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The New York Times risked legal trouble to publish Donald Trump’s tax return
Washington Post ^ | October 2, 2016 | Callum Borchers

Posted on 10/02/2016 6:53:46 AM PDT by Pinkbell

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To: Pinkbell
Bob Woodward, who joined Baquet on the Harvard panel and also said he would risk jail to publish Trump's tax returns, joked during the talk that in the event of a criminal conviction, perhaps everyone in the newsroom could serve one day of the sentence.

Wood Bobward and his fellow criminals in the newsroom can all pay the same fine and each serve EVERY day of the full sentence.

21 posted on 10/02/2016 7:10:47 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs......same thing.)
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To: Pinkbell
This is why the NYT published STATE return material. None of that is "returns" as defined in FEDERAL law.

There may be a violation, but it isn;t a violation of 26 USC 6103.

22 posted on 10/02/2016 7:11:01 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Exactly. No national security or trade secrets or pay for play schemes using a federal government office were exchanged in Trump’s business losses. It’s the continuation of the left’s old theme of the rich don’t Pat their fair share of taxes. This is a nothing issue, but I think the whole point for the Clintons and their minions releasing this is to provoke a Trump meltdown on Twitter or on the stump. This is their only hope of winning.


23 posted on 10/02/2016 7:11:25 AM PDT by dowcaet (.)
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To: RoseofTexas

Obama won’t do nothing but a President Trump sure will indict them


24 posted on 10/02/2016 7:12:12 AM PDT by scooby321 (o even lower)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

I wonder if the slimed think it would be equally in the public interest if we hung all the owners of these leftist media. It is quite one thing to publish the pentagon papers and quite another to illegally publish tax records of a private citizen running for office.


25 posted on 10/02/2016 7:13:19 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: CGASMIA68

Carlos Slim will pay for The Wall!


26 posted on 10/02/2016 7:13:21 AM PDT by safetysign
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To: Pinkbell

Odd, I seem to remember Woodward and his cohorts at The Washington post howling with rage because Richard Nixon contacted his IRS officials about some opponent’s tax returns. I guess your moral standard depends on who is being targeted.


27 posted on 10/02/2016 7:14:01 AM PDT by laconic
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To: lakecumberlandvet

No reasonable prosecutor would bring a case against the nyt.
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Giuliani is the man for the job. If he does, the press will turn against President Trump. Wait...


28 posted on 10/02/2016 7:14:14 AM PDT by phoneman08
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To: Pinkbell

Seems like 4 out of 5 times its democraps that flaunt the law and or rules? And usually get away with it?


29 posted on 10/02/2016 7:17:29 AM PDT by Leep (Just say no to half dead hillary and wrong lane kaine!)
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To: Pinkbell

They don’t care. And they are banking on the LIVs to not care that Trump had deductible losses that offset his gains. LIVs hate anyone who makes money as they have been conditioned to believe that rich people should support them, in the same lifestyle that rich people have. LIVs are the parasites that the Left will eventually force to work, at substandard wages, when the Left finally takes over this country completely and pounds us all into the sand, so to speak.


30 posted on 10/02/2016 7:17:37 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Logical me

As Michael Savage says, “This is our last chance.” If it is not done this election day we can forget about it. 2020 will just be another year. There will probably still be elections, but it will be this Democrat against that Democrat as it was in the Soviet Union during Stalin’s time. The inhabitants will be property of the State with no Rights and only privileges, instead of Citizens. The State will be god and worshiped as so. Eventually, the muslims will take over and sheria law the law of the land.


31 posted on 10/02/2016 7:17:53 AM PDT by sport
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To: blueunicorn6

“Gosh. It’s almost like the press and government employees put the Democrat Party ahead of their country and its laws.”

Words cannot express my shock.


32 posted on 10/02/2016 7:18:32 AM PDT by Pelham (DLM. Deplorable Lives Matter)
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To: Cboldt
None of that is "returns" as defined in FEDERAL law.

The law specifies "return information", not "return".

(2) Return informationThe term “return information” means—

(A) a taxpayer’s identity, the nature, source, or amount of his income, payments, receipts, deductions, exemptions, credits, assets, liabilities, net worth, tax liability, tax withheld, deficiencies, overassessments, or tax payments, whether the taxpayer’s return was, is being, or will be examined or subject to other investigation or processing, or any other data, received by, recorded by, prepared by, furnished to, or collected by the Secretary with respect to a return or with respect to the determination of the existence, or possible existence, of liability (or the amount thereof) of any person under this title for any tax, penalty, interest, fine, forfeiture, or other imposition, or offense,

[There's more, but this is the relevant part]

Even though the information might have come from a state return, it's the same information as a federal return.

33 posted on 10/02/2016 7:19:20 AM PDT by justlurking
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To: Pinkbell
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.

May take a few years in court, but by this time in the next election cycle the NY Slimes will be under Trump ownership.

34 posted on 10/02/2016 7:19:22 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (politicians beware)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
You’d think Trump violated the espionage or federal records act. Then used bleach bit to obstruct justice with the intent to cover up a crime.

Spit.

Mega dittos.

35 posted on 10/02/2016 7:21:00 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Pinkbell

I would like to see the holier than thou NYT release THEIR tax returns.

Let’s see just how much they AVOIDED.


36 posted on 10/02/2016 7:21:15 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Pinkbell
They have nothing here as the article admits it raises the possibility he has paid no federal taxes for nearly two decades.The article also admits all they have is the first page of his state income tax that first, is illegal to publish, and second, the info they have has nothing to do with federal taxes. So, they are guessing at something they have no information to prove. Unless they are doing it on purpose to fool the public and chase votes away from Trump on purpose. And they will have to admit they were wrong on page 110 of one of their next issues to keep from getting a suit laid on them.

But the damage has been done because the public is reacting like Trump has done something criminal they are wording in a way where it appears to be something else they supposedly said. Mission accomplished. They dirtied him by allowing the public to misinterpret the article incorrectly through suggestion. red

37 posted on 10/02/2016 7:25:03 AM PDT by Redwood71 (uad.)
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To: RoseofTexas

If you read my earlier post, it looks like it’s possible that DJT sent them over, but without attribution (other than the return address).

If this is what he did indeed do, then he is beyond brilliant. Meaning: he tricked the NYT into breaking the law and at the same time (!) demonstrating why he had NO tax liability for 20 years. Simply by using existing laws on the books. Oh, and these laws were on the books during BJC’s presidency. You can’t make this stuff up.

This is just gobsmackingly amazing!


38 posted on 10/02/2016 7:28:20 AM PDT by Dana1960
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To: Pinkbell

The same people have done everything they could to AVOID Hillary’s emails.


39 posted on 10/02/2016 7:30:58 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: justlurking
Read the entire statute. It's a stretch to say that "returns" or "return information" is meant to include filings made to a state. In the definition, note the phrase "furnished to, or collected by the Secretary" (this narrows the scope), and "liability ... under this title."

See part (d) too.

The confidentiality provision applies to what is disclosed to the feds. The state's sharing of information disclosed to the state under state law, between state agencies, is outside of this statute.

Again, I'm not saying no law was broken, but this law was not.

40 posted on 10/02/2016 7:32:10 AM PDT by Cboldt
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