What Does Trump Have To Hide?...

 Trump has much to hide. He simply does not want the American people to know the truth.

 Americans have a right to know if their president, regardless of who he or she is, is suseptable to foreign influences. Something Trump appears to be. His tax returns would likely reveal just how deeply influenced he is.

 WASHINGTON — Personal lawyers for President Trump, seeking to appeal their case to the Supreme Court for the second time in less than a year, asked the justices on Tuesday to delay a ruling that would allow the Manhattan district attorney to obtain Mr. Trump’s financial records.

In a 38-page “emergency” application, Mr. Trump’s legal team told the court that a Federal District Court judge was wrong to rule that the prosecutor, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., had a legal right to subpoena the materials — and that an appeals court panel in New York was wrong to uphold that ruling this month.

“Allowing this deeply flawed ruling to stand, especially given the prominence of this case, will needlessly sow confusion where none presently exists,” wrote Mr. Trump’s legal team, including William S. Consovoy and Jay Sekulow. “The decision is indisputably wrong.”

The request for Supreme Court intervention had been expected since a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unanimously ruled on Oct. 7 that Mr. Vance could use a grand jury to obtain Mr. Trump’s financial records, rejecting the president’s arguments that the request was overly broad and amounted to politically motivated harassment...

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No citizen, not even the president, is categorically above the common duty to produce evidence when called upon in a criminal proceeding,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote for the majority in that decision.

However, the Supreme Court left Mr. Trump with other arguments to make before lower courts, including that the subpoena was too broad or issued in bad faith. Mr. Trump’s legal team has been trying out those arguments without success before lower courts — although the litigation has consumed months, continuing to run out the clock before the election.

Breaking with precedent and norms, Mr. Trump refused to release his tax returns when he sought the presidency in 2016. In 2019, House Democrats and Mr. Vance separately subpoenaed the documents from the president’s accountants, and he has been fighting them ever since.

Separately, however, The New York Times obtained access to more than two decades of tax return data of Mr. Trump and the Trump Organization and late last month began publishing a series of investigative articles about what they showed.

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Question boldy and investigate deeply whenever a charlatan and a crook is seeking to hide something.