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Anonymous ID: 2c1b63 April 27, 2019, 1:43 p.m. No.6336937   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6968

@dbongino

With the exception of:

-Spygate

-Russiagate

-Fast & Furious

-The IRS scandal

-The AP phone records scandal

-The VA scandal

-The GAO scandal

-Benghazi &

-Hatch Act violations

Biden is absolute right, there wasn’t a “whisper of scandal.”

 

And few more (pic related)

Anonymous ID: 2c1b63 April 27, 2019, 2:20 p.m. No.6337395   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7415 >>7417 >>7457

Did Mueller peek at Trump's tax returns?

 

President Trump shouted replies to media questions on the White House lawn Wednesday morning, laying down his spanking new defense for stonewalling Congress and the multiple requests and subpoenas emanating from their expanding inquiries.

 

The President noted that he had completely cooperated with the Mueller investigation’s many demands for documents and witness interviews and in so doing felt that there was no need, now, to cooperate with the multiple Congressional inquiries cropping up.

 

Secretary Mnuchin rejected Chairman Neal’s second request for Trump-related tax returns and the Trump legal team filed suit to prevent, or at least delay production of Mazars USA — Trump’s accounting firm — submission of financial statements and documents to the House Oversight Committee.

 

Trump pointedly noted that: “Mueller, I assume, for $35 million, checked my taxes, checked my financials… They checked my financials, and they checked my taxes, I assume.” The inference being that since Mueller had looked at them, there was no need for Congress to review them also. But is that a false assumption and therefore a new false narrative foundation being created?

 

The Mueller report was fastidious in its adherence to the directive provided the Special Counsel’s team — investigate allegations of Russian election interference and evidence of any coordination by the Trump campaign with that interference. How would Mueller justify requesting Trump-related tax returns from the IRS with regard to investigating the narrow directive noted above?

 

It's entirely possible Mueller did not look at Trump’s tax returns or financials.

 

Multiple legal pundits expressed surprise upon release of the Mueller report that there was no section that ‘followed the money.’ There was no reference to Deutsche Bank financial transactions, despite well-publicized reports that Trump owed Deutsche over $300 million dollars, having received financing of over $2 billion since 2000 and of Deutsche being subject to multiple fines for money laundering and other financial transgressions. Then there was the prize-winning New York Times article denoting how Trump took part in suspect schemes to evade taxes back in the 1990s. More recently, SDNY prosecuted Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen for campaign finance violations at the direction of “un-indicted co-conspirator Individual-1” with regard to the hush money payments made to alleged paramours of ‘the Donald’ prior to the 2016 Presidential election. Some would question whether anyone looked at all the “money pouring in from Russia” as Donald Trump Jr. once boasted.

 

While Mueller may have entertained thoughts of requesting Trump’s tax returns or those related to the Trump Organization, he may have held off given the lack of obvious connection to his directive and also the requirements of IRC section 6103, otherwise known as the IRS Disclosure law. This is the part of the IRC that became famous in passing with regard to Chairman Neal’s request for Trump tax returns. But why would this section give Mueller pause?

 

Many old-time Federal prosecutors have openly stated on various cable news shows that whenever they had a white collar case, they would automatically request Federal income tax returns from the IRS via a letter signed by a U.S. Magistrate/Judge known in the parlance as an ex-parte order or 6e letter. Back in the day, these letters were often no more than one or two sentences wherein the AUSA would simply say he/she needed them in regard to a financial investigation that was being conducted that may result in prosecution of some type of white collar crimes e.g. wire fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud, etc. Once again, back in the day, these 6e requests were pretty much rubber stamped and walked over to the IRS Disclosure office and submitted with little push back. But that was back in the day.

 

IRS takes its responsibility to safeguard the privacy/confidentiality of tax returns in its possession very seriously. Any one of its 100,000 employees who might be tempted to look at or leak someone’s tax returns could be fired, fined, jailed or all of the above. That might explain why no one with the IRS has ever leaked Trump-related tax returns.

https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/440970-did-mueller-peek-at-trumps-tax-returns

Anonymous ID: 2c1b63 April 27, 2019, 2:26 p.m. No.6337467   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Iran's foreign minister says U.S. must 'prove that it's serious' ahead of prisoner swap negotiations

http://hill.cm/TUtKzce