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To: SeekAndFind
The Times claims that it legally obtained from unidentified sources...

How could they do that?

10 posted on 05/08/2019 7:54:00 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: jeffc
How could they do that?

Look at what happened with that Rachel Maddow idiocy a while back.

It turned out that Trump himself (or someone acting on his orders, more likely) probably mailed those documents to MSNBC.

I would not be surprised if the same thing happened here.

11 posted on 05/08/2019 8:14:51 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.")
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To: jeffc

Yep. The first question I had when reading the story was how the Times came by this information.

They wrote:

“While The Times did not obtain the president’s actual tax returns, it received the information contained in the returns from someone who had legal access to it.”

QUESTION: Who had legal access to the information in Trump’s returns? Is that the CPA or attorney doing his taxes during those years? Even assuming this person had legal access to the information, how is it legal to leak that information to the media?

Also, I’m not sure how much impact this is going to have. It’s not as if the fact that his casino empire was a money loser was a secret until now. For instance... Trump’s Taj Mahal opened in April 1990 in Atlantic City, but six months later, “defaulted on interest payments to bondholders as his finances went into a tailspin,” The Washington Post’s Robert O’Harrow found.

In July 1991, Trump’s Taj Mahal filed for bankruptcy. He could not keep up with debts on two other Atlantic City casinos, and those two properties declared bankruptcy in 1992. A fourth property, the Plaza Hotel in New York, declared bankruptcy in 1992 after amassing debt.

I don’t know how this is a scandal!!

During the 2016 campaign, we heard of his failed line of steaks, bottled water, Vodka, etc. The Times’ story adds more detail to the losses but it doesn’t dramatically change the overall picture that was already part of the record before the last election.

I can’t answer for any other reader, but personally, I am more interested in what shows up on my tax returns than what Trump’s returns looked like more than 20 years ago.


12 posted on 05/08/2019 8:18:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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