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© Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Supreme Court OKs handover of Trump tax returns to Congress
By MARK SHERMAN WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Blacklabel
Same with taxes. You pay a firm to do them and the IRS audits them.
so what are Democrats in the house they just lost expecting to do with tax filings already reviewed by an outside firm and then reviewed and already accepted by the IRS?
Blacklabel
Were there not accounting firms hired to review the legality of all of this?
did they just miss it and if so, isn’t it their legal responsibility if it’s wrong? Kinda why you hire an accounting firm….
lincolnman
Which is exactly opposite what Weissellberg said under oath - a clear denial of reality...
And you can't deny Donald and Eric's signatures on the checks...
And the bad news even gets worse...
*For years, former President Donald Trump personally signed stacks of bonus checks that were then stuffed into the holiday cards of favored company executives, jurors have already heard in the trial.*
*But the yearly executive bonus handouts were part of a 15-year payroll tax dodge scheme that reached right to the top of the company, prosecutors are trying to prove.*
*The bonuses should have been reported in their entirety on company W-2s** each year, as taxable income. But they were not, prosecutors have charged.*
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-organizations-outside-accountant-testifies-011016142.html
Once again, his signature on the checks will sink him...
Blacklabel
So he’s been criminally indicted much less convicted? Ever?
Blacklabel
Yes that is what Weisselberg did without any involvement of Trump whatsoever, as was testified in court under oath. . Thanks for confirming using big boy words for once.
but in fact all of it has nothing to do with this article anyway. Just another distraction.
Nemo
Did he sign the checks? Yes.
Did he sign the statement saying that his loan applications, tax forms and statements of financial disclosure were honest and factual? Yes.
Were those documents honest and factual? No.
Wow, what a defense!
lincolnman
Notice the lawyer didn't ask "Did the Trump family conspire with you"?
Besides, his other testimony I cited above and the signed checks prove it...
Gotcha...
Blacklabel
A liberal media narrative changes nothing about what was said in court.
"Did you conspire with the Trump family?" Allen Weisselberg was asked by a Trump lawyer. "No," he replied.”
lincolnman
Just a total denial of reality....
*Former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg testified in court Thursday, describing how *Donald Trump and two of his children allegedly participated in a scheme to defraud tax authorities.
*Weisselberg said Donald Trump, or at times Eric Trump or Donald Trump Jr., signed checks to pay up to $100,000 for private school tuition for Weisselberg's grandchildren. Weisselberg said he then instructed the company's controller to deduct the $100,000 from his salary, allowing him to report a smaller income. Copies of some of the checks signed by the Trumps have been shown in court. *
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-organization-trial-fraud-scheme-allen-weisselberg-testifies/
The black Sharpie gets him again....ROFL...
Blacklabel
im still celebrating the win in the House elections which give committee chairmanships and subpoena power.
suddenly “investigations are a waste of time and money”.
Blacklabel
Just a total insistence to even try to tell the truth.
“Ex-Trump Organization CFO says Trump family was in the dark on tax fraud scheme
"Did you conspire with the Trump family?" Allen Weisselberg was asked by a Trump lawyer. "No," he replied.”
bass4funk
So far over the last 7 years it seems so.
Nothing to celebrate, just like nothing celebrate or get giddy about the guys taxes.
Jimizo
Trump said he’s clean. He’s holding a royal flush.
Why Trump supporters aren’t already celebrating is beyond me.
bass4funk
I really could care less and that goes for any President, but if you want to make of official and go deep, then Let’s dig into Biden’s accounts…..wait, that’s coming.
lincolnman
Well, I'm not sure this is that big of a deal, other than another court case for Trump goes in the "lost" column...must be at least 100 now...
Weisselberg already dimed him out under oath approving all the tax fraud at the Trump Org. Maybe getting these taxes may prove some other fraud but most likely will just confirm what Bannon said about him in Wolff's book; "he turns into just a crooked business guy, and one worth $50m instead of $10bn,” Not the billionaire he said he was, just another scumbag.”
My, my, looks like Barrett, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh won't be getting any Mar-A-Lago brunch invitations...ROFL...
And with the MAGA "Red-faced wave" this month, cements his reputation as a "Loser"...
We all know why he is running in 2024 - just to continue to fleece as many of his flock as he can, and so he can "burn it all down" and crash the Repub Party...
His legacy: hustling millions from his supporters and killing the Repub Party....and that's before he's led off for his stint at Rikers Island....
plasticmonkey
Into Dems with tax issues? No, I don't.
Investigating a con man is a con? ROFL, weird logic there.
I'm not surprised that you're bewildered by this.
Jimizo
If he’s clean, he’s clean. He says he is.
A win for Trump and those who’d like to see him re-elected. It will also highlight his business genius and success.
I don’t see the problem here.
plasticmonkey
I think we can guess what the Trump campaign's comment will be. Something about "witch hunt" and "Biden's failed socialist agenda".
Can you imagine what kind of depraved individual would want to work for Donald Trump?
bass4funk
You already know the investigations that Jim Jordan and McCarthy will start.
Maybe, and?
Wait? When you think what the Dems have done over the last 8 years and you call Trump a con man? ROFL!
I'm equally bewildered how anyone wouldn't recognize this by now.
plasticmonkey
So you figure the tax returns will show nothing out of sorts.
Why then has the Don spent so much time blocking their release? Hmmmmmmmmmm...........
ulysses
ROFL, the lying coward that McCarthy still doesn’t know what he will investigate .
And the lying followers of the biggest liar of them all donald, just lap up everything their lying leaders spout!!!
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Nemo
Don did what don does: lose. He lost at the circuit level, the appeals level (twice), and at SCOTUS.
SO. MUCH. LOSING.
You'd think he'd be used to it by now, lol.
ulysses
I’m just bewildered people who insist donald is a successful businessman feel so scared that his taxes will reveal he is not. Are they afraid of losing their last delusion, now that donald has lost just about anything he has tried in the last few years!!
As for his medical records, ronny jackson already declared he would live to be 200.
bass4funk
But the Dems are making it a problem, but yeah, it shouldn’t be.
ulysses
Donald Trump’s day in court:
— lost at the Supreme Court; his tax returns will be sent to the House
— got whooped at the 11th Circuit, which is likely overturning Judge Cannon, ending special master
— Lindsay Graham testified before GA grand jury for 2 hours
So much winning!
Jimizo
Trump says he has nothing to hide.
Should be no problem.
plasticmonkey
Which investigations are you specifically referring to? Are there "certain Dems" McCarthy (actually Gym Jordan) has in mind?
Investigations have to be based on something other than desire for revenge.
Not "the left". Legislators who believe in the rule of law. Trump is a lifelong con man. I'm bewildered how anyone wouldn't recognize this by now.
2020hindsights
bass4funk
Which Dem president has refused to publicly release their tax records?
bass4funk
I think it’s the other way around.
Wow, now had I said that about Justice Brown, I would have been called a racist. This is exactly why people think the left are the worst hypocrites to walk the planet.
sunfunbun
The loss of power by Trump is demonstrated by the lack of support from the SC, his baby. I believe the decision is influenced by the GOP to shed light on Trump's lack of transparency and inability to understand he did and does have a requirement to show his taxes.
Conservatives are finally understanding their ubiquitous lies and dishonesty lead to lack of American voter support through poor midterm results and the loss of the presidency. But it took getting hit over the head with a hammer to wake up. Pretty dense lot of lemmings who needed the midterms to understand the American people chose democracy over their insurrection and totalitarian ex gaslighter in chief.
Like Bill Barr, Chris Christie, Paul, and a host of others, including Fox News, and some around here, the consummate and unconditional support of Trump has given way to a dose of reality and they're back tracking their belief of his and their lies from when everything Trump was their calling, their God.
As for the returns themselves, it'll probably show him to be way less rich and people thought. For Trump, it's all about his ego which will take a a huge juvenile tantrum hit. I'm not sure, 'I'm the best' can take it. If there are illegal issues, so be it, but it'd be incredibly dumb on his and his business accountant/lawyers part, if that were so.
Ah_so
Probably got much the same reasons that he didn't want them made public and fought tooth and nail to keep them hidden. He has something to hide.
bass4funk
Because unlike every other candidate since Nixon, he won’t do the minimum of tax disclosure it leads a normal person to wonder “what’s he hiding? Russian money? False write-offs? Is he not very successful? What’s the Dotard so afraid of?”
When McCarthy starts his investigations I wonder if certain Dems will equally be as forthcoming with their taxes.
Hmmm….
Now they’re ok if your book. My, my how you guys switch hats, flipping and flopping all around, interesting…
Ok, and? I think Turkey would be more interesting, but…
How did she get into the conversation?
Nemo
Because unlike every other candidate since Nixon, he won’t do the minimum of tax disclosure it leads a normal person to wonder “what’s he hiding? Russian money? False write-offs? Is he not very successful? What’s the Dotard so afraid of?”
Oh and then there’s the little issue of “Shall provide” in the law. Not “provide if he wants to.” “Shall provide”
But as the SCOTUS has spoken and for the second time in as many months, Chump lost -didn’t even merit a comment much less a dissent that’s how merit-less it was, we will finally get to see what Don the Con had been hiding. And just in time for Christmas!
Maybe Melanie can do the lights at Lardo-land to match the mood….
bass4funk
I’m just bewildered why the left are so obsessed with this guy’s tax returns, if it’s about his medical records, I get it, but this….
Not sure what that mess meant, but let’s see once the Dems get it if they can be happy, shut their mouths and move on.
wallace
So much fuss over blank sheets of paper.
Ah_so
Of course, Trump has nothing to hide. I am sure that he laid all the taxes he was due to pay.
This sum will probably be zero.
My guess is that his "income" is derived from loans from the Trump Organization, which have no interest payable, and no repayment requirements. Of course, you don't have to pay income tax on loans.
Where he does need to pay tax, such as on his properties, they will be valued at a fraction of the true market value and an even smaller fraction of the value he used when valuing them for loan collateral.
We will see.
plasticmonkey
Trump has nothing to hide. He is as clean as driven snow. The most honest businessman in the history of the universe. And the most persecuted by far.
He’ll be fine. The far left Marxists on the Supreme Court may think they’ve brought this honorable man to his knees, but our lord ‘n savior is always stronger.