mcneill sent the letter. we expected president trump and the entire administration to push back and to use delay tactics, after all, that has been his method and just every aspect of his business enterprises to delay, and try to outweigh people on the other side. the negotiating table. i was just grateful, and ultimately the supreme court ruled in this case, in time for us to finish our work before republicans take control. because i don t want to protect what they may do, but my expectation is that they will continue to defend. donald trump. we said i would suspect that they would never get to it. and i was very pleased we were able to finally get to this. i want to get into a little bit of substance, but before we get there, first of all, let s talk about charles reddick, he is the individual who ran the irs, he was appointed by donald trump and quite famously wrote a defense of donald trump, not releasing his taxes during the
stymied by the first and foremost, the irs itself. led by trump appointee, charles, until october of this year. left a few months ago, interesting lee. they then fought a long legal battle that went up to the supreme court. with a lot of can kicking by various judges who delayed, the, lay delayed. and now, on the last working day of the year, with the clock ticking and just days remaining until republicans take back the house, control of the house. we finally have the data, the six years of returns. journalists and tax experts will be combing through the thousands of pages for days. so far, two big takeaways from all of this information. one, and this is reported actually, a day or two will four we actually got the insurance itself. one is that the irs failed to actually audit trump during the first two years of his presidency. even though that is the standard for presidents. it didn t even begin, the mandatory practice of ardith. in 2019, after congressman mcneill put in his requires.
campaign, when that is a standard thing that candidates to. and we should note here that presidents do, it and have been doing it going back decades. it s a standard thing, president show, it s one important thing for a the sake. i already feel like i have a lot of questions about charles reddick, have-ing learned that the fact that in violation of federal law, his agency had not audited donald trump while he was the head of the irs. do you have some questions for him? we do have a lot of questions, and just to be clear, it has been the practice of the irs since 1977, when they put into their own operating manuals, the mandatory audit of the president of the united states. but it hasn t been the law, it s one of the reasons that we sought this inquiry in the first place, to determine what, and to what extent we may need to take action legislatively to do what we all thought that the irs had been doing all along. our suspicion was that he was not being audited by the irs.
that was just a pretext. turns 0 ut there was something big there that they discovered. so, charlie, dysfunction is one thing. could you explain the tenure of charles reddick, a california tax lawyer donald trump appointed to head the irs who recently left the position. maybe it was forced out of the position. whatever. but could you explain his role, his potential role in this, if any? so we don t know. we talked last night to the commissioner of the irs in 2017, who was returning the agency when they should have done their first audit of trump s taxes, because he was the sitting president in 2017 and he disclaimed knowledge. didn t know about that program or wasn t involved. could not explain why there was no audit that year. and the gentleman you mentioned took everybody over in 2018. writing an article defending trump s refusal to make public his tax returns as a presidential candidate, which
outsmart the system. that feels differently now in 2022 when we really understand the fullness of donald trump and all he brought on this country. the foreign dealings is important. we know folks who run for office under the maga heading have questionable dealings as well. so we now understand how these dealings have impacted the country and the american citizen. the troubles that it s caused bar institutions and they hut very differently with the voters. and what do you make of charles reddick? he was trump s appointee to lead the irs of question shl credentials and saying they were outgunned and lacked the specialists needed to assess