Discussion: Trump Admits Audit Has Nothing To Do With Release Of His Tax Returns

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“Nobody would recommend that,” Trump replied, pivoting to Hillary Clinton’s email use as secretary of state. “In the meantime, she has 33,000 emails that she deleted.

You mean the ones the FBI did recover and found no “there” there?

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No audit link? No shit, Sherlock…

Instead, he implied that there is no political advantage to doing so.

And the media continues its collective stupor.

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So release your medical records then, you liar.

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She has released the e-mails, you moran. The FBI says they’ve recovered everything.

I expect to see your taxes by close of business today.

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“Mr. Trump, do you believe your tax returns were accurate and correct? If so, there’s clearly no reason not to release them. If you don’t believe they’re accurate and correct, wasn’t it a felony to sign your name to them?”

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When he does release…

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Dishonest Don could skate this one on a technicality. Hillary isn’t releasing the e-mails: the State Department is releasing them. Presumably, this is because there is the potential for classified data like, “Vladimir Putin took a dump in his mistress’ house yesterday” to be released. That stuff needs to be redacted, obviously.

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And our ever-vigilant news media is where? Hillary coughs and it’s front page news. Trump continues to lie, cheat and steal- but isn’t he such a cute little devil! Our ‘news’ outlets have all become versions of ‘Entertainment Tonight’. The only industry protected by the Constitution and we get the Kardashians and Dancing with the Stars.

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I only wonder. What if, in the interests of … well, whatever, if the IRS could just make a declaration that the audit is over? It’s really simple, and if they feel it’s needed, the IRS can start a new one.

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The headline doesn’t seem to be supported by the quotes in the article.

When you’re writing a headline based on a paraphrased quote in the last sentence of the piece, you might want to rethink that headline.

He has decades of tax returns. He could release returns from the 80s and 90s and that would be informative. Those were his most mobbed-up years, so they might be even better than the recent tax returns.

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I agree - it’s a bit of a stretch. Trump is being vague and evasive. There’s no clear declaration that the audit has nothing to do with the release of the returns. I keep expecting something more definitive, like when George W. Bush was finally asked, point blank, what Iraq had to do with 9/11 and he replied, “Nothing.”

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there isn’t any advantage to releasing his tax returns because they list all of his ‘charitable contributions’?

they’d probably surprise the charities that can’t find any evidence of said contribution and/or embarrass other politicians besides Biondi and Paxton…

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C’mon Media…FOLLOW THIS BS. A couple of months ago he would ‘release his returns’ if Hillary would release her transcripts of speeches…then it was tax returns of other candidates, NOW it’s the emails? The ones that have already been recovered and studied? He’s a LIAR. He will not DO IT. INVESTIGATE dammit, REPORT!!!

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I surprised the head on this bit didn’t say " O’Reilly grills Trump on Tax returns". Another bail em out FOX grilling. Bill O set Trump up to continue hiding who he really is from the American people. maybe we should stop fetishizing on FOX. It’s going to do this and only this. What else is going on?

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Of course he knows it is not in his best interest to release his taxes returns, after all even is moronic supporters will understand the big zero on his chartiable contributions and the zero on what he pays in taxes.

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O’Reilly wants a cushy job with Trump Media after the election. This ‘interview’ was simply part of the job application process.

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You left out the gun manufacturers.

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It’s a fallacy to assume we have an “ever vigilant news media.” We don’t, pure and simple. It’s not the “every vigilant” part that’s wrong, it’s the “news media.”
The economic collapse of the newspaper industry across the nation is a root cause of this election. Newspapers were the fertile soil from which 90 percent of actual news, online and broadcast, was generated. But as a nation, we’ve salted that soil now, and we reap what we have sown.

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