A group of 37 former Republican lawmakers have filed a brief with the Supreme Court, asking them to PLEASE force the President to hand over his tax returns to investigators in New York. Trump is still facing some very serious investigations and his tax returns are at the center of them, but he has fought it every way. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains why these Republicans are demanding that the president hand over these documents that he’s worked so hard to hide. Link –
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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.
A group of 37 Republicans have sent a brief to the United States Supreme court asking the court to rule in favor of the Manhattan district attorney's office and force Donald Trump to turn over his tax returns. Finally, these 37 Republicans include former law makers, former members of the executive branch, and of course to nobody's surprise George Conway and John Dean to Republicans who are really not fans of Trump. And they're demanding that the Supreme court, they're begging that the Supreme court does the right thing and agrees that the president has to comply with the investigation taking place in New York. Now, in case anybody forgot, cause I know we get distracted by primaries. Donald Trump is still under a lot of different investigations. Most of them coming out of the great state of New York, and all of them dependent upon getting their hands on his tax information to find out if he overstated his assets, if he committed bank fraud, if he committed wire fraud, if he committed tax fraud, it would be contained in those documents.
So they could then take those and compare them to other statements from the Trump organization and the Trump family. Without those documents, these investigations have a very slim chance of even being able to be completed. And Trump has fought at every step of the way. Now, this is headed for oral arguments on March 31st of this year. So we have under a month before Trump's lawyers, before the Manhattan DA's office goes in front of the U S Supreme court and explains why they should or shouldn't force the president to release his tax returns. And these 37 Republicans actually spelled it out quite beautifully. You know, they said, uh, we're concerned that president Trump's assertions of absolute immunity from process while in office and more generally, his arguments against accountability in any forum could impose lasting damage. On our constitutional system of checks and balances as well as on the rule of law. Basically they're saying you cannot give the president complete immunity because if you do, that's something you can't take away.
That's something that's there now and it is absolutely destructive to the United States constitution, but I think what these 37 Republicans are probably a little bit more worried about is that if the Supreme court says no, the president's got immunity, well, these 37 Republicans aren't morons. I disagree with all of their politics, but they're not morons, and they understand that eventually at some point in America, we're going to have another Democrat as the president of the United States. Could have one in under 12 months. And what happens now if that president gets immunity? Suddenly their hands are tied. They don't get to conduct investigations, they don't get to do anything. No matter how evident the law breaking could be for whoever it is, and they understand that that's going to be damaging. It's going to be damaging for the Republicans. It's going to be damaging for the Democrats, and more importantly, yes, it's going to be damaging for the rule of law here in the United States.
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