Media Pounces On Trump 1995 Tax Return But……

Donald Trump's tax return from 1995 was alleged to have been sent to the New York Times who has produced it for public view and likely quite illegally.

Under New York law, it is unlawful "to divulge or make known in any manner the amount of income or any particulars set forth or disclosed in any report or return." Non-government employees face fines of as much as $10,000 and imprisonment for as long as one year.

The NY Time's legal issue aside, the Clinton campaign and the mainstream media wasted no time in exploiting the information as an enormous "gotcha" moment for Trump. He reported a collective $915M loss which may have then allowed him to avoid paying taxes for the next 18 years. This much is not clear..yet. The Time's editor Dan Baquet promised that he would be willing to go to jail to print the Trump tax return.

I am laughing at both the cheesy scheme of the Clinton/NY Times collaboration and at the ignorance of the average 'outraged' voter. Who are we to tell Donald J. Trump, private citizen, which tax laws he can apply and which he is somehow uniquely barred from using? 

Who should "we" be angry with, the American businessman who correctly applied each law, rule, loophole or gadget the U.S. Tax Code allows....or the politicians who designed the U.S. Tax Code and installed these clever maneuvers to help rich campaign donors avoid paying taxes? I like to think of it as Legislative prostitution.

The years leading up to Trump's 1995 tax return, the 102nd Congress was led by a Democratic majority. Congress writes the tax code. Starting to feel me?

The Speaker of The House of Representatives was Tom Foley (D-WA) from June of 1989 through January of 1995, before him Jim Wright (D-TX) and before him Thomas "Tip" O'Neil (D-MA)

In the U.S. Senate, Democrats Robert Byrd (D-WV) and George Mitchell (D-ME) were the Senate majority leaders from 1987 thru 1995.

Once again for the slow to want to understand, Democrats in Congress designed and authored the same tax code manipulated by talented accountants hired by Donald J. Trump and people like him. This is a design! Rich folks pay tribute (make campaign donations) so politicians give them covert means to evade taxes. Trump did exactly what a business man should do. He did exactly what YOU or I would do... Oh, and what the media is now arguing over whether or not the Clinton's did reportedly do in 2015 in their returns to cover a $700,000 loss. If we're being honest, and if we were "in on" the secret map written by Congress for the fortunate ones, we'd all ride that pony into the ground. Wake Up America!!