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Old 04-14-2019, 08:56 PM  
VRPdommy
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Originally Posted by Rochard View Post
The IRS might know what is in Trump's taxes, but would have no idea if any laws were broken.

The IRS investigates tax fraud. The IRS does not investigate insurance fraud or bank fraud. If Trump's business collected a million dollars in a insurance claim but there was no damage, that's insurance fraud. If Trump applied for loans and made himself out to have four or five times more in assets or cash on hand compared to what he really had, that's bank fraud.

The IRS isn't looking into if Trump has any financial connection to any businesses that might be used to build a wall.

And no, this is not the kind of hing done in authoritarian countries. Every candidate in the past forty years has released their tax returns. They do this to ensure the public they do not have any conflicts.

What exactly is Trump hiding?

Newsflash for Republicans... His tax returns are coming out. Maybe not next week or next month or next year, but all of this is going to come out eventually.
At a minimum,
The way I read the law, it is legal for congress, or at least intelligence committee of the House and or Senate, to review them, but not release them to the public and commence investigations based on the findings. But eventual release of parts that lead to high crimes or misdemeanors would have to be made public. But it has to start with a reasonable suspicion of a crime to bring those tax returns into question. It requires a chain of evidence to take you to those returns.

But congress is using some other older statue to do the same. perhaps a little cleaner with respect to a challenge in the SC.
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