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Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal formally requested President Trump’s personal and business tax returns. They want six years worth, giving them just enough fuel to play with now while leaving plenty of room to request more if they uncover something in the first batch.
In a letter to the IRS, Neal went out of his way to claim the timing of this request is entirely his own, not driven by party leadership.
“My preparations were made on my own track and timeline, entirely independent of other activities in Congress and the administration,” Neal said. “My actions reflect an abiding reverence for our democracy and our institutions, and are in no way based on emotion of the moment or partisanship. I trust that in this spirit, the IRS will comply with federal law and furnish me with the requested documents in a timely manner.”
House Dems Request Trump’s Personal and Business Tax Returns, Setting Up Legal Battle https://t.co/EGDdYlIlA6
— David Wedding (@hdwrench51) April 3, 2019
Opinion
As a general rule, when a politician goes out of their way to claim one thing, the exact opposite has a very good chance of being true. This is what makes Neal’s claims of his independence and non-partisan motivations so funny. The truth is this: His timing was passed down to him by his handlers in leadership, he’s not independent by any means, and this is absolutely all about party politics.
The entire purpose, at least on the surface, of the request is to draw attention to the President as a reminder to the Democratic base that they’re working hard to take down the man they all fervently hate. They want him on record fighting to keep his private tax returns private. This, of course, makes sense, and while I was calling for their release as well back in 2015 and early 2016, by the time the general election rolled around it was essentially too late, just as it’s too late now. There is nothing that can benefit America to see them, but there is still plenty the Democrats can try to use against him for the 2020 election.
But the important takeaway here is the timing of the request. Why now? Why not do it within the first couple of weeks after they took control of the House when it could have set the tone? Or, why not do it closer to the election when such a request can be more damaging to the President at the right moment? Doing it earlier or later would make sense, but doing it weeks or even days before Robert Mueller’s Russian investigation report is released to the public seems to be a waste of headlines unless we consider one important factor:
This request was made at this specific time to act as a distraction, which the Democrats desperately needed now that the border crisis is manifesting in ways the media can no longer ignore.
The tax return request is a “pocket distraction.” Politicians use them all the time. They’re relatively timeless headline-makers that can be unleashed at any moment to draw media attention away from something they don’t want discussed at the top of the news cycle. Today, that’s the growing number of headlines even from left-leaning sources that are drawing into question the validity of the Democrats’ stance that there’s no major problem to handle at the border other than what they’re calling a “humanitarian crisis” (which, ironically, they created with their own policies).
This is fodder for journalists to lead them away from the border and back to where the Democrats want them, sniffing around President Trump’s past.
Quote
“I’m much more interested in seeing the tax returns of politicians who became millionaires in office than a billionaire who became a politician.” – Charlie Kirk
I’m much more interested in seeing the tax returns of politicians who became millionaires in office than a billionaire who became a politician
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 3, 2019
Final Thoughts
Everything the Democrats have been saying about the border crisis is becoming conspicuously debunked. Even leftist media is scrambling to cover it up. This tax return request is a distraction timed out to change the subject.
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