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California and other states are trying to find out where his money comes from. But they are blocked.
https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2019/09/19/federal-judge-to-suspend-california-law-compelling-trump-tax-release-9393766
New York is being sued for trying to get the returns President Revenge Porn says he'd be happy to release after audit. Liar.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/19/politics/trump-tax-returns-vance/index.html
The most unpopular POTUS ever is winning the battle for transparency in our federal government. Why? How?
The corruption is drilled down way too far. And is this long gone man to blame?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-man-who-made-trump-a-monster-inside-wheres-my-roy-cohn?ref=home
I also think many of our colleges have been toxic, especially via the hazing process. What does that do to better students? Nothing. It makes them coarse, insensitive, cruel and vindictive. I think these things are connected. We never used to be so willing to give horrible behavior a pass.
Cary
(11,746 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(9,110 posts)And the umpires are sitting in a bar somewhere.
choie
(4,111 posts)a pass since Nixon resigned. Were Bush and Cheney made to account for their war crimes? What about Iran Contra?
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,110 posts)That is up until 9/11. Our pundit class politicizing a remark as innocent as saying you are "embarrassed the president was from Texas", did major damage to our identity as a free country. Fear of speaking the truth is now inside our government.
Give us the damn tax returns!
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,110 posts)He was maybe the last liberal Republican in history of the Congress.
Since then we have become more toxic and less able to govern. And it's a global phenom.
Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlen_Specter?wprov=sfla1