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| Stoned | Jun 16 2018, 12:59 AM Post #1 |
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SUCKERS!!!!!! 2011 During his "birther" campaign of falsely claiming President Obama was not born in the United States, Trump offered a public deal: If Obama released his birth certificate, he'd release his tax returns. "Maybe I'm going to do the tax returns when Obama does his birth certificate," he told ABC's George Stephanopoulos. 2012 With Mitt Romney running on the Republican presidential ticket, Trump again and again offered a bit of advice from one businessman to another: The candidate must release his tax returns, ASAP. Trump started saying this in January, telling Fox News that releasing the returns is a "great thing" because it lets a person prove "you've been successful, and that you've made a lot of money." "I actually think it's a positive," he said. In the final weeks of the campaign, Trump even fell back on his birther deal, telling CNN he urged Romney to release his returns if Obama showed his birth certificate. Trump said it could be "a swap." 2014 The Obama birth certificate had by now emerged, proving that Trump's claim had zero merit. So Trump devised a new deal: He'll release the tax returns if he runs for office. "If I decide to run for office, I'll produce my tax returns, absolutely. And I would love to do that," he said in an interview with Ireland's TV3. 2015 Months before announcing his presidential candidacy, Trump assured that he'd release the returns as part of his proof that he "would make money for our country." "I would certainly show tax returns if it was necessary," he said in a February radio interview with Hugh Hewitt. As the year neared its ends, and Trump surged in the GOP primary polls, he said he was "thinking about" letting the returns out. 2016 In January, Trump said he and his campaign were "working on" getting the returns out, but it was hard because it "is not, like a normal tax return." Starting the next month, though, Trump introduced the excuse he'd stay with for the rest of the campaign: He couldn't get them out because he was under a "routine audit" from the IRS. In various February interviews and appearances, he called the audit "very complicated" but said the returns would emerge once it was over. But he shooed away even basic questions about his tax rate, telling George Stephanopoulos in an interview that it was "none of your business." Meanwhile, on the campaign trail, Trump scolded Romney for waiting until weeks before the 2012 election to release his returns, with Trump implying this played a part in the candidate's defeat. Trump stuck to the audit line right through the election, even saying in one of the presidential debates against Clinton that the returns would come "as soon as the audit's finished." Tax March protesters in New Yo2016 In January, Trump said he and his campaign were "working on" getting the returns out, but it was hard because it "is not, like a normal tax return." Starting the next month, though, Trump introduced the excuse he'd stay with for the rest of the campaign: He couldn't get them out because he was under a "routine audit" from the IRS. In various February interviews and appearances, he called the audit "very complicated" but said the returns would emerge once it was over. But he shooed away even basic questions about his tax rate, telling George Stephanopoulos in an interview that it was "none of your business." Meanwhile, on the campaign trail, Trump scolded Romney for waiting until weeks before the 2012 election to release his returns, with Trump implying this played a part in the candidate's defeat. Trump stuck to the audit line right through the election, even saying in one of the presidential debates against Clinton that the returns would come "as soon as the audit's finished." Tax March protesters in New York City on Saturday. Tax March protesters in New York City on Saturday. (LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS) But by Election Day, the only thing that emerged were pages from his 1995 returns that were leaked to the New York Times. They revealed that, at the time, Trump's businesses had lost nearly a billion dollars, enough to allow him to skirt income tax for up to 18 years. rk City on Saturday.2016 In January, Trump said he and his campaign were "working on" getting the returns out, but it was hard because it "is not, like a normal tax return." Starting the next month, though, Trump introduced the excuse he'd stay with for the rest of the campaign: He couldn't get them out because he was under a "routine audit" from the IRS. In various February interviews and appearances, he called the audit "very complicated" but said the returns would emerge once it was over. But he shooed away even basic questions about his tax rate, telling George Stephanopoulos in an interview that it was "none of your business." Meanwhile, on the campaign trail, Trump scolded Romney for waiting until weeks before the 2012 election to release his returns, with Trump implying this played a part in the candidate's defeat. Trump stuck to the audit line right through the election, even saying in one of the presidential debates against Clinton that the returns would come "as soon as the audit's finished." Tax March protesters in New York City on Saturday. Tax March protesters in New York City on Saturday. (LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS) But by Election Day, the only thing that emerged were pages from his 1995 returns that were leaked to the New York Times. They revealed that, at the time, Trump's businesses had lost nearly a billion dollars, enough to allow him to skirt income tax for up to 18 years. 2016 In January, Trump said he and his campaign were "working on" getting the returns out, but it was hard because it "is not, like a normal tax return." Starting the next month, though, Trump introduced the excuse he'd stay with for the rest of the campaign: He couldn't get them out because he was under a "routine audit" from the IRS. In various February interviews and appearances, he called the audit "very complicated" but said the returns would emerge once it was over. But he shooed away even basic questions about his tax rate, telling George Stephanopoulos in an interview that it was "none of your business." Meanwhile, on the campaign trail, Trump scolded Romney for waiting until weeks before the 2012 election to release his returns, with Trump implying this played a part in the candidate's defeat. Trump stuck to the audit line right through the election, even saying in one of the presidential debates against Clinton that the returns would come "as soon as the audit's finished." But by Election Day, the only thing that emerged were pages from his 1995 returns that were leaked to the New York Times. They revealed that, at the time, Trump's businesses had lost nearly a billion dollars, enough to allow him to skirt income tax for up to 18 years. But by Election Day, the only thing that emerged were pages from his 1995 returns that were leaked to the New York Times. They revealed that, at the time, Trump's businesses had lost nearly a billion dollars, enough to allow him to skirt income tax for up to 18 years. 2017 A reporter asked Trump about the returns in his first press conference as President-elect. Almost reflexively, he replied, "Well, I'm not releasing the tax returns because as you know, they're under audit." When pressed, though, Trump said for the first time that he simply didn't believe the American public cared about seeing them, because he won the election. The issue did not seriously resurface again until another leak of his returns, this time from 2005. The White House confirmed the authenticity of the pages even as Trump dismissed it as "fake news." With April bringing the first tax season under President Trump, protesters nationwide stormed the streets in occasionally violent protests demand to see his returns. Trump's response? He tweeted that they were paid protests, and fell back on what appears to be his final answer on the matter: He won the election. "I did what was an almost an impossible thing to do for a Republican-easily won the Electoral College! Now Tax Returns are brought up again?" he wrote Easter morning. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/times-donald-trump-release-tax-returns-article-1.3061868 Edited by Stoned, Jun 16 2018, 01:01 AM.
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