Trump campaign on the run over his tax returns and his Russian connections

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Trump Won’t Release His Taxes, Says Top Aide
“It has nothing to do with Russia,” campaign chairman Paul Manafort said.

" Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will not be releasing his tax returns, his top aide said Wednesday on “CBS This Morning.”

“Mr. Trump has said that his taxes are under audit and he will not be releasing them,” Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign chairman, said.

Addressing questions about whether Trump has financial ties to Russia, Manafort said Trump’s decision to break with tradition and not release his taxes “has nothing to do with Russia, it has nothing to do with any country other than the United States and his normal tax auditing process.”
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entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-wont-release-taxes_us_5798b8d7e4b02d5d5ed39dbb

Remember when sleazeball Manafort said talk of Melania's speech containing plagiarized material was "crazy". What's crazy now Manafort?

[spanone]

1. the way this campaign lies, i believe nothing they say.

[pinboy3niner]

6. That's what Twilight Sparkle said

[Koinos]

2. Maybe someone should ask Manafort about his ties with Russia.

Damn shame. We need a Congressional investigation, and Congress is Republican. They had plenty of time for private email servers, but no time for possible collusion between a presidential campaign and a foreign power.

Too bad the IRS cannot legally share tax information with the FBI or other law enforcement agencies.

[PSPS]

3. LOL. "his taxes are under audit and he will not be releasing them"

1. Nixon's tax returns were being audited too and he released them anyway.

2. There is no legal prohibition against a person releasing their own tax returns regardless of any audit or anything else.

[2naSalit]

5. And that's the truth... plplplplplplpl!

[workinclasszero]

4. Manafort himself has ties to Russia!

Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s top adviser, and his ties to pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine
By Aleksandra Kharchenko on Monday, May 2nd, 2016 at 2:17 p.m.

Paul Manafort, the adviser hired by Donald Trump to add stability and institutional know-how to Trump’s often scattershot presidential campaign, has long and deep reported ties to pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine.

http://www.politifact.com/global-news/article/2016/may/02/paul-manafort-donald-trumps-top-adviser-and-his-ti/

[napkinz]

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8. These photos MUST go viral. Don the Con either hides or brags. He IS hiding a shitload of stuff. nt

[niyad]

9. as several other du'ers have wondered--could an irs employee, oooops, accidentally

release them? darn, fingers must have slipped.

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10. How many accountants were involved with their preparation? Was Anon Source among them?

[kestrel91316]

11. Manafort is probably a Russian agent.

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12. Is there ANYTHING OR ANYONE he wouldn't represent for big $$$? ANSWER: HELL NO!!! nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. I'm beginning to think Paul Manafort actually *is* Viktor Yanukovych.

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14. Another source...

Trump Won’t Provide Proof He Has No Ties to Russia. His Campaign: Trust Us, He Doesn’t!

"Donald Trump’s campaign denied Wednesday that the GOP nominee has any financial ties to Russia—but suggested that voters will simply have to take the candidate’s word on that, even while the consensus grows that the Kremlin was involved in the Democratic Party email hack.

Asked by CBS News whether Trump would release his tax returns to put voters’ minds at ease, his campaign manager stuck to the candidate’s they’re-just-going-to-have-to-trust-me script. “Mr. Trump has said that his taxes are under audit and he will not be releasing them,” Paul Manafort responded. “It has nothing to do with Russia, it has nothing to do with any country other than the United States and his normal tax auditing process.” Pressed again as to whether Trump has any “financial relationships with any Russian oligarchs,” Manafort offered more than a dozen words in place of a simple one-word no. “That’s what he said, that’s what I said,” the longtime GOP operative answered. “That’s obviously what our position is.”

First things first: Don’t be fooled by the audit excuse. There’s nothing stopping a candidate—or anyone else, for that matter—from releasing his returns while he is being audited, as Richard Nixon did back in the 1970s. (Nixon’s iconic “I’m not a crook” remark referred not to Watergate but rather to rumors of tax avoidance—which turned out to be true.) Beyond the questions about his Russian connections, Trump’s ongoing refusal to release his returns is a big deal in itself. The release of a candidate’s taxes, which is a political tradition that dates back roughly half a century, provides voters with valuable information about their potential presidents, including how they made their money, how much they donate to charity, and whether they have any potential conflicts of interest—i.e., answers to some of the most pressing questions Trump either won’t answer, won’t back up with any actual evidence, or has lied about. (The financial disclosures candidates file with the Federal Election Commission, meanwhile, can be so vague that they border on worthless, particularly for the ultra-rich like Trump.)
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/07/27/donald_trump_still_won_t_release_his_taxes_even_amid_russia_rumors.html