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There's more than one way, but you don't seem in the mood to hear any of them. They could have Moochin' Mnuchin arrested if he refuses to comply.

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Eh, he's always used it as a halfway-plausible excuse for not releasing his returns in the first place.

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But don't you see? This quote from Cohen proves he WASN'T under audit.

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I don't think it matters whether Trump is actually under audit or not. Excuse if he is, gaslight if he's not.

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Sorry we missed you yesterday; always in the mood for a cockeyed optimist. Who are these civic-minded 'They' of whom you speak? The Congress, which will be going on spring break just after getting Barr's post-it note "version" of Mueller report to which 'They' are theoretically entitled?

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"Sorry we missed you yesterday"

Is this the royal "we"? 'Cause I don't do pile-ons, and I don't do King George. So let's start there by ID'ing all the relevant parties, shall we?

Then "we" can move on to all the classified info you seem to be basing your judgments on to which the rest of us don't appear to be privy and proceed from there, since some of us have been warning about the 22 signs of authoritarian governance since sometime in the mid 2010s but don't see the point of shouting at people who don't want to listen.

Now. It is not my job to cheer up overanxious commenters who are yelling at the wrong people instead of breaking down doors at CNN, DOJ, or their Senators’ offices, but I am a nice personhttps://www.rawstory.com/20...I’m going to go read about Felix Sater nowhttps://www.rawstory.com/20...https://www.rawstory.com/20...https://www.rawstory.com/20...

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That whole movement didn't get its jump start from Bernie it got it from Occupy Wall Street.

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"We" are two folks sharing our lives and this account, who began banging down the doors of our legislators' offices in 1968; but you do you...

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Really? Is that why all of the Occupy activists are awash in Congress now?

And such a solid organizational legacy. Mrs. M. tried to participate locally, and found it a choatic mess.

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It was a chaotic mess, and that is being charitable. That said it changed the conversation. This is not uncommon, imperfect messengers can still have big effects. As to political leadership coming out of the movement pretty hard for a leaderless movement to produce leaders but ask Romney if it had an effect.

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Chaotic, leaderless movements are ineffective movements.

I think it was Romney's comments on not giving a damn about 1/2 the electorate cost him. That and his manifest hypocrisy over ACA.

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Not that Romney didn't make unforced errors but the most talking heads stated that concerns in the electorate about income inequality made him exactly the wrong candidate. Occupy Wall Street was largely responsible for raising that issue into the Zeitgeist.

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They are banking on the right wing grift machine to cushion things for them when it goes sideways. As it always has.

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Do they make bleach for the mind's eye?

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"or terminate an audit or other investigation"Definitely applies here. The Dipshit is breaking the law just by asking.

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The rightwing dipshit judges that Trump is infecting the courts with are pretty flexible.In any event, the Dipshit will appeal all the way to the SCOTUS, where the usual idiots will do their usual idiocy, leaving a 4-4 tie for Roberts to decide.

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