'A gross abuse of power': Trump's lawyer blasts demand for tax returns, seeks delay

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON – A lawyer for President Donald Trump sent a letter to the Treasury Department on Friday, blasting a congressional request for his tax returns and arguing the release of such information would violate the law.

The four-page letter, sent from attorney William Consovoy to the Treasury Department's general counsel Brent McIntosh, seeks to erode the basis for the request made Wednesday by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass, and delay the release of six years of Trump's returns until the Justice Department can weigh in on the matter.

Neal gave the IRS, housed under the Treasury Department, until Wednesday to comply with his request. The request will likely launch a prolonged court battle. It is the first such demand for a sitting president’s tax information in 45 years.

"This request is a transparent effort by one political party to harass an official from the other party because they dislike his politics and speech," Consovoy wrote in the letter. "Chairman Neal wants the President's tax returns and return information because his party recently gained control of the House, the President is their political opponent, and they want to use the information to damage him politically."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-gross-abuse-of-power-trumps-lawyer-blasts-demand-for-tax-returns-seeks-delay/ar-BBVF8E1?li=BBnb7Kz

First demand since Nixon. Every candidate since then but Trump has released theirs.

[ProudLib72]

1. Good luck with that, dipshit

I hope the legal battle is NOT prolonged.

[BigmanPigman]

3. It will be.

That is what he always does. This will take years as it is dragged through the courts all the way to SCOTUS. He loves spending money on evil enablers and attorneys like Cohn. I expect his tax returns, the release of the full report, etc to drag out for a long time, meanwhile President Jarvanka is waiting in the wings. We have to stop him really fast and it must be definite (no ands, ifs or buts). I wish we would play rough like the GOP would. We should not take the high road at this point, we have to fight to win and fight hard! I do not ever underestimate what he is capable of and what rich people and countries are capable of.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Kettle, Pot's calling for you on Line 1...