Where Are Donald Trump’s Tax Returns?

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This is utterly unacceptable. No one in the media should quote, cover or repeat another word from Donald Trump until he releases his tax returns. Why is the media accepting this unprecedented omission of what is standard procedure in our presidential campaigns?

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  1. putin pimp, deadbeat trump, will not release his tax returns. Campaign manager paul manafort explained that Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Forbes reporters are too fucking dumb to understand 
    1. how the deadbeat’s many YUUUJE donations to good causes fail to show up in his tax returns. 
    2. how payment in Amsterdam for prostituted women and marijuana can be claimed as business expenses. 
    3. what’s up with all the russian beef and wine imports. 
    4. How $10 B!LL!ION came to be written up as $25 million.
    5. How a successful businessman can owe more in taxes than he has in assets.
    For these five reason’s deadbeat’s tax returns will remain secret until the bankruptcy filing.

  2. Yes, I would like to see Trump’s tax returns, too.  They might show something he’s now embarrassed by, like a donation to Planned Parenthood or something.

    I would also like to see transcripts of Hill’s speeches to Wall Street and all of those deleted ~personal~ emails.

    I’m still very worried that she’ll flip on TPP, just like Terry McAuliffe said she would.  Her running mate likes it, too.  They are Repugz in the tattered Dem clothing.

    Trump isn’t really R & Hill isn’t really D.  The strange campaign season continues.

    Jill Stein 2016.

    ******

    Wow, no convictions for poor Freddie Gray, but they are releasing Hinkley?

  4. Say, there’s a deal.  His tax returns for her paid speeches to those for whom she truly represents.

  5. Jill Stein ’16? Blue, I think the Cowboys have a better chance at winning the Super Bowl than she does of being our next president.

  6. Here’s a question to ask: How can Americans trust someone who says he will destroy ISIS when he’s clearly afraid of the IRS?

  7. Corey…  it’s really great to see you back.

    Man…  I’m tired from staying up late.  Had to get up cuz we go to breakfast with friends on Thursday mornings.  Our friends are big Hillary supporters.  We will have much to celebrate over our eggs and toast.

    As for Trump and his tax returns…  SJ’s comment above nailed it!

  8. Thanks Renee. Really struggling with a friend who is a die-hard right winger. Pretty much everything I’m against, she is for and vice versa. This is still the safest place to talk politics on the internet. 🙂

  9. Sj

    Brilliant, yes your right! Wow really says it all.. I don’t know how anyone can trust him.. Yesterday he was treasonous. Ah but he fits the bill for a lot of crazy right wingers..

  11. Craig & SJ, exactly.  The fraud I see is this.  He explains not releasing his taxed because they are under audit.  He also said that he gets audited routinely every year.  If that is the case, then every tax return has been audited through 2014.  Why isn’t any of the press figuring that aspect out and nailing him on it? Lying sack of pus.

    I was appalled at the small group of dead-enders who interrupted the Admiral and Panetta last night and tried to interrupt Obama.  IMHO they are the BiDs of the political world.  They aren’t going to vote for Hillary, there are going to b no further concessions to try and woo them, and they are now no different than any other protesters and should have their tickets into the hall revoked and protest outside.  The DNC has been overly indulgent and I would like to see it stopped.  I believe they were just practicing last night.

  13. Trump extends his four Pinocchio streak with his denial of Russian contacts.

    The Facts

    The Palm Beach sale was documented in the Post article, and Trump’s numbers are close. Trump sold a mansion in 2008 for $95 million to Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev, according to property records. Trump had purchased the mansion at a bankruptcy auction less than four years earlier for $41.4 million, records show.

    But there is other evidence that shows a continuing interest in doing deals not only with Russian real estate buyers, but deals in Russia. “Russia is one of the hottest places in the world for investment,” Trump said in a 2007 deposition. “We will be in Moscow at some point,” he said.

    There is some evidence that Trump’s interest in doing business in Russia is unrequited. In 1987, he went to Moscow to find a site for luxury hotel; no deal emerged. In 1996, he sought to build a condominium complex in Russia; that also did not succeed. In 2005, Trump signed a one-year deal with a New York development company to explore a Trump Tower in Moscow, but the effort fizzled.

    In a 2008 speech, Trump’s son, Donald Jr., made it clear that the Trumps want to do business in Russia, but were finding it difficult.

    “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” Trump’s son told a real estate conference in 2008, according toan account posted on the website of eTurboNews, a trade publication. “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”

    Trump Jr. noted that he traveled to Russia six times in 18 months, and “several buyers have been attracted to our projects there and everything associated therewith.” But he added: “As much as we want to take our business over there, Russia is just a different world…. It is a question of who knows who, whose brother is paying off who…. It really is a scary place.”

    The Post report also said that the Trump Organization had partnered with Aras Agalarov, the so-called “Trump of Russia,” on a project in Moscow in 2013 that didn’t come to fruition. “The Trump Tower deal never moved past preliminary discussions,” The Post said. “But Agalarov said the family is interested in a possible future venture.”

    The Trump campaign declined to comment. We sought further comment from the Trump Organization about the basis for Trump’s claim, but did not receive a response.

    *****

    Without access to Trump’s tax returns — which he has refused to disclose — it may be impossible to tell whether he currently has Russian assets. But he shouldn’t be so quick to suggest he has never had an interest into doing business in Russia.

    So sayeth Glenn Kessler at WaPo.

  14. BID

    The strange thing about those “missing” Emails is that the FBI has said they were able to put them together.  Again, nothing there except three or four that were classified AFTER they were received or sent.

    So again we are back to “careless” as was virtually every other government employee at the time including all the previous S o S using computers not to mention no evidence that her server was ever hacked despite many attempts while other government departments (and DNC) were.

     

     

  15.  IMHO they are the BiDs of the political world.  They aren’t going to vote for Hillary, there are going to b no further concessions to try and woo them, and they are now no different than any other protesters and should have their tickets into the hall revoked and protest outside.

    Pogo

    You are so i wise and i thought the same while listening.. Enough already.. It’s the same bullshit rants over and over.. It would be different if any of the nonsense they spew was backed up by facts but of course with that bunch like with my co worker Grace its facts be damned.. Like Grace, i’m still waiting to hear from her on the info i sent she wanted on Clinton foundation.. You know the info that gives the charity an A from Charity Watch. The ones that shows where every penny goes.. It also shows tax returns.. Nope like with BID it’s always the same, disappointing and negative.. i keep smiling and thinking about the end result in November.. Vanquish these fools we must..

  16. Pogo

    It was kinda rough on the Bernie bro crowd, after all it was kiss a Republican night and they had been moved out of the spotlight and to the back bench.

    You could see it on the face of the big Bern himself when they panned the camera toward him last night. His moment was over and he wasn’t happy. he couldn’t even be bothered to applaud, even a tepid polite applause.

    He was basically telling the world “I’m not a Democrat, not part of this, I’m just an uninterested observer.

     

    Jack

  18. Keep having this thought that 1951’s “Marching Morons” is actually happening:

    Barlow derives a solution based on his experience in scamming people into buying worthless land and knowledge of lemmings mass migration into the sea: convince the morons to travel to Venus in spaceships that will kill their passengers out of view of land. 

  19. Post reporter barred, patted down by police, at rally for Trump running mate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/post-reporter-barred-patted-down-by-police-at-rally-for-trump-running-mate/2016/07/28/dffbd2c8-5465-11e6-bbf5-957ad17b4385_story.html

    Paul Farhi

    Donald Trump’s campaign has denied press credentials to a number of disfavored media organizations, including The Washington Post, but on Wednesday, the campaign of his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, went even further.
    At Pence’s first public event since he was introduced as the Republican vice-presidential candidate two weeks ago, a Post reporter was barred from entering the venue after security staffers summoned local police to pat him down in a search for his cellphone.

    DelReal’s experience on Wednesday elicited a rebuke from Post Executive Editor Martin Baron.
    “First, press credentials for The Washington Post were revoked by Donald Trump,” he said. “Now, law enforcement officers, in collusion with private security officials, subjected a reporter to bullying treatment that no ordinary citizen has to endure. All of this took place in a public facility no less. The harassment of an independent press isn’t coming to an end. It’s getting worse.”

    Officials from the Pence campaign initially said they were unaware of the Waukesha incident when asked for comment Wednesday night. But after a cursory investigation, one official, who declined to speak on the record, said that no members of the campaign’s staff were involved. He said volunteers went too far.
    “It sounds like they misinterpreted what they were supposed to be doing,” the official said. “This is not our policy.”
    In a statement, Pence press secretary Marc Lotter said, “Our events are open to everyone, and we are looking into the alleged incident.”

    Lol, kinda make the Hillary rope line of the press look tame.. Remember when they were up in arms over it. Now the press won’t even get on him for not releasing his taxes, yep it’s the old double standard..

  20. Let’s ask Ivanka where they are..maybe they are in the file with the papers supporting pay equity and child care

  21. tony & Jamie, save your breath and listen to sturge when he said last night:

    “…that ain’t Ms. blue”

     

     

  25. from salon’s “The DNC message to fed-up Republicans: Leave the dark side and join us
    Last night focused on luring GOP moderates appalled by the RNC hatefest. The message was clear, but will it work?”
    It was a good night for the Democrats in general. While there were many thematic moments, including some moving testimonials about gun violence and a film about climate change by James Cameron. But coming as it did after Donald Trump held a press conference and invited the Russian government to do some more hacking on his behalf (among other inhinged ramblings), it was an excellent opportunity for the party to show America that voting for a madman is unnecessary, even if you generally vote Republican. And as it turned out that was exactly what they had planned.

     

    ….The first speaker to address those folks was retired Admiral John Hutson, a former Judge Advocate General and law professor. He got right to the point, saying:

     

     “Donald Trump calls himself the ‘law-and-order candidate,’ but he’ll violate international law. In his words, he endorses torture ‘at a minimum.’ He’ll order our troops to commit war crimes like killing civilians. And he actually said, ‘You have to take out their families.” And what did he say when he was told that’s illegal? He said our troops ‘won’t refuse, believe me.’ This morning, he personally invited Russia to hack us! That’s not law and order. That’s criminal intent!”

    There are almost certainly Republicans who are shocked by those comments. Many people with a military background are deeply offended by them. Admiral Hutson was speaking to those people, trying to tell them that there is an alternative.

     

    Former Pentagon and CIA chief Leon Panetta made a similar case testifying to the clear and present danger of a Trump presidency.

  26. I think Craig has it right

    no taxes no coverage

    and all the banned media should immediately stop covering him

    If a fire has no oxygen  it goes out

  27. editorial in japan times;
    Trump’s troubling Russian ties              

    The U.S. presidential campaign just gets weirder and more unpredictable. This week’s revelations suggest that the narrative has moved from “reality show camp” to geopolitical thriller. As attention shifted from Cleveland, the site of the Republican National Convention, to Philadelphia, where the Democrats are holding their own convention, news broke of machinations within the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to favor Hillary Clinton. It soon appeared as though the proof — leaked emails on the Wikileaks website — may be an attempt by Russia to influence the U.S. presidential campaign and portend more aggressive efforts to upend Western democracies.

    [….]

    Such meddling is not new to Russia. Leaked videotapes undermined the then pro-NATO government in the 2012 election in Georgia; subsequent investigation determined the tapes came from pro-Kremlin Georgian mafia. Similar tactics were used to influence elections in Estonia in 2007 and again in Ukraine. Audio tapes of private conversations among Polish leaders were leaked to discredit individuals and destabilize politics in that country. Moscow has been quick to provide financial support to like-minded politicians. Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi received Russian largesse, as has French right-wing nationalist Marine Le Pen. Russian state media backed the Brexit vote in Britain.

    In Donald Trump, Moscow appears to have a very like-minded soul. ….

    [….] Other governments must be alert to this new aggressive form of Russian meddling in their politics.

  29. Graham Cracker – agreed.  But the media is in the business of covering fires “if it bleeds it leads”.  What we have here is a school of sharks that have swam up on a half million dolphins.  They’re not going to stop eating until they explode!

    Besides, the media needs a close, razor-thin election to keep the sheeple tuning in for breaking coverage.  If the were to stick a knife in Trump, it might cost them money.  The media is full of intelligent, caring well intentioned people.  But alas – it’s also a business.

  36. KGC

    That closing poem by Nancy Scheibner is wonderful.

    My entrance into the world of so-called “social problems”
    Must be with quiet laughter, or not at all.
    The hollow men of anger and bitterness
    The bountiful ladies of righteous degradation
    All must be left to a bygone age.
    And the purpose of history is to provide a receptacle
    For all those myths and oddments
    Which oddly we have acquired
    And from which we would become unburdened
    To create a newer world
    To translate the future into the past.
    We have no need of false revolutions
    In a world where categories tend to tyrannize our minds
    And hang our wills up on narrow pegs.
    It is well at every given moment to seek the limits in our lives.
    And once those limits are understood
    To understand that limitations no longer exist.
    Earth could be fair. And you and I must be free
    Not to save the world in a glorious crusade
    Not to kill ourselves with a nameless gnawing pain
    But to practice with all the skill of our being
    The art of making possible.

  37. divitale 300

    are you a returning trail mixer   you wouldn’t be the former divalicious would you

  40. Katherine

    Ivanka’s workplace pay equity and child care. First, Barron has the best child care you can imagine; just like his daddy, he has a wet nurse every hour on the hour. Pay equity depends on how the numbers are tallied. If they are done based on the median pay for each sex, then the women probably earn a pittance. If computed as the mean for each sex, the women will win handily because of Ivanka’s outrageous salary.

  41. oh no  Democracy Now had jumped the shark  even Mr. Cracker is finding it unwatchable  –he is a loyal and everyday viewer

    and really likes Amy but the convention coverage sucks the big one

  42. As for Trump asking the Russians to hack us….  I have only one thing to say….

    Lock him up!   Lock him up!

  45. Katherine – nope, not me.  I’ve been reading now and then for several years, but this is the first time I’ve really done any posting.  I used to post on the Mike Malloy forum a few years back, but that’s basically gone away.  Lots of good comments here – haven’t really seen any trolling which is refreshing.

  46. dvitale300

    welcome

    I hope you find posting here fun.  There is always room for more voices

  47. This one might get interesting.  In 1799 Congress passed the “Logan Act” which prohibits U.S. Citizens who have not been authorized, to negotiate / deal with foreign enemies.  Here’s a link to the law:     http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Logan+Act

    Late yesterday Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsak said that Trump may have violated the act.  This morning, Claire Mccaskill (senator from Misery), said that Trump should be investigated for violations of the act.

    Turnabout is fair play

    Lock him up!  ;o)

  49. Divitale300

    Trolling is pretty tightly controlled by Fearless Leader.  No problem with different viewpoints but personal attacks are stringently frowned upon.  Attack the idea not the person and post a really good song if things start getting out of hand. 🙂

     

  52. Corey – I live in a red state.  It doesn’t really matter what I do in November.  I sure won’t vote for Hill, though.  She’ll move back to right on everything.

    Bernie got a lot of newbies registered as Dems.  What a ~warm~ welcome from the DNC & the Clinton campaign. The DemExit is on.  Bernie has left for the true left.  This may finally put an end to the two-party system. Maybe Prez Trump will be like a sorbet, so we can enjoy the next course with a clean palate. (I’m so dismayed by the actions of the DNClinton that if the polls are close, I might be spiteful enough to vote for the Cheeto. Again, it won’t matter because I live in a red state; it might make me feel better. Trump may be dangerous, but I know for certain Hill is based on her record and her lies.)

    The Dem line that “America is already great” is sure different from Big Dawg’s “I feel your pain.”  Wherever works for them that year, I guess.

    Anyway, enjoy the evening’s festivities on telly.  She earned it? I shall watch Andy Griffith instead.

  53. dvitale300, welcome aboard. Life jackets are in the forward lockers and survival suits are in the aft lockers.  I wouldn’t rely on either in case of an emergency.  In short, you’re on your own, but we’ll be supportive.

    I’m a lazy sort, so if you see something addressed to dv, DV Dv dV or anything like that, it’s to you.

  54. I would love to see millennials create a huge (or yuuuge) Green Party.  I know it probably won’t be this time, but Bernie’s support sprang from the Occupy movement.  Heck, even Aragon (well, Viggo Mortensen, says Jill over Hill & Trump).  I hope they aren’t co-opted by either party (after what the DNC did) and go forward with new ways.

    Corey – All places are safe if you have a thick skin or a short memory.  I seem to have a bit of both going for me.   :).

    At least we have the Olympics to look forward to next week.  I love synchronized diving!! (There’s the unity you’re looking for, I guess.)

     

  55. Prediction:

     

    This December, Trump will build a wall.

     

    …between his dacha and Girard Depardieu’s.

  56. Uh, N Korea thinks we’re at war with N Korea?  I really hope that little dude’s balls fall off.

  59. Funny memes, Corey, keep them coming.

     

    Glad you’re taking a stand on this, Mr. C.  Thanks, as always, for providing a forum to help keep me informed and express myself.

     

     

  60. Oh, while history is being made tonight, Blue, as stated by her above, plans on watching a 60 year-old sitcom set in a mythical all-white fantasyland.

     

    …sucker for trolls, sorry again.  Shutting up.

  61. speaking of the logan act, here’s part of a story by dan schorr on npr back in 2008:

    There is a law on the books which might send some of our freelance diplomats to prison for up to three years if they were ever enforced. That law is the Logan Act, a federal statute passed in 1799 that bans private citizens from unauthorized negotiation with foreign governments. [….]

    Since that time, the possibility of a Logan Act indictment is raised every now and then when some public-spirited citizens decides, without authorization, to try to improve relations with some foreign government or organization.

    The Reverend Jesse Jackson is remembered for having gone to Syria on his own in 1983 and bringing back a captured American flyer, Navy Lieutenant Robert Goodman. Under these circumstances, no one was inclined to criticize. There were more talk of a Logan Act indictment when Jackson visited Havana and invited Fidel Castro to visit the United States, but that quickly abated when Jackson returned to Washington with 48 men freed from Cuban prisons, some of them Americans.

    Last year, there was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s unauthorized visit to Syria to discuss improving relations. President Bush, called the trip counterproductive, said it would send mixed signals. But he made no move to take legal action against her. Former President Jimmy Carter said, I’m glad she went.

    Now, Mr. Carter himself has taken an action which could make him the target of the Logan Act, at least theoretically. He has traveled to Damascus for talks with the militant Palestinian Hamas organization. And he emerged saying that Hamas would accept the right of Israel to live as a neighbor in peace. Not so, Hamas says. They would accept a Palestinian state, but without the recognition of Israel. In dealing with Hamas, listed by the United States as a terrorist organization, Carter has made his contribution to anger and confusion in the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. But last time I checked, no one was preparing to throw the Logan book at him.

     

    and then last year there was this logan act story (or non-story) as reported by cnn;
    Pundits and legal scholars are raising questions over whether Sen. Tom Cotton and the 46 Senate Republicans violated the Logan Act when they penned a letter to Iran’s leaders on Monday, undercutting President Barack Obama’s efforts to negotiate a nuclear agreement with those same leaders. The law, passed in 1799, forbids any U.S. citizen — acting without official U.S. authority — from influencing “disputes or controversies” involving the U.S. and a foreign government.

  62. One point to ponder Bink – in 1960 when the Andy Griffith show premiered, the top tax rate for the wealthiest individuals (making over $400K) was 91%.  And capital gains was 5% higher as well (without many of the loopholes).

    Maybe that’s the key – raise the tax rates to what they were in 1960 and let’s see what happens to the country.

  63. While waiting for Andy Griffith to start, I thought I would post something safe and informative.  The name of Pavlov’s dogs!  Bologna the dog pointed out that it seemed Pavlov was taking all of the credit.  Wait a doggone minute, Bologna!  In fact it takes a village or more correctly, 35 dogs.

    The names of Pavlov’s dogs were Arap, Arleekin, Avgust, Bailak, Barbos, Box, Chingis Khan, Chyorny, Diana, Drujok, Ikar, Iks, Jack, Joy, Jurka, Krasavietz, Laska, Lyadi, Martik, Milkah, Milord, Moladietz, Murashka, Nord, Norka, Novichok, Pastrel, Pingiel, Rex, Rijiy I,Rijiy II, Rogdi, Ruslan, Tungus, Umnitza, Valiet and Zloday In total, there were 35 dogs.

     KNOW MORE

  64. media matters “Here Are All The Reasons Media Think Trump Is Not Releasing His Tax Returns” quotes the guardian among other media figures questioning the non-release of tax records:

    There seems little doubt that there is a stiff wind from the east at Trump’s back. The difficult question is to what extent there is an orchestrated, clandestine Kremlin plot to get him elected, whether Trump is, in effect, the Siberian Candidate.

    Without the publication of his tax returns, it is hard to say how much of Trump’s self-funded campaign draws on Russian capital, and where exactly that money comes from. If the Kremlin’s hand in the DNC email hack and leak is confirmed, however, that would represent concrete evidence not just of espionage but an active attempt to influence the political process of another country. [The Guardian, 7/25/16]

  65. repug problem with reality…Bradley Cooper, father of plastic baby, disappoints conservatives.  Holy Clint Eastwood!  They are calling for a boycott on his films.    Then again, their nominee is a former host of a fake reality tv show.

  66. And Cooper shows-up with a hot, ruskie model adding to the intrigue with anything ruskie this election season.

  67. roll call:

    Moishe Mana, a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, has offered to donate $1 million dollars to the charity of Donald Trump’s choice if he releases his tax returns, according to The Associated Press .

    “Through his financial documents, we are trying to break into the image that he’s portraying to the American people,” Mana said. “He says he’s a successful businessman who wants to do for the country what he did for his company. Well, go ahead, show me the money.”

  68.  

    So get this – the RNC of North Carolina called Tim Kane shameful for wearing a lapel pin of the flag of Honduras.  They subsequently found out that he was wearing a ‘blue star’ pin which is meant for families of soldiers deployed overseas.  Such a lack of ideas.  This is going to be a nasty campaign.

  69. I hope this gives North Carolinians some pause about staying on Trump train and being required to choose hate

  72. BW, the industry name for shows like trump’s is “surreality” I think. [insert rolling eyes icon here]

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