Lawyers for President Donald Trump said that they plan to continue fighting the subpoena for the president's tax returns after the Supreme Court sent the case back to the lower courts. Aired on 07/15/2020.
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Trump Lawyers To Continue Fighting Tax Returns Subpoena After SCOTUS Ruling | Craig Melvin | MSNBC
Why on earth would someone who claims to be “Transparent”, fight so hard to keep his life a secret? Hmmmmmm.🤔 It makes the mind wobble doesn’t it?
@Anthony Wolmarans More like the MILLIONS Trump has Stolen!!
Trump Charities are SHUTDOWN FOR FRAUDULENT REASONS.
@Peter Bills Really??? His salary could NEVER cover ALL the CHARITY he and his FAMILY receive EVERYDAY from the Americans that ACTUALLY pay taxes.
Peter Bills that’s cute you still believe that. He takes 3,000,000 dollar week ends every weekend, has access to Air Force one for travel to his rallies for the last 4 years, free security, free housing with staff, free food and his own personal fleet of limos supplied by tax dollars. I’d swap 400 gs a year for 3 million dollar golf trips every weekend plus billing the government direct for the cost of his golf trips and accommodations for staff and security. That’s just a bone he throws out so people like you have a talking point. Hahahahaha
@Peter Bills How much less could you care about Barry Soetoro? 5%, 10% ?
@colbraking147 good one! Or the interest in Hunter Biden now that Joe is running
Trump doesn’t want 4 more years of the presidency, he wants 4 more years of immunity. 🤔
@Ral Deform I ate breakfast, had some coffee and walked the dog. I guess that’s the worst of humanity now according to someone who worships a compulsive liar and criminal. So sad, your dad.
You are PRECISELY correct, sir. Exactly.
@Dianne Faith he will never show his taxes….and everyone really wants to know why…ill show my taxes , i have nothing to hide
4 more years of freedom. He’s going to prison. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@Kal Robbins Exactly and it’s all involving Russian Finance
Trump is the one who impedes his duties…he spends so much time tweeting and golfing, I think he has time to answer a subpoena. 🤔
william Kimmel I thought you mentioned the word ‘ Stupid’ If I was incorrect I offer you my deep regrets.
Dozo G Nope, not denying anything especially reality. Reality is all around us and you need to have the political savvy to recognize it. I have been involved in politics since my first campaign for Hubert H Humphrey. Look him up. He was a liberal before the word was even invented.
william Kimmel I forgot to mention the bounty thing and Afghanistan that turned out to be a big nothing. None of the commanders on the ground ever heard about this. This was likely some thing and analyst picked up that was never confirmed. Boots on the ground never confirmed nor did any of our allies ever confirm it. A compliant media ran with it as if it was fAct and it appears to be a big nothingburger.
If anything Putin should’ve received heat for this but the compliant media blames Trump. That lends even more credence to the fact that this allegation was nothing more than a political cheap shot.
trump is the laziest spoiled president of the US ever! I think the most time he spends “so called working” is his CONSTANT daily often hourly “meetings” and “”Briefings” surrounded by all his enablers, while he yaps away making no sense and is on “the air’ 24/7..he craves and needs the constant attention…it is exhausting the American people..so sick of seeing his face, hearing his voice and that little pouty mouth of his is always OPEN! He never shuts up!
@T. R. Campbell The bounty thing isn’t a big nothing, The intelligence community are still investigating it… https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/us/politics/afghanistan-russia-bounties-marines.html
To all trump cult followers.
Could it be that Trump has something to hide? 🤔
@The Babadook According to the Supreme Court he does have the same rights, to say why he doesn’t want anyone to see them and eventually give them to Congress and Grand Juries.
@Peter Bills If the IRS wasn’t protecting the President it would have handed them to Congress when they asked for them.
@Peter Bills If there was anything legal in Trump’s tax returns, he wouldn’t hide it. Another thing that will be revealed by his returns is the fact that he is not as rich as he claims by far.
@Peter Bills There is a difference between what the IRS looks for – tax fraud – and what interests the voters. It might not be illegal for the orange turd to owe billions to Russian banks but it certainly makes him unfit, all by itself- there are many other reasons he is, to serve as president of this formerly great nation.
@Peter Bills wtf, it is not completely legal to down value or up value properties or investments, and he has a history of doing just that. OH and lets not forget his charity and university were shutdown for FRAUD!
Guess who’s paying his attorney bills…..U.S.!!!!!
For now. This is the defense of a personal criminal action. Can’t see how he get’s US government lawyers to defend him on this. Maybe after January we will get a reckoning for all this. It is amazing all the stuff he gets away with…that nobody and no other President would. He must be voted out of office. A second term will be even worse.
@John P OConnell Trump is the living embodiment of privilege run amuck.
Anti Trumper~The trump foundation gave his impeachment attorney Pam Bondi $25,000 to shut down investigations into trump university. He had to repay it and was fined 2 million dollars for using funds from a charitable organization for personal use. He also was ordered to return $25,000 for a self portrait on a fake Forbes magazine cover. I believe he has too much self adoration.
@Marsha Timbrook Trump is the most self-centered person to ever sit in the Oval Office. He’s probably the most prickly too.
What is he hiding?
His crimes, multiple cases of treason, high debts and 6 bankruptcies are well-known anyway.
And his believers will continue to follow him blindly no matter what may come…
It seems to be all about his ego only.
WHY THAT his pay offs to the 30+ women that have sued him for sexual assault including a 13 year old girl at an Epstein party in the 90’s that started suing him in 2016, the case was mysteriously dropped. Possibly one of the reasons trump pardoned his fixer roger stone!
I just wish that Trump would protect our troops in Afghanistan with the same amount of energy that he uses to protect Putin and his taxes.
Obamas shadow government farming Heroin in Afghanistan to send to China, Mexican Cartels, and Big Pharma.. To traffic into the United States to sell to black people to sell to white kids trying to embrace The Lefts “diversity” agenda. Theres video of troops guarding poppy fields from ’09.
@Godfrey Daniel Obama’s shadow government is 100% responsible for the opioid crisis. Under his regime he had troops guarding poppy fields for opium production which were then sent to The Cartels, China, and Russia. There’s no oil in Russia. Trump has been trying to pull the troops back and The Democrats keep blocking him from doimg that because they want to keep raking in those ‘bama bucks. Theres video of troops guarding poppy fields on youtube. Several
@Kal Robbins hes been trying to pull them back. The Democrats keep blocking him from doing it because they’ll lose too much money on Heroin
@Tasha Glam Obama had troops guarding poppy fields in Afganistan. Hes 100% responsible for the Opioid crisis
@Lord Avalokiteshvara <---totally report lying filth like this clown.
Trumps attorneys look like bottom feeders at this point. running back and forth, begging judges in the courts.
Fine by me. They’re eating up Trump’s money and meanwhile, they’ve lost every single important case so far.
Glad to hear that this will move along relatively quickly with specific dates already in the court. Chump has delayed far to long already, and moving it along is a good thing.
Bottom Feeders! Perfect!
Shouldn’t it be easier to find out if a president has financial entanglements with foreign countries?
@T. R. Campbell Sorry, but Donny does not pay his bills. What i said is a fact.
@T. R. Campbell BTW, we have more LNG than any other country in the world. (Imports to, that would be exports) We do not import any of it.
Francis Conners Well then banks have recourse. They have options but a lot of that concerns the loan application. They do have the option of renegotiation if there are extenuating circumstances. I’m sure there are a lot of renegotiations during this pandemic. Perhaps you’ve never been in business and don’t realize that a person stands in 35% chance of having a successful outcome when going into business. This is why things are a little more lenient.
However, what I said is true also that Putin would not hesitate to inform the New York Times of anything untoward that involves Putin and Russia and Trump. It would be banner headlines and we have seen nothing.
Francis Conners Yup and thanks. We exported LNG and which was imported to Poland and other European countries. You are correct. Because of our ability to export LNG to other countries particularly Europe we have effectively broken the stranglehold on European energy by Russia. This is why Trump had his shorts and a wide because Germany was crawling into bed with Putin and their natural gas pipeline. Germany place there hope on weather dependent (Solar and Wind) sustainable Energy. They found that name played energy was not produced when the sun didn’t shine and the wind didn’t blow. In this case sustainable energy failed and they have to now rely on Russia.
@Francis Conners Some Americans don’t care.
If you have nothing to hide and are not guilty of something then show your tax’s, I think all elected officials should be required to show their tax’s.
Me too.stay safe.✌
absolutely. if average joe screwed around with my taxes they’d come straight down on them…
In 2007, Trump sued reporter, Tim O’Brien and Warner Books for 5 billion dollars. In 2009, a judge dismissed Trump’s case against O’Brien. Trump appealed, but in 2011 that was denied, too. Trump accused O’Brien of being reckless and dishonest in a book that raised questions about Trump’s net worth. The reporter’s attorneys turned the tables on Trump, and brought Trump in for a deposition. During the deposition on Dec.19 and 20, 2007, Trump was caught lying at least 30 times.
Trump had to acknowledge 30 times during that deposition that he had lied over the years about a wide range of issues: his ownership stake in a large Manhattan real estate development, the cost of a membership to one of his golf clubs, the size of the Trump Organization, his wealth, the rate for his speaking appearances, how many condos he had sold, the debt he owed, and whether he borrowed money from his family to stave off personal bankruptcy.”
The lies Trump told were unstrategic, needless, highly specific, and easy to disprove. When he was caught lying, Trump sometimes blamed others for the error or explained that the untrue thing really was true, at least in his mind. Trump’s lying deposition is now a part of the public record.
This is a perfect example of why Trump’s lawyers never permitted Trump to be interviewed by Mueller. They know that Trump is morally and pathologically incapable of telling the truth, about anything..
Trump is every opposing attorney’s wet dream. And since he lies so much, it’s easy to catch him because he can’t keep track of his endless lies.
Most of American is now well aware that Trump is morally and pathologically incapable of telling the truth about anything too. It’s a shame the US Electorate made such a horrible mistake in November, 2016.
@John Swo Given what has happened over the past four years (and especially over the last six months), I am willing to bet that the American Electorate will not make the same mistake.
100% correct!
@John Swo People like Mitt Romney tried to warn the general public that Trump was a fraud. Did they listen ..NO
Trump is counting on his cult followers and Putin’s hackers to deliver the win
THE TRUTH IS THAT TRUMP LAWYERS ARE BEING PAID BY TAXPAYERS, LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE.
Mike, no they are not.
I hope they aren’t. These are likely private funds. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
These are private lawyers and working privately for the orange turd and we all know that twittler doesn’t pay his bills so they are not being paid. Given the low quality of the arguments, the lawyers are overpaid.
Someone please just leak his tax returns already. Enough of this.
Grand Jury investigations are usually pretty good at keeping things secret. If they indict Trump and set a court date, all of it will be made public and Trump will go into full panic mode. He seems to be near there already because he knows those are not fake polls like he claimed.
God, I’ve been saying this for years. There has to be one good whistle blower at the IRS…leak all his taxes already…he is a criminal using the WH to shield him from the law!
PAY YOUR TAXES TRUMP LIKE EVERYONE ELSE
His followers would say hes smart for not doing so
He’s hiding more than tax fraud…
Ha! Ha! Ha! Like everyone else!
cept the top earners that trump made special laws for !
@ivan tavarez his followers are idiots.
America has never had a president FAIL so terribly and so DERELICT in his duty.
@ss so true
Yet the GOP says nothing! What the GOP doesn’t say usually says more than what they do say! I hope every Republican seat up for re-election this year loses their seat! Their lack of response to the corrupt POS in the white house doomed their political career!
@Kal Robbins The Republican Party’s only aim is to grab power and keep it. No matter what the cost is to Americans. We are seeing this play out now. Had Trump been impeached and removed from office, there wouldn’t be the death rate from COVID-19 we are witnessing. McConnell has as much culpability in all of this as any other Trump enabler. Barr included.
@ss So true! I hope that McConnell loses Kentucky. Shame on Kentuckians if he doesn’t! With regard to Barr, if he is not indited and/or disbarred, his career in law will be reduced to that of court reporter in the public defenders office with the next administration.
@Kal Robbins Barr should be behind bars. That is the only logical course of action. Another psychopath who has had an adult lifetime of corruption.
What is trump afraid of, it is already know he is a fraud.
Most Americans are now well aware that Trump is nothing like his reality TV image but there is still a large minority of Americans who just do not realize that fact. No matter how outrageous Trump behaves, they rationalize it with twisted logic, inane what-aboutisms, and, of course, immature name-calling. It’s called being “Trumpian.”
@John Swo you nailed it
His tax returns would tell an eye-opening story. He has to want to hide them.
“I’m the most transparent president ever,” – DJT He is correct. It is TRANSPARENT that he is covering up crimes at every turn. #DumpTrump #Trump4Prison2020 #AmericaOrTrump
His brain is transparent, so much that it is invisible 😂
He is transparent in that we can see right through him and his bs
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November 3!
Trump is afraid that Americans will see that he’s on Putin’s payroll.