Report: Robert Mueller likely already has Donald Trump’s tax returns
Donald Trump is so far behind the media and the public when it comes to his own scandals, he just recently learned that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has the power to pull his tax returns as part of the Russia investigation. The rest of us have known this since the day Mueller was appointed. But because Trump only gets his news from Fox News and the National Enquirer, he didn’t have a clue about it. Now comes a report that Mueller likely already has Trump’s tax returns.
This evening the Washington Post revealed the following startling revelation: “He has told aides he was especially disturbed after learning Mueller would be able to access several years of his tax returns.” (link). This means that not only did Trump fail to learn as much from the widespread earlier reporting on the matter, none of his aides of attorneys had bothered to tell him as much.
But now comes a report from political insider Scott Dworkin: “Spoke to a lawyer who told me that Mueller probably got Trump’s tax returns the first day on the job.” (link). If this is the case, it’s essentially too late for Trump to fire Mueller, as his tax returns are already in the wind. And as we’ve learned over the past two years, whatever Trump is hiding in his tax returns, he’s been consistently desperate to keep anyone from seeing them.
Donald Trump was willing to risk losing the election by refusing to release his tax returns, which made him look incredibly suspicious. That meant Trump knew that whatever he was hiding in his returns was even worse than the political problem he created for himself by keeping it hidden. That’s long pointed to Trump’s returns containing evidence of serious criminal behavior on his part, or evidence that he’s a financial puppet of the Russian government. And now we know that Mueller has likely had them all along. Too late, Trump.
