>> There was one Democratic senior member of Congress who could have obtained Donald
Trump's state taxes from New York, but decided against doing it. And it's actually a senior
Democrat that we've talked on the show about recently, and it's Chairman Richie Neal. He's
the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
And based on a New York law he could've easily obtained the New York State taxes for Donald
Trump, which essentially contain similar info compared to the federal tax returns. But he
decided against it because he thought it would be much better to go through a lengthier and
more difficult process of suing the IRS in order to obtain his tax returns.
Now, of course, he didn't manage to accomplish that, which made people on the left incredibly
angry and frustrated. So one person who called him out for this is now his Democratic primary
challenger, Alex Morse. And here's what he said at the time. There's an urgency to this
moment in Massachusetts' 1st District and our country, and that urgency is not matched
by our current representative in Congress.
We need new leadership that understands that we can no longer settle for small, incremental,
and compromising progress. We need to be on offense. And so he's not the only one who
felt that way. Many progressives felt the same way. And if you have an easy avenue in
which to get Donald Trump's tax returns, then go for it.
In fact, if you don't go for it, it makes people question what your intentions or motivations
are. Now, NBC News reported at the time, and this is from a story back in 2019. While many
of his fellow chairman ramped up oversight inquiries soon after the new Congress was
seated in January, Neal waited before requesting the President's federal returns.
After the Treasury Department refused to furnish them, Neal took months before suing the Treasury
and the IRS for the documents. And by the way, this should come as absolutely no surprise,
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi supported him a hundred percent. Backed him in his approach,
and did so publicly.
>> Yeah, so I'm gonna get into Richie Neil's corruption and incompetence. If you're wondering,
alexmorseforcongress.com is the website, again, for his opponent. His opponent is a very progressive
Democrat, a Justice Democrat. We'll have the links down below as well right there. And
does not take any corporate PAC money, unlike Richie Neal.
We recently coincidentally did a story about how Richie Neal took money from private equity
companies to kill legislation that would help end surprise bills in hospitals. Cuz those
surprise bills pay the bills for corrupt people like Congressman Richie Neal. So whatever
you do, support non-corrupt politicians on either side.
Okay, now how corrupt is Richie Neal? So in this issue, there's two different ways to
get the tax returns. One is federal, the other is state. On the federal level, Richie Neal
said no, I take my sweet ass time and have to get it just right. And that's why I'm gonna
take months and months and months before I ask Treasury and the IRS.
But the idea is, I'm gonna craft a perfect. Supreme Court just ruled on that today, and
they said, this is terrible. It was totally bungled, it's totally broad. And we're gonna
have to send it back to the lower courts so you can actually do a subpoena that has any
kind of validity.
So even if Richie Neal was on the level and not corrupt, and I'll tell you in a second
why he might be corrupting this issue. But if he was on the level, he's grotesquely incompetent.
He's like, okay, I'm gonna forever to come up with a perfect strategy. Then of court's,
like, this is terrible.
And no, so you lose. You're not gonna get to see them before the elections. So what
happened Richie Neal? I thought you were gonna be so good at asking for the tax returns.
So then New York State says, I got the same things. They're the state tax returns, nearly
identical.
And there's only one person who could ask for them. The head of the House Ways and Means
Committee. That's Richie Neal, okay? At that point, there's no court stopping him. If it
was me, I'd be like, I want it right now. Give it to me right now. Boom, here they are,
they're public before the court could even do anything.
It took so long for Trump's lawyers to get the court involved in the New York issue.
At that point the courts say, you're not allowed to give them to Congress. But he had all this
time, and Richie Neal never asked for the state tax returns. Now you wanna know why?
His ostensible reason was, well, I think it might hurt me in the courts. It might seem
political if I ask for the federal and the state tax returns.
>> One, that makes- >> Yeah, no legal expert agreed with that,
literally. No legal expert agreed with that, yeah.
>> Not one, totally made up, okay?
And then the court ruled today, no we already think it's political. And you didn't prove
your case so you're gonna have to come up with more specific subpoenas. So no one believed
him, and they were right and he was wrong. So why in the world did he do it?
Turns out Richie Neal had not released his own tax returns. For Christ's sake. This is
why we are against corrupt Democrats and corporate Democrats. Finally, after an enormous amount
of pressure from a primary from a Justice Democrat, he finally had to release his own
tax returns. And so I don't know that he was also protecting Trump.
He was certainly protecting himself. There's no question about that. And what do Pelosi
and Neil and all these people do? No results. And meanwhile, behind the scenes, they do
everything to make sure that they can help Trump hide all of his potential criminal wrongdoing.
And to me the media is so unbelievable.
Credit to NBC News who did a good story on this. I love giving credit where credit is
due. But everyone else, whenever you point that out, they're like, how could you say
that about Nancy Pelosi? Well, what's your counter argument? She loves Richie Neil. She
put Richard Neal in that seat to make sure that no one ever got investigated.
It's sickening Democratic leadership what they do. Luckily Alex Morse can do to Richie
Neal what Jamaal Bowman did to Eliott Engel. And that would be a huge earthquake, and it
would send a message to the Democrats. Stop pretending you're on our side. Actually be
on our side. Stop pretending you're fighting Trump and the Republicans.
Actually fight Trump
and
the Republicans