David Kay Johnson Takes Trump & Hillary To Task On Their Taxes

[stopbush]

Just now on Lawrence O'D.

He went after Trump for his not releasing his taxes. Said even if he's under audit now, there's no reason he can't release years 2012 and earlier, which are not under audit (LO pointed out that there's no proof that he's even under audit). They talked about his book on Trump which has a lot of juicy and disgusting info in it about Trump.

As far as Hillary? Well, he said that Hillary wasn't happy when he "back engineered" her tax returns and found - get ready for it - she paid her taxes at DOUBLE the amount she should have. This had the effect of shortchanging the $ she was able to give to charity. Her charities were being shortchanged because the government was getting money that could have been going to charity. That made Hillary angry, and it led to her hiring Johnson as a tax advisor.

Worth watching on the rerun later tonight.

[uponit7771]

1. The M$M has made good money villainizing Clinton, even their recent "she lied about what Comey said"

... shit is a damn lie on their part seeing Comey contradicted himself during that hearing

[glennward]

2. That part of his testimoney needs to made into an ad and played all over in swing states. nt

[Gabi Hayes]

4. been there, haven't we? thanks for lucette, or whoever that was got a nice PM

from that person

just watch for the latest narrative: the RANSOM, even though she didn't have much, if anything to do with it.

it's been on more than five times since the early hours today on cnn/msnbc

[uponit7771]

7. +1, saw one commentator straining his ass off to credibly tie her to the money... he sounded like

... a true hack

[Gabi Hayes]

9. I started a thread about it, just like the email bullshit

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028073438

cnn running the story every half hour

msnbc at least once an hour

since about 2AM

[Sancho]

3. If you are selling a book, then you can say anything to get attention...

Johnson takes a few kernels and exaggerates and blows them out of proportion to get on TV. Typical.

Unlike Bernie and Jane, the Clintons don't do their own taxes. Any "mistakes" were made by some professional accounting firm, and it would not surprise me if the Clintons CPA chose to pay more rather than less if anything was questionable.

I saw that interview. I did not buy the book.

[Gabi Hayes]

5. you are out of your mind on this one. you clearly haven't read a thing he's written

you don't even know his NAME

start here

david cay Johnston Pulitzer prize, panama papers

jesus Christ

[Sancho]

6. I know who he is...

and he sensationalizes.

[Gabi Hayes]

8. what, exactly, does he sensationalize?

thank you

edit

here you go........you should have no trouble finding sensationalized material here

easy pickings:

http://www.taxanalysts.org/blog-profile/116

[Sancho]

10. like on the show in question...

the book was about Trump. He spends half his time telling about making Hillary mad. Then he exaggerates a story about health insurance and baby killing.

He's a successful reporter who goes after niche financial stories. I've read one of his earlier books. He takes a point and sensationalizes it. Maybe good for the lead story to sell the paper or magazine or book, but not completely honest.

I'd prefer facts in context. Whatever content he percents gets lost in overhype. If you like his type of presentation, that's fine. Not for me.