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His Unreleased Tax Returns Threaten Yet Another Campaign Promise

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by adoo, Apr 18, 2017.

  1. Nolen

    Nolen Member

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    The countless scandals are not 'alleged'. They are real. They are truly difficult to count. The majority of them would have ended the careers of any other politician but because he has a base that will excuse and overlook everything, here we are.

    I'm glad you used the word "should." You are using legality as an excuse to say 'if it's legal to ignore this, it's ok.'
    There are many things that are legal but they are not moral or okay.
    There are many things that are illegal but they are fine and moral. I think any red-blooded conservative would agree that the government doesn't always get laws right. Using standing laws as a perfect measure of "should" is not going to be perfectly moral.

    Trump is not an average Joe who is entitled to perfect privacy of the average citizen. If you run for president and become president, expect extreme scrutiny. It's okay to scutinize someone who could be, or is, the most powerful person on earth. Examining tax returns and income is part of that scrutiny. It gives us a window into business dealings, entanglements with second and third parties, and if he has been truthful about those dealings and his income. It's perfectly fair to ask, and since the president himself has said many times that he would release them, it's perfectly fair to expect him to, and perfectly fair to call him a liar when he doesn't.

    The rest of this is just "my hero pisses off liberals, and I luv him all the more."
     
  2. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    Nixon did it for another reason

    We've had this discussion.
     
  3. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    @NewRoxFan

    Or any else. Why are you looking for more than whats on the disclosures?

    We've had Maddow with returns. All they were was embarrassing, not illegal

    What are you looking for? Nobody cared about him taking a billion write off in tax returns Maddow had.

    You expect to find something more than that?
     
  4. dmoneybangbang

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    Is Maddow running for presidency?

    It's just not a good look from the perspective of people who have standards for the office of the US presidency. Just another reason to think Trump filled the swamp even higher, along with all the nepotism, self dealing, abusing tax power money , etc.
     
  5. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    Just roll with the whistleblower. Did anyone open the disclosures. No one cares its too much.

    Holding up aid for Biden is easy to understand. Fighting for tax returns only rallies his base

    All conservatives see is you're bothering a job creator
     
  6. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    That made national news. No one cared
     
  7. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    Trump has been in the tabloids over forty years. If he was a fraud we would know by now
     
  8. dmoneybangbang

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    Show the tax returns and clear it up....

    He's too scared for obvious reasons.
     
  9. dmoneybangbang

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    So did the Air Force being required to stay at Trump's Scotland Resort....
     
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  10. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    Exactly
     
  11. T_Man

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    Well there you go...

    He made a decision and so with that comes consequences.....

    T_Man
     
  12. B-ball freak

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    It is posts like these that expose you. Expose you as a fraud, a troll, or a rube. One of those.
     
  13. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    Trump University faints
     
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  14. B-Bob

    B-Bob "94-year-old self-described dreamer"
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    Of all the absurd things you have posted... this one is the most fantastic, by a longshot. I tip my hat.

    Being in tabloids = legitimacy. Tabloid journalists uncover everything and report it accurately. You learn something every day.
     
  15. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    So you have proof he's a fraud. You must have proof to go to tge extreme of calling my post absurd.
     
  16. FranchiseBlade

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    Your premise was absurd by the definition of what the Tabloids are.
     
  17. fchowd0311

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    Yes. Trump universities; The Trump foundation that was shut down because they feared prosecution over using charity funds to pay for legal fees; Trump multi level marketing company aka a pyramid scheme so on and so forth. I'm lazy now and don't feel like elaborating to wish your bullshit.
     
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  18. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    His returns say one thing.

    He's rich

    I thought we all knew that
     

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