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From
08/02/2019 20:45:14
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
 
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08/02/2019 15:24:30
Thomas Ganss (Online)
Main Trend
Frankfurt, Germany
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Forum:
Politics
Category:
Economics
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01665625
Message ID:
01666159
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37
>>But that is not the target of Muller investigation - and there I think Trump opened the doors himself at least in part by not disclosing his Tax records during campaign as was usual practice, then promising to do so if/when elected, and after winning scrapping that campaign promise.

Yes, I was a little surprised, though I have some sympathy. Some of the Founding Fathers had thriving businesses while they were representatives, but it's been quite a few years since a POTUS candidate had such widespread even international business. Somebody on a salary finds it easy to release their tax returns and (for example) could never be accused of emolument breaches unless they took extraordinary payments and didn't hide them in a charity or well enough, but it's easy to accuse Trump any time a Crown Prince stays in one of his hotels even if that's clearly not what the emolument rules are supposed to prevent. In addition, a salary earner has no need to copy Apple in trying to position wealth abroad to avoid high US taxes, but a businessperson may follow suit and now be embarrassed by that, so decide it''s easier just not to feed the ravening beast. I suppose his accounts also might contain Russian payments that will cause some to rear up in horror crying "see!" refusing to believe it might relate to a pageant or business as usual and instead could be a bribe from Putin or a payment to a peeing hooker who could be a KGB operative so we need to ramp up the investigation.

Meanwhile Bill Clinton is paid $500K to give a speech in Russia and the accusers seem to have no issue whatsoever with that.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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