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["Nixon perhaps explained why best: ‘I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their president’s a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.’ "]
And this is from Nixon.
THAT’S how lawless Trump is.
“that suggested that the president had underpaid his taxes for two years”
If that was all we were worried about. Those were the days eh?
His US ones? Or the Russian ones?
Bolton’s book is out, his niece’s book soon, I still want more.
Should have included this in my last post:
Trump does not care about getting more votes in order to get re-elected. Trump cares exclusively about arranging for the vote COUNT he gets to amount to more than the vote count BIDEN gets…and to get more specific, Trump is thinking ONLY in terms of the Electoral College
There are about four scandals, each of which would fell an ordinary president on Trump’s plate
Yeah, and I thought at least one major reason was that it would reveal he’s not as wealthy as he says he is. Innocent times.
Now that we’ve seen his behavior with respect to Russia over almost 4 years, the urgent question is how much financial leverage Putin has over him, aside from whatever other kompromat is involved. A SCOTUS that cared about this country would have fast-tracked this to limit further damage.
Melania’s Short Stories?
Looking at Trump’s tax returns isn’t the issue, rather, it’s looking at Trump’s tax returns in relation to the entire scope of his financial dealings. By themselves, they might allow us to see if he’s as wealthy as he says he is. (Narrator: “He is not”) but lying about one’s wealth is not criminal. The Trump Org. is a giant money-laundering scheme, with Russian and other foreign oligarchs as clients, and very likely Ivanka, Jr. and Eric are caught up in it. It’s not just Trump’s exposure.
Or would that be Melania’s stories about how short it is?
What’s with this headline? Seriously? Save the gratuitously obvious questions for BBC interviewers. Why did people want to see inside of Al Capone’s vault? There may be nothing there, but in the case of T-Rump, we have very good reason to suspect that there are all kinds of fraud, lies, evidence of Russian connections, and proof that he is a total empty suit to boot.
Bingo…
Another theory is nonfeasance. He, or some of the 500+ Trump entities, may not have actually filed some years. There are large penalties for non-filing.
It’s lazy headline writing; the author should have dropped the “Do” and written “Why People Care.” Or better, “Why it’s Important to Know,” etc.
In TPM’s defense, that’s the original sloppy ProPublica headline and the article is just being re-posted here.
It’s all about the rubles, baby. Just how much is Fat Donnie bought and paid for?
You would think if he were a very smart genius, he would hide it all in easily explainable ways. That however, does not seem to be the case.
Presumably even the type of chiseling accountants Trump would be expected to hire still don’t put evidence of criminality in a tax return if they can help it. Logically, then, the returns might be expected to have the embarrassing revelations listed in the piece. But most of all, I’d enjoy having them out there because the SOB is striving so strenuously to keep them hidden. He’s not just an inveterate criminal, he’s an obvious one, and if this is what he doesn’t want us to see, then step aside, fat boy, we’re having a look.
It gave me a chance to snark at the BBC. I have been noticing how tabloidish some of their interviewers can be. They give journalism a bad name and enable charges of “fake news”.
We had to find out if Nixon was a crook (yep, he was) but with trump it could not be anymore obvious unless he did in fact personally shoot someone on 5th ave. And not just crook… he’s a cruel serial child abuser and a full blown traitor by fulfilling all points of Article 3 section 3 of the Constitution. I mean his total lack of action on the bounty on our troops in Afghanistan and it may be that he spoke of it in one on one meetings in communications with Putin that have not been transcribed on his orders.
That’s my rant for today. I gotta go calm down now.
Probably because it’s a long tradition in the British rags and some of them graduate to the Beeb. I question whether “Be tabloidish” is the first thing they tell you when you get hired.