George Will on why Trump won't release tax returns: maybe he has mob ties.

[pnwmom]

Russian ties, U.S. mob ties -- George Will cites both possibilities among 6 possible reasons Trump refuses to release his tax returns:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-donald-trump-russia-tax-returns-20160727-story.html


1. He has Russian ties. (See above.)

2. He is being audited. I mean, maybe. Trump could, of course, release his tax returns even while he is under an audit. Richard Nixon did it in 1973.

3. He did not pay any taxes. The scant evidence we have on Trump's approach to taxation gives this theory credence. A 1981 report by New Jersey gambling regulators showed that Trump did not pay any taxes at all for two years in the 1970s. How? Because as a developer he was able to report negative income.

4. He has mob ties. The idea that Trump has links to organized crime has been kicking around for decades. But they've come much more to the fore since he began running for president. Ted Cruz, during a late-February interview on “Meet the Press,” brought the accusation into the presidential race: “There have been multiple media reports about Donald's business dealings with the mob, with the mafia. Maybe his taxes show those business dealings are a lot more extensive than has been reported.”

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[Cirque du So-What]

1. For a supercilious little RW-apologist twerp

George Will has been making a helluva good run at getting on my good side.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Trump borrowed over $250 million in a year. US banks won't lend. Where did he borrow from?

Russian oligarchs?

The mob?

Trump is hiding a lot in those tax returns.

[Motley13]

3. On Lawerence O'Donnell

they were questioning if his taxes are really being audited.

[uppityperson]

4. The world has become a very odd place when George Will starts making sense

[Thinkingabout]

5. What does Trump do best, lie, cant trust anything he says, dance

Around and divert. He does not have the ability to be president of the US. Lie, lie lie.

[roamer65]

6. I think it's Russian mafia ties.

IMHO.

[Warren Stupidity]

7. That's not a maybe, the Trump family is mobbed up back to his Dad's early years.

But it is unlikely that would show up in his tax returns.

[EffieBlack]

8. I also think that he's nowhere as wealthy as he claims

For some reason, the media just takes his word for it, referring to him as a "billionaire" - without any proof other than his own claims that he is. And given how many bald-faced lies he's been caught in, why would accept as true anything this man says?