Team Trump admits, public won’t see candidate’s tax returns
Source: MSNBC
10/31/16 08:40 AMUPDATED 10/31/16 09:22 AM
By Steve Benen
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Yesterday, however, Trumps team said its time to give up and stop waiting. Trumps running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, made matters clear to NBC News Chuck Todd on Meet the Press yesterday.
PENCE: I think as soon as the audit is completed Donald Trump will release
TODD: Theres no audit on this return. They dont make those decisions that fast.
PENCE: Hell release all of his tax returns when the final audit is completed.
TODD: All right, so not before the election?
PENCE: Yeah.
Around the same time on ABCs This Week, Kellyanne Conway, Trumps campaign manager, said something similar, once again arguing that the materials including the returns that arent under audit cant be disclosed because were under audit.
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RKP5637
(67,032 posts)Warpy
(110,913 posts)There might be an internal scramble to sanitize his returns but the IRS has denied auditing the old fraud.
For a couple of decades, the IRS has concentrated on the little guy and left the big guy alone. If you're rich, meaning a net worth over ten million, you're pretty much exempt from an audit and the Trump team knows this.
I don't know why they keep pulling out this particular lie. I guess they realize their base of Kardashian fans has a memory that covers a nanosecond, at best.
okaawhatever
(9,453 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....treasonous dealings with Russia or the trial for the Trump University fraud. Who knows, there may even be a tax implication to his trial of unlawful imprisonment and rape of that 13 year old girl?
elmac
(4,642 posts)should be a disqualifying factor for running for president. Lying Trump, crooked Trump.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)he accuses Hillary with corruption and yet he gives no proof he is not a crook
wishstar
(5,267 posts)Like his campaign has said, why bother release anything that could be used against him? He thinks he's too smart to do that.
He has not donated to Trump Foundation since 2008, and that has always been his main "charity" that we know is a scam charity that NY Attorney General has shut down for not being properly registered or reviewed.
louis-t
(23,199 posts)And not releasing them isn't hurting him.
FailureToCommunicate
(13,989 posts)Not that I need any more reasons NOT to vote for Trump.
TeamPooka
(24,156 posts)jmowreader
(50,453 posts)What Trump is calling an audit, is the constant scrutiny the IRS does to all very rich people's accounts. Since it never ends, the "final audit" will never be "completed" and Trump will never release his returns...of course, in nine days no one will care about Trump's tax returns anyway.