New York Times has Trump’s tax data...

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New York Times said:
The New York Times has obtained tax-return data extending over more than two decades for Mr. Trump and the hundreds of companies that make up his business organization, including detailed information from his first two years in office. It does not include his personal returns for 2018 or 2019. This article offers an overview of The Times’s findings; additional articles will be published in the coming weeks.

Trump’s Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax Avoidance
 

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If they are brought to court for this, I will happily chip in twenty-five or fifty bucks to their defense fund.

In the meantime, I'm tuning in. Pass the popcorn.
Oh, I’m sure that “the lawyers” have been all over this story before it went to press.
 
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So the question that should be asked: who will get prosecuted for data breach of confidential information?, no doubt abusing position and trust?

A legal inquiry into anyone's taxes is acceptable in any court. Even Trump can't hide the truth, although he tries and tries and tries and tries...
 
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So the question that should be asked: who will get prosecuted for data breach of confidential information?, no doubt abusing position and trust?
Yeah, that’ll be “the real story”, “who leaked!?”
It certainly won’t be the myriad financial entanglements the Trump Empire is currently engage in. Nope.
“Find the leakers!”

Should be interesting.
 
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The Times has the right under the First Amendment to keep its sources private.

Although Mary Trump revealed she had provided the evidence to the Times about the financial crimes her grandfather and three of his four living children committed to avoid estate taxes, the Times had kept her role confidential.

The lawyer who handled Fred Trump, Sr.'s estate had let Mary see the papers, not knowing the nest of vipers she would uncover and share.

The NY Times has already won one Pulitzer for the story of the older generation's financial misdeeds.
They certainly will deserve another for this!
 
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See what a clever businessman our Donald is? He's managed to keep his taxes down to a mere $750 a year for 2016 & 2017.

The history of trumps life. How to make a small fortune? Start with a large one and give it to trump!
 
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A legal inquiry into anyone's taxes is acceptable in any court. Even Trump can't hide the truth, although he tries and tries and tries and tries...
Unless tax returns are public information ,( they are not to my knoWledge) then this was unlawfully leaked, in violation of rights to data protection by statutory bodies.
 
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Unless tax returns are public information ,( they are not to my knoWledge) then this was unlawfully leaked, in violation of rights to data protection by statutory bodies.
I’m pretty sure that the genie won’t be going back into the bottle.
 
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He should totally sue them!
Here's what the publisher of the Times said about that:
Mr. Trump, one of the wealthiest presidents in the nation’s history, has broken with that practice. As a candidate and as president, Mr. Trump has said he wanted to make his tax returns public, but he has never done so. In fact, he has fought relentlessly to hide them from public view and has falsely asserted that he could not release them because he was being audited by the Internal Revenue Service. More recently, Mr. Trump and the Justice Department have fought subpoenas from congressional and New York State investigators seeking his taxes and other financial records.
Some will raise questions about publishing the president’s personal tax information. But the Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that the First Amendment allows the press to publish newsworthy information that was legally obtained by reporters even when those in power fight to keep it hidden. That powerful principle of the First Amendment applies here.

After all, as the Times says in the boldface phrase, isn't it just a case of "You asked for it, you got it?"
 
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"Trump’s Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax Avoidance"

Are losses and avoidance illegal?

Has the IRS gotten involved, did they find any wrong doing by Trump?
No. I don’t think the point is that he’s done anything illegal. He might have, but the NY Times data wouldn’t show it. It’s that he is a lousy businessman, whose main talent is shifting losses to other people. But we knew that already. So there’s little new information here.
 
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No. I don’t think the point is that he’s done anything illegal. He might have, but the NY Times data wouldn’t show it. It’s that he is a lousy businessman, whose main talent is shifting losses to other people. But we knew that already. So there’s little new information here.

Seems to me he's doing pretty good for himself.

My guess is, intentionally or not, you are spinning things and you, may not know what you are talking about, and what we are seeing may be normal for someone who's doing quit well.

I expect that from the Times and anyone that might be against Trump are going to blindly agree with NYT, without giving the truth a second thought....that's what they do here, plain and simple.

Question is, is there really a problem or is this, as they say, just business as usual?
 
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