Donald Trump admits that he “plays to people’s fantasies” (lies) and that he uses the press to advance his interests. He meets every definition of a con artist. Supporters and critics agree that you cannot believe anything that he says. How can the American public learn any truth about him?
Many, hoping to get to some truth, continue to demand that Trump release his tax returns, as every other modern day President or Presidential candidate has done. Recently, the White House urgently released Donald Trump’s 2005 2-page tax summary - to beat Rachel Maddow who was about to reveal the same tax summary on her MSNBC show. Her source was David Cay Johnston, a former New York Times reporter who has recently started a website, DCReport.org, focused on revealing the activities of the Donald Trump administration. Mr. Johnston received the summary in his mailbox without any indication of who had sent it...
In this 2005 summary, Donald and newly married Melania Trump report an income of $150 million and a tax payment of $38 million (25%). The White House confirmed the authenticity of the summary, using their usual bluster to denounce the its “theft”.
Many, hoping to get to some truth, continue to demand that Trump release his tax returns, as every other modern day President or Presidential candidate has done. Recently, the White House urgently released Donald Trump’s 2005 2-page tax summary - to beat Rachel Maddow who was about to reveal the same tax summary on her MSNBC show. Her source was David Cay Johnston, a former New York Times reporter who has recently started a website, DCReport.org, focused on revealing the activities of the Donald Trump administration. Mr. Johnston received the summary in his mailbox without any indication of who had sent it...
In this 2005 summary, Donald and newly married Melania Trump report an income of $150 million and a tax payment of $38 million (25%). The White House confirmed the authenticity of the summary, using their usual bluster to denounce the its “theft”.
Many observers think that Donald Trump himself released the returns. Trump is known to feed information to the press “anonymously” or under a pseudonym. Trump’s team crowed that the “stolen” returns validated Trump’s payment of US taxes and the enormity of his income. But, many questions remain –
Why 2005 summary? What was going on? Who released it? Is 2005 representative of recent, more relevant years? And…… did Trump even file at all? It may be that Trump wants to focus his finances on 2005and divert attention from his more current filings when indebtedness or red flags from money laundering may be apparent.
We know that Donald is a con man who is especially loose with facts about numbers when it suits him. Certainly, the form that has “CLIENT COPY” stamped on it could have been created as a prop in another of his reality plays. There is no evidence this summary was a part of any tax return ever submitted to the IRS. It definitely was not released by the IRS, and it is unlikely that it was released by his accountant.
The American public wants to see Donald Trump’s tax returns from this year and recent years (not 2005) just as they want to see the truth about the President of the United States – a man who will never tell the truth. The American public also wants the Main Stream Media to question every statement that he makes. For years Progressives have been frustrated by MSM’s persistence in drawing false equivalencies between the right wing drive toward fascism and the left wing attempt to include all people in our democracy. Now, instead of holding Trump to same standards of other Presidents and decent citizens, the MSM is allowing him to create his own standards and even facts.
Why 2005 summary? What was going on? Who released it? Is 2005 representative of recent, more relevant years? And…… did Trump even file at all? It may be that Trump wants to focus his finances on 2005and divert attention from his more current filings when indebtedness or red flags from money laundering may be apparent.
We know that Donald is a con man who is especially loose with facts about numbers when it suits him. Certainly, the form that has “CLIENT COPY” stamped on it could have been created as a prop in another of his reality plays. There is no evidence this summary was a part of any tax return ever submitted to the IRS. It definitely was not released by the IRS, and it is unlikely that it was released by his accountant.
The American public wants to see Donald Trump’s tax returns from this year and recent years (not 2005) just as they want to see the truth about the President of the United States – a man who will never tell the truth. The American public also wants the Main Stream Media to question every statement that he makes. For years Progressives have been frustrated by MSM’s persistence in drawing false equivalencies between the right wing drive toward fascism and the left wing attempt to include all people in our democracy. Now, instead of holding Trump to same standards of other Presidents and decent citizens, the MSM is allowing him to create his own standards and even facts.