I'm no more thin skinned than most people here, I just follow the rule that when there isn't a point to be made, I won't bother. My views on music engender blather; the discussion doesn't advance.
To the merits of "The trial was in November,": Nuts. In no particular order:
1. If those tax return had been released, I doubt that the 100,000 votes in three swing states that gave Trump his electoral college victory would have gone his way.
2. The facts remain unclear NOW. I assert he has irreconcilable and disqualifying ties with foreign governments NOW. This is an ongoing issue not settled by his election. The adverse inference applies NOW.
3. The elections of 2008 and 2012 did not prevent Trump from fraudulently attacking the legitimacy of Obama's qualification to be President. So the fact that Trump won in November does not, by his prior conduct, settle such an issue.
4. Trump states that only the dishonest media cares about his tax returns...citing his electoral college victory. Trump had not cited any data in support for this statement. There is no such data. It is a fabrication that is is completely and demonstrably wrong. Seventy four per cent of the public disagree:
http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...se-tax-returns
5. Before you whine that The Hill is part of an anti-Trump conspiracy,
two recent polls by Pew Research Center and ABC come to the same conclusion. The polls, both released within the last two weeks, show that 60% and 74% of Americans, respectively, want the returns to be released. According to the ABC data, 49% of Trump’s own supporters say he should release his tax returns, as well as 94% of Clinton supporters and 83% of those who stated they had either another (or no) preference for US president.
6. The most popular petition on the new White House website also shows major interest in the returns, garnering more than 200,000 signatures since it was posted Friday—twice the amount needed for an official response.
6. When these tax returns are made public (anyone care to bet if they are made public before the 2016 presidential election?) all of the people like the guys in my Army platoon who voted for Trump will be pissed about paying more taxes than a draft dodging slob who inherited more money than they will make in the collective lifetimes. And the line that "I used the laws of the United States brilliantly" won't have the same appeal.
Those tax returns are coming out. He would have lost the election had they been out in November and he knows it.
