Let’s do this thing
Sir about those tax returns sir.
A New York City prosecutor fighting to get President Donald Trump’s tax returns told a judge Monday he was justified in demanding them because of public reports of “extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization.”
In other words we have a hardened criminal as president of the US. Ain’t life grand.
Manhattan District Attorney District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. is seeking eight years of the Republican president’s personal and corporate tax records, but has disclosed little about what prompted him to request the records, other than part of the investigation related to payoffs to two women to keep them quiet about alleged affairs with Trump.
Probably a thousand newspaper articles about Trump’s criminal practices also had something to do with it.
In a court filing Monday, attorneys for Vance said the president wasn’t entitled to know the exact nature of the grand jury investigation.
They noted, though, that at the time the subpoena for the tax filings was issued to Trump’s accountants, “there were public allegations of possible criminal activity” at the president’s company “dating back over a decade.”
They cited several newspaper articles, including one in which the Washington Post examined allegations that Trump had a practice of sending financial statements to potential business partners and banks that inflated the worth of his projects by claiming they were bigger or more potentially lucrative than they were.
Which bears an uncanny resemblance to what he’s doing to all of us now. The economy is roaring back! The virus is going away! The US is awesome! Black lives don’t matter!
Vance’s lawyers urged U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero to swiftly reject Trump’s further arguments that the subpoenas were improper, saying the baseless claims were threatening the investigation.
“Every day that goes by is another day Plaintiff effectively achieves the ‘temporary absolute immunity’ that was rejected by this Court, the Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court,” Vance’s lawyers said.
And it’s another day a criminal squats in the Oval Office and tells us lies at press conferences.
Two things in this sound a bit off to me. If Vance is the District Attorney, then it’s his office, his deputies, who are representing the People in the case. It may be an important enough case for Vance to be personally involved. Who are these “attorneys for Vance” or “Vance’s lawyers” then? Isn’t Vance himself nominally conducting the grand jury proceedings?
Every day that passes is “another day that Plaintiff effectively achieves” the immunity the courts have rejected. There’s something about the posture of the case that isn’t clear from the story. If it’s a grand jury investigation into wrongdoing by DJT (and his company), he should be the Defendant. not the Plaintiff.
Wasn’t Vance the DA who made charges regarding illegal sales pitches for real estate by the princess and Jandroid disappear? Shortly after receiving a large ‘campaign donation’ from the couples’ lawyer, if memory serves. Is the New York DA election any time soon?
maddog,
It’s explained a little more clearly here, though you have to dig a bit. Vance subpoenaed the tax records, and Trump sued to block them. So in that suit Trump is the plaintiff, and Vance has his lawyers arguing his case.
Maybe the Supremes should meet again to insert an adjective: “raise other plausible arguments opposing the subpoena.”
He’s almost up to the Chewbacca Defense.
Papito, you had me confused for a minute there. I was trying to figure out which of the Supremes’ songs you were quoting from.
It’s been a busy day…