Isn’t that the whole point. We are supposed to ask those questions!!!
I do think it’s been the past week, in particular, that has proven the media simply doesn’t know what to do when faced with constant, unyielding lies and insults. Perhaps it’s just the stark contrast we’ve seen, but, yes, this week has felt different. It feels like the beginning of the end, to be honest.
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I really only have two:
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In which country could the President of the United States plausibly conduct American foreign policy, with no conflict of interest between the Trump Organization and the national security of the United States?
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How many of the 12,000 pages are spent avoiding taxes instead of paying them?
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Nasty little creature.
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As a lawyer practicing international law, I’m interested in seeing his numerous partnerships for international projects and investments, plus sources of international financing and debt. The Eichenwald story in Newsweek is not getting anywhere near the attention it deserves.
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No one files a 12,000 page return----No One.
It’s just more hyperbolic lying by B O Plenty Jr.
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- that person who was just killed would not be a Trump supporter. Therefore no voters lost.
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How dare the American people have more questions, think they’re entitled to answers, and have a right to know the secretive financial dealings from someone who wants to be President of the country.
Keep up the derp, Junior. If no one else, you make your orange fat-fuck of a dad, very proud.
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Donald Trump has dabbled in an array of businesses from bottled water to luxury hotels. The Republican candidate’s 2016 personal financial-disclosure report is extensive and lists Trump as a trustee, president, chairman, or member for more than 530 entities. Almost half of these companies listed have Trump’s name as part of the company name.
I'm unsure how many of these companies file tax returns separately from Trump's core of main business ventures. Certainly each is responsible to file documents with the IRS detailing their profits, losses, expenses, exemptions claimed and taxes paid. I can see the total number of pages reaching 12,000 when the number of businesses involved is 530. Trump is correct in saying no easy snapshot of his tax situation can likely be gleaned by merely disgorging the returns upon the waiting public. That public will assuredly wait for a summary to be presented by....who? In Trump's mind whatever summary is publicized has the very real potential of being biased against him. "Show us your tax returns!" serves the voters no more than if they demanded of an astrophysicist his computations used in discovering a new asteroid. "OK, here you go, but make sure you read it for yourself, don't let someone else claim they can explain it to you accurately." Yeah, that'll work.Especially since the lead off will be him saying, “I demand you apologize for your remark!”
I hope someone on Hillary’s mock debate team has figured out that one because that’s what will happen.
If the complexity of the returns makes them impossible for the general public to begin to understand, then they could do what McCain did with his full health records. Put them in a due diligence room and let qualified, independent financial and tax experts (including tax expert reporters like David Cay Johnston) review them and report on their findings. They would know what to focus in on and how to get to the bottom line.
I’m curious if moderators will let Trump get away with addressing Clinton as “Crooked Hillary” during the proceedings. Are there rules against it? If he’s admonished to cease does he have to comply? Would he even be admonished in the first place? I imagine Chris Wallace would say it’s Hillary’s responsibility to demand he stop it. What if he didn’t? It’s not as if someone is going to say “Mr. Trump, until you address her properly this debate is being paused.”
Exactly u jackass
Notice how their not responding to the newsweek piece? Looks like it in its self has hit a nerve.
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Well how about the next best thing… why don’t you trust-fund babies release what are sure to be your much simpler tax returns?
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The precedent of releasing tax returns was set because of Nixon’s milk money.
“Look here,” the secretary of the Treasury told the president of the United States in the Oval Office. “If you have no objection, I’m going to tell them they’ve got to put so much money directly at your disposal.”
“Them” referred to three affluent dairy farmer organizations, which that very morning — March 23, 1971 — had met with President Richard M. Nixon to press for higher milk price supports from the federal government.
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David Cay Johnston, the tax guy who comes on O’Donnell’s show regularly to talk about HO’s complicated tax returns, has said over and over again all he needs to show is the first two pages where everything is summarized.and Schedule A showing itemized deductions. But the trump spawn want to keep it complicated so any tax returns will stay out of reach.
@johnrm The Newsweek piece is very complicated and the boys and their sister who were often involved in the scheming won’t touch it. It’s a damning report, and they’re never going to respond…
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“We have something to hid and we’re going to hide it, and there’s not a damned thing you little Fockers can do about it!” ~ Trumped & tRumped
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Yes, Brylcreem Boy, keep those taxes in the news! Much, much easier when you do our work for us, especially when you do it in such an insipid way, insulting the voters in this country who pay taxes every year on income far lower than your daddy or yourself (who, BTW, would be working at a Jiffy Lube if your father wasn’t Donald Trump). Heaven knows, the American people are much too stupid to understand the tax returns of a living god. Well, at least YOUR base is too stupid.
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