I see Bloomberg has some anonymously sourced news concerning the tax returns of President Trump:
A key House Democrat said he’s consulting lawyers about whether to make public a complaint by a federal employee about possible misconduct in the Internal Revenue Service’s auditing of President Donald Trump.
The complaint raises allegations about “inappropriate efforts to influence” the audit process, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal said in a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in August. Neal told reporters on Friday that a decision on releasing the complaint depends on advice he receives from lawyers for the House of Representatives.
The release of such a complaint could bolster Neal’s lawsuit seeking to obtain six years of Trump’s tax returns, which he filed in July after the Treasury Department rejected the committee’s request. Neal has said he needs the returns to ensure the IRS is following its policy of annually examining the president’s returns.
Assuming this is true, will Trump’s base care? For most issues, I’d say not. However, in line with the Revolutionary War’s antecedents, it’s a long and hallowed tradition for Americans to bitch & whine about their taxes – and be utterly resentful of the elite who take advantage of loopholes seemingly written just for them.
If, indeed, there’s a whistleblower complaint alleging Trump tried to use the Presidential office to interfere with an audit to his advantage, that might put a stake in the heart of his cult. It doesn’t need to become part of the impeachment inquiry and/or proceedings, but it simply becomes a very important chunk of concrete tied to Trump’s neck, and possibly the piece that breaks him.
And, again if this is true, this is all self-inflicted damage.
