that the district attorney likely errored in exercising its jurisdiction to enjoin the u.s. use of the classified records in its criminal investigation. we agree. and there s more. the three-judge panel tears to shreds the arguments that trump and his lawyers have been making in public and in the court of law, that the records belong to him, or that somehow, at some unknown and unstated point in time, that he declassified the documents. also, from the ruling, quote, plaintiff, meaning donald trump, has not even attempted to show that he has a need to know the information contained in the classified documents. the plaintiff suggests that he may have declassified these documents when he was president. but the record contains no evidence that any of these records were declassified. in any event, at least for these purposes, the declassification argument is a red herring, because declassifying an official document would not change its content or render it personal. so even if we
hi, there, everyone. it s 4:00 in the east. it took years and one court ruling after another, appeal upon appeal and even a trip to the united states supreme court, but today the american public finally has its hands on something donald trump has so doggedly sought to conceal his tax returns, six years worth. an unprecedented window into his financial picture. this public release, which among other things shows that donald trump paid very relatively in taxes in the years before and during his presidency, is the end product of an effort undertaken by the house ways and means committee. after securing the returns which cover the years 2015 through 2020, that panel voted along party lines to hand redacted versions of the returns over to the public. before we get into what these thousands of pages reveal, in a way, those of us who are not account tantants can understands worth note hough the committee got its hands on these returns in the first place. it s the end result of an
taken from the former guy florida club. judge dearie demanded that the lawyers offer actual proof for trump s repeated claim that the fbi planted evidence during the search. doria also wants the legal team to formally state whether they believe the fbi lied about the documents that were seized. and goes on to say that he might ask for testimony about the search and the documents from, quote, witnesses with knowledge of the relevant facts. one more sign that the special master he, means business, he is pushing for another judge to help review the thousands of items that were found in trump s home. the former president has claimed he declassified sensitive records that he took from the white house by just thinking about it. last night he told sean hannity that he is able to do that just by thinking. apparently, that was news to some senate republicans. i think there is a process for declassifying documents. and i think it ought to be adhered to and followed. and i think tha
quote, witnesses with knowledge of the relevant facts. one more sign that the special master he, means business, he is pushing for another judge to help review the thousands of items that were found in trump s home. the former president has claimed he declassified sensitive records that he took from the white house by just thinking about it. last night he told sean hannity that he is able to do that just by thinking. apparently, that was news to some senate republicans. i think there is a process for declassifying documents. and i think it ought to be adhered to and followed. and i think that that should apply to anybody who has access to or deals with classified information. i believe, as i understand the executive branch requirements, there is a process that one must go through. for the committee, we think, because she was involved in helping organize and promote january 6th, coming to the capital pieces of her testimony be referenced or? hearing? it s possib
every single president and every single vice president has been audited by the irs every year of their time in office. and they all still routinely release their tax returns to the public every year so that excuse from trump and the trump campaign never made sense. being under audit is excuse for not releasing your tax returns as a candidate or certainly as president. also, the audit excuse never made sense for his past tax returns. even if donald trump wanted to release nothing under current audit, well, what about years for which the audits are completed and closed? any year of his taxes before, say, 2008, any year that was audited before then, those years presumably would be done being audited by now. those would be closed. so why not release those earlier tax returns even if you don t want to release the current ones for which there isn t an excuse not to do anyway? whether or not you are a supporter of donald trump in
general, whether or not you care what s in his tax returns,