Demand that MILLIONAIRE Donald Trump release his tax returns

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http://www.signherenow.org/petition/trump-release-returns/caf/

From here on, we all should refer to him as Millionaire Donald Trump. Calling him millionaire would utterly undercut his self-image, and so infuriate him as to push him over him the brink.

I mean, his head will explode. 100%. It's going to happen. Believe me. It'll be huge!

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1. Romney demands that Millionaire Donald Trump release his tax returns

June 11, 2016

Mitt Romney escalated the pressure for Donald Trump to release his tax returns, doubling down on his belief that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has something to hide.

"Your imagination can run wild," Romney said in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Friday.

He continued: "He doesn't pay taxes. He doesn't have much income. He's receiving income from unsavory sources. He has ownership in enterprises that are perhaps associated with unsavory enterprises or nations or groups."

read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/mitt-romney-donald-trump-tax-returns-cnn-interview-2016-6

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2. Hillary won't do this

She knows he will demand release of the speeches that he may already have.

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3. she doesn't have to

leave it to her surrogates, to media pundits, to those of us who post online

Trump will find himself in a predicament. He'll be so infuriated, he'll want to release his returns to prove otherwise, but reluctant because he needs to hide whatever it is he's hiding. He'll be torn. It will drive him crazy.

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4. What’s Millionaire Donald Trump hiding

What’s Trump hiding by refusing to release his tax returns? Here are some ideas.

By Editorial Board
June 9, 2016

DONALD TRUMP has spent a lot of time and effort branding himself as a great philanthropist. It seems he has put less effort into actually giving his own money away. The discrepancy provides one more reason that Mr. Trump should release his tax returns.

The Post reported in April that Mr. Trump claimed to have given $102 million to charity over the past five years, but that none of the donations his campaign listed appeared to have come from the candidate’s personal funds. Instead, he had his golf courses give away rounds for charitable raffles and other such things, and he had others fund his charitable foundation. Many of the recipients, meanwhile, appeared to be connected to his business and political interests.

Last month we learned that Mr. Trump did not give the $1 million donation he promised veterans during a highly publicized February campaign event until Post reporter David A. Fahrenthold started asking questions months later. Now the Huffington Post is raising questions about whether he donated proceeds from the sale of his book “Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again,” as he promised to do. Neither the Huffington Post nor we could get an answer from the campaign.

It is possible that Mr. Trump has donated more than the public record suggests. A major reason the public does not know is that a key piece of evidence is missing: Mr. Trump’s tax returns. Unlike every other major presidential candidate in modern times, he has declined to release them. Theories abound as to why. One is that they would show that he does not make as much money as he boasts. Another is that he might pay little or nothing in taxes. Yet another is that Mr. Trump simply is not generous, despite his assurances otherwise.

read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/instead-of-releasing-his-taxes-donald-trump-offers-nothing-but-flimsy-excuses/2016/06/09/7e687110-2db9-11e6-9de3-6e6e7a14000c_story.html

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5. I was shocked to find out he was a billionaire, last I heard we was worth about 600 million.

And most of that is equity, not hands on cash.

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6. he claims he's worth 10 billion

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7. When Stumpy claims something, always reduce it down by a factor of 10 or more.

We shall call this Stumpy's Equation.

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8. Shady accounting underpins Trump’s wealth

The GOP nominee is rich. But how rich depends on odd accounting and subjective criteria.

By Ben White
05/31/16

NEW YORK — Donald Trump claims a net worth of more than $10 billion and an income of $557 million. But he appears to get there only by overvaluing properties and ignoring his expenses.

POLITICO spoke with more than a dozen financial experts and Trump’s fellow multimillionaires about the presumptive Republican nominee’s latest financial statement. Their conclusion: The real estate magnate’s bottom line — what he actually puts in his own pocket — could be much lower than he suggests. Some financial analysts said this, and a very low tax rate, is why Trump won’t release his tax returns.

“I know Donald; I’ve known him a long time, and it gets under his skin if you start writing about the reasons he won’t disclose his returns,” said one prominent hedge fund manager who declined to be identified by name so as not to draw Trump’s ire. “You would see that he doesn’t have the money that he claims to have and he’s not paying much of anything in taxes.”

Trump is certainly wealthy. But in a campaign where the New Yorker has portrayed himself as the biggest, the richest, the classiest and the best at everything, disclosing that he is less rich than he lets on could be damaging. And it is a line of attack Democrats are already using and hope to pound away on until November. The case against Trump’s accounting of his wealth: His businesses apparently generate a lot of revenue but may not put much cash in his pocket; he assigns himself a net worth that is impossible to verify and may be based in part on fantasy; and he is selling assets and increasing debt in ways that suggest a man scrambling for ready cash.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-money-net-worth-223662

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9. I've decided to start calling him Thousandaire Trump.

That should make his followers foam at the mouth.

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10. :)

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