Trump urges keeping tax returns away from Manhattan's top prosecutor
Source: Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday urged a federal appeals court on Monday not to let Manhattans top prosecutor get eight years of his tax returns, saying the handover would cause him irreparable harm.
The argument was made in a filing with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan, which on Tuesday will hear oral arguments on Trumps bid to delay Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vances subpoena for the returns during Trumps appeal.
If the appeals court were to reject a delay, Trump requested an administrative stay to give the U.S. Supreme Court sufficient time to consider his request, the filing said.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-vance-idUSKBN25R2SQ
progressive nobody
(816 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)progressive nobody
(816 posts)dchill
(38,532 posts)As it should. Sauce for the goose.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)caused "irreparable harm" to Mr. Capone. Yeah, that's the thing about cheating on your taxes, Donny.
riversedge
(70,299 posts)Chainfire
(17,636 posts)What kind of dirty secrets is hidden there....Only the shadow knows.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)What keeps Trump up at night isn't the notion that someone's going to find criminal activity in his tax returns. It is that if his returns get into the wrong hands (read: anyone not employed by Trump), people are going to find out a department manager at Walmart made more money in 2016 than he did.
pansypoo53219
(20,995 posts)ybbor
(1,555 posts)Only happens to someone who is guilty of something.
I hate that POS so fucking much!
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,364 posts)... to inflict on others.
Firing life-long government employees a few weeks before they're eligible for retirement benefits: priceless.
OldBaldy1701E
(5,157 posts)aggiesal
(8,923 posts)will cause irreparable harm to the other 330M citizens and the Costitution.
Release his taxes.
relayerbob
(6,555 posts)That's the point, you moron.
You're covering up illegal behavior and activities. You should suffer irreparable harm in a prison of the people's choice.
TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)irreparable harm. I'm Donald Trump and I approved this message because I filed it in court."
iluvtennis
(19,871 posts)to consider his [appeal]request".
So the NY prosecutor could still be delayed in getting the tax returns - gosh, I so despise trump.
JohnnyRingo
(18,641 posts)and if I said they would, it'd probably be cause to take a look.
just sayin'
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,364 posts)Snoopy 7
(528 posts)Trump is saying he has to keep his innocence image by covering up his criminality? After all he has to keep his position, by getting reelected, in order to keep helping Americans? I'm sorry but it's his kind of help that we can do without.
Le Roi de Pot
(744 posts)At the murder scene saying it would cause him irrerable harm.
Seriously? What a stupid argument!!!
nwliberalkiwi
(367 posts)Besides the obvious question of criminality, there may be the question about a financial house of cards that could destroy the Trump corporations!!!
orangecrush
(19,617 posts)Is what he's done to America.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Not only has done, is still doing. He has caused irreparable harm to the USPS, the CIA, FBI, EPA and others. Four years is too long to wait. Other presidents were honest enough to be open with their taxes, why not Don the Con? He never should have been allowed to keep this secret, anyway.
AZ8theist
(5,492 posts)MissMillie
(38,578 posts)Why is that? If the returns are on the up-and-up, what harm could there be?
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)to paraphrase Trump.