Posted on 10/02/2016 6:53:46 AM PDT by Pinkbell
Dean Baquet wasn't bluffing.
The New York Times executive editor said during a visit to Harvard in September that he would risk jail to publish Donald Trump's tax returns. He made good on his word Saturday night when the Times published Trump tax documents from 1995, which show the Republican presidential nominee claimed losses of $916 million that year — enough to avoid paying federal income taxes for as many as 18 years afterward.
Federal law makes it illegal to publish an unauthorized tax return:
It shall be unlawful for any person to whom any return or return information (as defined in section 6103(b)) is disclosed in a manner unauthorized by this title thereafter willfully to print or publish in any manner not provided by law any such return or return information. Any violation of this paragraph shall be a felony punishable by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.
Baquet said during a panel discussion at Harvard that if the Times' lawyers advised him not to publish Trump tax returns, he would argue that such information is vital to the public interest because the real estate mogul's "whole campaign is built on his success as a businessman and his wealth."
It is unclear whether Baquet was speaking hypothetically at the time or whether his newspaper already was in possession of the documents published Saturday. The Times wrote that "the pages were mailed last month to Susanne Craig, a reporter at the Times who has written about Mr. Trump’s finances...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Wood Bobward and his fellow criminals in the newsroom can all pay the same fine and each serve EVERY day of the full sentence.
There may be a violation, but it isn;t a violation of 26 USC 6103.
Exactly. No national security or trade secrets or pay for play schemes using a federal government office were exchanged in Trump’s business losses. It’s the continuation of the left’s old theme of the rich don’t Pat their fair share of taxes. This is a nothing issue, but I think the whole point for the Clintons and their minions releasing this is to provoke a Trump meltdown on Twitter or on the stump. This is their only hope of winning.
Obama won’t do nothing but a President Trump sure will indict them
I wonder if the slimed think it would be equally in the public interest if we hung all the owners of these leftist media. It is quite one thing to publish the pentagon papers and quite another to illegally publish tax records of a private citizen running for office.
Carlos Slim will pay for The Wall!
Odd, I seem to remember Woodward and his cohorts at The Washington post howling with rage because Richard Nixon contacted his IRS officials about some opponent’s tax returns. I guess your moral standard depends on who is being targeted.
No reasonable prosecutor would bring a case against the nyt.
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Giuliani is the man for the job. If he does, the press will turn against President Trump. Wait...
Seems like 4 out of 5 times its democraps that flaunt the law and or rules? And usually get away with it?
They don’t care. And they are banking on the LIVs to not care that Trump had deductible losses that offset his gains. LIVs hate anyone who makes money as they have been conditioned to believe that rich people should support them, in the same lifestyle that rich people have. LIVs are the parasites that the Left will eventually force to work, at substandard wages, when the Left finally takes over this country completely and pounds us all into the sand, so to speak.
As Michael Savage says, “This is our last chance.” If it is not done this election day we can forget about it. 2020 will just be another year. There will probably still be elections, but it will be this Democrat against that Democrat as it was in the Soviet Union during Stalin’s time. The inhabitants will be property of the State with no Rights and only privileges, instead of Citizens. The State will be god and worshiped as so. Eventually, the muslims will take over and sheria law the law of the land.
“Gosh. It’s almost like the press and government employees put the Democrat Party ahead of their country and its laws.”
Words cannot express my shock.
The law specifies "return information", not "return".
(2) Return informationThe term “return information” means—
(A) a taxpayer’s identity, the nature, source, or amount of his income, payments, receipts, deductions, exemptions, credits, assets, liabilities, net worth, tax liability, tax withheld, deficiencies, overassessments, or tax payments, whether the taxpayer’s return was, is being, or will be examined or subject to other investigation or processing, or any other data, received by, recorded by, prepared by, furnished to, or collected by the Secretary with respect to a return or with respect to the determination of the existence, or possible existence, of liability (or the amount thereof) of any person under this title for any tax, penalty, interest, fine, forfeiture, or other imposition, or offense,
[There's more, but this is the relevant part]
Even though the information might have come from a state return, it's the same information as a federal return.
May take a few years in court, but by this time in the next election cycle the NY Slimes will be under Trump ownership.
Spit.
Mega dittos.
I would like to see the holier than thou NYT release THEIR tax returns.
Let’s see just how much they AVOIDED.
But the damage has been done because the public is reacting like Trump has done something criminal they are wording in a way where it appears to be something else they supposedly said. Mission accomplished. They dirtied him by allowing the public to misinterpret the article incorrectly through suggestion. red
If you read my earlier post, it looks like it’s possible that DJT sent them over, but without attribution (other than the return address).
If this is what he did indeed do, then he is beyond brilliant. Meaning: he tricked the NYT into breaking the law and at the same time (!) demonstrating why he had NO tax liability for 20 years. Simply by using existing laws on the books. Oh, and these laws were on the books during BJC’s presidency. You can’t make this stuff up.
This is just gobsmackingly amazing!
The same people have done everything they could to AVOID Hillary’s emails.
See part (d) too.
The confidentiality provision applies to what is disclosed to the feds. The state's sharing of information disclosed to the state under state law, between state agencies, is outside of this statute.
Again, I'm not saying no law was broken, but this law was not.
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