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Pressuring Trump to follow, Rubio and Cruz release tax returns
CNN ^ | February 27, 2016 | Eugene Scott, Chris Frates and Theodore Schleifer

Posted on 03/02/2016 4:55:16 PM PST by gg188

[B]oth campaigns only released the top lines of the forms, not the complete documents, providing only a limited look at their finances. Democrats and some Republicans quickly pounced on Rubio and Cruz for the limited release.

"Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are guilty of a stunning lack of disclosure, failing to meet the standard that even Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush adhered to in 2012, when he released his tax returns and making it impossible to complete a public accounting of deductions, exemptions, capital gains, household employees, corporate ownerships, and other important financial information," said Ben Ray, a spokesman for American Bridge 21st Century, which conducts opposition research on Republican candidates. "What are they hiding?"

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To: MNJohnnie

Who cares about Cruz or Rubio ?

3rd Party Anti Trump is growing


41 posted on 03/02/2016 6:33:03 PM PST by Rock Eye Jack
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To: gg188

Have Hillary and Bernie released theirs?

For Bernie it’s easy because he uses a 1040 EZ.


42 posted on 03/02/2016 6:33:25 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (It is better to live one day as a lion than one hundred years as a sheep)
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To: HippyLoggerBiker

His first!


43 posted on 03/02/2016 6:33:51 PM PST by biff
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To: gg188

Don’t do it.


44 posted on 03/02/2016 6:35:35 PM PST by New Jersey Realist (America: home of the free because of the brave)
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To: gg188

Back to the tax returns. Does that mean they are going to play the KKK card next?


45 posted on 03/02/2016 6:41:04 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Parley Baer
the KKK card

Five orange pips.

46 posted on 03/02/2016 6:44:14 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: gg188

So because 2 public servants with barely a pot to wiz in betwixt them turn over their 1 page tax docs, it follows that a private citizen with an empire of businesses should publish books of legal documents for every swine in the media and paid lefty lacky to sift through and find anything humanly possible to damage him. Makes perfect sense.


47 posted on 03/02/2016 6:48:24 PM PST by douginthearmy
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To: JPG
If Trump is currently being audited by the IRS, his tax attorneys are telling him, “NO, DON’T RELEASE ANYTHING”!

His lawyers are 100% right. They can get all information from his previous released financial statement. AND THEY KNOW THIS!!

48 posted on 03/02/2016 6:54:02 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: biff
I for one would like to see Trumps college transcripts. He claims he made really, really, really good grades.

Just after obama releases his.

49 posted on 03/02/2016 6:55:35 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: Irish Eyes

I agree except trump is a different man at a different time and we learned after oslimeball to not accept trash for a president again.


50 posted on 03/02/2016 7:06:33 PM PST by biff
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To: Jim Robinson

[B]oth campaigns only released the top lines of the forms...


Name and address


51 posted on 03/02/2016 7:08:55 PM PST by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: gg188

TRUMP’S public persona and the unknown monetary factor gives him leverage. If his competitors see how much he is really worth, it may hurt his real estate empire and his image.


52 posted on 03/02/2016 7:24:39 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: manc

You have a point, though I was referring to fighting for this country and her citizens. That is not important to them. Instead they are fighting anyone whom they perceive as a threat to their obtaining power for their own self interests.


53 posted on 03/02/2016 8:43:04 PM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: gg188

I never thought I would see the day when two so called ‘conservative’ sitting Senators would go Dirty Harry... There is NO law that requires any presidential candidate release their tax returns... Yet, here are two supposed lawyers, demanding a private citizen do what no lawyer would ever advise their client do.

This is ugly beyond repair, and I will not forget just how low these two are willing to go.


54 posted on 03/02/2016 8:49:28 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: SeaHawkFan

**Kind of hard to unseal a file that doesn’t exist**

files do exist - at least documents do. Cruz could release even one of the below, seeing how it’s been two years now, so everyone can quiet down about the NBC issue as it relates to him

FS240 Consular Report of Birth Abroad, FS-545 - Certification of Birth, FS-579 Application for Consular Report of Birth Abroad, DS-1350 Certification of Report of Birth issued by Passport Services Vital Records Division, DS-2029 Application for Consular Report of Birth Abroad, and, last but not least, SS-5-FS Application for Social Security Card


55 posted on 03/02/2016 9:14:42 PM PST by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Cruz has released both his and his mother’s birth certificates. Cruz is a natural born citizen as determined by the Constitution, the statutes and 2-3 Courts within the last week. Not even Trump is still making it an issue, so give it up already.


56 posted on 03/02/2016 11:48:57 PM PST by SeaHawkFan
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