One of my favorites, for certain.
Posted on 03/15/2017 4:33:31 AM PDT by SMGFan
Then your explanation belies the excuse the reporter gave in “finding it in his mailbox.”
Which one is it? They cannot play both sides of the street on this. Seems to me that the reporter already gave the provenance excuse away and with it any excuse that anyone “vetted it” in any manner.
And they think: “I’ll get him next time!”
LOL. Straight out of Scooby Doo or some similar kids cartoon.
Simple. I just added the keyword trumptweets.
Use that key word and eventually it may show up as a topic.
Do a keyword search on Sweden or intelgate to see how effective this can be.
Nothing would prevent someone from using any ordinary desktop publishing software to fabricate a tax return and fill in fictitious numbers. In fact, I wouldn't be shocked if these media outlets receive dozens of such things every month ... 1099 forms for Donald Trump from "Vladimir Putin," invoices for construction services at a Trump property in the Middle East from "Osama bin Laden," etc.
The reporter had to have some way of verifying the accuracy of the information he received.
P.S. -- Why would you assume that the reporter was telling the truth about how he got the document, anyway?
I believe his actual tax liability was $3.8 million -- or about a 2.5% effective Federal tax rate. His rate ended up much higher because he was well into an AMT bracket.
I've always suspected that he has an interesting tax situation because of the nature of his business. Because he's in the business of buying and selling properties, his company probably pays income tax rates instead of capital gains tax rates on these transactions.
LOL....good point....Trump overpaid his taxes.
IMO, this is legally actionable for both criminal and civil charges for damage.
OMG....yes. There are a slew of crimes committed here.
Firstly-—isn’t putting an unmailed document in a residential or business mailbox a federal crime. You can’t just go up to a mailbox and put in something that was not mailed.
Secondly-—this was “stolen” US govt property.
Thirdly——reportedly, Maddow has only two pages.....that could mean the crime of defacement of US govt property b/c the pages had to be ripped off of the rest of the returns?
.....and on and on and on.... Curioser and curiouser.
Beautiful.
Okay by me.
You’re just creating more supposition where there is none. The reporter said he got it “thus and thus” and now you posit that “they” knew all along what and where it came from. Both patently cannot be true. I don’t buy it.
As for just the front pages, that’s all that’s needed. It shows the income, the deductions, AGI, and the taxes. The rest is merely backup to justify the primary numbers on the main form.
"The rest" is really what they're looking for. If he had $80 million in expenses paid to contractors, the identity of those contractors (from the copies of the 1099 or similar forms for them) would likely be of great interest to people.
You didn't address my other point: How did they know it was a real copy of the return, and not a fake?
Your supposition at first said nothing about a possible “fake” that I could see. You supposed they knew something additional about it, where it came from, legally even.....I just showed you the logic that both the reporter’s claims and your supposition they “knew” can’t both be true. It makes no difference about your additional supposition - it’s just meant to further muddy your original thought.
Nothing would prevent someone from using any ordinary desktop publishing software to fabricate a tax return and fill in fictitious numbers.
P.P.S. -- We went through this same sh!t back when the New York Times published another very old tax return in 2016.
Even with what you say, the illegality is still there. You still went on to say that you feel they felt they had sufficient information to verify the information was real. You could not know that.
We can go round and round with it. I don’t believe you, nor you I. Have a great day, FRiend.
I highly doubt they are stapled. His returns are so yuge, they fill up three 10-ream copy paper cartons.
I like the way you mention Comcast. This is the ultimate “publisher”. Comcast needs to pay in lost esteem and income from something like this.
If enough people cancel Comcast, they’ll get the message.
One of my favorites, for certain.
I believe it. I also believe madcap was set up by Trump and he’s winning over NBC in the precess. she is their star and now she’s ben exposed as just another hack who doesn’t do her homework because she’s foaming at the mouth to get the president
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