Quick take: On Congress getting Trump's tax returns

 Let me... just... savor this for a moment.  Now, for a couple of comments and warnings.  First, the likelihood of the returns being leaked is very high.  Congress is supposed to keep them private.  However, Congress leaks like a Russian hooker.  These returns will probably leak.  Trump will, in that case, have a legitimate legal grievance.  No moral standing, but a legitimate legal grievance.  This means... I'm probably about to lose a bet I made years ago, and I'm about to owe someone a beer.  If you're reading this, yeah, I'll pay up, happily.  That said, what's in these returns?  Olympic gold medals'-worth of fraud.  Now please keep this sports-shit out of my news feed.  Will Trump be prosecuted?  No.  Why not?  Because no prosecutor would be able to compose a jury 100%-free of Trumpists in a country with so many Trumpists, which guarantees acquittal, no matter what the evidence says.  Therefore, Trump cannot be convicted of anything, ever, no matter what evidence any prosecutor has.  As I mentioned the other day in my comments on the January 6 Committee, this is about compiling records for the sake of history.  It is important that historians and other scholars in the future have access to these documents so that we know, not just how corrupt Trump is/was (we kinda already know), but what his entanglements were, why he did what he did, and so forth.  That's it.

And if he suffers embarrassment, that's just a side-benefit.