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 A federal appeals court just called bullsh%$ on Trump's attempt to use his being President^* to prevent investigation of tax evasion and fraud.

The excerpts of the opinion indicate that the judges have no f%$#s left to give with either Trump's lawyers or the DoJ obfuscations:

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Manhattan's district attorney can enforce his subpoena for President Trump's tax returns, rejecting a bid by Trump's lawyers to kill the request on grounds it's a malicious political ploy and potentially setting up another high-stakes showdown at the Supreme Court.

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The unanimous ruling was issued by a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which concluded, "We have considered all of the President's remaining contentions on appeal and have found in them no basis for reversal."

(emphasis mine)

That's law speak for, "Your eyes are brown because you are completely full of sh%$."

District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. is seeking eight years of the president’s tax returns and related documents as part of his investigation into alleged hush-money payments made ahead of the 2016 election to two women who said they had affairs with Trump years prior. Trump denies the claims. Investigators want to determine whether efforts were made to conceal the payments on tax documents by labeling them legal expenses.

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The panel that heard the president's appeal shot down his claim that the district attorney's investigation is limited only to the alleged payments made by Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer, to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal — saying in their ruling that the "bare assertion . . . amounts to nothing more than implausible speculation."

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Vance’s bid for Trump’s tax records has been stalled since last year, when he issued the subpoena to Mazars.

Trump’s lawyers, who have signaled that they would ask the Supreme Court to look at the case again, have already lost at the high court, which in July rejected their initial argument that, as president, Trump is immune from prosecution. The justices said, however, that Trump could try again with a different approach.

I am amused.