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1)WH COS Mulveny: Trump will NEVER release his tax returns saying “Keep in mind that that’s an issue that was already litigated during the election.” But if the election were a referendum on Trump’s tax returns, the nation cast 3 million more votes for his opponents. ...
2)The electoral system makes Trump the lawful president; bills he signs are law, those he vetos are not. But having receive millions of fewer votes means the "people" did not "litigate" issues like release of his tax returns in his favor.
3) One of the few good things about the electoral system is that it reminds us that the president is merely one officer in a constitutional government, unlike the "president for life" installed as the embodiment of "the people" by plebiscite in some authoritarian republic.
4) In any event, "the people" spoke thru their elected representatives when Congress by law empowered the Ways & Means to obtain tax returns. Mulveny comes close to saying that because Trump was elected he does not have to comply with any law with which he disagrees.
5) I have never before -- in my three quarters of century of life -- feared that our republican form of government might be in peril. To prevent its destruction is the work before everyone who would preserve a government of laws.
