Democrats need to start pressing Trump on his tax returns...

[kentuck]

And they should do it every time they go on the TV shows. They need to push the media to report on it.

The people of America need to know if the person that wants to be President has paid any taxes in the last 20 years. They need to know if he has all of his wealth in foreign banks.

They need to know, as has been reported, whether US banks have black-listed him and will no longer do business with him and that he now gets his credit through a bank in Germany?

The people have a right to know if the next President is a scofflaw and a criminal. They need to know if he is worth $10 billion dollars?

Donald Trump cannot put himself on a pedestal, with the help of the media, and refuse to show his tax returns. He does not get to exempt himself from doing what every presidential candidate before him has done. Romney tried to do it the last time and paid dearly for it.

Where are your tax returns, Donald? We demand to see them.

[Else You Are Mad]

1. He will never release his tax returns.

We all know that his tax returns will not be those of a billionaire, so Trump will never release them. If he loses his successful, Billionaire facade, he loses his attractiveness to that portion of his base that are not frothing at the mouth white supremacists and think his business 'skills' are what we need for a president.

He will probably say something offensive whenever the show his returns comes up to turn the news cycle to whatever he says to prevent the show his returns from getting any traction -- and the MSM will fall for it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. OK, but the more Democrats demand it, the more obvious become the reasons he won't. . . nt

[Unrepentant Fenian]

13. You're absolutely right!

I'm sure Trump demands tax records from his VP candidates.

[puffy socks]

34. I agree.

I wonder of any of the lawsuits won against him are free of gag orders?

[malaise]

2. 24/7

Over and over

[Gabi Hayes]

16. ESPECIALLY his lambasting of Mitt's reluctance. and absolutely

over and over and over and over

also RAPE

CRAZY

over and over and over

he is, after all of being accused of sexual assault by three different women, and is empirically insane

[Shrike47]

3. They should be demanded on a daily basis. He'll keep dodging, but we shouldn't let up.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. The missing tax returns are hidden

behind Chris Christie

You'll never find them

[Gabi Hayes]

18. that's not funny...this is

from this site, which nails both sides pretty amusingly
http://www.thegovernmentrag.com/senator-phogbound-assesses-other-candidates-calls-for-the-fat-ass-tax.html#.V4bfSRb2bmQ

the sanders as potentially elected leader of US AND Israel is quite jocose, even for Bernie supporters (i.e. me)

the trump section is right on target

[bucolic_frolic]

19. That's not funny either

or anything I would bother my time with

[Gabi Hayes]

21. I assume the implied slight to those gravitationally challenged

I thought about mentioning something along those lines to forestall, possibly, the outrage fomented.

sorry. he's the lowest sort of scum, and this is not patty cake. whatever it takes. I'll take this down, if you like, after trumpy passes him over

til then.....

[bucolic_frolic]

22. Victory in November!

I know we're on the same side, but I must confess I don't really understand
your last post. No matter. But your thoughts are appreciated, and carry on,
we must succeed in this, the world's darkest hour since about 1944.

[Gabi Hayes]

27. sorry. I, too misunderstood your first post. we agree on

the hoped for defeat of lord knows how to describe the scourge descending on democracy....pompous enough, there?

why 44, btw? I'd have thought 42, when EVERYTHING was going horrendously everywhere, from the pacific to Africa to England, to the USSR

[toddwv]

5. It's too early.

Wait until about 2 months before the election and then escalate the outcries.

Otherwise, all that effort that could be channeled somewhere else would be wasted if he happened - though it's not bloody likely - to release his tax returns.

[63splitwindow]

7. New name used EVERY TIME: Don, Where are Your Tax Returns, the Con. nt

[Cryptoad]

8. I overheard that somebody

with lots of money said they would donate $5 million to Veterans charities if Trump would publish his tax returns..... anybody else heard of this?

[murielm99]

9. Yes, I heard it.

It certainly was buried in a hurry.

[puffy socks]

36. Well

I'm thinking it should be perpetually talked about then.

[shadowmayor]

10. Better Call Mittens

Romney to the rescue! Oh wait . . . where's his tax returns???

[Submariner]

11. IRS should announce Trump audit has ended

or is suspended. Take away that flimsy audit excuse.

[mopinko]

32. they already announced that it was up to trump.

and that is just one year, right? release the other 9 years.

[spanone]

12. we know the media won't....K&R...

[kimbutgar]

14. Timing is everything

I think after Labor Day the Dem's surrogates should use as a talking point every time they are interviewing asking where are the Cheetos taxes?

It's too early to go after him now. Voters have a short attention span.

[puffy socks]

37. ...

" the Cheeto"

Old n orange n puffed-faced

[Gabi Hayes]

15. totally true, but they REALLY need to start pushing the CRAZY

sobriquet at every opportunity, and start posting ads featuring stuff like this:

and anywhere on this clip, from Indianapolis especially starting at precisely 43:38, from which point he really starts losing it:

also, 'too,' and such, this one, from last week in Cincinnati. take your pick of spots after the first fifteen minuts or so, but it's almost all platinum. he DOES have the best words...lots of them...biggest words, smallest words....smartest words.

sorry about the ads

[maxsolomon]

17. Trump has no intention of allowing facts into the race

His appeal depends on denying they have any import at all. Only "poor" people like Dems have nothing to hide.

Dems can use it, sure. But it's not going to happen. the tradition is dead.

[Quackers]

20. I'm surprised it hasn't been brought up that much before.

He needs to release them.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. Trump Cites Possible Political Damage In Explaining Why He Won’t Release Taxes

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-taxes_us_5786c48ce4b08608d332ec4c?section=

For months, Donald Trump has insisted that he would not release his tax returns while under audit ― a position seconded by tax lawyers, though one that the IRS has said is not necessary.

In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, the presumptive Republican nominee continued to make the argument it was the IRS audit preventing him from disclosing the finite details of his personal finances ― from the tax breaks he took, to the charitable donations he’s made. But in a telling aside, Trump seemed to admit that he wasn’t disclosing his returns because of the political damage he feared they would inflict.

“Mitt Romney didn’t want to give his tax returns” in 2012, Trump said of the previous Republican presidential candidate. “He fought like crazy. Then [Sen.] Harry Reid lied, told a total lie in the Senate, a vicious lie that was untrue. And then Mitt Romney, very, very late, decided to give his tax returns. Now, remember this, I’m under audit. It’s a routine audit. Nobody would do that while they’re under audit and everybody understands that. But let me tell you, he gave those tax returns and they were absolutely fine. He was destroyed. They went through his returns, which were peanuts compared to what I have. You saw the stacks of paper. He gave his returns, and they found little items, little items in those returns that were nothing.”

Trump’s reference is to an episode in which Reid said he had heard from an investor at Bain Capital, Romney’s old private equity firm, that Romney had paid no taxes for 10 years. Romney denied the accusation and denounced Reid. He ended up producing 1.5 years of filings showing that he had paid a tax rate of roughly 14 percent ― in other words, extremely low. For that, Romney endured difficult headlines.

[tavernier]

24. Democrats don't press.

Fingers has gotten away with so much crap that we should have been pounding him with for months, from Trump University to taxes to illegal dealings to lawsuits to bankruptcies. Sadly besides Elizabeth Warren, there isn't one brave soldier out there to take on the troll.

[treestar]

25. And why does the media not

make a big deal of it? They could get a lot of mileage out of what he must be hiding. Why are they not investigating?

[SheriffBob]

28. The media

does not want to kill their golden goose.

[unblock]

26. you would not believe what my investigators have found out about his tax returns!

bwa ha ha!

[SheriffBob]

29. You mean

about his Nazi bankers?

[unblock]

31. a lot of people are saying....

[kentuck]

30. On second thought...

The campaign may be holding onto that issue to keep Trump on the defensive after the conventions. It would be a good longer term issue to attack him with...

[yeoman6987]

33. Give it up. First it's not required

Second he already said he doesn't pay taxes more then required. He takes every deduction he can that congress has given. Everyone knows he paid zero to taxes for 20 years at least.

[erpowers]

35. Net Worth Claims

I care more about his net worth claims and I think that could be more damaging to him then whether, or not he paid taxes. What would happen if it came out that he was worth far less than $10 billion?

[yeoman6987]

40. Lol. I know your being sarcastic but that was funny.

Where on the tax forms does it state net worth? Thank god your being funny.

[cbdo2007]

38. We need to wait until he gets the nomination....THEN start pressing him

on this and many other things. This is Trump....there has to be many, many things in his past and present he wants to stay hidden, that would hurt his campaign...but it doesn't do us any good to bring it out now, we need an August, a September, and a big October surprise, after they don't have a chance to pick anybody else.

[awoke_in_2003]

39. First, they should be pressing

about the president's constitutional right to place a SC justice, then they can start worrying about things that, while customary, aren't required. Pres Obama is being severely disrespected, and no one seems to give a shit.

[Qutzupalotl]

41. But only after the convention.

If Trump is too weakened next week, the R's will dump him and put someone in who polls better.