{"id":20373,"date":"2017-03-15T03:07:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T03:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20373"},"modified":"2017-03-15T03:07:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T03:07:47","slug":"trump-tax-return-reveals-that-hes-real-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20373","title":{"rendered":"Trump tax return reveals &#8230; that he&#8217;s real rich!"},"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\/2017\/01\/Tax_return.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19393\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tax_return-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tax_return-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tax_return-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tax_return-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tax_return.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The release of one year of Donald J. Trump&#8217;s tax returns has a kind of Al Capone&#8217;s vault feel to it.<\/p>\n<p>Remember when Geraldo Rivera found the vault of the late mobster? He opened it and found &#8212; <em>nothin&#8217; man!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, now we know that in 2005, the president made about $150 million and paid $38 million in federal taxes. Yes, the guy who told us during the 2016 presidential campaign that he worked to pay &#8220;as little as possible&#8221; in taxes actually paid a lot of them.<\/p>\n<p>That was a dozen years ago.<\/p>\n<p>What about the more recent returns? What about the money he was making while running for president? And what about those international business interests?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2017\/03\/14\/this-2005-donald-trump-tax-return-is-a-total-nothingburger\/?tid=sm_tw_pp&amp;utm_term=.2c9df55d05ec&amp;wprss=rss_the-fix\">Americans haven&#8217;t seen the more relevant <\/a>tax information from the president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>He told us he would release the returns once the Internal Revenue Service completed its &#8220;routine audit.&#8221; Except we don&#8217;t even know for certain whether the IRS is actually auditing Trump, who&#8217;s provided no proof or evidence that an audit even ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The White House decided to seek to get ahead of a story that had been hyped by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, who tonight released the 2005 returns.<\/p>\n<p>As it has been reported, the 12-year-old returns constitute a &#8220;nothing burger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Where&#8217;s the beef? I suspect it lies somewhere within the more recent returns that the president of the United States continues to refuse to release to Americans &#8212; such as yours truly &#8212; who want to know what is in them.<\/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>The release of one year of Donald J. Trump&#8217;s tax returns has a kind of Al Capone&#8217;s vault feel to it. Remember when Geraldo Rivera found the vault of the late mobster? He opened it and found &#8212; nothin&#8217; man! So, now we know that in 2005, the president made about $150 million and paid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20373\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump tax return reveals &#8230; that he&#8217;s real rich!<\/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":[2],"tags":[1424,2343,3155,3801,6110],"class_list":["post-20373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-irs","tag-msnbc","tag-rachel-maddow","tag-tax-returns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20373","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=20373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20375,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20373\/revisions\/20375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}