Friday, April 5, 2019

The Smear Merchants and the Demand for Trump's Tax Returns

      The emerging demand for the release of Trump's tax return has an actual unspoken agenda.   In the first instance everyone knows, or should know, that the Democrats in congress already have Trump's tax returns.   It was only a short time ago that it was revealed that the Obama administration had a program of wholesale violations of first amendment rights of American citizens.
  
       It was Lois Lerner et. al. that slow walked or denied applications for tax free foundations and other conservative organizations.  When questioned before Congressional committees on the issue, the felonious acts were so egregious and numerous that she was compelled by her own guilt to plead the fifth amendment.  Since there was no effort when she was employed by the Internal Revenue Service to scrupulously obey the law, it is fatuous to assume that any other law would be obeyed.

       The natural conclusion of this line of reasoning is that the Democrats already have Trump's tax returns and are merely demanding the formal release of such information so as to not expose employees of the Internal Revenue Service to further criminal liability.  They must already have returns for all eight years of the Obama administration.  Why then, do they want the returns out in the open?   They want to reveal specific information to public scrutiny that Trump and many others would prefer remain private.

        The most reasonable conclusion of this line of reasoning is that they want to expose all private tax exempt organizations that have been recipients of donations from Trump over many years.  They want to smear and besmirch those organizations regardless of what they do in an effort to destroy them.   It is about smearing everybody who is anybody who ever had anything to do with Donald Trump.

        At the end of the day this mob of fascists will undoubtedly get their way, and none of us can predict how many worthwhile organizations will be destroyed. Who will be on the list? Hospitals?
Colleges, Educational Foundations...?   Whoever they are they will be pilloried without mercy for accepting money from Trump.    It is after all not likely that Trump would have attempted to reduce his tax bite by writing off the donation of his used underwear as was done by Bill and Hillary Clinton.