Trump MAGAthread II: Donald and Mike go to the White House

[Liriena]

geez Donald whats the PLAN for getting mexico to reimburse us for the wall? a mexico tax?

It's been suggested that the plan would be taxing or confiscating the money sent by immigrants and Mexican-Americans to their families in Mexico. Because that's totally humane and will definitely not encourage suddenly poorer people to look north of the border for hope.

[Lady Scylla]

Attacking Buzzfeed, lol.

[Ashmoria]

geez Donald whats the PLAN for getting mexico to reimburse us for the wall? a mexico tax?

It's been suggested that the plan would be taxing or confiscating the money sent by immigrants and Mexican-Americans to their families in Mexico. Because that's totally humane and will definitely not encourage suddenly poorer people to look north of the border for hope.

I don't think that's going to happen.

[Lady Scylla]

Completely dodged the question on the hacking question from the BBC panel.

[Gauthier]

And if the intelligence community concludes there's some truth in the Buzzfeed story Trump vowed to still be a thin-skinned manbaby.

[Lady Scylla]

And if the intelligence community concludes there's some truth in the Buzzfeed story Trump vowed to still be a thin-skinned manbaby.

Well, given the question asked by the BBC panel -- he said "They're not going to come back with anything"

Question was if the intel community found proof that was true that Russia had gotten involved.

[Ashmoria]

And if the intelligence community concludes there's some truth in the Buzzfeed story Trump vowed to still be a thin-skinned manbaby.

he could prove he isn't in thrall to the Russians by releasing his taxes.

when he doesn't do it I have to believe the buzzfeed report is largely true (given that they have already admitted that it isn't totally true)

[Gauthier]

Back to "Dummycrats got haxxed lol."

[Gauthier]

"He won't be doing it more."

Looks like long term exposure to lotion is affecting his judgement.

[Liriena]

Watching this on NowThis is awesome, 'cause you get to listen quite clearly to what the reporters are saying behind Trump's back. :3

[Novus America]

And if the intelligence community concludes there's some truth in the Buzzfeed story Trump vowed to still be a thin-skinned manbaby.

he could prove he isn't in thrall to the Russians by releasing his taxes.

when he doesn't do it I have to believe the buzzfeed report is largely true (given that they have already admitted that it isn't totally true)

Releasing his taxes would prove anything about unsupported allegegations of being blackmailed by Russia. Umm you do not put "blackmail" as a line item in your tax return...

Your obsession with his tax returns is odd. It does not have the information you want.

They would be good to verify his income. But verifying his income does not say anything about Russian spying.

[Hittanryan]

Why is anyone listening to this dog and pony show? It's Trump. He'll just lie his ass off as always.

I'm surprised he even took questions.

[Galloism]

he could prove he isn't in thrall to the Russians by releasing his taxes.

when he doesn't do it I have to believe the buzzfeed report is largely true (given that they have already admitted that it isn't totally true)

Releasing his taxes would prove anything about unsupported allegegations of being blackmailed by Russia. Umm you do not put "blackmail" as a line item in your tax return...

Your obsession with his tax returns is odd. It does not have the information you want.

They would be good to verify his income. But verifying his income does not say anything about Russian spying.

Well, you could. One of the IRS guys in little rock told me that when he did return reviews back in the day, there used to be a woman, where it was illegal, would put down "prostitute" as her profession on her Schedule C.

IRS just processed it through. No questions.

[Liriena]

Why is anyone listening to this dog and pony show? It's Trump. He'll just lie his ass off as always.

I'm surprised he even took questions.

And in true politician fashion, he was careful not to directly answer the tough ones... like whether his campaign colluded with Russian officials.

Say, remember when one of his main selling points was that he wasn't a politician and told it like it is?

[Gauthier]

Why is anyone listening to this dog and pony show? It's Trump. He'll just lie his ass off as always.

I'm surprised he even took questions.

And in true politician fashion, he was careful not to directly answer the tough ones... like whether his campaign colluded with Russian officials.

Say, remember when one of his main selling points was that he wasn't a politician and told it like it is?

Trump bullshitting on his vows? Unexpected!

What would a truly ironic and hilarious turn of events is if Trump goes back on his vow to support the Second Amendment and starts going after his supporters' preshus.

[Rio Cana]

geez Donald whats the PLAN for getting mexico to reimburse us for the wall? a mexico tax?

All taxes in the end are paid by consumers. Strange that they have not privatized the building and maintenance of the wall. A toll to cross the border could pay for it. There is a toll on some US-Canada international bridges.

This is what they were planning for California-Baja California border - http://www.latimes.com/local/california ... story.html

[The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp]

"Voiceover: DIS! APP! OINT! ED!
ProtonJon: Yeah, that about sums up the result."- Proton Jon, Nov 9th 2016

[Galloism]

And in true politician fashion, he was careful not to directly answer the tough ones... like whether his campaign colluded with Russian officials.

Say, remember when one of his main selling points was that he wasn't a politician and told it like it is?

Trump bullshitting on his vows? Unexpected!

What would a truly ironic and hilarious turn of events is if Trump goes back on his vow to support the Second Amendment and starts going after his supporters' preshus.

He might - he's supported the idea that we should strip people of the right to have guns if they're on the no-fly list, and he's from New York which has a lot of gun laws and has never seemed to object to them before.

(The no-fly list is problematic for a lot of reasons, and expanding it is just expands its problems)

[Novus America]

Releasing his taxes would prove anything about unsupported allegegations of being blackmailed by Russia. Umm you do not put "blackmail" as a line item in your tax return...

Your obsession with his tax returns is odd. It does not have the information you want.

They would be good to verify his income. But verifying his income does not say anything about Russian spying.

Well, you could. One of the IRS guys in little rock told me that when he did return reviews back in the day, there used to be a woman, where it was illegal, would put down "prostitute" as her profession on her Schedule C.

IRS just processed it through. No questions.

Well sure, some people write stupid shit on theirs and the IRS does not audit or check everyone's. But Trump does not fill out his own tax returns, his lawyers and accountants do, and moreover his tax returns have been audited.

Ones that prominent do not just get passed through and dumped in a warehouse.

And if they had evidence of illegal behavior the IRS would have charged them. You (or your lawyer, CPA etc.) put on your tax returns what you want the government to know.

The are not secret diaries with your deepest darkest secrets. They are you telling the government about your finances.

[Galloism]

Well, you could. One of the IRS guys in little rock told me that when he did return reviews back in the day, there used to be a woman, where it was illegal, would put down "prostitute" as her profession on her Schedule C.

IRS just processed it through. No questions.

Well sure, some people write stupid shit on theirs and the IRS does not audit or check everyone's. But Trump does not fill out his own tax returns, his lawyers and accountants do, and moreover he tax returns have been audited.

Ones that prominent do not just get passed through and dumped in a warehouse.

And if they had evidence of illegal behavior the IRS would have charged them. You (or your lawyer, CPA etc.) put on your tax returns what you want the government to know.

The are not secret diaries with your deepest darkest secrets. They are you telling the government about your finances.

Yes, but tax return secrecy is protected by law. IRS can't simply "turn over", unrequested, the prostitute's or blackmailer's return to local law enforcement.

That's illegal.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/6103

You are right, however, that Trump's lawyers wouldn't write "blackmail" on the return.

[Farnhamia]

Well, you could. One of the IRS guys in little rock told me that when he did return reviews back in the day, there used to be a woman, where it was illegal, would put down "prostitute" as her profession on her Schedule C.

IRS just processed it through. No questions.

Well sure, some people write stupid shit on theirs and the IRS does not audit or check everyone's. But Trump does not fill out his own tax returns, his lawyers and accountants do, and moreover his tax returns have been audited.

Ones that prominent do not just get passed through and dumped in a warehouse.

And if they had evidence of illegal behavior the IRS would have charged them. You (or your lawyer, CPA etc.) put on your tax returns what you want the government to know.

The are not secret diaries with your deepest darkest secrets. They are you telling the government about your finances.

Yes, and having Trump's version of what he wants the government to know might be enlightening in some ways. It is as much his thumbing his nose at the tradition of releasing at least some tax return information as the information itself that keeps people on this. Mitt Romney was reluctant to release anything, too, but eventually did.

[Galloism]

Well sure, some people write stupid shit on theirs and the IRS does not audit or check everyone's. But Trump does not fill out his own tax returns, his lawyers and accountants do, and moreover his tax returns have been audited.

Ones that prominent do not just get passed through and dumped in a warehouse.

And if they had evidence of illegal behavior the IRS would have charged them. You (or your lawyer, CPA etc.) put on your tax returns what you want the government to know.

The are not secret diaries with your deepest darkest secrets. They are you telling the government about your finances.

Yes, and having Trump's version of what he wants the government to know might be enlightening in some ways. It is as much his thumbing his nose at the tradition of releasing at least some tax return information as the information itself that keeps people on this. Mitt Romney was reluctant to release anything, too, but eventually did.

The question is whether he can convince people he's still under audit 4 years later.

[Hittanryan]

Why is anyone listening to this dog and pony show? It's Trump. He'll just lie his ass off as always.

I'm surprised he even took questions.

And in true politician fashion, he was careful not to directly answer the tough ones... like whether his campaign colluded with Russian officials.

Say, remember when one of his main selling points was that he wasn't a politician and told it like it is?

He refused to answer a CNN question and called CNN "fake news."

Questions hurt Trump's fee-fees. He needs his safe space.

[Farnhamia]

Yes, and having Trump's version of what he wants the government to know might be enlightening in some ways. It is as much his thumbing his nose at the tradition of releasing at least some tax return information as the information itself that keeps people on this. Mitt Romney was reluctant to release anything, too, but eventually did.

The question is whether he can convince people he's still under audit 4 years later.

Heh, yeah. Especially since the IRS said, "No, really, it's okay, you can release the returns, we have copies already."

[Rio Cana]

Seems not many here have mentioned the most important part of his speech which could be bad for consumers. That import tax (he called it a border tax). So on what items are they going to place an import tax on.