This will backfire "Bigly" I'm afraid. This will make the media look bad to boot. What is Racheal trying to do discredit the tax return issue for good? Just Great!! I hope I'm wrong about this.

You know that old cliche. Something that seems too good to be true probably is.

I'm beside myself -- it seems she was being played. When she spent 20 minutes telling us why it's important to look at taxes (duh), I knew we had nothing.

......."JUST SHOW IT TO US!!!" In those three or four minutes she must have mentioned Watergate and Nixon a dozen times.

I couldn't take her melodrama and those frowny eyes all the time waiting for her to get to the point. Finally about six minutes into it I switched over to "The Big Bang Theory"!

I stopped watching her about five years ago because I couldn't take all the fake melodrama and faces, and drawing circles on her freaking notes, etc. TOO phony for me.

His supporters will see the millions he did pay in taxes and think he's overtaxed.


Peace

And I believe it's likely Trump released these himself.

WTF good is it now?

$38 million in "Alternative Minimum Tax".

I'm wondering when Trump will deconstruct the IRS to change that to "Alternative Reality Tax", which instead of charging the Trumps $38 million, will gift to them $38 million in refundable tax credit.

Oh yeah. Alternative Reality Tax.

You heard it here first!

We already knew about the 1995 loss being carried forward from the NY Times. What I was hoping for was the attached schedules. With them we might have found out about who (and where) he owes money and any financial involvement he has with foreign entities.

Although it's nice to see he paid less than 4% in regular federal income tax and $31 million in alternative minimum tax. And his desire to eliminate the AMT would mean he and those like him would get off with paying a much lower tax rate than most of us, even without his 1995 loss.

The way Trump's business is structured with a lot of separate LLCs that do business with a lot of other companies might mean the attachments to his 1040 form wouldn't directly show what we want to know. It would take a lot of detective work to find the dirt. I suspect that the reasons he doesn't want the tax information out there are (in no specific order):

He's not quite so rich
Large offshore income and/or debt
Lack of any charitable giving
He has been able to pay no (or small amounts of) taxes in many years.

...without them the damned 1040 is useless.

At least the skepticism thrives.

(republican math foo)

He's a Billionaire!!! A 10x Billionaire!!!

He was still making money in real estate in 2005. Let's look at 2012 or 2013.

Trump has a BIG problem with early-teens returns: at that time, his income came from two primary sources: his work as an ersatz television star, and licensing his name.

Those were strictly marketing deals. Nothing likely to be untoward.

He would be more susceptible.

Trump portrays himself as the World's Greatest Real Estate Expert. Problem is, for many years he hasn't done a hell of a lot with real estate - mainly marketing. Which makes more sense than his being a "real estate expert" but he doesn't like facing reality.

and editors. Trump's been playing them like a fiddle. The story about Obama's wiretapping almost completely wiped the stories from the "front page" and news talk shows about Sessions lying to Congress for example.

White House a talking point for the Trump deplorables that this was just another act of interference by the Democrats.
First of all with that much earned income and expenses there would have to have included a schedule 'E,Schedule A and profit loss statement.
This was bait put out there by the White House and the producers of MSNBC fell for it,
Nothing to show except a bunch of numbers of supposedly income and taxes paid.
NBC would be wise not to ask about this at press briefing tomorrow becasue this is exactly what Spicer wants.

which is not shown on this tax return.

To take the wind out of the sails of some of his critics.