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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu May 11, 2017, 11:22 AM May 2017

UPDATED: Trump Rejects Idea Of Releasing His Taxes To Win Dems Over On Tax Cuts

Last edited Thu May 11, 2017, 12:13 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: Talking Points Memo

By ESME CRIBB Published MAY 11, 2017 11:03 AM

President Donald Trump dismissed the idea of releasing his tax returns in return for Democratic support for his proposed tax cuts, an idea floated by an interviewer in a story published Thursday.

“Nobody cares about my tax return except for the reporters,” Trump told the Economist in an interview conducted last week. “Oh, at some point I’ll release them. Maybe I’ll release them after I’m finished.” Trump said he is “very proud” of his tax returns because he “did a good job.”

“I might release them after I’m out of office,” he said. “But I would never consider it as part of a deal.” He claimed it would “be unfair” to the bargain.

“I would never do it,” Trump said. “It would be disrespectful of the importance of this deal. Because the only people that find that important are the reporters.”

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-says-he-would-never-release-taxes-as-deal-for-dem-support



UPDATE:

Trump admits White House is too combative


By POLITICO STAFF 05/11/17 09:33 AM EDT

President Donald Trump conceded that his White House is often too combative, but he added that “the only way you survive is to be combative.”

A wide-ranging Time interview published Thursday spans a variety of topics, from the recent missile strikes in Syria to the future of aircraft carriers to what he watches on television. Time conducted the interview on Monday in the White House, just a day before the president publicly fired FBI Director James Comey.

“It could be my fault. I don’t want to necessarily blame but there’s a great meanness out there that I’m surprised at,” Trump said when asked whether he thought the White House was too combative. “I’d like not to be. But the only way you survive is to be combative. I’ll read stories in the New York Times that are so one-sided.”

The aggressiveness of the White House, both inside and out, is well documented. Within the White House, his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, is known to be a fiery populist who has clashed with the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner.

Similarly, his press secretary, Sean Spicer, often feuds with the press during daily briefings. His pugnacious nature has even become a staple of "Saturday Night Live," on which actress Melissa McCarthy caricatures Spicer as a belligerent hothead who screams at the media.

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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/11/trump-time-interview-238259
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underpants

(182,271 posts)
2. Could we just get your actual net worth and loan obligations on a certified letter?
Thu May 11, 2017, 11:26 AM
May 2017

That's all we really want to know. Hell do it in 6 bullet points per page if that makes you happy.

 

mreilly

(2,120 posts)
3. Last I checked 61% of the public wanted him to release those taxes...
Thu May 11, 2017, 11:29 AM
May 2017

... but he never will. Because he knows it's game over if he does. Releasing his taxes is tantamount to a full public confession that he is a criminal, a traitor and a liar. Right now he's in a better spot by hiding them since he can just repeat garbage and trust his idiot supporters to back him no matter what.

I'll tell you a quick story: when I was young and foolish I was dating one girl but had a crush on another girl. I stupidly wrote words to the effect down in a journal I kept and my girlfriend caught just a glimpse of it - enough to know "she" (meaning the other girl) was on my mind.

She demanded to see the journal. I refused. I KNEW it would be game over if she read what I had written. I kept saying it was private stuff, not her business, just a story I was writing, just a dream I had - whatever came to mind. I knew I was in deep shit with her, but I would be even deeper in the shit if I submitted to her demands. Eventually she gave in and gave up.

And that's exactly what Trump is doing now. That his supporters don't see that - or worse, they know but just just don't CARE - makes them the blind, trusting, deluded girlfriend I had (sounds mean but I don't intend that - I was being dishonest and I regret that) who ultimately decided she wanted to believe my journal entry was no big deal.

cstanleytech

(26,080 posts)
4. I never understood that argument though because you would think that the varies intelligence
Thu May 11, 2017, 11:34 AM
May 2017

agencies would know if someone running for the office of president was in debt up to his eyeballs to a foreign government and would sound the alarm.
To be honest I think he is trying to use his tax returns as a distraction to keep people from looking anywhere else.

Ray Bruns

(4,020 posts)
6. It makes perfect sense. He knows once those returns see the light of day, he's toast.
Thu May 11, 2017, 12:13 PM
May 2017

What intelligence agency? The CIA and NSA don't have access to tax returns. If they did, they would be admitting to breaking the law. the IRS cannot release them without Trump's approval. The FBI cannot get access to them without a warrant. And a foreign intelligence agency wouldn't want to reveal an asset by getting and releasing them.

cstanleytech

(26,080 posts)
8. Really, you think the CIA and the NSA are going to respect the law and not look access tax returns?
Thu May 11, 2017, 12:45 PM
May 2017

I would be more surprised if they were not doing it.

Ray Bruns

(4,020 posts)
9. Like I stated, they would have to admit to looking at them.
Thu May 11, 2017, 01:34 PM
May 2017

I am sure there is a good chance they have already looked at them. But releasing that information in a way that doesn't get back to them would be tricky. That is the issue. Because if it did get back to them, they would have a GOP controlled congress crawling up their ass with a microscope. Plus, they have bigger fish to fry than Donald Trump.

cstanleytech

(26,080 posts)
10. Not really if they wanted to they could just use a cover story of someone hacked into the IRS
Thu May 11, 2017, 01:42 PM
May 2017

and stole the documents from the IRS and released them to the media and considering the number of other hacks over the years it would be believable.

 

Egnever

(21,506 posts)
7. He will never release his taxes
Thu May 11, 2017, 12:29 PM
May 2017

They show how much money he is taking in loans from Russia. If they were released it would end him and he knows it.

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