Democrats Are Coming For Trump’s Tax Returns

Rep. John Lewis, in his capacity as the new chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, will be holding a hearing on February 7th that will look at the possibilities of getting Donald Trump’s tax returns and making that information public. The public has a right to know what this man is hiding in his finances, and if he had nothing to hide he wouldn’t have broken the norms of releasing this info during the campaign. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains the significance of this move.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

On February Seventh, Democrats in the House of Representatives on the ways and means committee headed by Democratic Representative John Lewis. They're going to have a meeting and what they're going to talk about is donald Trump's tax returns and of course Mike Pence is tax returns. They're going to have this meeting to try to figure out how can we get access to these tax returns and then make this information available to the public. Now the Democrats on this committee, they're trying to go about this, you know, by the law. They're doing what they can. They're doing what they are allowed to do. They're handling it legislatively as they are supposed to because after all, Donald Trump is under numerous different investigations. He was one of the first president in the last 40 years, or actually the only president last 40 years I should say, to not give us any of his tax information.

And so it kind of seems likely that the man's trying to hide something and if he wanted to shut everybody in this country up about his alleged business dealings that may have compromised him, release the tax returns. Show us that nothing happened and then you're good to go. You might even put an end to some of these investigations into you, but you won't do that because we know you have something to hide and the Democrats on this panel also know that and that's why they want these tax returns. Now they're going to try to go through the rules and see what they can do, see if they can get it from the White House, make it available to the public. They're gonna. Get opposition and resistance from the Republican Party. They'll get opposition from the White House, but there is a provision in a 19, 24 tax rule that says that the chairman of any of the three tax committees can access any taxpayers' information.

Anybody's tax return, any single person in this country, if you're the chairperson of one of those three tax committees, they have access to it. They are legally allowed to get access to it so Trump could fight it all he wants and they don't want to have to go through using this provision, but they will if they have to and they will if they need to, and that's the key word here.

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