Donald Trump Will Not Release Tax Returns, White House Adviser Says

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  1. Thirty6BelowZero

    Thirty6BelowZero Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Didn't he start his education in Kenya? It's easy to believe that being there at such a young age would lead one to believe he was born there. All people asked to see, much like Trump's tax returns, was Obama's birth certificate and he stalled for 3 years. Instead, now it's considered racist to make such a request.
     
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    Wow.

    Yes, he has a golf course in Scotland. Has for a few years now.

    So now I'm left confused. We all know he has investments overseas, so of course his tax returns would show that, so why the question in the first place?
     
  3. yardmeat

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    If only there were things like passports and birth announcements. Or, you know, the fact that he released documentation in 2008.

    But you are criticizing people for wanting to see Trump's tax returns, so they must not be "much like" after all.

    He released it in 2008. The tinfoil hat nutters asked for more, so later they got more.

    Not necessarily racist, but extraordinarily paranoid on the same level as 9/11 truthers or lunar landing deniers.
     
  4. snakestretcher

    snakestretcher Banned

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    Is there even an audit? The IRS won't say because they have a policy of confidentiality. His track record of lying doesn't inspire confidence.
     
  5. Thirty6BelowZero

    Thirty6BelowZero Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    As you already know, that wasn't Trump's birther idiocy. It was Clinton's because it started with her campaign. Furthermore, there's no reason to hold on to something for three years before you finally release it, eh? Especially when it's been around for 4 decades, unless it's being altered in the meantime.

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    You've had that for 8 years, why would it only be a problem now?
     
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    Well that's really not all that different from the previous administration
     
  7. Think for myself

    Think for myself Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    To which I counter if that is true, why do you accept Trump's behavior and reject the previous administration for what you claim is identical?
     
  8. Thirty6BelowZero

    Thirty6BelowZero Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Surely you can understand that a computer generated short form isn't satisfactory if there's a possibility that he wasn't born here.
     
  9. Mr_Truth

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  10. Thirty6BelowZero

    Thirty6BelowZero Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Of course there's an audit.
     
  11. Thirty6BelowZero

    Thirty6BelowZero Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I don't feel that way about Trump. I'm saying that if you didn't have a problem with the last administration being exactly what you described, why would you care if this administration is.
     
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    The "possibility" is the complete fabrication of fringe conspiracy theorists, and the short form is what Hawaiians for anything that requires a birth certificate. It is satisfactory for anything required proof of birth.
     
  13. Thirty6BelowZero

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    No, the possibility wasn't a complete fabrication of fringe conspiracy theorists. Didn't he attend one of the colleges here as a foreign exchange student or something?

    You guys seem to call anything negative about your leaders a conspiracy theory. No offense but y'all REALLY need some new material and debate points. Claiming conspiracy theories and racists and sexists for every argument has lost its shine. It doesn't effect anyone anymore.
     
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    Yes, and sloppy ones at that.

    No, fringe conspiracy theorists faked a student ID to spread that rumor. Again, sloppy: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/studentid.asp

    Lol, there are tons of legitimate negative things to say about Obama. I've suggested that he should have gone through impeachment hearings. Nice try.

    Then you'll have to do better than sloppy conspiracy theories.

    And dodges and straw men like this don't effect me anymore. Quote me calling people racist or sexist for being birthers. Go ahead.
     
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    Yea, but what are his investments in Russia, Taiwan and Saudi Arabia?
     
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    uh, he released his birth certificate in june of 2008.
    please cite this executive order. You know as well as every one else that he didn't seal anything. That EVERYONE'S records are "sealed" in the exact same manner.
     
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    no, as he released it in june of 2008.
    no
    as sealed as yours are.

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    everything in your post
     
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    Mr. Drumpf has no legal requirements to release his tax returns... I am full aware of that and don't see this as a legal issue, however...

    It is a trust issue and as long as he refuses to do what so many others have I will be forced to conclude he has a reason for not doing so...

    and I believe that reason is the release of said documents will incriminate him in some way or reveal he isn't as rich as he's duped everyone into believing.
     
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    So there are two standards, condemnation for Obama in his perceived faults, and exoneration for Trump for identical actions? Because is sure as shootin' appears that your post is ignoring Trump's lies.
     
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    I see. So all the (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)ing and moaning from the right about Obam lying is meaningless then. After all, virtually all presidents lie and it doesn't matter if they do.
     
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    Roe v. Wade created a "privacy" right. Trump is using his right to privacy. Deal with it.
     
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    No small accomplishment, that's a fact.....LOL
     
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    President Trump did not release his taxes and still got elected! Hahahaha! What a genius! But then obama did not release his birth certificate and got elected. Funny thing is neither instance is a big deal to me.
     
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    I'm sure in the feeble mind of the right that is a fine argument. In the real world not so much.
    Your position seems to be that Trump can lie with impunity, because Clinton was disbarred before he was elected. That must be the fine family value, in your mind.
     
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    Depends on what they're lying about. Most of that just rolls off my back. An anti Obama person will get all upset at the slightest lie, but those for Obama will always defend him to the hilt regardless. I expect the same with Trump. Sometimes lies are good. It all depends on what is being lied about or to put it another way, to stretch the truth beyond recognition.

    I would lay odds that almost all of those who are now so upset with a Trump lie, defended Obama on his. So it goes, partisanship and polarization is alive and well. The only good news out of all of this is both major parties are shrinking, they are becoming less and less of the electorate. This I am always right and you're always wrong has to go.

    I am sure there will be many times I will be upset at Trump, but not releasing tax returns isn't one of them. Then again I am not a party man.
     

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