Every single president and every single Vice President has been audited by the irs every year of their time in office. And they all still routinely release their tax returns to the public every year so that excuse from trump and the Trump Campaign never made sense. Being under audit is excuse for not releasing your tax returns as a candidate or certainly as president. Also, the audit excuse never made sense for his past tax returns. Even if donald trump wanted to release nothing under current audit, well, what about years for which the audits are completed and closed . Any year of his taxes before, say, 2008, any year that was audited before then, those years presumably would be done being audited by now. Those would be closed. So why not release those earlier tax returns even if you dont want to release the current ones for which there isnt an excuse not to do anyway . Whether or not you are a supporter of donald trump in
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why not let the public see the information for themselves. we have obtained this, but this is all we ve got. this tells us something but he still has disclosed, apparently willingly disclosed nothing compared to all other modern presidents. joining us is david cay johnston, editor and founder of dcreport.org which posted this a few moments ago, he s the author of the making of donald trump and the pulitzer prize winning financial reporter who found the president s 2005 returns in his mailbox. thank you for being here. delighted? congratulations on this scoop. what can you tell us about how you got these pages? came over the mail over the transom and there is nothing improper about journalists if you haven t solicited something, getting it over the transom. and let me point out it s entirely possible donald sent this to me. donald trump has over the years leaked things. the very sleazy girl-on-girl pictures of the first lady in the new york post may have come from donald.
the very sleazy girl-on-girl pictures of the first lady in the new york post may have come from donald. the front pages of the state tax returns we had that were sent to the new york times and the new york daily news last fall may have come from donald. donald has a long history of leaking material about himself when he thinks it s in his interests. do we have reason to believe that those documents you just described there were leaked by him or is it just a possibility? it s a possibility and it could have been leaked by someone at his direction. but with donald, you never know. donald creates his own reality and he says things that aren t true, he says things and denies he said them. he lives in this world that isn t the world where you and i live of verifiable facts so, yes, i think i have to include that in the list of possibilities where it came from. when you look at this document, when you look at these numbers, obviously we don t have the supporting schedules and the
financial reporter who found the president s 2005 returns in his mailbox. thank you for being here. delighted? congratulations on this scoop. what can you tell us about how you got these pages? came over the mail over the transom and there is nothing improper about journalists if you haven t solicited something, getting it over the transom. and let me point out it s entirely possible donald sent this to me. donald trump has over the years leaked things. the very sleazy girl-on-girl pictures of the first lady in the new york post may have come from donald. the front pages of the state tax returns we had that were sent to the new york times and the new york daily news last fall may have come from donald. donald has a long history of leaking material about himself when he thinks it s in his interests. do we have reason to believe that those documents you just described there were leaked by him or is it just a possibility? it s a possibility and it could have been leaked by