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1. Call me crazy but I'm beginning to think that House Democrats don't actually want Trump's tax returns.

They are doing pretty much everything possible to make sure they don't get them before November 2020

Let's review

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2. First, Ways and Means Chairman @RepRichardNeal waited over 4 months before even ASKING for Trump's tax returns.

At the time he said he needed to wait for Mueller to finish his work. (That wasn't true.)

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3. Then, after the Trump administration predictably refused to hand over Trump's taxes, Neal waited another three months to sue them

When he filed the lawsuit, it was fundamentally flawed

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4. The lawsuit claims Neal wants Trump's taxes to "decide if legislative action is needed" on "the mandatory presidential audit program"

THIS IS OBVIOUSLY NOT TRUE

Neal and everyone else wants Trump's taxes because they may contain evidence of crimes

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5. Investigating Trump's crimes is a core responsibility of the House but leadership has decided that impeachment is a political loser so they've adopted this pretext of considering legislative action on presidential audits

It's a joke

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6. Then yesterday, New York state passed a law that would allow Neal to get Trump's state taxes (which have the same info as his federal taxes) just by asking

BUT NEAL IS REFUSING TO ASK

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7. Why won't Neal ask for Trump's state taxes? He's worried it will undermine his claim that he is just investigating federal audits of presidential taxes

So instead, he's just going to wait for his lawsuit to play out, which will take YEARS

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8. The only thing that will change the current course is actual political pressure on House Democratic leadership

I'll be following all of this closely in my newsletter, Popular Information

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9. It's hard to wrap your head around why Democrats are acting this way but my best guess is they are worried that Trump's tax returns will contain evidence of crimes and increase pressure to impeach Trump which they don't want to do popular.info/p/do-house-dem…
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1. 2020 will likely turn on the votes of women. Trump can't afford to do any worse than 2016

Trump has a new pitch to woo female voters which he has quietly launched via Facebook ads

It has little in common with what Trump has said and done as president

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2. Trump purged 500K records of people w/open arrest warrants from the gun background check database. He threatened to veto a bill requiring background checks for all purchases.

The ads position Trump as a champion of gun control who improved the system popular.info/p/trumps-pink-…
3. Trump joined a lawsuit to eliminate protections for people with pre-existing conditions. The ads targeting women says he supports protecting patients with pre-exisiting conditions.

They are protected under current law which he is trying to overturn. popular.info/p/trumps-pink-…
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Judd Legum
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Trump's new Facebook ad targeting women features Diamond and Silk.

The duo recently called Nancy Pelosi a "non-functioning alcoholic" based on a doctored video
Another Trump ad aimed at women says he supports protecting patients with pre-existing conditions.

He has repeatedly supported legislation that would repeal those protections and is currently supporting a lawsuit to have the courts strike those protections down
Another Trump ad targeting women positions him as some kind of champion of gun control

(This refers to some modest incentives, included in a March 2018 spending bill, for states to keep the background check databases up to date)
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1. One thing that people have almost completely forgotten about is that Trump won in 2016 as a POPULIST

A major part of Trump's core message was criticizing Hillary for her connections to Wall Street and wealthy donors

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2. When Trump entered the race in 2015, he bragged that he would be insusceptible to outside influence because he would self-fund his entire campaign

He would govern for the benefit of the PEOPLE not wealthy donors

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3. Surprise! None of this was really true. Trump accepted donations from the jump.

But flash forward to today and Trump is accepting truckloads of cash from wealthy donors

And he's basically giving them whatever they want in return

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