Posted on 10/08/2016 7:28:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
So…….Let’s review the bidding.
At the first presidential debate, Hillary Clinton “pulled a Harry Reid.”
As Reid did with Mitt Romney, Hillary used a softball question from the “moderator” Lester Holt to speculate on Donald Trump’s tax returns. In particular, Clinton hypothesized that Trump paid little or no income taxes.
But unlike with Harry Reid presto! Within a week, the New York Times reveals a “news flash” that, based on huge losses of over $912 million reported in 1995 on what appears to be an illegally leaked tax return, Trump may have applied those losses in a way that resulted in little or no income taxes in succeeding years.
Times “experts” helpfully speculated, based on no information they revealed, that the losses could offset tax liability for the next 20 years.
All of this assumes information about tax liabilities over those 20 years about which they “supposedly” have no knowledge.
Ordinarily, I wouldn’t speculate on who mailed the envelope. But Clinton, during the debate, took a Clinton-like risk by looking onto her crystal ball and speculating on something she supposedly knew nothing about. The inference is that she knew exactly what the New York Times was about to do.
And all of this falls into the standard Democratic presidential game plan of using illegally leaked documents or tapes to mount an “October Surprise.”
Remember Bush’s drunk driving arrest? Or the surreptitiously leaked recording of Romney’s “47%” comments at a private meeting?
Well, now we know what Clinton’s “October Surprise” is – neatly packaged into one envelope postmarked “New York City” which, coincidentally is where the Clinton presidential campaign is located.
The envelope was conveniently tidied up with a Trump return address – a level of sophistication which suggested it was not sent by a low-level New York State revenue department employee.
There is, of course, a way that the New York Times can establish, once and for all, who sent the envelope: It can submit the envelope and the tax forms for fingerprint analysis. Although you would think this would prove fruitful, the FBI’s capacity to analyze fingerprints under these circumstances in an issue of high national interest is extraordinary.
And yes, while fingerprinting paper is not the same as fingerprinting glass, it is possible.
And yes, any Clinton operative who had ever held a federal job would have his or her fingerprints in the FBI database.
The New York Times cites Bartniki v. Vopper, where the court overturned a law prohibiting broadcast of a surreptitious recording of a cellphone conversation. The difference is that the radio station was not actively trolling for people to violate the law and not working in concert with a political campaign – both of which the Times appears to be doing.
The Times also argues that, although it published information purporting to be from Trump’s federal tax forms and about Trump’s federal tax liability – and made copious inferences about the ramifications of Trump’s federal taxes – that is not a violation of federal law because the actual pages were from the tax forms. Good luck with that!
One way or another, a crime has obviously been committed by either stealing or forging tax returns. And almost certainly breaking into the government office or a Trump office to do so. This is burglary. And it’s exactly what happened in Watergate. And it’s exactly what forced Richard Nixon to resign, under threat of impeachment.
A lawsuit against the Times and Clinton campaign would also eventually force production of the mailed copy of the tax forms. And we know that a reporter’s efforts to protect his or her sources in order to conceal a crime will result in a contempt of court citation for the reporter and everyone with access to the evidence.
But the nation needs to call the Times to voluntarily turn over the envelope and the documents for analysis now.
If, as everyone suspects, the documents came from a high-level Clinton staffer and were sent with Hillary’s knowledge, it would be far better to “pre-impeach” Clinton before the election than to “post-impeach” her afterwards.
Actually it has all the earmarks of a ROMNEY/RYAN/BUSH cuck surprise, in league with the demonic one.
Where is our October Surprise?? I mean it.
Are there any Donkey/Rino staff members at the firm?
Lois Lerner and John Koskinen are STILL on the IRS payroll and have already proven they are NOT above breaking the law to help the dems. Of course, if we had a congress with any gonads "led" by anyone other than Paul Ryno, they both would be serving time.
Maybe we should bring back the story of Jeb’s daddy and his ‘girl friend’ that almost drove Babs crazy...hmmm Bushies, what do you say...want your name smeared some more???
Prescott Bush...Nazi Lover
How about Daddy Bush and Billy Clinton and the Mena, Arkansas drug running...
How about the deal Jeb made to have Bobby Seale killed, he was the pilot of the plane that went to Venezuela and brought the cocaine and other things back to Mena, Arkansas...
How about Jeb kissing Saudi Butt and letting the 9/11 come through Fla. while he was Gov...
I could keep going, and yes I have documentation of all this, but you get the picture, and I haven't even started with ROTTEN and BillyJeff yet!!!
“Ordinarily, I wouldn’t speculate on who mailed the envelope”
I’m increasingly thinking the return address was true: knowing the issue would arise, Trump sent it. Better to initiate an expected fight on your own terms.
(I had a boss that would _always_ find fault. Eventually I made sure he always had something to find, something I’d have no problem fixing.)
An October Surprise - or a “gaffe” in a debate - is only against a Republican. I thought you knew.But seriously, it really looks a lot like Hillary has an ailment - and one she isn’t proud of at all. If indeed it is the case that she has Parkinson’s Disease and it became common knowledge, that would be pretty hard even for a Clinton to politically finesse.
Hillary is being as cagey as possible but in a debate. Trump could make that harder to pull off (the link is to my response on a thread, but if you haven’t seen the article that started the thread you might find it fascinating).
The media has successfully desensitized the people so nothing political is considered an October surprise. There’s plenty in the Wikileaks but no interest. This country only reacts to crap like Billy Bush tapes now.
I’ve thought that since this leaked tape came out.
The New York Times already knows where it came from. They don’t need to bother with finger printing it.
...and because they know where it came from, they would not do that.
Comey had a side agreement and destroyed the envelope! /s
also the documents....since they are not originals the photocopier can be identified.
Just who would do the analysis? The FBI? I’m sure we would all love to see what they would produce. And we would all believe it too, wouldn’t we? After all, the FBI is beyond reproach in political matters. /s/
Trump wins election, Obama pardons the Clinton’s, Trump goes after Obama, since who would pardon him?
Assuming they don't already have his later tax returns, they assume he would have applied those losses to his taxes because... anyone would have. They in his shoes would have. They in his shoes did, and do. Always.
In other words, a fake scandal, with fake outrage.
Meanwhile the Clintons shelter their ill-gotten gains, illegally gotten gains, in a fraudulent charity. And of course, money that simply disappears, like the $5 billion from State Department coffers, and another $5 billion from Haiti reconstruction funds, is by definition tax-free. You don't even have to file on that. Its the sweetest thing.
Exactly like the fake scandal that the Washington Compost released from the 15 year old tape were Donald Trump made that locker room remark about some woman and for which he apologized. William Jefferson Clinton never apologized to the women that he raped and sexually assaulted.
Did we ever discover WHO was behind the forged Bush national guard memos and if so how they were punished?
I do believe we did, but that was so long ago. Someone else may have the data
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