Andrew Napolitano has a Christmastime prediction that will cheer the resistance.
The anti-Trump Fox News analyst announced that the Supreme Court could force President Donald Trump to forfeit his tax returns before December 25. It’s the latest projection of doom for Trump from Napolitano, who previously predicted that Trump would face criminal charges over the Russian collusion hoax.
SCOTUS could force Trump to forfeit tax returns
After an appeals court ruled Monday that Trump must turn over eight years of his tax returns, Napolitano predicted that Trump’s lawyers will likely appeal it, setting the stage for a Supreme Court showdown. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is the second most senior federal court, refused the argument that Trump is immune to prosecution since he is the sitting president.
Instead, the court affirmed that a subpoena from prosecutors in New York has teeth, even if it hasn’t been settled whether Trump can be indicted by state prosecutors. Manhattan prosecutors are investigating alleged “hush money” payments made to porn actress Stormy Daniels and ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal.
Napolitano said that the ruling, when appealed, will likely head to the Supreme Court — probably to justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg first — on an “emergency basis.” If Ginsburg refuses to stay the decision, then Trump could appeal it to the full Supreme Court.
Through unclear steps that have not yet materialized, Trump could somehow be forced by the Supreme Court to hand over his tax returns, Napolitano said — possibly as soon as this Christmas. The Supreme Court could uphold the appeals courts’ arguments, Napolitano said, citing the fact that the subpoenas deal with records that predate Trump’s presidency, and are not directed to Trump himself, but his accountants; moreover, the court already did not rule out investigations of Trump by state prosecutors.
“If the Supreme Court were to hear this, I think they would hear it in an emergency basis, meaning before Christmas. They know how important this is,” Napolitano said.
Another doom-filled prediction for Trump
Even as Democrats turn to pursuing Trump’s ouster over a diplomatic phone call with Ukraine, they continue to attack Trump by other means. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has not ruled out pursuing Trump over the discredited Russia collusion hoax, and Trump’s businesses are still being investigated by prosecutors with questionable political motives.
Napolitano has uncritically echoed all of the mainstream media’s latest anti-Trump talking points, just the latest step in the former Trump friend’s de-evolution into a token anti-Trump pundit. The former judge has routinely made overblown predictions about Trump’s demise that failed to pass the scrutiny of time.
Earlier this year, Napolitano suggested that Trump would face charges for Russian collusion or else obstruction of justice — accusations that once saturated the media, but which have since proven to be fleeting sound-bytes in the left’s war against the president. Napolitano also recently claimed that the Democrats were following rules that Republicans had changed for impeachment inquiries, a claim that was contradicted by former Speaker of the House John Boehner.
In a similar vein, Napolitano boldly predicted this week that it would be “unprecedented” if prosecutors convinced a grand jury that there is evidence of crimes in Trump’s tax returns, forcing federal judges to wade into uncharted territory. Never mind the dramatic spectacle of the Supreme Court intervening in a criminal case that deals with the sitting president: what are the odds that a conservative SCOTUS would rule against Trump?
The walls are closing in … Trump will be finished, just in time for Christmas. How many times has the media made such conjectures? Like anything, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
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