Between this and the January 6th Committee criminal referrals, someone may not be having the best Christmas. I'm more than happy to watch all of them piss in Trump's eggnog.
December 18, 2022

Between this and the January 6th Committee criminal referrals, someone may not be having the best Christmas. I'm more than happy to watch all of them piss in Trump's eggnog. The House Ways and Means Committee will be meeting this Tuesday to discuss what to do with Trump's taxes now that the courts finally ruled in their favor.

U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, House Ways & Means Committee, could vote Tuesday to make Trump taxes public:

U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal and the House Ways and Means Committee could decide Tuesday to make Donald Trump’s taxes public as Neal’s time as chairman draws to a close.

Neal, D-Springfield, fought a four-year court battle with the former president to get access to the taxes. Neal won a Supreme Court decision Nov. 22. Since then, he and his staff have had access to six years of tax records, records Trump refused to make public in his campaigns as every other candidate since Richard Nixon has done.

Neal has made the records available to the ranking Republican on the committee, Kevin Brady, R-Texas, according to published reports.

But time is short with a new, and very slight, Republican majority taking over the House Jan. 3. Neal and his fellow Democrats must move. Federal law calls for the tax records to be kept confidential. But by reporting them out to the full House, it would be lawful to make them public, according to published reports out of Washington Friday afternoon.

Here's more from CNN:

The high-stakes meeting, which is expected to go into a private session, will be the first opportunity for members on the powerful committee to openly discuss and make a decision about what – if any – personal tax information to release about the former President.

The meeting is crucial for Democrats on the committee, who are running out of time to decide what to do with Trump’s taxes before Republicans take over the House majority on January 3, and Democrats lose control of the committee.

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The information contained in the returns could be a treasure trove of financial information about the former president who has already declared his intent to run for president again in 2024. The information could give additional insight into Trump’s finance investments and entanglements and provide answers about Trump’s personal wealth and the success of various businesses. [...]

Neal’s request for Trump’s tax returns spanned six years from 2013 to 2018 and included requests for not only Trump’s personal returns but also his business entities and all administrative files that accompanied the returns.

I look forward to seeing Trump going ballistic on Truth Social next week.

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