Spicer Says Trump Is Still Under Audit, Won't Say Whether He'll Release Taxes

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo


By ESME CRIBB PublishedMARCH 7, 2017, 3:06 PM EDT

White House press secretary Sean Spicer said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump is still under audit and wouldn't say whether Trump will release his taxes for the current year.

"Will the President commit to releasing his tax returns for this year and is he still under audit for his past returns?" NBC News' Hallie Jackson asked Spicer during his daily briefing.

"My understanding is he's still under audit and I'll follow up on the question," Spicer replied.

Throughout his presidential campaign, Trump claimed that he could not release his tax returns because of an ongoing audit.



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Spicer On Health Care Bill: 'We're Not Jamming This Down Anybody's Throat'

By MATT SHUHAM Published MARCH 7, 2017, 2:46 PM EDT

White House press secretary Sean Spicer emphasized that House Republicans' proposal to replace Obamacare would follow "regular order" and that “we are not jamming this down anybody’s throat.”

“This is the bill. It’s right here. It's on the website. We are going through regular order,” Spicer said, pointing to a stack of paper to his right. “If you go to the House of Representatives' website, Speaker Paul Ryan's website, it's listed. Everybody can read it, and it's going to go through what they call regular order.”

“We are not jamming this down anybody's throat,” he continued. “It is going to go through a committee process. All parties involved, all representatives in the House will be able to have input into it. I think that's the way to conduct this process, is to do it to allow people to watch the process happen in the committees, allow members of Congress to have their input in it to make amendments, to see that we get the best bill that achieves the goal for the American people.”

“Regular order” is a nebulous term, but Republicans in recent years have contrasted it to the process which led to the Affordable Care Act.

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[dalton99a]

1. UPDATE: "Audit won't be completed until next century"

Fucking bullshit.

[underpants]

3. Remember Donnie Jr. said our simple minds couldn't understand his tax return

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It's 12-15,000 pages. No one alive, no tax professional even, can comprehend its size complications and magnitude.

[dalton99a]

9. Yep. Because he is the greatest businessman ever lived.

It's so huge it's mind-boggling and mortals can't touch it

[drm604]

2. Nobody believes that "under audit" BS Sean.

Even if it's true, why would that prevent the release of the returns?

[PatSeg]

32. Or years prior to that

We should be able to see at least ten years of tax returns considering all his foreign business deals. One year would not be sufficient.

[LuckyLib]

35. I'm waiting for one reporter to say, "This 'under audit' claim has been

refuted for months. The IRS indicates this is not an issue. What is the point of repeating such a falsehood?" (Actually, I would use 'lie' but we can't expect reporters to go that far -- yet.)

[randr]

4. At this point without proof, he is an outright liar.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Sombody's gotta know someone at the IRS

who can at least confirm whether Trump is telling the truth.
This whole mess is cover in so much Trump-created bullshit - he just has no credibility.

[NCjack]

6. Yeah for the IRS. Hope they are looking into

Trump's Baku hotel deal with Ziya Mammadov, who fronts money for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

[ananda]

8. Yes, this needs to be audited and prosecuted for sure.

I saw Maddow's show from last night, and it was very clear
that Trump broke the law in that deal over Trump Tower in
Azerbaijan.

She said he abandoned the deal a month after the election,
but still pocketed the money he got.

[Angry Dragon]

7. Spider Spicer is a LIAR

Trump for 2015 taxes were due by October 15, 2016
no way in hell would the IRS had his taxes in audit by the end of the year ..... unless he has lied so many times that they just put him on automatic audit

[llmart]

10. Let me translate "under audit" for you...

It means he's paid someone (or in his case, promised to pay someone) to clean them up before he releases them.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Keeping those returns under lock & key is part of coverup of Trump-Russia Scandal. . . nt

[Louis1895]

12. FOIA Request for Audit Letter??

I wonder if a reporter (or willing private citizen) could use the Freedom of Information Act to request a copy of the IRS letter sent to Trump informing him that he is under audit. To my knowledge no one has shown that evidence. No need at this time to see the taxes, just prove he is under audit. He is no longer a private citizen so he would not have that protection.

Any reporters or lawyers here to comment?

[Sunlei]

15. have NO DOUBT he's under audit for the massive bankruptcies AND his charities, that Foundation he

flipped to the sons name to run.

IRS probably has to assign several million dollars in our Federal employees just to keep up with his audits.

[mainstreetonce]

23. That is the question I always want to ask.

His taxes might be private,but an audit letter has no personal info.

He should be required to show the letter.

[Sunlei]

13. He's under a decade? long audit by IRS like that Nevada whorehouse IRS ran/audited for 15? years.

REPUBLICANS?? why did you back this TAX DODGER/conman? you never even vetted him or did a basic background check? why? Sunlei 2/2017

[Crash2Parties]

14. They can stretch this out until 2018!

IRS auditors are instructed to close audits within 28 months of the date you filed your tax return or the date it was due, whichever is later.

[Sunlei]

16. not for people who claim 60? million in bankruptcies. No limits for the 'big special IRS catches'

heck his frienemies can turn him in and claim millions in rewards from IRS.

[Crash2Parties]

17. An *audit* can take up to 28 months. And even that is just a guideline.

So he can keep claiming it for 2, maybe 3 years and still claim plausibility as well. Fox news & Breitbart will believe him.

[Sunlei]

18. who cares, he won't show his tax forms because they're fraudulent for many decades & wayyyy

to easy for people/the press/other experts to expose the fraud when they have the forms to look at.

IMHO.

[Crash2Parties]

24. Oh, I agree. I'm just saying that this will likely be their excuse for years to come.

[Sunlei]

25. excuses and crying wolf. He and fellow Republicans are trying to distract from current crimes

[turbinetree]

19. We need a BS meter, here we go

[Initech]

33. I like this one!

[turbinetree]

37. Good choice

Now we have two for the price of one

[briv1016]

20. I am a little surprised that they haven't even tried to release a fake tax return.

One that shows Donald to be a billionaire that pays a 40% tax rate and gives loads to charity. And of course no Russian business dealings.

[CanonRay]

21. That's easy. Which years are under audit? Release the other ones.

What horseshit.

[jmowreader]

22. The part Spicer is leaving out

The very rich (and also Donald Trump, whose riches rise and fall with the vagaries of the real estate market) are under permanent IRS audit - by their own personal IRS officers, who spend years familiarizing themselves with the unique nature of their assigned auditees.

If Trump is going to release his returns only when the audit is finished, expect to see them ten years after his death and burial in a prison cemetery somewhere.

[Sunlei]

26. part Spicer leaves out,trump watches him speak & then spicer has to get yelled at by the cray-cray

(R)man. I'm positive Spicer knows firsthand trumps an asshole.

[DeminPennswoods]

27. Are all his returns from years past also under audit?

The IRS is one amazing organization to have ALL of Trump's tax returns from every year under audit if he can't release any from 2015 or 2014 or 2013 or...

[unblock]

28. donnie already said ain't gonna happen. said we "litigated" that in the election, nobody cares.

[MFM008]

29. they need to be hacked

only way to do it.

[BumRushDaShow]

30. "Republicans in recent years have contrasted it to the process which led to the Affordable Care Act.

WTF?

Obama hosted the first "Healthcare Summit" on March 5, 2009

- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/05/AR2009030501850.html

- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/us/politics/06web-health.html

And from that point on, through other summits, multiple congressional committee meetings and legislative markups, dozens of CBO scores, tons of amendments, hours upon hours of debate, and votes on the resultant legislation, culminating in the signing of the final piece into law on March 23, 2010 - you can't get more "regular order" than that (over a year to get from point A to point B).

[mreilly]

31. The IRS has said IT DOESN'T MATTER!

You can still release your taxes even if you're being audited! And while most normal people would say "Why is Trump being audited unless he's shady?" of course this is their way of crying victim as always; e.g. successfully brilliant businessman Trump is being picked on by the incompetent crooked government (and it was Obama's idea).

[LiberalLovinLug]

34. Yes, why don't the talking heads pound him on that point...each and every time!

And on the IRS. Are THEY under some restriction about saying whether they are or aren't? I can understand maybe if they were auditing, to not have to admit it. But if they are not, then shouldn't they at least be able to confirm THAT?

[NewRedDawn]

36. 2016 current returns

Current one can be shown now before submitting to the IRS. The fucker wont. Like someone upthread posted, if & when it will probally be fake.