Question: Did Donald Trump leak his best tax return himself?

[CajunBlazer]

[scheming daemons]

1. yes

[greyl]

2. More likely than not. nt

[kentuck]

3. Watch his reaction tomorrow.

Study his language carefully.

[caroldansen]

4. Definitely not. Which is a very good thing. He's getting scared.

[greyl]

12. Why not? nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. It's stamped "client copy," so if he didn't do it,

somebody closely associated with him did. Maybe an employee? Melania? Maybe SCROTUS did it in attempt at distraction, or to set up MSNBC for a legal claim (it's not illegal for someone to publish tax returns if they didn't obtain them illegally), or to prove he did pay taxes, or that he's rich?

[CajunBlazer]

7. The only people for whom it is illigal to release a tax return are those working for the IRS

[True Dough]

6. Well, we know

Donny "loves Wikileaks."

And we've heard he likes watching prostitutes leak on each other.

So to answer your question, it's entirely possible!

[Qutzupalotl]

8. Or was it a warning?

Play along or else?

Someone has the other years and is relaying a message with this one, perhaps.

Or it was a Bannon setup to discredit Rachel. She is making their lives difficult.

[tinrobot]

9. If someone else leaked this, they would be taking a risk... for nothing.

We got two pages that show basically nothing.

A true leaker wouldn't have taken on the risk to release nothing. It would have to have been more damaging for someone to leak it.

Nope. He did it. Probably to prove he pays taxes and also as a way to indict the media.

[HipChick]

10. Yes - the WH had a statement ready to go ...

How many times have they dragged their feet, and not got out ahead of a story....complete setup...

[Quixote1818]

11. Highly likely. They cherry picked perhaps the only two good pages he has. nt

[mn9driver]

13. Of course. And it's only two pages. It's distraction time.

My income tax situation is pretty simple compared to all the income streams that 45 must have, and my return averages a couple dozen pages of schedules every year. 45 must be way, way over that. These pages are meaningless. They are nothing but a distraction.