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by Justin Baragona | 12:12 pm, April 30th, 2017
Last week, while unveiling the outline of the White Houses tax reform plan, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was pressed on President Donald Trumps resistance to releasing his tax returns. In response, Mnuchin stated that Trump had no intention of releasing them as hes given plenty of financial information already.
During an interview that was broadcast this morning on CBSs Face the Nation, Trump said that Mnuchin never asked him personally about his taxes. At the same time, the president relied on his long-standing answer when pushed on if/when hell release his returns hes under audit.
Im under audit, the president exclaimed. Right now, Im under audit. He proceeded to explain that it appears to be a routine audit but that his returns are very large. POTUS added that he thinks it is unfair that hes been under audit for at least 12 years in a row, claiming that he thinks it is happening because hes very famous.
Host John Dickerson brought up that Trump has been relying on this claim for at least 14 months and wanted to know when he thinks the audit will be over.
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Initech
(100,080 posts)BSdetect
(8,998 posts)There is no proof of any audit at all.
And that would not prevent him releasing his return.
Its simply his MO at work here. Lie and lie again.
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)You're a friggin liar. Even if your tax lawyer advises you not to show the return currently under audit you can release all of the other past years that I'm very sure are done being audited by now.
As for why... it's almost certainly not because you're famous you narcissistic jerk. It's because your returns raised red flags with the amount of deductions, changes between years, etc. I'm no fan of the IRS but they're not going to waste time and precious manpower auditing people 'just because' they're famous.
See here's the thing, Trumpty Dumpty... you want a budget deal with cuts to crucial services for seniors, disabled, kids, single parents, working class poor, etc while giving more tax cuts to the richest who really don't 'need' the extra $$. We need to see YOUR returns to see exactly how and how much YOU and yours will benefit while screwing so many of the rest of us over.
malaise
(269,054 posts)fucking audit in history. LIE LIE LIE!
Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)pressbox69
(2,252 posts)IggleDuer
(964 posts)... then the IRS suspects that Drumpf didn't pay sufficient taxes all those years. Sounds a lot like an indictment. Lock him up!
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)He lies like we breath.
KelleyKramer
(8,969 posts)All Trump cares about is his popular standing. He is obsessed with tv ratings, vote totals, crowd sizes, etc
And his net worth is at the very core of that.
Its the most most important thing in the world to Donald Trump
He is lying about his net worth
He will never, ever, EVER, release his taxes
If somehow there was a court ruling calling for his taxes to be released.. Trump would resign as president to keep from doing it