Lurkers*: Can you please show us trump's tax returns?

[MerryHolidays]

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Ever? AFAIK, only grand juries and IRS have them besides trump...does that maybe, perhaps, tell you SOMETHING?

Did you see that President Biden released his return today and has consistently done so in the past.

Do you kinda' get the sense that trump is pulling a fast one on you? Finally?

(*on edit: this is for lurkers who think trump's behavior is acceptable in this regard)

[Ocelot II]

1. There are very good reasons Trump's tax returns have not been made public.

The most important of these is the possibility that they will be used as evidence in criminal prosecutions of Trump and/or his businesses. Investigators tend to prefer not to prematurely disclose evidence they intend to use in a trial.

[MerryHolidays]

2. You are missing the point....most presidential candidates and presidents have released them

VOLUNTARILY.

Except for trump. That's my point...he's NEVER released them.

[Ocelot II]

3. Old news. There's no law or rule requiring it, and even if there were,

Trump probably would have ignored it. I thought we'd finished beating this dead horse four years ago.

[MerryHolidays]

4. ???? That's about the most remarkable thing I've heard on DU in ages

All Presidential candidates and Presidents for decades release their taxes. But Trump won't/will not.

Amazing you miss the relevancy of that..."dead horse" or not, "four years ago" or not. The point is he doesn't, whereas folks like President Biden easily do.

[Ocelot II]

5. But that's the point. That's how Trump rolls. The fact that every other president

and presidential candidate for at least the last 40 years has released his tax returns was irrelevant to Trump. He didn't want to do it; he didn't have to do it; and so he didn't. Biden, being a normal person who respects norms, has done it because it's what presidents do even if they don't have to.

[MerryHolidays]

6. The point is how Trump rolls...there is NOTHING normal about that

I hope you are not condoning this. It's an indication of good faith, and that is PRECISELY the point: there is no good faith about Trump.

[Ocelot II]

7. Condoning?? Absolutely not! You totally misunderstand my point.

All I'm saying is that this is what Trump does and has always done. He has never acted in good faith about anything. But now he's gone, meaning that his tax returns might sometime come out as part of a criminal prosecution, and many of the other bad things he's done might also finally become public.

[MerryHolidays]

8. My point was CLEARLY made to lurkers, not folks like you who are DU long-termers

I am talking to them, not to you, about precisely the difference between someone like Joe Biden (and pretty much every candidate before him since 1968) and Donald Trump and the LURKERS.....not to true believers.

I am not sure we disagree on anything except why you would provide any rationalization for what Trump has done to lurkers.

Anyways, thanks for your insights...

[Celerity]

9. So every lurker here is now a QMAGAT RWNJ?

MerryHolidays

0. To all lurkers: Can you please show us trump's tax returns?

good to know

[MerryHolidays]

10. Wow....we are all over the place... ok...RWNJ Lurkers...

Are you happy?

Thanks so much for missing the main point!

[Celerity]

11. did not miss it, and cheers, good luck in your quest nt

[MerryHolidays]

12. No idea about your apparently sarcastic comment on "quest"

If I am wrong, sorry. But I am beginning to get a sense of why Ds rip each other up rather than uniting against the enemy with comments like this.

If you want to be pedantic, go right ahead with your "quest" and good luck too. The point here was Trump doesn't release his tax returns, but Joe Biden does. That's about the extent of my quest, but I wonder what is your "quest"?

Cheers!

[Celerity]

13. you are reading too much into the semantics

No idea about your apparently sarcastic comment on "quest"

[canetoad]

14. Personal experience tells me

That to have people reply to your threads, it's better to address DU members, rather than RWNJ lurkers. I doubt if they'd reply anyway, even if MIRT missed them.

[Raine]

15. Not all lurkers are Trumpers 🤔. nt