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hoolstoptheheels

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It's not an investigation into campaign promises. It mostly a demand for


transparency, and nothing more. A demand for transparency from the most heavily conflicted president in our lifetimes, if not ever. The points about his vagueness about releasing returns and divesting of his business simply mitigate against your claim that the election win eliminates the need for basic Congressional oversight. And I mean basic. Bear minimum. The prima facia case for Congress to demand this level of transparency comes from two factors only, regardless of what he said in the campaign - he is the first president in 50 years to not release returns, and in not divesting of his businesses, he became the most heavily potentially conflicted president of my lifetime, or maybe ever.

You would have a much better argument that the repub House was derelict in its duties before 2018 than that the dem House is rogue now. Oversight is not rogue.

(In response to this post by CharlestonSC)

Posted: 07/09/2019 at 1:48PM



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