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Vidal

(642 posts)
Wed May 22, 2019, 11:31 AM May 2019

Wilson: Democrats need to be patient, and Trump will be completely "f*cked."

Trump-hating former GOP strategist Rick Wilson says Democrats need to be patient and let Nancy Pelosi’s strategy of slow-rolling impeachment play out — and he says that the end result is that Trump will still be completely “f*cked.” In the Daily Beast, Wilson said he sympathizes with Democrats who are frustrated that the Trump administration is stonewalling their requests. He said that holding impeachment hearings right now, before they’ve exhausted all their legal options to obtain information from the White House, would be a huge mistake. Wilson thinks that Democrats are definitely going to be able to get their hands on Trump’s tax returns without starting up impeachment proceedings.

“This is a matter of black-letter law, with almost no serious legal scholars making even the most superficial defense of the current contempt with which Secretary Steve Mnuchin and the Treasury Department are behaving,” Wilson wrote. “Judge Amit Mehta made it quite clear in his 14-page ruling that the rights of Congress to conduct oversight are not founded by the moods and whims of the man-child engaged in stompy-foot time in the Oval Office or in the novel legal theories of his legal team.”

Wilson then argues that getting Trump’s taxes alone will give Democrats everything they need to crush Trump politically. “That smell? It’s Trump’s panicked flopsweat,” Wilson writes. “Trump’s taxes are his kryptonite, and you can expect him to fight harder on this point than any other.”

Read More: https://www.thedailybeast.com/pelosis-strategy-is-working-and-trump-is-one-step-closer-to-being-fcked

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Wilson: Democrats need to be patient, and Trump will be completely "f*cked." (Original Post) Vidal May 2019 OP
It isn't just the tax returns, it's also the accounting records The Velveteen Ocelot May 2019 #1
The thing is I don't think he's most worried about his tax returns pecosbob May 2019 #2
if we play our cards right, he'll be impeached and removed around the middle of january 2021! unblock May 2019 #3

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,659 posts)
1. It isn't just the tax returns, it's also the accounting records
Wed May 22, 2019, 11:46 AM
May 2019

that contain buckets of kryptonite. Let's get all the financials first, then pile on the testimony from McGahn and Mueller.

pecosbob

(7,534 posts)
2. The thing is I don't think he's most worried about his tax returns
Wed May 22, 2019, 11:47 AM
May 2019

Agreed, the current news is bad for Trump, but I really think there was some seriously skanky sh*t going on between Trump and the Saudis and Putin over the whole invade Iran, give Putin a gas pipleline through Turkey, and sell restricted nuclear technologies to the Wasabi terrorists ruling in Riyadh. I remember the white-sheet looks of Feinstein and others coming out of that intelligence briefing on Flynn. Search warrants released today for Michael Cohen's phone show over a thousand contacts with principal Russians dating from election day.

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