Actually, his regular taxes were a far smaller percentage than you pay. The AMT ensured he paid something close to what he actually owed.
Did they specify 2005 and that it was only the 1040 and nothing else before it aired?
It’s also possible that Maddow called Trump org/The White House to verify they were legit, I just find the leak to be the only interesting part of the story.
Maddow actually said on her show that they contacted the WH to verify the 2005 1040, before airing. The WH issued as statement, confirming its veracity.
A PhD in public policy. Could you summarize a particularly difficult course in her matriculation?
What does the word “actually” mean in the above?
Regards,
Shodan
Is this post for real? It’s comical!
Troll alert… (hey, I gotta get a warning someday…)
And also “ensured”, “paid”, “what” and “he”.
I personally cannot. I suggest you get yourself a Rhodes Scholarship and tell us how easy it is.
I’ve no doubt someone as clever as you could not only google to find the details but complete one between your next set of snarky posts.
Yes…Her first tweet was vague. Her second tweet specified that they had the 1040 form from 2005:
Since “1040 form” is kind of vague, I was hoping they had more than just the form itself but I wasn’t expecting anything more.
No, those words seem to have been used in their normal way. “Actually” is defined as “as the truth or facts of a situation; really.” It can’t have been used in that way - it is certainly not factual that Trump owed an amount different from what he paid. The amount he owed in fact is set by law, and it is quite clear that Trump paid the amount that, in fact, he owed. So I was wondering how a word that means “really” was referring to things that are imaginary.
Perhaps it was like misuse of the word “literally”, when one says something is literally true when it is just the opposite.
Regards,
Shodan
Please discontinue the hijack about the level of academic rigor Maddow completed. No warning issued.
This is a warning for accusing another poster of trolling which is not permitted in this forum. If you feel you must, the Pit is right around the corner.
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I agree about the value in highlighting the AMT.
In the news recently: Trump has declined to offer any proof that he’s forgoing his salary as promised:
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/Trump-Salary/2017/03/13/id/778405/
Their story now is that he’ll wait until the end of the year, then donate it. Uh-huh.
I’m with those who assume it was Bannon who decided that releasing the two pages from 2005 would accomplish several things:
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[li]A distraction from the health-care fiasco is badly needed; Trump’s image as a Deal-Maker Extraordinaire is about to be revealed as complete horseshit.[/li]
[li]As laid out very clearly by Martin Hyde (posts 53 and 55 in particular) and others in this thread, 2005 was probably an extremely atypical year for Trump, financially–one of the few in which he could point to actually-paid taxes and a fair amount of income. Many people will follow the human tendency to assume that one stands for all–that all years of Trump’s tax returns look pretty much like this one. Bannon will make good use of this unfortunate pattern in human reasoning–it will form the basis of talking points for Trump defenders for months to come.[/li]
[li]By pretending to have had nothing to do with the release of the two 2005 pages, the White House will be able to have that cake (the benefits of the release mentioned above) and eat it too–it gives them fresh “bash the media” material. How dare that mean ol’ media release the 2005 pages without permission!?! They must be STOPPED!!!1!!![/li][/ul]
…All in all, it’s a win/win for Bannon.
One can’t tell with certainty, but this smells of a deliberate leak. They just happened to pick a year that looks good for him- he made a lot and paid a lot. The copy has “Client Copy” stamped on it. What was released really doesn’t show that much. He gets to bash his favorite media target. It distracts from the shitpile health care proposal. It just seems too convenient.
But perhaps it could still work against him. Anybody else who has access to his old returns now knows where they can be dropped off and get published. They might even sound out the media about what they’d pay for such documents. Perhaps this is just the beginning, other less favorable years surely exist and sooner or later, they will come out.
The White House can release the other tax forms-They released these themselves just prior to Maddow’s broadcast.
I guess that “audit” must be over with, right?
The speed at which the WH responded to this is very telling. It takes them days or weeks to reply to most things - yet here they immediately were able to respond by putting the return out themselves.
Might not have been some kind of silver bullet but Maddow’s scoop was a good one and it will be interesting to see what happens from here.
If memory serves, at one point fairly recently Il Douche admitted that “audit” had nothing to do with anything, but then shrugged it off and refused anyway. The "audit’ gambit was no longer operable, but he saw no compelling reason to replace it.
No idea how to google that, anybody else remember?
That seems to be a constant refrain around here.
You might be thinking of the January 11 press conference, in which he first gave a half-hearted use of the “audit” excuse, but then segued into ‘I won, therefore I won’t release’:
Trump Press Conference: His First As President-Elect With Transcript And Fact Checks : NPR
The “audit” excuse will never go away–any falsehood Trump uses becomes beloved to him, and he will use it even after having ‘renounced’ it. But the “no one cares about the tax returns” seems to be the approved line for the surrogates, in spite of polls which indicate that quite a few million Americans do care:
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Since he is now turning from Julius to Tiberius on Capri, I really think everyone, including his critics, should ensure he spends the rest of his presidency holed up in his villa by the sea, eschewing the White House completely, and letting the civil service run the Empire.
Modern communications make it as easy to carry out duties wherever one may be. I assume, confessing ignorance, an American president is required to spend the bulk of the time on American soil; and sending him to rule from the old ruined monastery in romantic Tsetserleg on the slopes of the Khangai Mountains less than 400 miles SW of Ulan Bator is out ?
‘The rural landscapes of Siberia and Mongolia are gems hidden within Central Asia.’
Mayhap he can ask his sons, the Trumplings, to form Charity Foundations devoted to such causes as they favour.