Yesterday it was announced that the House Ways and Means committee does in fact have
possession or at least access, it says to six years worth of Donald j Trump's tax returns.
After a three year legal battle, the Democrats on that committee were finally granted this
massive gift by the US Supreme Court that refused to block the release of these tax
returns one month before Democrats lose control of the house.
So the big question is now is what the hell can Democrats even do with these tax returns
now that they finally got them?
You know, I don't think this was the Supreme Court just trying to stick it to Donald Trump.
I think the Supreme Court did it at this point because they know that Democrats have no time
to do anything.
So why not act like you're going against Trump, but actually you're just kind of screwing
over the Democrats by giving them a tiny taste and then taking away the bowl of ice cream
because they can't do anything with only a month before they lose power.
So very clever by the United States Supreme Court, very unfortunate for those Democrats
and a lot of people, by the way on social media, have said, great, they can release
these tax returns.
Now we can see them.
Actually, no they cannot.
If anyone on that committee or any of their staffers, anybody associated with this who
has access to those tax returns, if they leak them to the public, that is a felony that
carries a five year prison sentence.
So no, they cannot just release them to the public and we finally get to see what he's
been hiding because somebody would go to jail and I don't think anybody associated with
that committee is willing to take that bullet for us.
I sure as hell wouldn't.
But there is a catch to that.
See what the committee can do is actually take it to a full house floor vote.
If the full House of Representatives votes to release the tax returns to the public,
then they can release them and it's totally legal.
Democrats still have a majority in the house.
So there is actually still time for them to release these tax returns publicly if they
bring it to the full house floor and hold the vote and pass it.
And honestly at this point, that may be the best option for the Democratic Party.
They had sought these tax returns.
Let's be honest.
They wanted the tax returns because they wanted to embarrass Trump.
And I got no problem with that.
You know it, it's petty.
Sure.
But Trump was petty.
So every now and then you gotta take a low shot.
Right?
But they claim they wanted it to see if they needed to craft legislation.
You know about presidents profiting off the office of the presidency, which is a noble
cause, but that actually didn't come up until after they had requested the tax returns and
got challenged in court.
So they don't have time
To craft that legislation based on Trump's tax returns.
There's just simply not enough time.
They'd have to go through the tax returns, they'd have to craft the legislation, have
to pass the committee, they'd have to pass the full house, have to go to the Senate.
You do not have time to do that.
So you gotta do the Hail Mary at this point.
You have got to bring those tax returns to the full house floor, pass it and release
'em to the public.
Now that may seem a little shady, right?
That may seem a little unfair.
Like, hey, you can't just release those tax returns to the public.
Um, you kind of have to, at this point, the Supreme Court tried to screw you over by acting
like they were doing the right thing for you.
So you have to take advantage of the one option that you have, which is to bring it to the
full house floor and release them to the public.
Let the journalists go through them, let the legal experts go through them.
And that's the only way we're gonna find anything out cuz you don't have enough time for legislation.
So you're gonna have to go with Plan B.