Given the weird computer communications between Trump tower and a server at a Russian Bank that some computer security experts brought up and then everyone suddenly shut up about, I have no doubt at least part of Trump tower was eventually put under some sort of surveillance last year. The issue is more that he…

Seems like the better reaction would be a) It’s not his complete return - we still don’t know where the money is coming from; and b) If there’s nothing wrong with this 12 y/o tax return, why won’t he release the other decade’s worth?

I disagree — did you watch the show? Because I thought her lead-in that explained the whys and wherefores of the reason we NEED to see his tax returns was very enlightening. There are real and present dangers that Trump owes WAY more than just money to hostile foreign powers. I hope this leak is the crowbar that…

I fear we won’t see the rest, we won’t find out where his money comes from, and we certainly won’t see any returns from later years.

Also, there’s rumblings now that FBI is going to announce tomorrow whether or not they’re going to investigate the Trump/Russia links. So if Trump did leak the tax returns, this would be a way for him to try and take focus off of that if the FBI were to move forward with an investigation.

Well, this is the same guy who pointed out a black person in the crowd by saying, “Look at my African-American over there!”, made fun of a disabled reporter, and once creeped on a ten-year-old girl by saying he’d be dating her in ten years.

Hmm. Let’s see...

that hasn’t been proven, at all. when we get to see the entire tax returns (more current would of course be most appropriate), even the 2005 ones are incomplete. We’ve seen the amount of money he made and taxes he paid. This is only a part of one’s tax returns. Why are they hiding the rest? Why don’t they want us to…

Did it, though? This is all from 2005. Where are the other years? Where does his money come from? Why did it take a reporter for this to come out? And why didn’t he feel the need to divulge any of this info and just release his returns in the first place?

My big takeaway was that the 30 million he paid was because of the AMT, which he has campaigned on repealing. It is more evidence that he is using the presidency for personal profit and as another commenter said the beginning of a paper trail.

And now Trump can say, somewhat truthfully: “My taxes are out there. And look! There’s nothing there!” While overlooking the fact that the first two pages of his taxes tell very little. If anything I think this whole thing will be counterproductive as a sizable percent of the population will believe that Trumps taxes…

Because they can use this to attack the media’s credibility, as they’ve been doing with their accusations of “fake news!” It’s about undermining faith in institutions so that if/when the real scandals come out, it’s easier for them to deflect.

I’m actually wondering if this is even right? 150 million doesn’t seem like a lot for a guy who claims to be worth billions.

I recently went down a trump feed k-hole on my facebook. Lots of trump supporters leave their profiles wide open with no security from rubberneckers like myself. Holy shit-the things I saw on those profiles. I now understand “fake news” and how it is influencing these easily influenced persons (i.e., naive…

Thank you, this is very perspicacious. I have pretty much given up trying to contradict the blatant misrepresentations and lies about Muslims and other refugees in Europe that are rapidly filling up the rightwing blogosphere. It’s too exhausting. This insight helps me understand their need to vomit fear about mythic…

My favorite part of your woke rant was when you circled back around to affirm the race science premise that East and South Asian people are naturally superior programmers.

That’s because of Schengen, which is one of the pain points that led to Brexit.

God, ladder-pulling. My Greek grandfather, whose own father decided that he didn’t want to be a goatherd in the Peloponnese and shipped off to America, despised the Greek refugees from that country’s post-WWII civil war who came in the “Displaced Persons” program in the ‘50s. (He’d tell my uncle, “Tuck in your shirt…

I’ve heard the same shit from Asians, Africans, Indians, everybody brown who isn’t from a majority white/European country DOES NOT GET IT.

Yeah, I noticed that. When you consider Steve Bannon’s (patently, absurdly false) claim that more than two-thirds of tech CEOs are Asian ethnics, it becomes pretty obvious that this Administration despises all sorts of non-whites—but especially the ones who have been most economically successful. What’s…