We know Donald Trump has always idolized Vladimir Putin. We know Putin wanted Trump to win the Presidential elections in 2016 and 2020. We know Trump ignored the unanimous conclusions of all the US intelligence agencies and took Putin's word that Russia did not meddle in our 2016 election. If the proposed Trump Tower Moscow had been built, Trump would have given the penthouse suite to Putin freee of charge, for life. Why has Trump fought so hard to keep us from seeing his tax returns? Perhaps he's been paying huge sums of money to Putin. Perhaps "blackmail payments" are tax-deductible. Robert Mueller told House impeachment lawyers in July 2019 that Russia has "blackmail leverage" over Trump. Bob Woodward's 2020 book Rage quotes Dan Coats, former Directior of National Intelligence, as saying "Russia had something on Trump." Reports that the Kremlin has a tape of Trump watching prostitutes urinate on the bed in his suite at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Moscow have never been discredited..
House Democrats can get some of Trump's tax records from accounting firm Mazars USA, judge rules
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