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Federal Judge Rejects Trump Challenge to Turning Over Tax Returns
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Federal Judge Rejects Trump Challenge to Turning Over Tax Returns
President Donald Trump gestures while speaking to the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 4, 2019, before his departure to nearby Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.
A federal judge has rejected President Donald Trump's challenge to the release of his tax returns for a New York state criminal probe.

Judge Victor Marrero ruled Monday. He said he cannot endorse such a "categorical and limitless assertion of presidential immunity from judicial process."

The returns had been sought by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. His office is investigating the Trump Organization's involvement in buying the silence of two women who claimed to have had affairs with the president.

Trump's lawyers have said the investigation is politically motivated and that the quest for his tax records should be stopped because he is immune from any criminal probe as long as he is president.

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Donald Trump just got his ass kicked by a federal judge
Bill Palmer | 11:53 am EDT October 7, 2019

This morning Federal Judge Victor Marrero issued an emphatic ruling that accounting firm Mazars must immediately turn over eight years of Donald Trump’s tax returns to the Manhattan District Attorney. Trump has since convinced an appeals court to issue a temporary stay while it decides whether to hear the case. Whether Trump wins or loses the appeal, there are two key things that shouldn’t be overlooked here.

First, this ruling doesn’t require Donald Trump to turn over his own tax returns, or the Trump-controlled Treasury Department to cough them up. It orders a private accounting firm to do so. If Trump exhausts his appeals, Mazars will almost surly comply with the ruling, as it’s hard to imagine that the executives at the accounting firm are willing to be arrested for contempt of court just to protect Trump. So if Trump loses this one, he really does lose.

Second, don’t overlook why this is all happening. The Manhattan District Attorney convinced a grand jury to subpoena Trump’s tax returns from Mazars, which is where the court battle came from. This means a New York grand jury is targeting Trump for criminal indictment. Even if Trump wins the appeal and the grand jury never gets his tax returns, it’ll still indict Trump on already-substantiated crimes such as his hush money scandal, the mortgage and insurance fraud that Michael Cohen helped expose, and so on.

The bottom line is that Donald Trump is going to be arrested on state charges the minute he’s no longer president, and he knows it. Those charges can’t be pardoned by him or any future president. He can’t just walk away from the presidency; he has to try to cut some kind of resignation plea deal on his way out the door, in exchange for reduced criminal charges. His increasingly deranged antics could be an attempt on his part at scaring America into giving him a more lenient resignation plea deal just to get rid of him sooner.
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If Trump exhausts his appeals, Mazars will almost surly comply with the ruling, as it’s hard to imagine that the executives at the accounting firm are willing to be arrested for contempt of court just to protect Trump. So if Trump loses this one, he really does lose.