Rogue IRS Felons Vindicate Trump

American Thinker ^ | March 16, 2017 | Daniel John Sobiesky

[Kaslin]

Thanks to Rachel Maddow and MSNBC, we now know Hillary was making things up in the debates when she accused President Trump of nefarious reasons for not releasing his tax returns. And thanks to a reporter nobody heard of, so-called independent journalist David Cay Johnson, we know Trump was right when he said the "mainstream" media is indeed the enemy of the American people.

The self-righteous media willingly traffics in stolen goods -- Trump’s illegally leaked 2005 tax returns -- and all they wind up proving is that Trump paid a higher rate of taxes than his peers, and a higher rate than Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders. The story here is not Trump’s taxes, but that someone at the IRS, the rogue agency that targeted the Tea Party, committed a felony. Where is the media drumbeat that the leaker be found and prosecuted?

Maddow, MSNBC, and Johnson ought to have egg on their faces, seeing that not only did Trump not escape paying taxes, but also that he paid a higher rate than the likes of Sanders and Obama. The Obamas paid an effective tax rate of only 18.7 percent in 2015. Bernie Sanders paid a federal tax rate of only13.5 percent in 2014. Ironically, Comcast, the parent of MSNBC, paid a tax rate of only 24 percent from 2008 through 2012, less than Trump’s 2005 effective rate of roughly 25 percent. Trump paid $38 million in taxes on income of $150 million.

Exposed as a lie were Hillary Clinton’s slanderous innuendo during the September 26, 2016 presidential debate when she hinted candidate Trump was hiding something by not releasing his taxes:

[Mr. K]

Why are there never any “polls” on how much the public trusts the media?

[Signalman]

Americans’ Trust in Mass Media Sinks to New Low

http://www.gallup.com/poll/195542/americans-trust-mass-media-sinks-new-low.aspx

[Kaslin]

Maybe because the media does not want any polls about them?

[RummyChick]

Dont think it was rogue IRS. They have access to better info than 2005 tax returns

[SuziQ]

Nah, now MSNBC is intimating that President Trump released him himself, to make the media look bad. LOL!! If he did, it was a BRILLIANT move!

[forgotten man]

Maybe Trumps tax return was not leaked by the IRS. State income tax agencies often require a copy of the Federal tax return to be included along with the state tax return. Also, Trump probably filed New York City income tax returns. Employees at the accounting firm that prepared the returns could have made copies. If anybody at the accounting firm did it they would have been caught by now.

[pingman]

...and anything they leaked wouldn’t be marked “client copy”.

[cicero2k]

Perhaps Lois Lerner or her replacement will take “Full Responsibility”.

My take: the 1040 form came from a mole inside a financial institution, a business partner or a legal firm.

I doubt any person in the IRS could find a 12 year old tax return, even if they were motivated by politics.

[Grams A]

I doubt any person in the IRS could find a 12 year old tax return,...”

You’re right about that. They can’t find any of the three copies we sent them of the cancelled check we sent in December 2016 for our last year’s taxes, even though two copies were sent certified and signed for.

[blam]

"...that someone at the IRS, the rogue agency that targeted the Tea Party, committed a felony."

Lois Lerner is still laughing her ass off while enjoying her $102,600 a year government pension.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

...and anything they leaked wouldn’t ^{could easily be} be marked “client copy” ^{by the leaker. Or by Rachel Madow.}

[enumerated]

“...intimating that President Trump released him himself, to make the media look bad...”

I kind of doubt it - the time to do that would have been during the debates when they were banging him over the head with it 24/7.

[trebb]

Even stupider in that they published illegally obtained documents that belied their intended agenda - don’t get much more stupider den dat...

[pingman]

All part of the “face news” toolkit!

[fortes fortuna juvat]

The mainstream media is an enemy of the American people. That fact should be repeated at every opportunity, and the complicit newscasters should be constantly criticized.