Here's the headline that greeted me when I looked at Yahoo News this morning:
IRS: Congress must get Trump's Tax Returns.
That's pretty definitive, don't you think? The clear meaning is that the IRS has looked into the law regarding the Congressional request by Congress for tax returns and found that Congress has the right to get them. BUT THAT'S NOT TRUE. If you read the article, you find that the IRS determined that Congress gets the returns, but only if the President decides not to assert executive privilege. All president's assert executive privilege. Trump has done it. Obama did it. Bush did it. Clinton did it. So what the IRS actually found was that if the President acts like every other president, Congress does not have the right to those tax returns.
Can you say #FakeNews?
IRS: Congress must get Trump's Tax Returns.
That's pretty definitive, don't you think? The clear meaning is that the IRS has looked into the law regarding the Congressional request by Congress for tax returns and found that Congress has the right to get them. BUT THAT'S NOT TRUE. If you read the article, you find that the IRS determined that Congress gets the returns, but only if the President decides not to assert executive privilege. All president's assert executive privilege. Trump has done it. Obama did it. Bush did it. Clinton did it. So what the IRS actually found was that if the President acts like every other president, Congress does not have the right to those tax returns.
Can you say #FakeNews?
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