Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) called Trump a phony and slammed his “little Republican enablers” while unveiling a plan to get Trump’s tax returns made public.
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Rep. Doggett said on MSNBC’s The Beat With Ari Melber:
The most important point is the one you made that Donald Trump is a self-made myth. Not a self-made man. He is phony through and through. We would know a lot more about it had his little Republican enablers in Congress not been protecting him and covering up his tax returns so we would have the information from him that every prior president for many years, Republican and Democrat candidate alike disclosed to the public. Last Valentine’s day, 2017, I filed the first motion concerned about the Russian connection and how much Russian money might have been laundered in past trump deals. He has some 564 entities that he’s involved with in addition to his personal returns. I’ve filed a number of other, seven in all, as recently as last month.
The Republicans have covered up and blocked every one because they don’t want to look under that rock and see what they might see. In January, if the American people support a new Congress that will engage in oversight, not just overlook, then we don’t even need a subpoena. Under a law that dates back decades, the Ways and Means chairman can simply request from the Treasury Department the Trump returns and he, I believe, will do that, and will get the returns on those 500 plus entities. All the working papers as well to understand the returns. Put a staff of CPAs to work looking and digging into those returns. Ultimately our committee can decide to disclose all or a portion of them.
Democrats aren’t interested in just getting the returns and handing them to the public. They are going to use Trump’s tax returns as the foundation for an investigation into the President Of The United States. Trump’s tax returns could have been made public long ago. All Republicans had to do was ask.
The fact that they chose not to illustrates how far the GOP has gone to enable and cover up for Trump, but in about a month, that all may come to an end.
A Democratic House and/or Senate is going to wreck Trump’s crumbling world.
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