{"id":19283,"date":"2017-01-18T20:18:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T20:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19283"},"modified":"2017-01-18T20:18:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T20:18:37","slug":"hey-mr-president-elect-how-about-those-tax-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19283","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Mr. President-elect, how about those tax returns?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald J. Trump says only the media are concerned about his tax returns.<\/p>\n

I beg to differ.<\/p>\n

A lot of Americans way outside the mainstream media have become interested in those returns. You see, it’s that Russian hacking issue that has re-energized the interest in Trump’s returns. Specifically, it centers on whether he has business dealings in Russia. Trump denies it. But if prior presidential scandals have shown — such as, say, Watergate<\/em> — we’ve all learned that we cannot take a president solely, exclusively at his word.<\/p>\n

Trump keeps yammering about a “routine audit” that kept him from releasing the returns during the campaign. It was yet another “tradition” he tossed aside; presidential candidates have released those records every election cycle since 1976.<\/p>\n

Trump won the election despite his refusal to comply with that tradition, not to mention all the other traditions he tossed over the cliff.<\/p>\n

The taxman’s audit doesn’t preclude releasing these returns. Trump knows it. His accountants know it. So do his lawyers.<\/p>\n

For that matter, Trump still hasn’t even provided proof that he, in fact, is even being audited by the Internal Revenue Service.<\/p>\n

Come clean, Mr. President-elect. This inquiring mind — along with millions of others — want to know the unvarnished truth about those alleged Russian business dealings.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald J. Trump says only the media are concerned about his tax returns. I beg to differ. A lot of Americans way outside the mainstream media have become interested in those returns. You see, it’s that Russian hacking issue that has re-energized the interest in Trump’s returns. Specifically, it centers on whether he has business … Continue reading Hey, Mr. President-elect, how about those tax returns?<\/span> →<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,14],"tags":[1424,2343,6755,6110],"class_list":["post-19283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-irs","tag-russian-hacking","tag-tax-returns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19283","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=19283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19284,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19283\/revisions\/19284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}