them pay simply because he didn’t neglect them. He became “the landlord that you wanted to do business with.”
He taught every one of his business associates a level of customer service that was unheard-of in the industry. And then he brashly (heh …) put his own name on it. People all around the world beat a pathway to his door because they recognized quality when they saw it.
Donald Trump made his billions the old-fashioned way: “He earned it.” Do any sort of business with his companies and you’ll see why.
People envy those who work hard for their success. Gubmint feeds the green monster and encourages the envious to covet other people’s property. Communists believe everything belongs to the collective and nobody should ever have more than their neighbor.
You will own nothing, including yourself.
Their property, their choice.
Fake Democracy Great Again
“Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.”
–Trotsky
Mike, ‘like “sir” Richard Branson’ wot r u on?
Wonder how much Trump increased NYC’s tax base with purchasing depressed properties and rehabbing them?
LOL, that’s a Master Troll idea! Love it…Beat them to it, take all the wind out of their sails, and laugh at them!
Spot on Mike. Trump created/creates wealth through hard work, insightful leadership, talented/motivated workers, creativity, and customer focus. Anyone can see it at any of his properties and developments.
As for his “workers” in government, not so much. Some of his govn workers had other loyalties and motivations.
This might actually be a GOOD ruling!
I suspects Trump’s tax returns will not have much “dirt” to be leaked.
However, the precedent has been established. The Republican House should immediately request Joe Biden’s tax returns upon taking the majority.
Cross-referencing Joe’s tax returns with Hunter’s laptop info might supply some very interesting information.
Republicans don’t have the balls to fight fire with fire.
There are different ones on the way shortly, and many more will be arriving in the not so distant future. The GOPe collaborators are exposing themselves even more now, and the process of weeding them out will speed up, imo. McConnell, Rove etc (i.e. RINO Inc.), literaly have no constituency…. the only way they get votes is smear the other candidate and lie about their purpose.
There will be no “there” there, but it will provide ample ammunition to distract, distort, misdirect, and smear for years.
All they need to do is cherry pick what they want, craft the narrative without regard to context, and blast it over every media source.
SCOTUS will save us!
filing suit will fix it!
true the Vote has em on the ropes!
2000 mules totally exposed it all and destroyed the narrative!
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no one will save us except for us. IF we choose to.
The courts are totally corrupt.
This is complete Capitulation to the CCP.
Not if you have “D” after your name.
Looks like we may have taken control of the House of Representatives, despite everything they could throw at us. We did ‘choose to’, and it’s working so far. So enlighten us with your ideas for moving things more quickly?
Check back in a year and we’ll see how it’s going.
Remember last time Republicans had control? Remember slimy John McCain and his “up yours” thumbs down on repealing Obamacare?
Control means NOTHING when those in “control” answer to the enemy.
☝️ This is another ‘just give up, there’s no hope’ DNC Troll.
☝️ This is another ‘threaten violence so we can sic the FBI on you’ DNC Troll.
This is another, “trust the process and next time we’ll get ’em for sure” DNC troll.
Great. Now subpoena Nancy Pelosi’s returns.
I mean, now that Republicans chair the committee.
barak hussien obama
The Clintons, too. Lets’ have a predawn FBI raid to make sure they returned all the antiques they grabbed on the way out as they exited the WH.
Bingo, AND silverware!
And all of those “W” computer keys?
Isn’t it ironic how the Pelosi’s, Feinstein s, and Boxers all became so fabulously wealthy in politics?
My understanding is that committee ceases at the end of the year.
Start a new one?
I agree DJT should now release it to the public do they can’t pick and choose to leak and build any narrative’
Yep. Get out in front of it, just like the swamp. “Here are my last 5 years of returns.”
(Four of which he was President. )
Yep, but wait till they’ve been delayed as long as possible.
Time to request past presidents tax returns, BEFORE & AFTER presidency!!
So sick of this one sided BS!
Good vs evil.
God is truth, that is why truth will win.
MAGA all the way baby!!!
this is the first president in a long time that wasn’t always working for the government for years prior to running for Prez
Why didn’t the COMMITTEE subpoena the tax returns of Presidents Bush, Obama, Clinton and Biden if this is related to legitimate tax enforcement issues? One would think that’s the first question the Supreme Court would ask!
The Court wouldn’t dare to honor the subpoena of any of the above. Remember what ‘the left’ did to Scalia? Nobody crosses ‘The Left” and lives.
Also we need to see the returns for Jimmy Carter, LBJ, Truman, Roosevelt and Wilson
So use the same authority, the same pretense, to get all of Biden’s tax records. You need to do that anyway to investigate the laptop from hell.
Anyone who thinks we still have a country called America is in denial. We might have Amerikka, but not America. I don’t know if we’ll ever have it again. When Caesar crossed the Rubicon, Rome didn’t know they no longer lived in Rome. Nothing in daily life changed much on that day. But they were living in Imperial Rome and it took decades to figure that out.
Defund the IRS
Good idea, now we’re cooking. And say we have to do it to combat ‘climate change’.
Most weapons are ‘double edged’. You cut me today, I cut you tomorrow.
Trump seems pretty squeaky clean and the democrats seems pretty slimy. I like that dynamic.
I’m quite sure President Trump’s tax returns are extremely complicated and impossible to understand to anyone besides a tax attorney. How many on that committee will have to depend on someone else besides staff members to explain what it all means? All of them? And then they’ll still be confused since they won’t understand the explanation.
his FTC filings have much information on business entities, incomes, assets etc…. a half decent accountant could decipher them….
I didn’t see anything odd when I browsed them years ago… there were 3-4 golf course assets that turned nice profits each year for his wealth/cash flow
They just want to take stuff out of context and make big deals about it to slander Trumps image.
Of course, those desperate slime balls are slinging mud against the wall, and have been for quite awhile.
If Trump stalls it a few more weeks can the new Republican led House Ways and Means Committee just say “nevermind”?
Somewhere down the road they need to fix this type of individual targeting.
President Trump cannot stall this any longer, from what I am reading.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/trumps-tax-returns-handed-house-dems-trumps-request-denied-supreme-court/
And now that precedent has been set, I want Congress to request SCOTUS records, so that we can see how the IRS treats them. It’s all for legislative purposes don’t ya know?
Sounds like we have a Brazilian Supreme court now.
I agree, Sundance, wreck it all. I would add, do it now. Enough already. Whatever you have on these thugs, Trump, let it rip now.
A bold GOP House (yeah, I know, I know) would, for starters, subpoena tax records of Pelosi, Schiff, and Biden. We have to start “stopping to their level”!
No, I think a bold GOP House would address that this j6 committee was improperly formed and that the ways and means committee overextended their authority and call of this null and void.
If the GOP ‘plays’ the same game using same precedent then every American Citizen could and would be open to this same treatment. I believe that is one of the main reasons President Trump is fighting this.
Once both ‘party businesses’ via a ‘Congressional right’ use this unconstitutional gambit as precedent, we’re all screwed. It needs to be fought for what it is–not used as a Congressional or government weapon for any reason by whomever/whatever is in power at the moment. It just increases government power over we the people.
But don’t expect any help from any branch of the government to right this wrong as it is to their control benefit.
they are also looking to invent novel way to interpret laws as a means of criminalizing anything they can
Bingo! Another government weapon for whoever/whatever is in control.
What about the Obamas or Clintons tax returns? I bet there is tremendous information there.
I just randomly saw this headline & checked the angle they’re playing.
https://www.axios.com/politics-policy
I guess these “allegations” allow for their convoluted rationale.
This will be Huge Win for Orange Man Bad! Now all Politians will have thier Tax records release- Check Mate Again!
Check Mate,Again! Absolutely right!
Generally, Checkmate immediately precedes a win.
With all the breathless proclamations of “Checkmate!” over the last 6 years, how did we get where we are today?
Country being systematically destroyed. Election process nullified. Establishment still in FIRM control of 99% of media and big tech, and 100% in control of every weaponized government agency.
Yep and its late or early in the morning here, but I think this is a GOOD thing. If President Trump’s tax returns can be examined, every one, including anyone else that “serves” in the US Govmint can be audited as well. The Supreme Court is doing right by our Republic I think. Setting a precedent
No one will from now on be spared from keeping their tax returns PRIVATE. Yep, that is hitting the ball out of the park. Good call Sundance.
I have heard from David Straight seminars that President Trump went through the “state national” process in 2008. If that’s the case, then he likely hasn’t filed a tax return since then.
So they’re looking for something that doesn’t exist. The Supreme Court says show us your Emperor’s clothes, kek!
This government is so corrupt; is there any chance now?
This is setting a precedent that will come back to haunt them. You just can’t fix stupid. I want to see Obama’s tax returns.
Soooooo….when does an adoring electorate get to see all of the Biden’s tax returns since, say, 2014?
Ok then, START with the Clinton’s then Obama then Biden FIRST!!! PRESIDENT TRUMP IS HONEST WITH ALL HIS WORK!!!
Since we are looking at presidential tax returns, how about releasing Barack and China Joe’s as well?
If our incoming House maga people were fully up to speed for the fight yet, they would already be discussing (only on burner phones and in-person meetings) forming their own committee investigating the J6 “insurrection”. They would use it to do things like subpoena the video from J6, subpoena Capitol Police who participated in J6, subpoena the tax returns of Nancy Pelosi, H.Clinton, B.Obama, G. S0r0s, Joe Biden, & etc…
And just if it were me, start an investigation into the FBI, the Riker’s Island prison & torture of inmates, and hire a battalion of prosecuting attorneys to create a lawfare war against previous until i could get the 800(?) political prisoners moved out of DC for a fair trial in flyover America.
Swords have two edges.
Any enterprising state Attorneys General out there want to demand tax returns for each of their senators and all of their congressmen???
Hmmmmm?
Based on the “oversight” argument, I assume Joe Biden’s tax returns are publicly available for inspection?
Time to release the tax returns of the members of the Supreme Court.
And every member of Congress.
I guess the hydra-headed conglomerate headed by the other members of pedo #loleightyonemillion’s family, at least on paper anyway, with tens of millions in income from the worst enemies of the USA, somehow do not qualify as “complex”.
And there is apparently nothing we can do to even expose, let alone stop, the rampant weaponization and corruption of the DOJ/FBI/CIA/IRS without winning “elections” that the left are now stealing openly with cover from the media and Big Tech.
They are so dug in now that there seems to be no way out.
Bastards!
Leave him alone.
Go get Hillary, Hunter, and those politicians who received Ukrainian kickbacks!
Who voted for this? I know Kavanaugh and Gorsuch did but who else??