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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 Trumps 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 Trumps alternate-reality version of the Ukraine scandal.
Yahoo News reports that Senate Democrats are raising alarms about the administrations 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/
For nearly three years, the Treasury Department, in violation of the law, has refused to turn over President Trumps 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 Trumps alternate-reality version of the Ukraine scandal.
Yahoo News reports that Senate Democrats are raising alarms about the administrations 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
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Rorey
(8,445 posts)1. Shocking!
j/k...It's not at all shocking. That's the world we live in now. Or rather the country we live in now.
pbmus
(12,422 posts)2. Hunter sues treasury...next headline...Justice Roberts decides
Treasury yes on Biden, no on trump...
SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)3. K & R for exposure.
SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)4. Could you imagine if Obama had released the Trumps' financial records during the 2016 GOP primary?
It is mindboggling that Trump is getting away with this. All these motherfuckers need to go to jail.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,023 posts)5. Numbnuts wants his payback