'PARTING SHOTS': Dems blasted for attempt to score last-minute 'cheap political points' with Trump taxes

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'Who really cares about Donald Trump’s tax returns the day before New
Years?' a former advisor to the Clintons told Fox News

One-party control in the nation's capital will come to an end next week as
Democrats are forced to relinquish control of the House to Republicans,
but that didn't prevent Democrats and President Biden's administration
from offering last minute jabs during their final days in power.

Democrats from the House Ways and Means Committee released a partially
redacted version of former President Trump's tax returns Friday,
completing a longtime objective of Democrats to make Trump's finances
public after the former president unsuccessfully tried to stop them in
court.

"It’s all politics," said Fox News contributor Mark Penn, a former advisor
to President Clinton and Hillary Clinton. "These are final parting shots
as the Democrats lose control of the committees and the power they had in
the House. Who really cares about Donald Trump’s tax returns the day
before New Years?"

The release of Trump's tax documents wasn't the only Democratic attempt to
score political points before the GOP takes control of the House. The
White House publicized a letter to Republicans on the Oversight Committee
stating they wouldn't respond to existing document requests, and political
strategist from both sides of the aisle told Fox News Digital that it
appears the Democratic Party may be trying to undermine the agenda and
priorities of Republicans when the 118th Congress convenes for the first
time on Tuesday.

DEMOCRATS RELEASE FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S TAX RETURNS

Erin Perrine, vice president of Tag Strategies and former communications
director for Sen. Ted Cruz, said the moves from the Democratic Party are
"mired in partisan pettiness" and do nothing to benefit the lives of
Americans.

"The end of Democrats’ unified government in D.C. is mired in partisan
pettiness. Instead of working to combat the inhumane Biden border crisis,
fentanyl killing an entire generation of Americans, or securing economic
prosperity for the future, Democrats are set to stonewall Republicans,
release a private citizen’s tax returns, and blow an even bigger hole in
our debt and deficit," said Perrine, who formerly served as the national
press secretary for House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy. "Really tells
the American people all they need to know about Democrat priorities —
cheap political points that do nothing to better the lives of working-
class Americans."

The Democrats' recent actions prove that they "put America last" as they
prioritize other policies, according to Marc Lotter, who served as press
secretary for Vice President Mike Pence.

"The House majority proved on their way out the door what we’ve known
since day one — they put America last," Lotter said. "From passing a $1.7
trillion spending bill that secures the borders of Middle East countries,
but not our own, to two years of reckless spending that created historic
inflation, liberal leaders in the House divided our Nation and put America
on a path toward a recession that could very well cost millions of people
their homes, their retirement, and their jobs."

Similarly, Colin Reed, a founding member of South & Hill Strategies who
served as campaign manager for former Massachusetts GOP Sen. Scott Brown,
said the Democrats are attempting to make the most of their final days in
the House majority.

HOUSE GOP TAKES AIM AT WHITE HOUSE FOR IGNORING OVERSIGHT REQUESTS

"There’s a new sheriff coming to town, and House Democrats know they need
to make hay while the sun is still shining. Before they turn over the
gavels, they want to accomplish two things: inoculate the current
president from upcoming oversight efforts involving Biden Inc. and ensure
the national conversations stays focused on the former president," Reed
said.

"Trump’s tax returns have long been a white whale for partisan Democrats,"
he added. "Now that they finally achieved their goal, the American public
will render the final verdict on their political worth and impact. Voters
are looking for elected officials who can chart a course for the future,
not an endless re-hashing of events from the past."

White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber also sent a letter to House
Judiciary Committee ranking member Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and House Oversight
Committee ranking member James Comer, R-Ky., on Thursday to say that the
administration did not plan to respond to letters seeking information for
potential House probes, telling the congressmen that they needed to resend
those requests once they take over their committees in the next Congress.

Also in focus as Republicans prepare to take the reins in the House is the
conclusion of the Jan. 6 Committee that relentlessly targeted Trump
following the Capitol protests in early 2021.

Benjamin Weingarten, a Claremont Institute fellow, compared the release of
Trump's tax returns to the purpose of the January 6 Committee — which he
calls a political gambit aimed at attacking opponents that "failed on the
politics and the merits."

"That House Democrats' final act in the majority was to strike one last
blow in their relentless war against Donald Trump — in the process running
roughshod over the very norms and institutions they so claim to cherish —
marks a fitting end to their progressive rule, and tells you all you need
to know about their priorities and posture as they lose their grip on
power," he said.

"This was of a piece with the Soviet show trial-style January 6th
Committee that recently reached its unceremonious conclusion, the primary
purpose of which was never to unearth truth or hold people to account, but
to politically persecute political foes declared guilty at the outset
while the Biden Justice Department does the Democrats' legal bidding in
criminalizing its political opponents."

BIDEN BACKERS BRACE FOR HUNTER BIDEN REVELATIONS AHEAD OF GOP
INVESTIGATIONS

Kevin Seifert, who served as chief of staff to former House Speaker Paul
Ryan, insists a great deal of the motive behind the recent decisions by
Democrats has to do with President Biden's "re-election prospects."

"Democrats are ending this session of Congress as they started it — by
advancing partisan priorities and ignoring any issue inconvenient to their
political narrative," Seifert said. "They want to gaslight Americans into
believing there is no crisis on the Southern border. They want to deny the
reality of a looming debt crisis, mind-trick people into believing our
supply chain issues are fixed, and preemptively thwart any attempt at
legitimate Congressional oversight. Rather than find areas of bipartisan
consensus, Democrats are instead prioritizing President Biden’s re-
election prospects. This isn’t surprising, but it is disappointing."

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In contrast, Kevin Walling, a Democratic political strategist who serves
as vice president of HGCreative, insisted the actions by Democrats leading
up to the start of a new Congress represent "the proper role of
congressional oversight" as he claimed "the American people rejected
extremism at the polls" in the Nov. 8 midterm elections.

"I believe that the actions of both the House Ways and Means Committee and
January 6th Select Committee in the closing weeks of the year are more
about accountability and the proper role of congressional oversight than
any parting shots with GOP control on the horizon," Walling said. "There
is a fine line between genuine fact finding and what the public perceives
as partisan oversight witch hunts that House Republicans will have to
navigate in the new congress."

Fox News' Chris Pandolfo, Brianna Herlihy, and Patrick Ward contributed to
this article.

Comments:

DrMike00-KJV
7 hours ago

Two words: Taxable income. Look it up under Google along with the words
business tax deductions. If you earn $1M in a business and spent $1M to
earn it then your taxable income is zero, which means you pay zero taxes.
Nothing but gaslighting the public that has no clue about how businesses
are taxed and how it affects the owners or shareholders as compared to
personal income tax.

TGunn
6 hours ago

The US Tax Code is about 48,000 pages. Even the best tax attorney does not
know all of it. And they change it constantly. It's WAY out of control. So
business people, such as Trump, just follow the Code and use the
"loopholes". And that's all legal. Don't you think Obama, Biden, Schumer,
McConnell use every loophole they can? Dems blather about "loopholes for
the rich" but when in power they never change the Tax Code except to
increase taxes on the Middle Class.


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