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Senator Susan Collins of Maine told Maine Public Radio that she's at least potentially willing to subpoena Donny's tax returns, if necessary to get to the bottom of his involvement with Russia. That's important because her vote, together with the six Democratic members, is enough to form a majority of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee. It's not as quick as action by the House Ways and Means Committee would be (that Committee can simply get the tax returns directly from the IRS), but it's a path to the truth. --Bob

Bob78164 wrote:Senator Susan Collins of Maine told Maine Public Radio that she's at least potentially willing to subpoena Donny's tax returns, if necessary to get to the bottom of his involvement with Russia. That's important because her vote, together with the six Democratic members, is enough to form a majority of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee. It's not as quick as action by the House Ways and Means Committee would be (that Committee can simply get the tax returns directly from the IRS), but it's a path to the truth. --Bob

And yet you had no interest in Obama's secrets.

BackInTex wrote:

Bob78164 wrote:Senator Susan Collins of Maine told Maine Public Radio that she's at least potentially willing to subpoena Donny's tax returns, if necessary to get to the bottom of his involvement with Russia. That's important because her vote, together with the six Democratic members, is enough to form a majority of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee. It's not as quick as action by the House Ways and Means Committee would be (that Committee can simply get the tax returns directly from the IRS), but it's a path to the truth. --Bob

And yet you had no interest in Obama's secrets.

What secrets are those?

Jeemie wrote:

BackInTex wrote:

Bob78164 wrote:Senator Susan Collins of Maine told Maine Public Radio that she's at least potentially willing to subpoena Donny's tax returns, if necessary to get to the bottom of his involvement with Russia. That's important because her vote, together with the six Democratic members, is enough to form a majority of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee. It's not as quick as action by the House Ways and Means Committee would be (that Committee can simply get the tax returns directly from the IRS), but it's a path to the truth. --Bob

And yet you had no interest in Obama's secrets.

What secrets are those?

School records.

BackInTex wrote:

Bob78164 wrote:Senator Susan Collins of Maine told Maine Public Radio that she's at least potentially willing to subpoena Donny's tax returns, if necessary to get to the bottom of his involvement with Russia. That's important because her vote, together with the six Democratic members, is enough to form a majority of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee. It's not as quick as action by the House Ways and Means Committee would be (that Committee can simply get the tax returns directly from the IRS), but it's a path to the truth. --Bob

And yet you had no interest in Obama's secrets.

No risk that President Obama was a Russian asset. --Bob

Bob78164 wrote:

BackInTex wrote:

Bob78164 wrote:Senator Susan Collins of Maine told Maine Public Radio that she's at least potentially willing to subpoena Donny's tax returns, if necessary to get to the bottom of his involvement with Russia. That's important because her vote, together with the six Democratic members, is enough to form a majority of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee. It's not as quick as action by the House Ways and Means Committee would be (that Committee can simply get the tax returns directly from the IRS), but it's a path to the truth. --Bob

And yet you had no interest in Obama's secrets.

No risk that President Obama was a Russian asset. --Bob

No, but an Al-Qaeda one, maybe. We know less about his history and background than any president. He wouldn't release his college records. Everyone else to that point had. There must be something there he wanted to hide.

BackInTex wrote:

Jeemie wrote:What secrets are those?

School records.

His school records might have offered us a window into potential conflicts of interest because of financial dealings?

I never knew that!

Surely you're not equating college transcripts to a potential record of financial dealings of someone with a far-flung business empire.

If there's anyone who should have released his tax records and given us as much of a window into his financial dealings, it was Donald Trump. No President ever came into office with such a history as Donald.

Deutsche Bank is under Justice Department investigation. We know Trump has hundreds of millions in loans from DB. Can we trust his DOJ to be impartial with DB?

We should definitely be entitled to learn more about his dealings with Bayrock, which is where the shadowy connections to Russian and Kazakh financiers come into play, don't you think?

And even more recently. Trump takes a call from Taiwan...talks tough about maybe changing the "One China" policy.

Trump's businesses get a lucrative copyright deal from China.

Suddenly Trump says he'll abide by the One China policy.

Maybe that's above board...maybe not.

See why we might want him to be a bit more transparent?

BackInTex wrote:

Bob78164 wrote:

BackInTex wrote:

And yet you had no interest in Obama's secrets.

No risk that President Obama was a Russian asset. --Bob

No, but an Al-Qaeda one, maybe. We know less about his history and background than any president. He wouldn't release his college records. Everyone else to that point had. There must be something there he wanted to hide.

I don't recall W releasing his college transcripts. His classmates said he struggled to get Cs.

Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard. What more do you need to know?

Bob Juch wrote:

BackInTex wrote:

Bob78164 wrote:No risk that President Obama was a Russian asset. --Bob

No, but an Al-Qaeda one, maybe. We know less about his history and background than any president. He wouldn't release his college records. Everyone else to that point had. There must be something there he wanted to hide.

I don't recall W releasing his college transcripts. His classmates said he struggled to get Cs.

Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard. What more do you need to know?

GWB's family connections helped him get into Yale, but he did well enough there to be accepted to Harvard Business School.

Gerald Ford, another president who was the butt of jokes, got into Yale Law School. He didn't have a football scholarship there. Trump got into Wharton. Presidents sometimes do stupid things, but none of them are dumb. Misunderestimate them at your own risk.

Someone who had as serious mission would say We must subpoena The President's financial records. A Grandstanding politician would say we will subponea his his tax returns

jarnon wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:

BackInTex wrote:
No, but an Al-Qaeda one, maybe. We know less about his history and background than any president. He wouldn't release his college records. Everyone else to that point had. There must be something there he wanted to hide.

I don't recall W releasing his college transcripts. His classmates said he struggled to get Cs.

Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard. What more do you need to know?

GWB's family connections helped him get into Yale, but he did well enough there to be accepted to Harvard Business School.

Gerald Ford, another president who was the but of jokes, got into Yale Law School. He didn't have a football scholarship there. Trump got into Wharton. Presidents sometimes do stupid things, but none of them are dumb. Misunderestimate them at your own risk.

Trump got into Wharton as an undergraduate but did not, as he's claimed, graduate magna cum laude; he never even made the dean's list. He entered Wharton's MBA program but did not graduate.