In last night's drunken rant, I asked when they would start jailing journalists. Today.....

[RandySF]

Corey Lewandowski, who served as Donald Trump’s first campaign manager, told a Harvard University audience on Thursday that he believes New York Times editor Dean Baquet should be jailed for publishing Trump’s tax returns.

“We had one of the top people at The New York Times come to Harvard University and say, ‘I’m willing to go to jail to get a copy of Donald Trump’s taxes so I can publish them,'” Lewandowski said, according to Politico. “Dean Baquet came here and offered to go to jail — you’re telling me, he’s willing to commit a felony on a private citizen to post his taxes, and there isn’t enough scrutiny on the Trump campaign and his business dealings and his taxes?”

Lewandowski then ominously added, “It’s egregious. He should be in jail.”

Baquet was not unaware of the risk that he could go to prison for publishing Trump’s tax returns. In September Baquet openly admitted at another Harvard University forum that he considered the public interest in knowing Trump’s tax-related chicanery to be so significant that the risk of imprisonment was worth it.

The documents published by The New York Times in October included part of his 1995 tax returns. They revealed that Trump had reported a $916 million loss that year, one which he could have used to avoid paying taxes for 18 years. As the Times later wrote, though, “tax experts have been debating how Mr. Trump could have legally declared a deduction of that magnitude at all. Among other things, they have noted that Mr. Trump’s huge casino losses should have been offset by the hundreds of millions of dollars in taxable income he surely must have reported to the I.R.S. in the form of canceled casino debt.



http://www.salon.com/2016/12/02/corey-lewandowski-wants-new-york-times-editor-jailed-for-publishing-donald-trumps-tax-returns/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

[mountain grammy]

1. Republicans love jails..lock everyone up!

true fascists.

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. Corey, you are out of your league.

Your amateurishness shines through every time you have to respond to every single thing you hear/hear of someone said about your boss.

Your guy had private eyes looking for information about President Obama's "fake" birth certificate. He offered five million bucks or something, and he promised us (lol) that he was hearing lots of interesting things from his investigators, that we, of course, never heard anything about. No one has forgotten about that, even though you amateurishly tried to pin that one on Sec. Clinton.

But what exactly, Corey, would the Times editor be charged with?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. K&R

[dhill926]

4. very interested to hear what the response...

of the Harvard students was to this. Should've booed the fuck off the stage...

[Cha]

5. Of course... 10 Ways to Tell if Your President Is a Dictator Check out #1

1) Systematic efforts to intimidate the media.

2) Building an official pro-Trump media network

.3) Politicizing the civil service, military, National Guard, or the domestic security agencies.

4) Using government surveillance against domestic political opponents.

5) Using state power to reward corporate backers and punish opponents.

6) Stacking the Supreme Court.

7) Enforcing the law for only one side.

8) Really rigging the system.

9) Fearmongering.

10) Demonizing the opposition.

The last one.. that's us.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/23/ten-ways-to-tell-if-your-president-is-a-dictator/

Cattledog

[Docreed2003]

6. Lewandowski is a paid shill...

And served as such throughout the Trump campaign, even when he tried to go to extremes to hide that fact. That being said, we are facing dark days indeed if the media mouthpiece for a president-elect can suggest that members of the media be jailed for reporting news that casts a less than flattering light on their boss, and the mainstream media fails to report this in any meaningful way. The Trump team is actively attempting to create a media environment that is either too intimidated to report his corruption or so engrained that they never would. This is clearly fascism or fascist tactics. How we respond may well dictate the foreseeable future of this country.

[Ilsa]

7. DT is not a private citizen.

He's now a public official. He should have known the public would expect transparency.

[niyad]

8. do I remember correctly that marla is probably the one who gave them the returns--and since

her signature is on them, she can give them to whomever she wants?