Trump Hires New Legal Team To Protect His Tax Returns

A major fight is brewing between House Democrats and Donald Trump over the president’s tax returns. But Trump isn’t going to sit idly by while Democrats consider subpoenaing these records, and he’s hired a new legal team whose only purpose is to protect those returns and fight off the Democrats. The man is clearly hiding something, we just don’t know what. Is it evidence of criminal activity, or simply embarrassing info that he doesn’t want us to see regarding his REAL net worth? Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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

There is a massive fight brewing in Washington DC right now between House Democrats and Donald Trump. And Donald Trump is preparing for this fight by hiring a brand new team of lawyers whose sole purpose is to prevent the Democrats on the ways and means committee from getting their hands on his tax returns. In fact, it's actually six years worth of tax returns that the Democrats are a subpoenaing or may subpoena or want to subpoena or may have already subpoenaed. All we know is that they want those damn tax returns and they're going to get them because on the ways and means committee, uh, that's actually 100% within your authority to do. They actually have the authority to get the tax returns from any American citizen that they choose. It's really that simple. They want them, they make the request, they get them into story, but Donald Trump doesn't want his tax returns released to that committee and more importantly to the American public, which wouldn't even necessarily happen if the committee got them.

So he's brought in this new team of lawyers that does not include Rudy Giuliani, by the way. I guess he's a little tired of him at this point, but it does include some folks who are really on the surface, don't look to be that incompetent of lawyers, but they are out there right now making the argument here it is. This, according to a statement on Friday, they were, they said the request for his private tax information or not consistent with governing law do not advance any proper legislative purpose and threatened to interfere with the ordinary conduct of audits. We are confident that this misguided attempt to politicize the administration of the tax laws will not succeed. Now, to be honest, from a purely, strictly legal, nonpartisan standpoint, their argument carries a little bit of water with it, right? I mean, as far as we know, what's the purpose of getting Donald Trump's tax returns?

Perfectly honest to see if there's information in there that may warrant some kind of investigation or possibly even criminal charges. We don't know. We just kind of want them because we want to see what's going on. So I see the point those lawyers are trying to make now before everybody says, oh my God, Farron doesn't want to seem no, trust me. I want 30 to 40 to 50 years of Donald Trump's tax returns. I want them all unredacted and I want them available to everyone in this country because I am also confident there is something in there that he doesn't want us to see otherwise. We'd already have them kind of like the Mueller report. If it was totally awesome and great, we would already have it. Same thing with the tax returns. Now that doesn't mean that there's something in there that shows illegal activity.

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