If “The Taxman Cometh”, does Trump goeth (to jail)?

By BRUCE LOWITT

In an unprecedented, historic and hysterical move, Donald Trump sued the U.S. Supreme Court collectively, and eight of its nine justices individually, after it ruled the former president could no longer hide his tax returns from the Justice Department or anyone else who might want to see them.

In a unanimous decision granting a House committee access to Trump’s returns, the court’s two-sentence order, said: “A quién diablos estás bromeando? Después de siete años de esta mierda, es hora de dejar de joder con nosotras.”

Although the court’s order was unsigned, it translates to: “Who the hell are you kidding? After seven years of this shit, it’s time to stop fucking with us,” suggesting it is likely the decision was written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Trump’s lawsuits named all the justices except for Clarence Thomas “because he’s always done what I’ve asked of him, even if I had to lean on Ginny (his wife) to get him to go along,” Trump said in a rally before several dozen employees at Mar-a-Lago. “I mean, he’s not the best guy at taking a hint. You’d think when I say something like ‘I want to really screw the Dems on this one,’ that he’d figure it out. Brains of a freakin’ fire hydrant.

“But you know who really pisses me off? Amy (Coney Barrett) and Neil (Gorsuch) and … and … what’s the name of that drunk? Bart? Brad? I mean, I gave these three clowns jobs for life and … Oh, right. Brett (Kavanaugh). I gave them lifetime jobs at a quarter of a million (dollars a year) and this is the thanks I get?” Trump said. “Well, to hell with them. when I’m back in office I’m firing every one of those Supreme Court jerks. I can do that as president, you know.”

Even before his June 16, 2015, announcement – following an interminable ride down a gold-colored escalator with his someday-soon-to-be former third wife, Melania – that he would be running for president, Trump was refusing to release his tax returns, an unwritten policy candidates adhered to dating back to the 1970s.

He would repeatedly insist they were “under audit” and could not be released, a claim recently refuted by Allen Weisselberg, his former chief financial and tax-fraud officer, who testified under oath that the tax returns were actually under Melania’s mattress in Trump Tower.

But according to a court transcript of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of the Trump Organization, Weisselberg also testified that “Donald named their mattresses. He called his mattress ‘Stormy’ and hers ‘Audit,’ so, y’know, technically …”

An unidentified source at the Supreme Court leaked the contents of one of Trump’s tax returns revealing that as president he listed not only his children – Ivanka, Don. Jr., Eric, Tiffany and Barron – as dependents but also the estimated 100 White House staff of butlers, maids, housekeepers, chefs, cooks, doormen, florists, curators, electricians, plumbers, storekeepers and engineers, plus 17 U.S. senators, 94 members of the House of Representatives, 16 governors, nine broadcasters with FOX News, One America News and Newsmax, U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, and all the employees of the 11 McDonald’s restaurants within four miles of the White House.