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Even Donald Trump’s Supporters Are Telling Him To Release His Tax Returns
Source: Huffington Post
Even Donald Trump’s Supporters Are Telling Him To Release His Tax Returns
One prominent backer noted that the GOP nominee has said multiple times that he’d make the documents public.
08/15/2016 08:21 am ET | Updated 2 hours ago
Kim Bellware
Reporter, The Huffington Post
Donald Trump’s critics have been calling for months on the Republican presidential candidate to release his tax returns, to no avail. Now, even Trump supporters are joining the chorus.
Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), a professed Trump backer (for now), wrote a Sunday New York Times op-ed titled, “I Support You, Donald Trump. Now Release Your Tax Returns.”
Sanford noted his continued ability to support Trump will “in part be driven by whether Mr. Trump keeps his word that he will release his tax records.”
Sanford notes just two years earlier ― in just one of several instances ― Trump clearly stated he would have no problem releasing his tax returns.
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One prominent backer noted that the GOP nominee has said multiple times that he’d make the documents public.
08/15/2016 08:21 am ET | Updated 2 hours ago
Kim Bellware
Reporter, The Huffington Post
Donald Trump’s critics have been calling for months on the Republican presidential candidate to release his tax returns, to no avail. Now, even Trump supporters are joining the chorus.
Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), a professed Trump backer (for now), wrote a Sunday New York Times op-ed titled, “I Support You, Donald Trump. Now Release Your Tax Returns.”
Sanford noted his continued ability to support Trump will “in part be driven by whether Mr. Trump keeps his word that he will release his tax records.”
Sanford notes just two years earlier ― in just one of several instances ― Trump clearly stated he would have no problem releasing his tax returns.
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Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-tax-returns_us_57b12a33e4b069e7e505b0a6
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Source: New York Times
Mark Sanford: I Support You, Donald Trump. Now Release Your Tax Returns.
By MARK SANFORD AUG. 14, 2016
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I suggest this not as a partisan against Mr. Trump. I am a conservative Republican who, though I have no stomach for his personal style and his penchant for regularly demeaning others, intends to support my party’s nominee because of the importance of filling the existing vacancy on the Supreme Court, and others that might open in the next four years. However, my ability to continue to do so will in part be driven by whether Mr. Trump keeps his word that he will release his tax records.
Let me explain why this issue is so important to me — and, indeed, much bigger than Mr. Trump and the current campaign for the presidency.
For one, it’s not really about his tax records per se. It’s about the American public’s ability to see other candidates’ returns. We have a long precedent in which every major-party presidential candidate since I was a child has released his returns. Break it now, and it stays broken.
The presidency is the most powerful political position on earth, and the idea of enabling the voter the chance to see how a candidate has handled his or her finances is a central part of making sure the right person gets the job. There is a reason a banker wants to see tax returns in determining whether you are eligible for a mortgage. You may talk a good game; tax returns don’t. Mr. Trump knows all this, which is why his team had his running mate, Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana, disclose his tax returns — again, an accepted and expected practice in vetting potential vice-presidential candidates.
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By MARK SANFORD AUG. 14, 2016
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I suggest this not as a partisan against Mr. Trump. I am a conservative Republican who, though I have no stomach for his personal style and his penchant for regularly demeaning others, intends to support my party’s nominee because of the importance of filling the existing vacancy on the Supreme Court, and others that might open in the next four years. However, my ability to continue to do so will in part be driven by whether Mr. Trump keeps his word that he will release his tax records.
Let me explain why this issue is so important to me — and, indeed, much bigger than Mr. Trump and the current campaign for the presidency.
For one, it’s not really about his tax records per se. It’s about the American public’s ability to see other candidates’ returns. We have a long precedent in which every major-party presidential candidate since I was a child has released his returns. Break it now, and it stays broken.
The presidency is the most powerful political position on earth, and the idea of enabling the voter the chance to see how a candidate has handled his or her finances is a central part of making sure the right person gets the job. There is a reason a banker wants to see tax returns in determining whether you are eligible for a mortgage. You may talk a good game; tax returns don’t. Mr. Trump knows all this, which is why his team had his running mate, Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana, disclose his tax returns — again, an accepted and expected practice in vetting potential vice-presidential candidates.
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Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/opinion/i-support-you-donald-trump-now-release-your-tax-returns.html?_r=1