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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Speaking as one who hates Trump:  Congress using its authority to make his tax returns public sets a terrible precedent.  I would have been fine if Congress had made a law requiring that future presidential candidates or presidents make their tax returns public, but they didn't do that.  Trump was within his rights to not provide them to the public (he lied about the reasons why, but that is not particularly relevant here).  I agree with those that say that he should have made a different choice, but he didn't.

Congress has (and should have) the right of access to indivudal tax returns in order to prevent fraud, but this is an abuse of that right.  It does nothing to prevent fraud, and it decreases the chance that the Supreme Court will side with Congress in the future on such matters, now that there is a history of abuse.[/quote]

To add to this......

The job of Congress is to legislate.  I fail to see any legislative purpose for obtaining the tax returns or releasing them publicly.  [/quote]
They are proposing legislation to formally codify the requirement that the IRS do a full audit of the president’s taxes every year.  They released select portions of Trump’s tax data to illustrate irregularities and items that should have warranted further investigation to illustrate the problems with the IRS’s cursory review (when they reviewed them at all).[/quote]

It's already mandatory for the IRS to audit Presidential tax returns.  One wonders why it didn't happen - is IRS MAGA-land, were they covering for him, did they buy into the DJT woo and were they assuming he was squeaky-clean (even though most of us already knew he wouldn't be)?  Or were they worried about being bullied by Trump and the MAGA horde if they were to look into his taxes?  Either way it's problematic.[/quote]

It’s only mandatory under an IRS policy, which of course can be changed or ignored as happened in Trumps case.  They are talking about making it a law.[/quote]

Still begs the question of why the mandatory policy was not followed - did MAGA Trump loyalists refuse the audit? Or did Trump abuse his power and direct them to not audit?  I think an internal investigation is needed into this failure by the IRS.  It seems to me this IRS failure also impeded many other investigations into Trump's finances and dealings, such as the Cy Vance / Tish James and other NY investigations.  It also makes me wonder why none of the officials in other states where Trump owns properties / has business dealings also seem to have dropped the ball?[/quote]

+1 And to no one’s surprise, Obama and Biden did get audited.
[twitter]https://twitter.com/charlie_savage/status/1605726824624963585?s=46&t=Zg2l5KZ0dihLdpRxjKahIQ[/twitter][/quote]

Remember when McCabe and Comey were randomly audited? At what point does the DoJ investigate?[/quote]
The Comey/McCabe massive coincidence is being investigated. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/07/irs-chief-asks-watchdog-to-probe-rare-tax-audits-of-trump-foes-comey-and-mccabe.html[/quote]

That article is dated 7/7. Any updates since then?[/quote]

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