BREAKING...Maddow: we've got Trump's tax returns!

[oreo]

Why do we care what his tax return was like 12 years ago?
Big f-ing deal.

You on the left made it a big deal....all through the election and since. TRUMP PAID NO TAXES! you screeched.

Well he did, you look foolish and once again you've been played.

Well Houston has got a problem because Trump is now stating it's a fake return.

President Donald Trump cast doubt on the release Tuesday night of parts of his 2005 tax return, tweeting Wednesday: “Does anybody really believe that a reporter, who nobody ever heard of, ‘went to his mailbox’ and found my tax returns? @NBCNews FAKE NEWS!” The pages, unveiled by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow after being mailed to journalist David Cay Johnston, show that Trump paid $38 million on reported income of $150 million, a tax rate of 25 percent — torpedoing insinuations from the left that Trump was evading taxes.

Source NEWSMAX

Again the PURPOSE of Presidential Candidates releasing their returns is NOT because everyone needs to know how much they make and what tax rate they paid, but it's to check for any FOREIGN CONFLICTS OF INTEREST. That could very well affect their decisions on National Security.

"Never in American history has a president-elect presented more conflict of interest questions and foreign entanglements than Donald Trump. Given the vast and global scope of Trump’s business interests, many of which remain shrouded in secrecy, we cannot predict the full gamut of legal and constitutional challenges that lie ahead. But one violation, of constitutional magnitude, will
run from the instant that Mr. Trump swears he will “faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” While holding office, Mr. Trump will receive—by virtue of his continued interest in the Trump Organization and his stake in hundreds of other entities—a steady stream of monetary and other benefits from foreign powers and their agents."
The Emoluments Clause: Its text, meaning, and application to Donald J. Trump | Brookings Institution

Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution provides as follows: “No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

This is a reason for impeachment. If Republicans won't do it, be assured Democrats will in 2018. Democrats will obtain Trump's recent income tax returns (the full returns) when they take over the Ways & Means committee.

Speaking of Turkey, General Flynn just disclosed he's a paid lobbyist for them.
Questions abound over Flynn lobbying for Turkey

It just never stops does it?

Analysis | 5 times Donald Trump’s team denied contact with Russia

 

[Rambunctious]

Madcow gave birth to a 50 pound cow on stage last night.....yeeeeouch! there goes another fledgling snowflake career. See ya madcow!

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Why do we care what his tax return was like 12 years ago?
Big f-ing deal.

You on the left made it a big deal....all through the election and since. TRUMP PAID NO TAXES! you screeched.

Well he did, you look foolish and once again you've been played.

Well Houston has got a problem because Trump is now stating it's a fake return.

President Donald Trump cast doubt on the release Tuesday night of parts of his 2005 tax return, tweeting Wednesday: “Does anybody really believe that a reporter, who nobody ever heard of, ‘went to his mailbox’ and found my tax returns? @NBCNews FAKE NEWS!” The pages, unveiled by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow after being mailed to journalist David Cay Johnston, show that Trump paid $38 million on reported income of $150 million, a tax rate of 25 percent — torpedoing insinuations from the left that Trump was evading taxes.

Source NEWSMAX

Again the PURPOSE of Presidential Candidates releasing their returns is NOT because everyone needs to know how much they make and what tax rate they paid, but it's to check for any FOREIGN CONFLICTS OF INTEREST. That could very well affect their decisions on National Security.

"Never in American history has a president-elect presented more conflict of interest questions and foreign entanglements than Donald Trump. Given the vast and global scope of Trump’s business interests, many of which remain shrouded in secrecy, we cannot predict the full gamut of legal and constitutional challenges that lie ahead. But one violation, of constitutional magnitude, will
run from the instant that Mr. Trump swears he will “faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” While holding office, Mr. Trump will receive—by virtue of his continued interest in the Trump Organization and his stake in hundreds of other entities—a steady stream of monetary and other benefits from foreign powers and their agents."
The Emoluments Clause: Its text, meaning, and application to Donald J. Trump | Brookings Institution

Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution provides as follows: “No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

This is a reason for impeachment. If Republicans won't do it, be assured Democrats will in 2018. Democrats will obtain Trump's recent income tax returns (the full returns) when they take over the Ways & Means committee.

Speaking of Turkey, General Flynn just disclosed he's a paid lobbyist for them.
Questions abound over Flynn lobbying for Turkey

It just never stops does it?

Gibberish

 

[Care4all]

TRUMP is playing a Putin, trying to get rid of the journalist investigating him, with trumped up charges that he set up.....he learned well from his mentor....

Someone stealing the returns would have stolen the full return, with the information we have all been looking for, not simply the first two pages showing trump making a bundle and paying taxes

Who held a gun to her head to air it?

no one, she had the right to air the little info the 2 pages gave....the PUBLIC has wanted to know about his tax returns for years now, and Trump has said he will release them once his audit is done....

These two pages from a 2005 return, did nothing as far as information for all the investigations going on...

TRUMP PICKED this year, out of all of his tax years, that shows his earnings and taxes paid via the alternative minimum tax...

Do you really believe a thief would go through the trouble and jail time risk for stealing Trump's tax returns and this thief would pick 2005's return, without all of the supportive schedules and paperwork?

COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

your boy, did this and released them via courier...

JUST LIKE THE STATE RETURNS were allegedly stolen and given to a journalist through Courier.... and again,l only the top two pages....of them.

WITHOUT any of the pertinent information for these investigations on Russian connections, Oligarch connections, Foreign Bank connections.

I'm sorry but even an infant can see what's actually going on here...for the SECOND time, first with his State and now Federal, tax return leaks.

Please, for the love of God, use your brain, and not your heart, on this....

 

[rich stacy]

IF she solicited it SHE BROKE THE LAW. IF she did not, she didn't.

It's that simple.

Although a hard charge to prove, they could bring a criminal conspiracy charge in such a case. But, and I have to point this out, Donald Trump asked Vladimir Putin to hack into Clinton's server, and find the missing e-mails. Which are the same acts you merely speculated, what if's, with Maddow. Trump could be exposed to charges, of conspiracy and criminal solicitation.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Just like the lawyers at CBS approved the Dan Rather Bush National Guard Memo?

Nothing is illegal...lol..

He wants the headlines on this , just like it worked on Jeff Sessions and his lying wire tapping tweets..

I note your non-answer, you cheap, dime store hack.

Dude, go ahead and be led like a little puppy...eating up right out of Trumps hand that is feeding you..

It would be illegal if an IRS person leaked it..

Trump is the one would told everyone that he didn't pay taxes...

If there had been anything incriminating I would be agreeing with you...but Trump is lying his ass off right now..

Targeting taxpayers

Sure.....It is a good thing that you take her lightly.

No one, outside of looney feminists, and diehard leftists take her seriously. She is a caricature of everything that is wrong with the Democrat party.

Exactly what Trump wants , to discredit her.. She has been getting some very good stories out these last few weeks on connecting the Dots to Russia...

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Maddow is an excellent researcher. This isn't over by a long shot....anyone who things it is, is a simpleton of the Drumpfster variety.

She didn't research crap. She was given two pages that make the Trump narratives by leftists, (he is broke/doesn't pay taxes) look completely foolish.

Trump is the one who said that he doesn't pay taxes...not Maddow or the lefts..

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Why do you keep taking Trumps words out of context?
Are you ill informed or just a partisan hack?

In October 2016, the New York Times reported that it had obtained three pages from then-candidate Trump’s 1995 personal tax return. That partial return showed that Trump took a $916 million loss that year, a move that experts who reviewed the filing for the Times said may have allowed him to avoid paying personal income taxes for almost two decades.

Trump admitted that he had taken the massive deduction in a debate with Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton a week after the Times report. “The write-off is a wonderful thing,” Trump said, but not before insisting, “I pay taxes.”

Madcow also put an end to the fairytale that Trump paid no taxes for twenty years.....thanks Madcow!!!

 

[Rambunctious]

it is every Americans right to pay the minimum tax that can be assessed to them, and to take advantage of every deduction and loophole in the tax code. But those actions do have
,. When John Kerry registered his boat in Connecticut in order to save the taxes Massachusettes would have charged, he didn't face legal hurdles, but political one's instead.

Knowing a politician would 'game' the system, even if legal, may not sit well with the people he wants to vote for him, Many of which don't think it's fair that someone else gets to get away with loopholes they can't

political consequences for some but not for Trump because his supporters know how unjust the tax code is and don't care if he used every loop hole there is. Someone should point to the real story and that is Bernie Sanders and his taxes.
Talk about deducting everything...Mr. Socialist paid a smaller percentage than I did and my income is half of his. Just another Faker, all talk and no action. Thanks Madcow you made my day.

 

[rich stacy]

And what is your point? I argued that she received them legally because Trump trolled her dumb ass.

The point is that even is she illegally recieved then, ie the source broke the law by disclosing the information. That the receiver doesn't face legal consequences unless they knowingly enduced the other person to break the law.

The fact the other person broke the law by releasing the information, without there being an enducement, means there was no crimninal act on the receivers part.

 

[martybegan]

This coming from someone who probably waited, dick in hand, for Maddow to release whatever information she had?

LOLOLOLOLOL.

Hummmm... Yeah this is why Fox News has these fake blondes with big boobs...so the male viewers don't pay attention to their lies and 1/2 truths..

You are saying that like its a bad thing. Why are you so oppressive to fake blondes with big (probably fake) boobs?

 

[Rambunctious]

Barry Obama only paid 18% of his income, didn't he make a ton on his book that he didn't write? Did he pay his taxes on that? Speaking of Barry he sure has been quiet since Trump pointed the finger at him for wiretapping, come to think of it the leaks have stopped as well. Hmmmmm what does that tell you?

 

[Auld Phart]

TRUMP is playing a Putin, trying to get rid of the journalist investigating him, with trumped up charges that he set up.....he learned well from his mentor....

Someone stealing the returns would have stolen the full return, with the information we have all been looking for, not simply the first two pages showing trump making a bundle and paying taxes

Who held a gun to her head to air it?

no one, she had the right to air the little info the 2 pages gave....the PUBLIC has wanted to know about his tax returns for years now, and Trump has said he will release them once his audit is done....

These two pages from a 2005 return, did nothing as far as information for all the investigations going on...

TRUMP PICKED this year, out of all of his tax years, that shows his earnings and taxes paid via the alternative minimum tax...

Do you really believe a thief would go through the trouble and jail time risk for stealing Trump's tax returns and this thief would pick 2005's return, without all of the supportive schedules and paperwork?

COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

your boy, did this and released them via courier...

JUST LIKE THE STATE RETURNS were allegedly stolen and given to a journalist through Courier.... and again,l only the top two pages....of them.

WITHOUT any of the pertinent information for these investigations on Russian connections, Oligarch connections, Foreign Bank connections.

I'm sorry but even an infant can see what's actually going on here...for the SECOND time, first with his State and now Federal, tax return leaks.

Please, for the love of God, use your brain, and not your heart, on this....

You seem to have missed my point.

You're correct tho...

NO one held a gun to her head to go on air and make a complete ass of herself last night over 2 pages of tax returns from over a decade ago.

Just like no one held a gun to Geraldos head to televise opening Capones wine cellar.

and they both ended up

 

[martybegan]

Both are illegal, one merely in the possession, the other to disseminate without the permission of the owner. Once they decided to release the information, they became part of the chain of release outside the limits imposed by the owner of said returns.

If the Tax returns actually showed something illegal, that would maybe give Maddow more of a shield from prosecution under the law, but the return shows nothing of the sort. How can she claim her actions were in the public interest when they show nothing but he paid taxes that year?

No. You are arguing against a law. Do you understand that? Have you taken the time to look up the law the entire time you have been arguing with me? Journalists do not have to follow the same rules that you and I do. They did not solicit the information in the same way Gawker pays for information and therefor are protected differently than the situation Gawker was. What they did was not illegal.

The New York Times reported on Trump's 1995 tax returns a long time ago... this is nothing new.

Who gave Trump’s taxes to the New York Times? The mystery behind a bombshell story.

They still have to follow basic rules, and if the law explicitly protects private citizen's tax returns, (as Trump was back in 2005) any shield they are claiming isn't exactly made of adamantium.

You do realize that your sides's obsession with Trumps tax return is far more exemplified by your meme response, right?

If by side you mean "Anti-Trump" people... I want to see his latest couple year's tax returns to see where his conflicts of interests lie. It's pretty simple, and if he had to apply for a security clearance it would have been reviewed. Though he doesn't have to get a security clearance as an elected POTUS, I'd still like to see it for myself, and a great deal of the population would like to see it as well. His tax returns would also prove once and for all how big of a liar he is when it comes to how charitable he is, which could absolutely ruin him with the public. No one likes a braggart that talks about how much they give in donations only to find out they don't give shit.

By great deal of the population, you really mean butt hurt progressives. I really don't care how he makes $$ as long as its legal.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

IF she solicited it SHE BROKE THE LAW. IF she did not, she didn't.

It's that simple.

Although a hard charge to prove, they could bring a criminal conspiracy charge in such a case. But, and I have to point this out, Donald Trump asked Vladimir Putin to hack into Clinton's server, and find the missing e-mails. Which are the same acts you merely speculated, what if's, with Maddow. Trump could be exposed to charges, of conspiracy and criminal solicitation.

Wrong. The emails had already been hacked. On top of that anyone with a brain knows Trump was being facetious

 

[MindWars]

Now if all of the orange clown's tax data looks like that, why has he not released it? 25% is not as much as someone with an income like that should pay, but more than Romney paid. So what is the problem with releasing all his tax data?

I just couldn't resist

 

[dannyboys]

I wonder how many people are going to tune in to Man-brow's show the next time she claims to have a "BOMB SHELL" which will "bring down the Presidency"?
Anyone who believes that President Trump and Sessions are just sitting back and allowing the 'leakers' to get away with committing sedition and treason are fucking delusional!
Watch and learn what happens to these traitors.
Today there are dozens of hand picked Sessions employees conducting the greatest Easter egg hunt for these traitors in US history.
You all thought you had seen a 'show trial' on TV before?
Sessions has his people watching every fucking moving company and truck rental business on the beltway.
Also the airlines and the borders.
Whenever a FBI/DHS/CIA employee suddenly quits and/or hires a U Haul truck Sessions will know about it before the former employee gets back to his apartment.
There's some extremely serious shit about to go down!

 

[JBond]

Wrong again. He pays no more than required by law. He went on to explain exactly what that means.
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it is every Americans right to pay the minimum tax that can be assessed to them, and to take advantage of every deduction and loophole in the tax code. But those actions do have political consequences,. When John Kerry registered his boat in Connecticut in order to save the taxes Massachusettes would have charged, he didn't face legal hurdles, but political one's instead.

Knowing a politician would 'game' the system, even if legal, may not sit well with the people he wants to vote for him, Many of which don't think it's fair that someone else gets to get away with loopholes they can't.

By loophole, you mean tax law. Those laws apply to all of us. Still not sure what your point is. People voted for him, and Kerry, and all the others. Few care. Many view the IRS as the enemy. Many are also tired of the fake demonization of successful people, especially when the rhetoric and the actions of those doing the demonization never match up.

 

[rich stacy]

Someone should point to the real story and that is Bernie Sanders and his taxes.
Talk about deducting everything...Mr. Socialist paid a smaller percentage than I did and my income is half of his. Just another Faker, all talk and no action. Thanks Madcow you made my day.

Senators often have a lot of deductable expenses, especially if they have to maintain two residences

 

[Auld Phart]

IF she solicited it SHE BROKE THE LAW. IF she did not, she didn't.

It's that simple.

Although a hard charge to prove, they could bring a criminal conspiracy charge in such a case. But, and I have to point this out, Donald Trump asked Vladimir Putin to hack into Clinton's server, and find the missing e-mails. Which are the same acts you merely speculated, what if's, with Maddow. Trump could be exposed to charges, of conspiracy and criminal solicitation.

Wrong. The emails had already been hacked. On top of that anyone with a brain knows Trump was being facetious

I was watching a Tim Kaine interview earlier this morning, and HE claimed Trump asked the Russians to hack the DNC.

(which made him a perfect running mate for Hillary)

 

[Toro]

They're fake tax returns.

 

[Care4all]

Are you either a tax lawyer or tax attorney? I am sure the real lawyers at NBC know what they are doing

Just like the lawyers at CBS approved the Dan Rather Bush National Guard Memo?

Nothing is illegal...lol..

He wants the headlines on this , just like it worked on Jeff Sessions and his lying wire tapping tweets..

I note your non-answer, you cheap, dime store hack.

Dude, go ahead and be led like a little puppy...eating up right out of Trumps hand that is feeding you..

It would be illegal if an IRS person leaked it..

Trump is the one would told everyone that he didn't pay taxes...

If there had been anything incriminating I would be agreeing with you...but Trump is lying his ass off right now..

Targeting taxpayers

Pretty sure Trump trolled mad cow with his return. She looked like a distracted loon.

Sure.....It is a good thing that you take her lightly.

No one, outside of looney feminists, and diehard leftists take her seriously. She is a caricature of everything that is wrong with the Democrat party.

Exactly what Trump wants , to discredit her.. She has been getting some very good stories out these last few weeks on connecting the Dots to Russia...

.

Maddow is an excellent researcher. This isn't over by a long shot....anyone who things it is, is a simpleton of the Drumpfster variety.

She didn't research crap. She was given two pages that make the Trump narratives by leftists, (he is broke/doesn't pay taxes) look completely foolish.

yep, by ultimately, Trump.

YES HE DID THIS LEAK...it was all to Trump's advantage, th year of 2005, only the front two pages, and all to change the subject, to get his lemmings to go after Rachel Maddow, who is doing an incredible job investing and connecting the dots on the Russian Connection.

Simple as that...it's been done before by him and I'm certain it will be done again by him... he's controlling the media...they are not controlling him. Same with you guys, his Trumpettes...you are his good little sheep! He has you so pegged, knows exactly what you will do, once he tweets.....