So explain to us why trump shouldn't release his tax returns?
Trump hires law firm to fight bid by Congress to get his income tax returns
Source: CNBC
President Donald Trump has hired a law firm to battle congressional efforts to see his income tax returns.
In a letter Friday to Treasury Department General Counsel Brent McIntosh, lawyer William Consovoy argued that the House Ways and Means Committee has no "legitimate committee purpose" for seeking the president's returns. The attorney from the law firm Consovoy McCarthy Park also wrote that the Treasury would set "set a dangerous precedent" by releasing the returns.
"Even if Ways and Means had a legitimate committee purpose for requesting the President's tax returns and return information, that purpose is not driving Chairman [Richard] Neal's request. His request is a transparent effort by one political party to harass an official from the other party because they dislike his politics and speech," Consovoy argued in the letter obtained by NBC News.
The letter escalates the legal dispute between the White House and House Democrats, who formally requested the president's tax returns on Wednesday evening. Trump, who came into office in 2017 still owning sprawling global business holdings, did not release his returns during the 2016 election, breaking with decades of precedent. Democrats have said politics did not inspire their request.
A Trump supporter with a rifle has been turning up at Arizona churches looking for Jeff Flake
Donald Trump’s words are again having real impact, and again, lives are in danger as a result. This time the threat is aimed at Jeff Flake, the recently retired Republican senator from Arizona. Unwilling to completely toe the Trump line, Flake decided it was time to move on from the Senate, but Trump supporters aren’t letting go. Flake talked with the Guardian and said he is continuing to get threats from Trump supporters.
Flake revealed that an unidentified man carrying a rifle scope had recently arrived at three locations in Arizona associated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, looking for the former senator, a devout Mormon.
According to Flake: “It was a man living out of his car. He told someone he had just attended a Trump rally.” He added: “He showed up at another event two weeks ago.”
Last week, a Chicago man pleaded guilty to a federal retaliation charge after leaving a threatening voicemail for Flake during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.
The defendant, 58-year-old James Dean Blevins Jr, said on the voicemail: “I am tired of him interrupting our president, and I am coming down there to take him and his family out,” according to prosecutors.
Flake told the Guardian that these were just two in a series of threats he and his family have received.
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