Trump’s Taxes – Another Witch Hunt?

Why are Democrats so focused on the President’s tax returns? We already know that the President was audited many times over the years. If there was malfeasance to be found, wouldn’t the IRS have already found it?

If there is no legal reason for Democrats to be demanding the President’s tax returns… then why are they doing so?

One word: POLITICS.

The Democrats are desperately trying to distract Americans from the HORROR show that is their Party. The economy is good, the President hasn’t involved us in any new foreign wars and he has drawn down our numbers in ongoing conflicts, and things are going well for us in general.

Which is why they are turning to tax returns they know they will never get access to:

George Stephanopoulos: I have read the law, it does say the IRS shall turn over the returns after a legitimate request from the chairman.

Jay Sekulow: And the Supreme Court has said that you can do that if you have a legitimate legislative purpose. And with due respect to the congressman, he said there’s been a lack of transparency. He thinks the president should have put forward his tax returns before he announced or when he announced his candidacy for president, which sounds interesting, but unfortunately, it’s not the law for the United States. We don’t have a requirement that presidents do that. This president decided not to because he has an ongoing IRS audit, so that’s number one. What is the legitimate legislative purpose?

Number two, is the Supreme Court has said that on multiple occasions that congressional oversight cannot become law enforcement. So this idea that the real reason that the Congress and Chairman Neal has asked for these documents is because they want to know if the IRS is doing its job and auditing the president, well, they could ask the IRS what job are they doing? What are the audit procedures?

But this idea that you can use the IRS as a political weapon, which is what is happening here, is incorrect both as a matter of statutory law and constitutionally. We should not be in a situation where individual private tax returns are used for political purposes. As you just said, George, what stops another party from doing the same thing?

And by the way a lot of these congressmen…

George Stephanopoulos: Is the president going to do that?

Jay Sekulow: No, no. He hasn’t. Congress has.

A majority of the — the majority party in the House has, the president has not. The president has not asked for Nancy Pelosi’s tax returns, which, by the way, and it’s in the letter that my colleague sent forward on this issue. They have not asked for or now for have produced, they have not produced their tax returns. It’s not a requirement that they do, by the way.

So this idea that you’re using a hearing, a Ways and Means hearing, about IRS enforcement as a way to get to the president’s private individual and business tax returns makes no sense both constitutionally and statutorily. And, look, this I think this is going to be, if necessary, we’re not at that point yet, if it has to be litigated, it will be litigated.

George Stephanopoulos: It is the decision of the IRS commissioner. Is the president going the order the IRS commissioner not to turn them over?

Jay Sekulow: The president isn’t ordering anything. What we’ve done, and I disagree with the congressman here, George, as the president’s counsel we have the right adds the president’s counsel we have the right to protect his interests as a private citizen and as president.

And so what you have to look at here is — the idea that congress would say, I’m not very
happy with the way George Stephanopoulos is handling his interviews with various members of my party, I’m going to look at his tax returns, if I was your lawyer, I would be objecting. And by the way, I do have a right to object and my colleagues that authored the letter have the right to reject, and that’s exactly what has been done here.

The constitution and the statutes need to be filed. 6103 by the way overall so you know is a confidentiality provision with limited exceptions and again there has to be a legitimate legislative purpose. There is not one here.