{"id":16729,"date":"2016-08-25T00:28:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T00:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16729"},"modified":"2016-08-25T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T00:30:09","slug":"lets-see-the-audit-letter-mr-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16729","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s see the audit letter, Mr. Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tax-return-form.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16171\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tax-return-form-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"tax-return-form\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tax-return-form-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tax-return-form-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tax-return-form.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump has made a lot of noise about several aspects of Barack Obama personal history.<\/p>\n<p>* He demanded to see a birth certificate proving that Barack Sr. and Ann Dunham Obama&#8217;s son was born in Hawaii and not in Kenya. The president produced a long-firm birth certificate issued in Honolulu. Trump still isn&#8217;t convinced that, yep, Barack Obama is constitutionally qualified to hold the most powerful office in the world.<\/p>\n<p>* He continues to demand to see academic records of young Barack&#8217;s college career.<\/p>\n<p>So, how is he dealing with demands that he reveal his tax returns, which has been a custom for major-party presidential nominees dating back to the 1976 campaign?<\/p>\n<p>He refuses. Trump says he is being audited by the Internal Revenue Service; the IRS, though, says a routine audit does not impede someone from releasing the returns.<\/p>\n<p>So, as long as Trump has been making demands of, say, the president of the United States\u00a0to prove certain things about his past, let&#8217;s try this one on for size.<\/p>\n<p>Why won&#8217;t Trump release a copy of the letter from the IRS informing him of the audit?<\/p>\n<p>No one has seen the letter.<\/p>\n<p>I believe, therefore, it is fair to ask: Is Donald J. Trump really and truly being audited by the IRS?<\/p>\n<p>Well &#8230; ?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump has made a lot of noise about several aspects of Barack Obama personal history. * He demanded to see a birth certificate proving that Barack Sr. and Ann Dunham Obama&#8217;s son was born in Hawaii and not in Kenya. The president produced a long-firm birth certificate issued in Honolulu. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16729\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let&#8217;s see the audit letter, Mr. Trump<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[6529,1424,2343,6110],"class_list":["post-16729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barackobama","tag-donald-trump","tag-irs","tag-tax-returns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16729"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16733,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16729\/revisions\/16733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}