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  1. Margot2

    Margot2 Banned

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    Americans seem to have lost any sense of integrity or honor.. I mean they will do or say anything... They will stoop low. They absolutely don't care about the truth....

    I can't ever recall such extensive sloppy slanders.
     
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    bois darc chunk Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    He came into office with his businesses and he has refused to let go of his businesses while in office. Those businesses are exactly what will put him in conflict with the emoluments clause and are conflicts of interest, so they pertain to the situation. The only way to verify the extent of those businesses is through his tax returns. The Ethics office has told him he isn't in compliance and there are conflicts of interest that occurred the moment he took the oath of office. I'm not OK with that.

    Waiting for Congress to pass a law will allow Trump to personally enrich himself in office, with impunity, and against the emoluments clause. If you support waiting on a law to be passed, you are tacitly approving of Trump's potential conflicts of interest and violation of the emoluments clause. This isn't about feeling warm and fuzzy. The self-described law and order President needs to obey the law, and the only way to verify he is, is to release his tax return and relinquish control of his businesses.
     
  3. StillBlue

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    At a University with 20,000 students. I went to a Big 10 school, there's a whole bunch of my classmates that I didn't know either.
     
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    Steady Pie Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    He has faced this question many times before, what makes you think his answer would be any different this time around?

    Obama fudged plenty of questions put to him on that site. They respond, that doesn't mean they have to say what you want to hear.
     
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    One Mind Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I must be behind the curve. I only heard of 300 being dumped on a Friday a few weeks ago. With the general blacked out sensitive info. But some with classified headers being sent to an outsider. So when did they release the other 27, 700 deleted emails?

    In regards to trump and his past tax returns, if there is a law on the books that says he must release them, he would have released them already. I think this releasing returns before a president was elected, during the campaign was a voluntary thing started much later on in our history. He never released them, and the people still elected him. So, why continue to beat this drum? I guess people need jobs so they don't have so much time to be trump ankle biters. Of course you got the Hillary crowd ankle biters and then you have the little dogs who will hook their paws around your leg and dry hump it. Those are even harder to get rid of than the ankle biters. Schumer, but even some of these crooked establishment GOPhers are the leg humpers. They would like to bend him over and do it proper, as they have done to working people, but he will not bend over as Obama did, who stayed on his all fours for 8 years.
     
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    bois darc chunk Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I don't know the date, but the link to all the emails is in that post. There may be a date on there somewhere.

    As to Trump's tax returns, while running for office, there was no conflict of interest or violation of the emoluments clause. Now that he is President, there is. The only way to know the extent of his foreign holdings and interests, and therefore the potential for corruption and conflict of interests, is his tax returns. If the American people don't know which businesses Trump holds in foreign countries, there is no way to know whether his decisions are based on what is good for the United States of America or Trump's bottom line. It's not like he is so very honest that we can take his word on things.

    This issue isn't about left/ right, Democrat/ Republican, Clinton, Obama/ Trump. This is about the integrity of the office and the ability of the American people to know that the President is renegotiating deals in our best interest and not his own.
     
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    Oh boo hoo. Good luck . We're just going to step aside and let these disgruntled dishonest crooks have their way. Too much .
     
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    3600 total students in 1982. He was in political science with a specialty in international relations. When you're done with your excuses about why no one in a fringe group of students in his specialty knew him, you can work on how he was able to go to school in Indonesia without being a citizen of that country.
     
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    Looks like the new birther movement lol

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    It's over. Obama won... twice... and is already out of office. Let it go.
     
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    I hope his political opponents will stay focused on this issue. Trump is the Road Runner and they're Wyle E. Coyote. The tax returns are another failed plot to use ACME dynamite at the bird feed station. He'll zip right past them - ending government funding of PP; reducing the size of government; securing the border; and rebuilding the military - all while they're still wringing their hands waiting for him to take the bait on tax returns.
     
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    Never stopped them before.
     
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    True that. I didn't hang with the stoner dealer crowd.
     
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    I think he means the IRS that now works for the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump.
     
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    Well we know for certain Germany doesn't have that law.
     
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    College records for one... Never heard that huh? Try something other than the MSM, it can be very enlightening ;)

    Checkout the communist manifesto and it's painfully obvious the libs intentions are to follow it and use Saul Alinksy's rules for radicals to push it. The goal of socialism is communism.

    Both are difficult to avoid hearing about unless you only listen to the leftist Marxist media which I'm going out on a limb and think it appears to be the case.
     
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    Watchdog group C.R.E.W. has filed a lawsuit to get to the bottom of it. The only thing they need to get past is standing. If they can show standing, they're in and the lawsuit proceeds.
     
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    You seem awfully concerned with fascism, and yet, you're supporting the efforts of a group funded by fascism tied to the financial well being of mr Soros. Seems kinda hypocritical, no?
     
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    You seem awful concerned about gotchya posting. Shall I conclude that you want fascism and that you have proof that Soros is 1) connected to C.R.E.W., and 2) that he is a fascist?

    One of the lead C.R.E.W. attorneys on this case was the ethics attorney for GWBush.
     
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    Trump was the first presidential candidate from a major party since 1976 to insist on hiding his tax returns from the public. Although, he had repeatedly assured voters during the campaign he would release them.

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    Cults are like that.
     
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    Trumpies are desperate to divert threads that concern Trump and truth. State an egregious contradiction, and their knee jerk reaction is to become flustered and try to point anywhere else.
     
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    Trump is a liar.

    As I have mentioned several times on this forum, I was an IRS agent for many years and know for a fact that a person under audit is NOT enjoined from releasing his/her tax returns. Trump continues to lie and is pampered by the controlled right wing media which can easily refute his ''alternative facts'' at any time.





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    To be fair "We the People" was a useless website and for the record it was shut down by the Obama administration several weeks ago. I remember getting the email. The pattern on that website was always the same. Some topic would reach 100K signatures, Obama would punt the topic to an aide, said aide would pencil whip a non-committed report on the matter, and it would be buried with no real action. The site had become such a joke by 2016 people we're making joke petitions. I remember reaching 100K signatures for a petition calling on the US to build a Death Star. Good times. Same pattern.

    Onto the main topic though. Why do we need Trump's taxes? It's not going to change the results of the election. It's not going to pressure him or bully him out of being the President. I mean, it's a non-issue at this point.
     
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    All I can say is BINGO!
     
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    Trump must have something to hide or he woudl just release them

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    then he should just release them, you have to ask yourself what does he have to hide
     
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    That's a really dumb assessment. He doesn't have release them whether he has anything to hide or not. It really doesn't matter.
     

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