Last Thursday, the IRS and the Treasury Department decided to finally weigh in on Donald Trump's
legal battle to prevent Congress the ways and means committee specifically from getting
their hands on his tax returns.
Now, as I'm sure everybody remembers recently, Supreme Court, uh, uh, Chief Justice John
Roberts issued a stay in that tax return case.
Donald Trump had exhausted all of his previous appeals, so he took it directly to the Supreme
Court.
John Roberts said, Okay, listen, I'm not gonna rule on the case on the merits, but I am gonna
say that while we consider this, and actually even while we consider to take it up, cuz
we don't even know if they will, you cannot turn his tax returns over to those house committees.
So the committees, of course, do not have those tax returns, even though all of the
lower courts said, Yeah, you can have 'em.
Uh, Supreme Court says, Hold your horses folks, we gotta look at this and see what's happening.
So IRS Treasury Department on Thursday filed a brief with the Supreme Court essentially
telling them that, Hey, um, Congress needs to see these.
Doesn't that seem a little odd?
The agencies that have his tax returns are going to the Supreme Court being like, No,
no, no.
Guys, guys, guys, Congress needs to see these.
Okay?
Do, do you read between the lines here?
Congress probably needs to take a look at these.
That's, that's pretty remarkable, isn't it?
Because, and they also, by the way, they also said like Donald Trump's legal arguments are
garbage.
Um, specifically that said, Trump's team cannot satisfy the demanding standard for that extraordinary
relief, which basically means they don't have a legal argument to continue blocking the
documents from being released.
That's it.
But what gets me about this, the reason this stands out to me, honestly, the reason I'm,
I'm even talking about it is because these agencies didn't have to do this.
Right?
That's the big, like red flag for me if I'm Donald Trump's legal team, because these agencies
are not part of the legal fight.
They're the ones being told to release or not to release.
They're just sitting there waiting for orders.
They didn't have to file a brief, you know, the, the people who filed the original lawsuit
to get the documents, they file briefs, Trump's team files briefs, the, the two parties of
the lawsuit, not these groups.
So the fact that they stepped in, the fact that they're telling the United States Supreme
Court Congress probably needs these, that kind of tells me, yeah, there may be a there
there, Right?
Okay.
We're talking about the organizations,
The, the government agencies that have seen the tax returns.
Like they know what's in them and if they know what's in them and they're going to the
Supreme Court saying, Listen, let's, let's get them to Congress.
Could you just do that?
Trust me, I think that's a big fricking deal.
I think that means there's something there.
Because again, the most important thing to remember here is that these agencies didn't
have to say anything.
They're just sitting there waiting for the court's orders to release or not to release.
That's their only involvement.
The fact that they stepped in and said, Listen, we want Congress to have these.
That tells us there is something there.
Of course, six three conservative majority on that Supreme Court, we don't know how they're
gonna go.
But John Roberts did leave the door open with his order of the stay to say that we may not
even take the case, right?
We're just a little busy right now.
We'll look at it and then we'll decide if we're even gonna take it.
So if he doesn't take it, it's over for Trump.
If they do take it, we gotta wait for the ruling.
And of course the Supreme Court deciding not to take it.
It's probably the best way for them to not have to weigh in and Donald Trump off.
He'll be mad either way, but at least this way they can say like, We never issued a ruling.
We just, you know, didn't see any merit to it.
So those are the possible options, but again, keep an eye on it cuz I don't think the IRS
would've stepped in unless they knew that there was something Congress desperately needed
to.