Help me understand how you think. You believe Trump and his people have done nothing wrong. Yet you support Trump hiding his tax returns, hiding his financial records, ordering his staff not to answer questions. If he didn't do anything, why does he have to hide and evade questions?
because you are setting a precedent
you are asking for items for which you have no LEGAL RIGHT TO SEE
Trump doesnt have to give his taxes.....forget what he promised....i am not his fan....i didnt vote for him....politicians lie
dont care about ALL of that....the law says he has to be 35, a citiizen, and give a financial package....he did all of that
just because every other president has given tax returns doesnt mean he is REQUIRED to....
now we can change the laws to MAKE THAT A REQUIREMENT....and based on the public outcry, it would probably pass
but dont try to change the rules in the middle....
and he doesnt have to sit for derogatories or interviews with investigators....again the law....
just as you wouldnt have to sit and answer questions if being interrogated for a crime....
and as far as the subpoenas, he told congress he is not going to allow them to put on a circus sideshow to sway the elections
they have all the evidence....and documents...and interviews....now they have to make the decision to impeach or not
their choice
Every word of your post is false. Every one.
The subpoena of Trump’s tax records from the IRS (not Trump), is perfectly legal. There is no question about that. The IRS does not have to secure the permission of the person under investigation in order to do that, either. That’s how they caught Al Capone!
Your claim that Presidents don’t have to sit for interoggatories is also false. Bill Clinton testified before the Grand Jury.
The subpoenas are legal too. Indeed, Trump’s pitiful and typically dishonest excuse that “he told congresss he is not going to allow them to put on a circus sideshow......” is ironic at best.
Because his political allies did their level best to put on a circus sideshow, to the obvious delight of Trump and his base.
They don’t have all the evidence. And there are still many matters pending, arising from Trump’s flagrant, corruptions, disloyalty, greed, and total lack of credibility.
Stop telling us that he is some wronged party. He isn’t. He and his minions did the things that are in the Mueller Report.
And he and his minions are doing everything they can, and a lot of things that aren’t legal, to try and keep the testimony of the named participants off the nation’s television screens.
I doubt that one in ten on this forum has actually read the Mueller Report. Few of the right wingers have (although I have encountered Trumpsters who claimed to have read the report before making flagrantly false assertions about it).
If anyone is setting precidents, it’s Trump. And not because he has some overarching ambition to destroy our government, the Consitution and tear down our institutions. That just come’s naturally. It’s his vulgarity, his need for constant attention, his greed, and his obsession with pushing the envelope for no other reason than because he gets off on doing what he’s warned not to do.
After all, as a kid, daddy made sure there were no consequences. And, as he was slowly going through his inheritence, on a series of broken promises, defaults and bad deals, he’s always had lawyers to deliver the settlement checks, make the payoffs, while Trump sails on, oblivious to the sinking balance.
Trump has seized the power of the purse, simply by declaring an imaginary emergency. This is a favorite ploy of dictators, and it is how most of the more famous ones succeeded in suspending the rule of law.
He’s running a full on campaign to obstruct any and all congressional oversight.
He’s trying to deny Congress a whistleblower complaint that should have, by law, been turned over to Congress a while ago.
And Trump is generally behaving like a third world tinpot dicatator.
If he is allowed to get away with these things, he will have set the precidents that will make it all that much easier for some future tyrant to seize power. Trump asserts taht they can defy Congress. He’s getting ready to take aim at the Courts. He has tried to actually in a unilateral fashion at every opportunity. Circumventing Congress’ power to confirm nominees (a Consititution functions that Trump evades by putting lackeys in “acting” roles). And he talks openly about suspending elections or artificially extending his term. Nothing in his buffoonish, reckless behavior suggests that he not be taken seriously.
Trump won’t be a dictator, or a king. He’s too lazy and too stupid.
But he will have put in place all the tools for the next one that comes along, and bewitches enough of the public with a cult of personality like this.