The reason presidential candidates started releasing their tax returns during their candidacy was to keep public trust in those leaders after Nixon.

Hmmm ... so does Congress have legitimate oversight authority over actions takes by the President before he was elected? If not, I can see where this particular avenue might be successful for Trump, since they appear to be asking for records prior to his term ...

Yes, Mitch. Yes.

Ah, that’s right — for some reason, I thought the campaign had released some of this stuff directly. My bad.

So here’s a question:

I have never been happier or more content because your Country is doing so well

Something to remember is that the last two times Presidents were impeached (or, in Nixon’s case, threatened with impeachment), there were actual recordings of them committing the offenses the impeachment alleged - something that couldn’t possibly be ignored or explained-away by those Presidents’ respective supporters…

Wow. Is this level of pedantry really the best defense you can come up with for Omar’s thoughtless remark?

Seems totally legit and non-collusion like.

I’m understanding that the removal of protection required the guarantee that Assange wouldn’t be deported to a country where he was under the risk of the death penalty or torture. (I don’t think they specifically identified the US) ...

Based entirely on alleged conversations between a journalist and his source

This is all related. If you’re going to defend Jim Acosta’s right to grandstand to the president, if you consider Daniel Ellsberg a hero for leaking the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times, if you cheered for Spotlight winning Best Picture, you should also defend the rights of a publisher who ...

Well, that and that GSA somehow ruled that the lease wasn’t an emoluments violation after Trump became President ...

Hmmm ...

Thanks for your references, I’ll have to run those down. Although those last two strike me more as inaccurate (as you point out) statements of fact rather than value judgments ... but I’ll have to see what they’re like in context ...

His hatred for Arabs

It’s curious that Fairfax, a former prosecutor himself, would approach proving his innocence in this manner, but this is where we are.

McCain responded that “people are smart,”

Why don’t we let the voters decide on that one.