Byron York in dailyherald: More hysteria over Trump's tax returns. Ho hum.
Democratic lawmakers had fought for years to get the documents. They claimed they needed them not for partisan political reasons but in order to oversee the Internal Revenue Service more effectively. The"legislative purpose" rationale was always a joke; everyone knew that once they had the returns, Democrats would release them to the public in hopes of setting off a wave of negative stories about Trump. And that is exactly what they did.
But of course Trump's adversaries -- the Resistance-Democrats-NeverTrumper forces -- had taken the story another step to accuse Trump of colluding with Russia. That is what the Mueller investigation was about. And after a long probe, Mueller could never establish that collusion even took place, much less who might have been involved in it. Trump had been unfairly accused and was in a state of perpetual resentment about it.
The day after the news conference, a top anti-Trump theorist, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell, interviewed another anti-Trump theorist, a writer named Tim O'Brien. O'Brien's claim to fame is that 18 years ago, he wrote a book about Trump. Trump sued him, and as part of the litigation, O'Brien was allowed to see some of Trump's tax returns. But he was not allowed to make public any of the details.
That was then. Fast-forward to today. Trump's tax returns are now public. And do they reveal a secret relationship with Putin? The short answer is no.
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