Here’s why it was legal to release Hunter Biden’s emails, but illegal to release Donald Trump’s tax returns

wordpress ^ | October 20, 2020 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

[grundle]

Here’s why it was legal to release Hunter Biden’s emails, but illegal to release Donald Trump’s tax return

Rudy Giuliani has named the person who showed him Hunter Biden’s laptop. His name is John Paul Mac Isaac.

Source: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2020/10/14/meet-wilmington-repairman-who-reportedly-gave-biden-laptop-giuliani-associate/3655753001/

By comparison, the New York Times never named the person who gave them Donald Trump’s tax returns.

Hunter Biden’s laptop became the legal property of the repair shop 90 days after he abandoned it. He ignored multiple requests from the store to pick it up.

Source: https://sonar21.com/yes-the-hunter-biden-emails-are-authentic/

By comparison, whoever leaked Trump’s tax returns committed a crime.

Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/6103

If the New York Times was only going to publish one of these two things, it should have been the info on Biden, not Trump, because the Biden info is the one that was legally given out.

[rktman]

Really? That requires ‘splainin’?

[Alberta's Child]

By comparison, whoever leaked Trump’s tax returns committed a crime.

If you don't know who leaked the tax returns, then how do you know a crime was committed?

For all we know, Donald Trump himself could have leaked them. There's a good chance that's exactly what happened when MSNBC thought it had a huge bombshell story a while back.

[rktman]

Besides which the e-mails are “alleged” to be hunters. LOL! Schiff-4-brains says it’s just another example of Trump and Putin interfering in our elections by trying to schmeer the byeDUHn cartel.

[cymbeline]

I’ve said this before. Trump needs to jump on Biden over where he got the money to buy his mansions. If Trump’s finances are fair game, so are his finances.

[Thommas]

For all we know, Donald Trump himself could have leaked them.

If Trump leaked them, then the MSM would still be crowing about...

[Alberta's Child]

I don't mean HE walked into the New York Times offices and handed them over. LOL.

They could have been sent to the NYT with his permission.

[Boogieman]

Maybe his publicist “John Miller” leaked them to the NYT :)

[forgotten man]

Actually only one small part of Trump’s alleged tax return was released. That was the 1040 line number with federal income tax from the tax table. The 1040 line number with the amount of Alternative Minimum Tax was not released, and that would have been a very large amount. The 1040 line number with total taxes was not released either.

[Political Junkie Too]

There's a good chance that's exactly what happened

What is your basis for claiming a "good chance" that President Trump leaked his own tax returns?

This is what your theory that we don't "know a crime was committed" is based on.

Is "good chance" a preponderance of the evidence?

Is "good chance" a reasonable person's conclusion?

Is "good chance" beyond a reasonable doubt?

-PJ

[Alberta's Child]

What is your basis for claiming a "good chance" that President Trump leaked his own tax returns?

The postmark on the envelope was from the U.S. post office right down the street from Trump Tower in NYC.

[Alberta's Child]

I don’t think TRUMP HIMSELF has ever accused someone of committing a crime by leaking his tax records to the NYT or MSNBC.

[mdmathis6]

Trump hasn’t filed suit against the Times for privacy issues and the Times hasn’t released any more stories lately about Trump’s taxes. That’s why I think it was Trump that may have leaked his own taxes to the times I think the Times suspects this but doesn’t want Trump to get the credit of having suckered them.

No one is talking about Trump’s taxes now because there is nothing there

[Political Junkie Too]

When was the last time that President Trump was in New York City? Rudy Giuliani lives on the upper east side. Who lives near Trump Tower? Do you think one of the sons did it?

-PJ

[Political Junkie Too]

You don't think it could have been someone from his office, perhaps a disgruntled staffer?

-PJ

[Alberta's Child]

Have you heard Trump ever complain that he was the victim of a crime in any of these “leaks?”

If anything, his silence is really deafening.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

By comparison, whoever leaked Trump’s tax returns committed a crime.

If you don't know who leaked the tax returns, then how do you know a crime was committed?

For all we know, Donald Trump himself could have leaked them. There's a good chance that's exactly what happened when MSNBC thought it had a huge bombshell story a while back.

Put the best face on it, and you don’t know the tax return release was legal. The e-mail, OTOH, certainly are legal.

[Political Junkie Too]

Well, you've given me your reasoning, which is what I asked for.

If I were to guess, my first thought would be someone in the IRS. But if what you say about the postmark is true, then my second guess is someone inside his office. That would mean that he'd stay quiet while his company's lawyers and security investigate the breach. Insider threats are the highest form of cybercrime, i.e., employees stealing company secrets.

-PJ

[Alberta's Child]

One intriguing theory I heard was that it was sent by one of Trumps ex-wives.

[Political Junkie Too]

I thought they were on good terms. At least they endorsed him in 2016.

-PJ