Re: Cy Vance has Trump's tax returns right now!
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probably better sit this one out
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Date: February 26, 2021 09:32PM
Red lion Wrote:
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> Guilty Pleasure Wrote:
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> > Mueller's team scoured his tax returns looking
> for
> > anything they could find. Probably need to get
> a
> > little "creative".
>
>
> Your claim is absolutely not true. Trump claimed
> Mueller did go through financial records, but
> there was no mention, good, bad, cross referenced,
> footnoted, or indifferent, in the report on
> Trump's taxes or finances.
>
> To further show your claim is bunk, CNN legal
> analyst Jeffrey Toobin wrote it in his book, "True
> Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of
> Donald Trump," neither Mueller nor the Southern
> District of New York had the opportunity, but
> decided against scrutinizing Trump's financial
> history despite there being questions about the
> president's financial ties to Russia.
>
> Through members of Mueller's staff, Toobin learned
> that the special counsel forwent a financial
> investigation because Mueller was focused on
> Trump's intent, or whether he had knowledge that
> his actions were wrong, not a possible motive.
>
> "Motive is related to intent, but a much broader
> concept," Toobin wrote. "A defendant's motive to
> commit a crime could include financial gain,
> jealous rivalry, or an unhappy childhood. When
> bringing a criminal case, prosecutors often find
> it helpful to prove a defendant's motive, but the
> law does not require it. It's necessary only to
> prove intent. Mueller's prosecutors thought
> Trump's financial records and tax returns went to
> possible motive, not intent, so they thought they
> didn't need the evidence."
>
> Another reason for Mueller's hesitation was the
> scope of the investigation, as Deputy Attorney
> General Rod Rosenstein had directed him to
> investigate "any links and/or coordination between
> the Russian government and individuals associated
> with" the Trump campaign.
>
> "Mueller thought that if he tried to expand his
> mandate to look at Trump's possible financial
> misdeeds, that would look like a fishing
> expedition, which he was determined to avoid,"
> Toobin wrote. "So, Mueller and his team never
> found out the nature, if any, of Trump's financial
> ties to Russia."
>
> The U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan similarly
> restrained itself after Mueller's team shared
> information about Trump's former fixer, Michael
> Cohen, with federal prosecutors in the Southern
> District of New York about possible criminal
> activity involving a $130,000 hush-money payment
> to pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels, who
> claims to have had an affair with Trump (which he
> denies) and other questionable financial
> activity.
>
> "Surely, the speculation went, the Southern
> District would use its investigation of Cohen to
> look into Trump's financial dealings, including
> his tax returns. Trump himself, who reacted with
> fury to the raid on his lawyer's properties,
> seemed to be worried about that very prospect,"
> Toobin wrote.
>
>
> "Still, what Trump didn't know, and what the
> breathless news coverage of the Cohen raid didn't
> recognize, was that the Southern District's
> investigation of Michael Cohen ... was an
> investigation of Michael Cohen. It was not, and
> never would be, an investigation of Donald Trump,"
> he added.
>
> Mueller wrapped up his two-year investigation in
> the spring of last year. His team concluded Russia
> interfered in 2016 in a “sweeping and systematic
> fashion," but it “did not establish” any
> criminal conspiracy between the Russians and the
> Trump campaign. The investigation did, however,
> lead to convictions and guilty pleas from Trump
> associates over charges unrelated to Russia
> collusion.
>
> Mueller also laid out 10 instances of possible
> obstruction of justice, which Democrats saw as a
> road map for impeachment. Attorney General William
> Barr and Rosenstein concluded Trump hadn’t
> obstructed justice.
>
>
> The hunt for Trump's financial records and tax
> returns, which he has refused to disclose
> voluntarily, remained in legal fights being waged
> by House Democrats and Manhattan District Attorney
> Cyrus R. Vance Jr. until now.
Dude, you literally quoted Jeffrey Toobin lol.