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NBC News Reports: House Ways and Means Committee Intends To Request Trump's Tax Returns
RCP Video ^ | 11-6-2018 | Ian Schwartz

Posted on 11/07/2018 6:20:28 AM PST by Sir Napsalot

Chris Matthews said President Trump's tax returns will be subpoenaed following the news that NBC News called the House for Democrats.

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Later in the show, MSNBC host and legal analyst Ari Melber reported sources on the House Ways and Means Committee told him House Democrats would go to court to get the returns if the president doesn't hand them over after a subpoena.

"I spoke with the House Ways and Means Committee, breaking news. They do intend to request President Trump's tax returns. That's important because, as you know and as we have reported, this is something that does not require the Senate, it does not require even a full House vote. Under federal law, the chair of the Ways and Means Committee has the power to request anyone's tax returns. They believe that includes, flatly, the now. We are seeing the ramifications of Democrats on these committees," Melber said.

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"It" already started with the Dem majority House, and Pelosi doles out chairman/woman-ship on all committees...
1 posted on 11/07/2018 6:20:29 AM PST by Sir Napsalot
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To: Sir Napsalot
I'd tell them to pound sand. Where in the Constitution was congress given authority to go on fishing expeditions?
 
2 posted on 11/07/2018 6:21:55 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Nuke the Caravan!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Let them try and court. You can’t force someone to hand over their tax returns. At least not legally. Thank God for Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.


3 posted on 11/07/2018 6:21:55 AM PST by jyo19
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To: Sir Napsalot

Request.

Not demand, because they can’t.


4 posted on 11/07/2018 6:27:08 AM PST by glorgau
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To: Sir Napsalot

Let the games begin and watch the slim House majority slip away in 2020 as moderates who voted for legislative action and not investigations vote for Trump candidates next time. The more I think about it, I think Trump isn’t too disappointed with this as it can only help him and his movement.


5 posted on 11/07/2018 6:27:35 AM PST by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: Sir Napsalot

They can request all they want.


6 posted on 11/07/2018 6:27:37 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: jyo19

Not being legal or possible won’t stop the Dems from trying. It will just be one of a continuous stream of attempts to smear and tarnish Trump with the MSM joining in and magnifying it all 24/7.


7 posted on 11/07/2018 6:27:44 AM PST by odawg
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To: glorgau

” You first”

If not get F##ked.


8 posted on 11/07/2018 6:28:13 AM PST by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: Sir Napsalot

They’ll find just what Rachel Maddow found - nothing!

They think there’s some secret in his tax returns. There isn’t.

They’re going to look at two things, his actual tax rate and his charitable giving, so they can compare it to democrats. This is why the Clintons released their tax returns with their 32% tax rate (they intentionally paid extra taxes or didn’t take credits to hike this up) and high charitable giving (which mostly went back into the Clinton Foundation, so they got a twofer).

And any large tax breaks Trump took way back were written into law by democrat congresses.

So go for it, democrats. You’ll get nothing but headlines and talking points.


9 posted on 11/07/2018 6:29:05 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: Sir Napsalot

President Trump should fight it all the way to SCOTUS. They will decide. In 2 or 3 years...Maybe.


10 posted on 11/07/2018 6:30:31 AM PST by donozark (There are no flamingos in Venezuela.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Dems are going to be disappointed. The Republicans just found out how little power the house actually has. They request for documents for two years...


11 posted on 11/07/2018 6:32:08 AM PST by wiseprince
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To: b4its2late

Wish in one hand and crap in the other, see which one fills up first.


12 posted on 11/07/2018 6:33:05 AM PST by JayAr36 (We have the best government that money can buy.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

He can hand them over when Hillary submits her e mails.


13 posted on 11/07/2018 6:33:34 AM PST by SMARTY (Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. Ortega y Gasset)
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To: JayAr36

Hahahahahaha!


14 posted on 11/07/2018 6:34:33 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: wiseprince

Sessions will give Dems everything they want in a New York minute, which is why he will be gone before January.


15 posted on 11/07/2018 6:35:03 AM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: ripnbang

THIS is the kind of thing THEY think they were elected to office to do.

I guess if their constituents don’t care about the way their money is used, then why should anyone else?


16 posted on 11/07/2018 6:36:08 AM PST by SMARTY (Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. Ortega y Gasset)
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To: Sir Napsalot

“You have my tax returns. The NYTimes published them TWICE on their front page weeks ago.” Donald J Trump.


17 posted on 11/07/2018 6:36:59 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

The Democrats can request all they want to, and apparently that is going to be a lot. Trump is under no compulsion to comply, so what are they going to do to him if he does not?

Impeachment may be an option, but “High Crimes and Misdemeanors? An undefined and indefinite phrase at best, it would be a pretty hard case to make even with the most possessed of prosecutors.


18 posted on 11/07/2018 6:37:40 AM PST by alloysteel (In my defense, I was left unsupervised.)
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To: SMARTY

Oversight Republicans Block 11 More Subpoenas for a Total of 64 Motions Denied

Washington, DC (Sept. 27, 2018)—Today, during a business meeting of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Republicans blocked consideration of 11 more Democratic requests to allow Committee Members to offer, debate, and vote on subpoenas—bringing the total number of subpoena motions denied by Oversight Committee Republicans during Donald Trump’s Presidency to 64.

https://democrats-oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/oversight-republicans-block-11-more-subpoenas-for-a-total-of-64-motions-denied


19 posted on 11/07/2018 6:39:37 AM PST by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Everyone knows that Trump won’t surrender his tax returns.

The Dems are over-exposed as over-playing their hand especially after the Kavanaugh hearings and the Mueller witch hunt.

The problem for the Dems is that this doesn’t change the narrative. We all have heard from the Dems and the fake news media that Trump is a corrupt fascist dictator. So, what’s new? Even if the fake news actually found something, only the Dem supporters would believe it.


20 posted on 11/07/2018 6:44:34 AM PST by grumpygresh (Abolish administrative law. It's regressive, medieval and unconstitutional!)
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