Why illegally publish Trump’s tax returns?

 

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Trump signs his tax return

Why  illegally publish Trump’s tax returns from 1995?

The New York Times executive editor said during a visit to Harvard in September that he would risk jail to publish Donald Trump’s tax returns. He made good on his word Saturday night when the Times published Trump tax documents from 1995, which show the Republican presidential nominee claimed losses of $916 million that year — enough to avoid paying federal income taxes for as many as 18 years.

Federal law makes it illegal to publish an unauthorized tax return or “return information”:

It shall be unlawful for any person to whom any return or return information (as defined in section 6103(b)) is disclosed in a manner unauthorized by this title thereafter willfully to print or publish in any manner not provided by law any such return or return information. Any violation of this paragraph shall be a felony punishable by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

Back in 1995, New  York Times called Trump a genius.    Had they called  his loans and the banks would  have gone down too.

About news of Trump tax return stuff…

You have to be a calculating person to be a politician.  Including disclosure of financial disclosure forms.

Trump — an outsider — is not and has never been a politician.

Any tax return that utilizes laws looks different.  A  22 year  old tax return by a private citizen … Trump….is being used to attempt to damage him.

Trump’s support is precisely that he is an outsider.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/02/the-new-york-times-risked-legal-trouble-to-publish-donald-trumps-tax-return/


 

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