Federal prosecutors announced charges Friday against a contractor with the Internal Revenue Service who allegedly stole the tax returns of a high-ranking government official. A source familiar with the matter told CNN that official is former President Donald Trump.
There are some differences between leaking classified documents and leaking the President’s tax forms. One is supposed to be secret, while the other is conventionally released to the public, as a show of confidence that the candidate is on the up-and-up. Leaking one can cause the death of Americans and can act against the interests of the country, while leaking the other is to the benefit of the country.
I would go so far as to say that if you don’t ever want your tax forms released, then you probably shouldn’t be running for president.
While yes it is customary to to release your tax returns if you are running for office but its not a legal requirement and if we want it to be an actual requirement, we should enforce a law that makes it so. Its a private document that a private citizen has and to say its to be force out via a leak is not a great look. I agree I want my candidates to release their tax returns for the public to see but we as the voters should be demanding this, clearly it wasn’t that important for the base that Trump is following. Would you like it if your Tax returns were out in the open for everyone to see? Fuck Trump, he is a corrupt shit businessman who has not done a single thing unless it was in his interests but having to rely on someone to leak intel is not great. Remember when the DNC and RNC were both hacked into but conveniently only the DNC’s emails got around to being exposed. Wonder who could of done that and why, maybe to benefit an outside power.
There are some differences between leaking classified documents and leaking the President’s tax forms. One is supposed to be secret, while the other is conventionally released to the public, as a show of confidence that the candidate is on the up-and-up. Leaking one can cause the death of Americans and can act against the interests of the country, while leaking the other is to the benefit of the country.
I would go so far as to say that if you don’t ever want your tax forms released, then you probably shouldn’t be running for president.
While yes it is customary to to release your tax returns if you are running for office but its not a legal requirement and if we want it to be an actual requirement, we should enforce a law that makes it so. Its a private document that a private citizen has and to say its to be force out via a leak is not a great look. I agree I want my candidates to release their tax returns for the public to see but we as the voters should be demanding this, clearly it wasn’t that important for the base that Trump is following. Would you like it if your Tax returns were out in the open for everyone to see? Fuck Trump, he is a corrupt shit businessman who has not done a single thing unless it was in his interests but having to rely on someone to leak intel is not great. Remember when the DNC and RNC were both hacked into but conveniently only the DNC’s emails got around to being exposed. Wonder who could of done that and why, maybe to benefit an outside power.