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Poiuyt

(18,130 posts)
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 11:26 PM Feb 2020

Treasury Department Hands Over Hunter Biden Info After Withholding Trump's Tax Records

The Treasury Department has given congressional Republicans sensitive financial information related to Hunter Biden after having refused to give Democrats President Donald Trump’s tax returns.

Yahoo News first reported Thursday that the Treasury Department handed over highly confidential information in response to a November request from Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) for suspicious activity reports filed with the department by financial institutions.

Last year, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin blocked a Democratic request for the president’s tax filings, saying Democrats had no legitimate legislative purpose for seeking the documents.

“The legal implications of this request could affect protections for all Americans against politically-motivated disclosures of personal tax information, regardless of which party is in power,” Mnuchin said in an April 2019 letter.

Apparently, that same standard did not apply when it came to non-tax financial information that may pertain to the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, a Trump political rival.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-republicans-hunter-biden_n_5e3c61bfc5b6b70886fc4ed4

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Treasury Department Hands Over Hunter Biden Info After Withholding Trump's Tax Records (Original Post) Poiuyt Feb 2020 OP
Such are the ways of our dictatorship. democratisphere Feb 2020 #1
The Soviet Union States of America. nt UniteFightBack Feb 2020 #2
grASSley and johnson are buttwipes NoMoreRepugs Feb 2020 #3
With no indication of a crime even being committed no less. Pure politically motivated ooky Feb 2020 #4
I wish someone from within could turn over Ilsa Feb 2020 #5
Some animals are more equal than others. n/t Coventina Feb 2020 #6
Of course they did Joinfortmill Feb 2020 #7

ooky

(8,926 posts)
4. With no indication of a crime even being committed no less. Pure politically motivated
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 11:37 PM
Feb 2020

persecution. 3rd world, authoritarian government type stuff. This Republican government smells to high heaven.

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