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LessAspin

(1,154 posts)
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 07:30 PM Feb 2020

Treasury releases Hunter Biden's records ..

Emboldened, Trump allies may already be targeting his enemies in new ways

For nearly three years, the Treasury Department, in violation of the law, has refused to turn over President Trump’s tax returns to a House committee that demanded them. A court battle over those returns continues to rage, with an uncertain outcome.

Meanwhile, Trump vowed last year to defy “all” congressional subpoenas, and numerous administration agencies followed his absolute ban on turning over any evidence to the House impeachment inquiry.

But it turns out there is a case that is very important to the president in which the administration has been more than happy to turn over private financial records in response to a congressional request — without fuss or delay...

The Treasury Department has turned over financial records about Hunter Biden in response to requests from GOP senators who are running an investigation that appears designed to validate Trump’s alternate-reality version of the Ukraine scandal.

Yahoo News reports that Senate Democrats are raising alarms about the administration’s sudden willingness to turn over these documents, and contrasting this with the years of stonewalling of requests from Democrats...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/06/targeting-newly-emboldened-trumps-enemies-may-have-begun/





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Treasury releases Hunter Biden's records .. (Original Post) LessAspin Feb 2020 OP
Shocking! Rorey Feb 2020 #1
Hunter sues treasury...next headline...Justice Roberts decides pbmus Feb 2020 #2
K & R for exposure. SunSeeker Feb 2020 #3
Could you imagine if Obama had released the Trumps' financial records during the 2016 GOP primary? SunSeeker Feb 2020 #4
Numbnuts wants his payback Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2020 #5

Rorey

(8,445 posts)
1. Shocking!
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 07:37 PM
Feb 2020

j/k...It's not at all shocking. That's the world we live in now. Or rather the country we live in now.

SunSeeker

(51,571 posts)
4. Could you imagine if Obama had released the Trumps' financial records during the 2016 GOP primary?
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 09:06 PM
Feb 2020

It is mindboggling that Trump is getting away with this. All these motherfuckers need to go to jail.

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