President Donald Trump went on an angry Twitter spree this morning after a 7-2 Supreme Court decision ruled on very narrow grounds that a grand jury can subpoena a president’s tax records. Here’s what @RealDonaldTrump had to say:
….No Republican Senate Judiciary response, NO “JUSTICE”, NO FBI, NO NOTHING. Major horror show REPORTS on Comey & McCabe, guilty as hell, nothing happens. Catch Obama & Biden cold, nothing. A 3 year, $45,000,000 Mueller HOAX, failed – investigated everything….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2020
….for another President. This is about PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT. We catch the other side SPYING on my campaign, the biggest political crime and scandal in U.S. history, and NOTHING HAPPENS. But despite this, I have done more than any President in history in first 3 1/2 years!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2020
Now, of course the President is right about the absurdly disparate treatment he has received from this Court, and obviously also correct about the criminal nature of the entire Obama Administration.
But what he apparently missed before he went on this Twitter spurt is that today’s decision by the Court is actually a significant victory for him, one that sends the case back to the lower court and basically ensures that his tax records will remain confidential at least through November, and possibly forever. Not only that, but the case is also a loss for Democrats in congress and their politically-motivated pursuit of those tax records.
Here is how George Washington University Constitutional Law Professor Jonathan Turley explained it on his own Twitter feed:
…"The courts below did not take adequate account of the significant separation of powers concerns implicated by congressional subpoenas for the President's information." Where Trump went too far in Trump v. Vance, the Congress may have been equally extreme in its demands here.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) July 9, 2020
If you are looking for a scoreboard, Trump v. Vance is a clear loss for the White House. Mazars rejects similarly absolute claims but it also finds that the White House was right on the failure for the courts to render a balanced inquiry on these issues.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) July 9, 2020
In both cases, Trump's appointees (Gorsuch and Kavanaugh) correctly rejected the extreme arguments of privilege by the White House in both cases. Mazars could have been a win for Congress with a more tailored demand and a more balanced review.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) July 9, 2020
Look, it’s very easy to understand the President’s anger and frustration about these never-ending battles he has had to engage in with the Deep State. But hey, he just keeps on WINNING those battles, even when, as in this case, he doesn’t even realize he has won.
That is all.
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The SCOTUS decision regarding Oklahoma wasn’t a Trump victory though. It upheld an 1866 treaty stating that a huge chunk of OK is an Indian (is that word wayciss thoughcrime?) reservation.
OK is one of the reddest of Red States. Hmm…so hmm.
Imagine if a you will a world gone so insane that down is up and evil is good. 2+2=potato.
Did Comrade Dear Leader Messiah Hussein Hopenchange have to reveal his tax records.
Ohhh noes that be so wayciss!
That decision doesn’t impact Trump one way or another. That decision goes back to the illegal abrogation of a treaty in 1866 by the Andrew Johnson administration. Insane as the results may end up being, there is little doubt it is the correct decision.
We also never saw his transcripts.
The Democrat mantra:
Hide ‘the One’s life’s details
Keep Walking Eagle sequestered as much as possible
Keep totally Hiden Biden.
Trump is the most transparent and available president in history
Any you can be sure if Trump had released his taxes, the left would have just gone on with some other bogus attack.
By ruling that a President does not have absolute protection from being subpoenaed, we now have what we need (a decision from the SCOTUS) to go after a former President. Just sayin’!
If there was anything out of order with Trumps taxes it would have been leaked by the crooked Obama IRS long ago. Nothing but distraction and deflection from the commiecrats
Excellent point tommer
I don’t think Trump is angry and out of control at all. His Tweets, despite how they may appear, are always very well planned to have the desired effects. In this case, it is to stir the media into chasing this irrelevancy down a dead end.
Trump’s lawyers will easily delay this through November, and beyond that I seriously doubt he has anything to hide.
He is using this to his political advantage. Everything, without exception, is now politics.