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Mnuchin rejects Democrats’ demand to hand over Trump’s tax returns, all but ensuring legal battle
WashPost ^ | 5-6-2019 | Damien Paletta

Posted on 05/06/2019 2:49:45 PM PDT by tcrlaf

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To: tcrlaf

There’s nothing there or they would have had it by now.

If someone is involved in tax fraud in those circles, people know it.

I think what they are doing it going to go over them with a fine toothed comb looking for ANY irregularity or something as simple as a math error somewhere, to try to make it look like he’s submitted fraudulent returns.

I’m sure Trump’s lawyers and accountants know how to do his taxes to avoid entanglements with the IRS.


61 posted on 05/06/2019 6:13:26 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Lockbox

The CommiePost does a great job editorializing all facets to fit their viewpoint. They think it might embarrass the president, so therefore, it must be legal...


62 posted on 05/06/2019 6:26:42 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: tcrlaf

Excellent!

There is no legitimate reason to release Trump’s taxes.

The Dems are just on a fishing expedition, trying to cause trouble.


63 posted on 05/06/2019 6:27:26 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: blueyon

“””If there was a problem with his tax returns you can count on it that the IRS would have leaked it by now.

The scumbags that they are.””

I was just going to say something like that


Perhaps they already have them, but since they obtained them illegally, they cannot say a word about it.


64 posted on 05/06/2019 6:37:14 PM PDT by VinnieCCT
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To: kingu

Back in the seventies, I went to a Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto where one of the exhibits was a book store from the USSR. The prices were low; inasmuch as it was a propaganda outfit, they should have been free.

Anyway, I bought several books and took them home. One was titled, “British Foreign Policy in WWII.” Reading it, you’d think the Soviets won the war despite the allies.

But the book didn’t exactly lie. How could they when the facts of the European war are acknowledged to be facts?

Well, it’s the spin, the interpretation of the importance and the effects of the events. I learned you can create an entirely unrealistic picture without being unfactual.

I learned a technique for telling just how much manipulation is going on in a written piece. It was a valuable experience.


65 posted on 05/06/2019 6:39:43 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: rktman

I wanna see Pelousy’s Schroomer’s, Nadiddler’s, Schiffty’s and especially Hillary’s and Bongo Billy’s returns. Oh, and that foundation!


66 posted on 05/06/2019 6:40:40 PM PDT by Shady (One More Time: CO2 is PLANT FOOD! Without it we die. Any questions?)
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To: tcrlaf
*BOOM*

67 posted on 05/06/2019 6:47:56 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin ("And she and Billie Jeff was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge...")
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To: tcrlaf

Yay!


68 posted on 05/06/2019 7:02:49 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: gov_bean_ counter

That is what I want to know.

Since when do tax returns become public property?

I swear, the Left is deliberately pushing this country into a civil war.


69 posted on 05/06/2019 7:10:24 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: Can't control their emotions. Can't control their actions. Deny them control of anything.)
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To: metmom

Obama likely had Trumps tax returns within 24 hours of him questioning Little Barry Soetoros birth certificate


70 posted on 05/06/2019 7:51:54 PM PDT by digger48
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To: metmom
 
 
I think what they are doing it going to go over them with a fine toothed comb looking for ANY irregularity or something as simple as a math error somewhere, to try to make it look like he’s submitted fraudulent returns.
 
"They" who? There's already a government entity with the authority to handle that kind of work - the Internal Revenue Service. The House of Representatives is choosing to ignore that and at this point is a rogue organization that is increasingly lawless. If they're after anything, it's people and organizations that Trump has been doing business with as well as those who have been part of Trump's organization(s). They'd like to ID anyone that's been near him for any reason and start in on bullying them up. That's not an option and has to be stopped.
 
 

71 posted on 05/06/2019 8:02:40 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: unixfox

There are roughly 80,000 pages of tax code on the books....most all written by Senators and House members over the past hundred years. When you accumulate the wealth that Trump has....you hire competent and clever tax accountants. They go line by line, and help ensure your wealth stays in your pocket and not in the government’s pocket.

What these requests are aiming at...are the loans that Trump took in, and the ‘deals’ that he may have made with the banks (getting the lowest possible rates). Then you’d go and drag the banks into the big room and demand to know why the average American can’t get those discount rates. All of this would be done to paint Trump and the banks as the evil capitalists, and color-up the theme of the 2020 election to be about the evils of capitalism.


72 posted on 05/06/2019 8:21:25 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: tcrlaf

the latest move by Trump administration officials to shield the president from congressional investigations...

They ever word it that way with the former POS in charge?


73 posted on 05/06/2019 8:52:11 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: tcrlaf

They’re probably convinced that Trump’s tax returns will show something because it’s beyond their comprehension that someone would NOT cheat on their taxes, like they all do.


74 posted on 05/06/2019 10:16:03 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: lapsus calami

They - the left, the liberals and dems who are trying to take Trump down.


75 posted on 05/06/2019 10:40:35 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

I want them returns and I want them NOW!!!

76 posted on 05/07/2019 1:11:58 AM PDT by Elsie
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To: faithhopecharity
It is the law and they know it.

But; but...

...in 1924 the LAW said...


I think there are a LOT of laws that have been changed since 1924.

What is CURRENT law?

77 posted on 05/07/2019 1:14:50 AM PDT by Elsie
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To: philman_36

Thank you!


78 posted on 05/07/2019 1:16:22 AM PDT by Elsie
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To: philman_36

...only...


79 posted on 05/07/2019 1:17:21 AM PDT by Elsie
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To: metmom
I’m sure Trump’s lawyers and accountants know how to do his taxes to avoid entanglements with the IRS.

Likewise...

I’m sure Trump has NO idea how to do his taxes to avoid entanglements with the IRS.


80 posted on 05/07/2019 1:24:48 AM PDT by Elsie
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