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Monday, March 06, 2017

Request for Donald Trump tax returns- leaks required

Mrs. Mary Anne MacLeod Trump (b. 1912, in Tong, a village on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland- d. 2000 in Hyde Park), was the Scottish immigrant mother of Donald Trump. She was born in the land of the mysterious and never found Loch Ness Monster; but that reality sure doesn't given Donald Trump, her son, the authority to make international intrigue about his hidden taxes.  
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The late Mary Anne McLeod Trump - was a Scottish immigrant. 

It makes no sense, whatsoever, for Donald Trump to pretend his tax returns are his business only and play "hard to get" with the information.  His Press Secretary Sean Spicer says there's no "there-there" regarding any scandal or connection to Russia, but it's impossible to believe in "there" when Donald Trump will not prove he is innocent of financial collaboration with the Russians. Talk about a violation of the Constitution's "Emoluments" clause? 
Article I, Section 9, Clause 8“No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present,Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.” (Wow! The framers of the US Constitution were clairvoyant!  Obviously, they foresaw Donald Trump in their visions.)
At this point, the tax debacle about Donald Trump's tax returns, the speculation about what's in the data are a greater myth than wondering if the Loch Ness Monster existed or if Big Foot is still roaming around in the Pacific Northwest?
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Nessie- the shadow of the Loch Ness Monster! 
Like calling for Donald Trump's taxes.
(Maybe, we'd be better off asking for Russia to find the data?)

Moreover, with all the White House leaks (like a bathtub overflowing) gushing out, including what Donald Trump wears in the middle of the night, seems like somebody should be able to find his tax returns, laying around in a mayonnaise jar someplace.  Even the Clinton's long lost "White Water" billing papers eventually showed up, just like magic, sitting in plain view, on a White House table.
The New York Times archives report from eons ago, in 1996, shows how absolutely anything is possible:


After nearly two years of searches and subpoenas, the White House said this evening that it had unexpectedly discovered copies of missing documents from Hillary Rodham Clinton's law firm that describe her work for a failing savings and loan association in the 1980's.

Well, here's the newest mysterious and never to be duplicated story of the 21st century. Where are Donald Trump's taxes? Apparently, there are nefarious reasons why he won't release the information. Otherwise, this mystery would be solved.  


Where's the leaks from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS?). I'd be willing to bet those tax returns are hiding in a dossier underneath
somebody's bed collecting dust bunnies, just waiting for the right time to appear - clandestinely, or course.  They exist someplace outside of the IRS but the exact location is yet to be determined.

Here's one open call for their disclosure:

NYT Staffer Urges IRS to Leak Trump's Tax Returns:

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is urging IRS workers to leak President Donald Trump's tax returns to him.

Kristof, a longtime staffer at the Times, made his plea to the IRS on Twitter:

But if you're in IRS and have a certain president's tax return that you'd like to leak, my address is: NYT, 620 Eighth Ave, NY NY 10018.  One response is as I've already demised: "
I have been thinking that very thing. If only a certain tax return WOULD show up..." from a Twitterzin named Steven Tuit at

Of course, The Hill noted that releasing an individual's unauthorized tax returns is a felony.

"While reporters who publish illegally obtained information that they did not solicit are traditionally not prosecuted, the legal picture becomes less clear if the reporters are involved in the leaking of the information," it said. The Times received a portion of Trump's 1995 tax documents from a source last September and printed it a few days later, according to The Hill. It prompted a letter from Trump's attorney, who claimed publishing the documents was "illegal."

Times Editor Dean Baquet has said he would risk jail time to publish Trump's taxes returns. The Daily Caller reported the "unauthorized release of an individual's tax returns is punishable by a fine of $5,000 and up to five years in prison."

(Hmmm, seems like a small risk legal, IMO, to solve one of the greatest political mysteries of all time, after the missing and never found 18 minutes of erased Watergate tape conversations.)

(Nessie?  Hey Nessie? Where are you?)- Trump taxes are like calling up the Loch Ness Monster.  There's obviously something misty lurking in that "Loch Ness", metaphor tax returns

("Russia if you are listening?")  

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Sunday, June 26, 2016

Democrats must keep momentum pay little attention to improving political polls

This period of time in an election cycle is entirely too early from voting day to start putting credibility in political polls. 

Obviously, it's encouraging to read about how "stupid Donald Trump" is finally tanking in the popularity polls, due to his erratically dangerous behaviors. He has no positions on any issues of substance, but continues to spew rhetoric and then forgets what he means and seldom seems to mean what he says.  (Except, of course, for the ridiculous wall wall with Mexico. "It ain't going to happen, folks!")

Nevertheless, anything can turn the electorate into an angry mob. Just witness what happened with the regrettable "Brexit" vote in Great Britain. It wasn't even 24 hours after the referendum on the European Union question was called (surprisingly) in favor of the exit, when the voters began regretting their decision. Many have even, apparently, claimed that they voted to exit from the European Union (EU), just because they felt Brexit would never pass; so, they were just casting their vote based on emotion rather than on a consideration of the reality of their collective actions.  "Voters Regret Brexit" isn't going to fix the referendum question's consequences.

Nevertheless, emotions notwithstanding, American voters finally seem to be willing to, finally, say that "enough Trump is enough". Even the media is tired of his pompously erratic political behaviors. In fact, The Washington Post poll (obviously this newspaper has contributed to this political sea turn) says "Trump's Numbers Plummet". Indeed, Clinton has been propelled to the lead, 51 percent to 39 percent, in the new national survey released Sunday.
The poll found "sweeping unease" with Trump's policies. It singled out his "incendiary rhetoric and values to his handling of both foreign affairs and his own business — foreshadowing that the November election could be a referendum on Trump more than anything else."
Nearly 70 percent of Americans say they think Trump is unqualified to lead the nation. They are anxious about the idea of him as president and believe his comments about women, minorities and Muslims show an unfair bias. They also see his attacks on a federal judge because of his Mexican American heritage as racist, the Post reported.

A slimmer majority also disapprove of the way Clinton has handled questions about her use of a personal email server while she was secretary of state. Roughly 50 percent of Americans are anxious about "the prospect of a Clinton presidency, underscoring the historic unpopularity of the two major-party candidates."

Obviously, Secretary Clinton must hold steady to her campaign strategy, to convince voters to go to the polls and vote for her to be the first woman president and leader of the free world.  This is no time to take any kind of victory laps or to enjoy the primordial scream, behind the bathroom door. 

Instead, this is the time to prove to voters why they are right to turn their backs on the dangerously incoherent Donald Trump, the "thin skinned bully", as identified by Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Scotland's Loch Ness Monster is a good way for Donald Trump to sell his Scottish Real Estate ventures. For marketing, this seems to makes more sense than his erratic campaign as the presumptive nominee for the Republican party in the general election.
To Donald Trump, maybe he'd be better off staying in Scotland trying to sell his golf course and luxury real estate suites.  

Eventually, when Trump finally gets back to the campaign for President, he may find himself to be the political equivalent of the long lost Loch Ness Monster of Scotland. In which case, Americans could even deport him as an illegal alien and send him back to his dearly departed mother's immigrant origins.
Meanwhile, Democrats must not put credibility in early political polls. Instead, we must keep our eyes on voter registration drives and remember to keep the momentum going against Donald Trump, who is a dangerously incoherent presidential candidate who cannot be elected.

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