NPR BREAKING NEWS: APPEALS COURT RULES TRUMPS ACCOUNTANTS MUST TURN OVER TAX RECORDS.

Appeals Court Rules Trump's Accountants Must Turn Over Tax Records

November 4, 201912:16 PM ET

BRIAN NAYLOR

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An appeals court has ruled President Trump's accounting firm must turn over his tax returns to the Manhattan district attorney.

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President Trump has lost another legal fight in his efforts to keep his tax returns private. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that Trump's accounting firm must turn over his tax returns to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.

The president will appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court, said Jay Sekulow, one of Trump's outside attorneys.

"The decision of the Second Circuit will be taken to the Supreme Court. The issue raised in this case goes to the heart of our Republic. The constitutional issues are significant," said Sekulow in a statement.

Vance has sought the records as part of an investigation into whether two women who said they had affairs with Trump were paid for their silence before the 2016 election.

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The appellate court's order upholds a U.S. District Court order from last month requiring Trump's accounting firm, Mazars USA, to turn over Trump's personal and business tax returns starting from 2011.

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As a candidate and as president, Trump has broken from long-standing practice to make his returns public. Unlike other past presidents, Trump has also not divested from his business interests.

Trump's attorneys claim that as president, he is immune from criminal investigation. A lower court found that argument "repugnant to the nation's fundamental structure and constitutional values."

The appeals court did not rule on the merits of that claim but said that because Vance's office was seeking the records from Trump's accounting firm, and not the president, the question of immunity was not a factor.

"The subpoena at issue is directed not to the President, but to his accountants; compliance does not require the President to do anything at all," wrote Judge Robert Katzman on behalf of the three-judge panel.

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Vance's office is looking into whether any New York state laws were broken when Trump's then-attorney, Michael Cohen, arranged payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal in the closing weeks of the 2016 election. Trump has denied having sexual relationships with the two women.

The president is also fighting efforts by the House of Representatives to obtain his tax records.

IMPEACHING DONALD TRUMP: LET ME COUNT THE WAYS. PART 5.

Before I get back to the reasoning behind the necessity to Impeach DONALD TRUMP, AND WHY HE DESERVES TO BE REMOVED FROM THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT, IT'S NECESSARY TO CLEAR UP SOME MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE PROCESS. IN THIS WAY WE CAN IDENTIFY FALSE AND MISLEADING INFORMATION THAT WILL COME FROM THOSE WHO SEEK TO PROTECT DONALD TRUMP,  SO THAT THEY CAN PRESERVE AND EXPAND FASCIST IDEOLOGY ACROSS ALL BRANCHES OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. IN OTHER WORDS, A LEGACY OF HATE.

IMPEACHMENT, on any level, be it President, Congressman, Judge etc, is not part of our JUSTICE SYSTEM. Our System of Laws, be it CRIMINAL OR CIVIL, does not address the Concept Of  IMPEACHMENT. THE FINDERS OF FACT are not Judges or Juries, but the MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. IT IS THEY WHO EVALUATE THE ACTIONS AND BEHAVIORS OF THE INDIVIDUAL FACING POSSIBLE IMPEACHMENT, AND IF THE FACTS SUPPORT IT, A VERDICT THAT LEADS TO REMOVAL FROM OFFICE.

The BILL OF RIGHTS has nothing to do with IMPEACHMENT. CONCEPTS such as DUE PROCESS, MIRANDA RIGHTS, TRIAL BY JURY, BURDEN OF PROOF, DOUBLE JEOPARDY etc, that are part of our SYSTEM OF LAWS, ARE NOT PART OF THE PROCESS OF IMPEACHMENT. ANYONE WHO CLAIMS THAT THEY ARE IS EITHER IGNORANT OF THE SUBJECT MATTER, INCOMPETENT, OR LYING.

TO BE CONTINUED...

NPR BREAKING NEWS: ELIZABETH WARREN AND MEDICARE FOR ALL.

READ: Elizabeth Warren's Plan To Pay For 'Medicare For All'

November 1, 20198:56 AM ET

DANIELLE KURTZLEBEN

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has released her plan to fund single-payer health care, keeping with a pledge not to raise taxes on the middle class.

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Updated at 11:10 a.m. ET

Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she can fund "Medicare for All" without raising taxes on the middle class. Instead, among other things, she would boost the wealth tax on the ultra-rich that she has promoted on the campaign trail.

Warren had promised at a recent debate that she would not sign a bill that raises health care costs for the middle class. Under a plan released Friday morning, the Massachusetts senator and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate goes further: Middle class Americans would no longer pay health premiums or copays and would also not pay any new taxes to replace those costs. However, they would pay taxes on whatever extra take-home pay they would receive in this new system.

However, she will boost what had been a 3% wealth tax on people with more than a billion dollars to 6%. Her plan would also have employers pay higher taxes to the government, which she says would replace what they currently pay toward private health insurance.

Warren is proposing $20.5 trillion in new federal spending under the proposal.

Altogether, Warren's plan says that total national health costs would not go up under the single-payer health proposal. Rather, all of the estimated $52 trillion in health spending over a decade would be paid via the federal government.

ClarificationNov. 1, 2019

While middle class Americans would no longer pay health premiums or copays under Elizabeth Warren's proposal and would also not pay any new taxes to replace those costs, they would pay taxes on whatever extra take-home pay might result.

A MESSAGE FOR THE DEMOCRATS WHO VOTED FOR AN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY INTO DONALD TRUMP.

I GUESS HONOR AND DUTY CAN STILL BE FOUND IN THE HALLS OF CONGRESS. 

YOUR DECISION TO HOLD OUR CORRUPT PRESIDENT ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS ACTIONS, AND IGNORING THE DRIVEL SPOUTED BY HIS LACKEYS, MAKES ME BELIEVE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THE TRUE NATURE OF DONALD TRUMP: AN AMORAL OPPORTUNIST WHO CARES LITTLE FOR THE WELL BEING OF THE AVERAGE AMERICAN CITIZEN. 





THE ELECTION FRAUD THAT GAVE HIM THE WHITE HOUSE, AND THE "EMPTY ASSERTIONS" THAT ARE BEING USED TO JUSTIFY THE BOGUS RESULTS OF THE 2016 ELECTION, SHOW US THAT FASCISM IN THE U.S. IS THE ULTIMATE GOAL FOR SOME AMERICANS. UNFORTUNATELY, THEY HAVE FOUND WILLING ALLIES AMONG POLITICIANS WHO CARE FOR NOTHING BUT THE THREE Ps:

 POWER.                    PRIVILEGE.                PRESTIGE.



TO HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI: 
YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES HAVE CREATED AN OPEN FORUM TO EXPOSE TRUMP AND HIS CORRUPT SYCOPHANTS, WHO BELIEVE THE CONSTITUTION IS NOTHING MORE THAN A PIECE OF PAPER THAT CAN BE FOLLOWED OR IGNORED, DEPENDING ON THE SELF-CENTERED WHIMS OF CORRUPT POLITICIANS.

THE EYES OF HISTORY ARE ON YOU, ME, AND ALL  AMERICANS  WHO
REJECT TYRANNY IN ANY FORM.



REMEMBER THE WORDS OF HOWARD A. WALTER.

I would be true, for there are those who trust me;
I would be pure, for there are those who care;
I would be strong, for there is much to suffer;
I would be brave, for there is much to dare.