Philadelphia – NY Israeli American Philanthropist Offers $1M To Trump To Share Tax Returns

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    FILE - Moishe Mana stands in a parking lot with moving trucks from the company he founded Moishe's Moving Systems fleet in Jersey City, New Jersey, on 8 February 2006. AFP PHOTO/NICHOLAS ROBERTS Philadelphia – The wealthy Democratic donors, many of whom run complex businesses, know firsthand how revealing tax returns can be. Perhaps that’s why they can’t stop talking about Republican nominee Donald Trump’s refusal to release his.

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    From their suites at the Ritz-Carlton hotel, the finance hub at this week’s Democratic convention, and at the event’s auxiliary swanky parties, supporters of Hillary Clinton are sounding the alarm about Trump’s break with decades of presidential campaign tradition.

    Clinton put out eight years of recent tax filings last summer, and her backers lament that voters don’t seem to understand why Trump’s refusal to do the same matters.

    Democratic talk of the taxes spilled onto the convention stage Wednesday night. Vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine, mocking Trump, said, “Believe me, there’s nothing suspicious in my tax returns. Believe me!” The crowd laughed.

    There’s literally a bounty for the Trump documents.

    Moishe Mana, a top fundraiser for Clinton, has offered to give $1 million to the charity of Trump’s choice if he makes them public. He joins an unnamed Republican donor working with Clinton ally David Brock who has made a similar offer of $5 million.

    “Through his financial documents, we are trying to break into the image that he’s portraying to the American people,” said Mana, a real estate developer in Miami. “He says he’s a successful businessman who wants to do for the country what he did for his company. Well, go ahead, show me the money.”

    Trump is unmoved. The billionaire owner of the Trump Organization, an international development company, reiterated at a news conference Wednesday that the Internal Revenue Service is auditing his tax returns and that he’ll release them only once that review is complete.

    There’s no telling whether that would happen before Election Day, but the IRS says there’s no legal reason Trump can’t make the tax returns public even as they are under review.

    The issue has flared up in recent days, in the wake of the hack of emails at the Democratic National Committee that the Obama administration said Wednesday was almost certainly the work of Russia. The group WikiLeaks released the emails on the eve of the convention, a leak its leader Julian Assange has said was timed to inflict political damage on Clinton.

    Trump said Wednesday that he has no ties to Russia whatsoever, but that hasn’t stopped Democratic donors in Philadelphia from saying that in the absence of Trump’s tax returns, voters are left to wonder whether there are undisclosed financial ties between Trump and foreign entities.

    “Think of what’s gone on just this week and connect the dotted lines,” said top Clinton donor J.B. Pritzker, a billionaire venture capitalist in Chicago. “The question is who his investors are, and whether there are any in China or Russia that are affecting his personal income.”

    Mana also wants that answered. If Trump’s elected president, he said, “how much in debt would we be to other countries?”

    While information about Trump’s debts has been made public in personal financial disclosures filed with federal election regulators, the Democratic donors say access to his taxes might shed light on previously unknown business arrangements. The returns also would detail for the first time how much he pays in income tax and how much he gives to charity.

    “He is obfuscating in order to avoid being discovered as a liar,” Pritzker said.

    The pro-Clinton group Priorities USA has been hammering the issue in several online video compilations of Trump’s various excuses for not putting out the returns. Footage includes Trump telling a reporter who’d asked about his tax rate, “It’s none of your business.”

    The 2012 GOP nominee, Mitt Romney, resisted putting out his 2011 tax return until the September just before the election, after being pressed for months about doing so. The documents showed he paid an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent, far lower than the average person, spawning days of bad headlines.

    Bill and Hillary Clinton paid an overall federal tax rate of 31.6 percent between 2007 and 2014, her returns showed.

    In addition to blaming the IRS audit, Trump has said in interviews that it might not make political sense for him to put out his returns.

    Romney’s returns were “a tiny peanut compared to mine,” Trump said on “Meet the Press” in an interview that aired last Sunday. There was little controversial in the Romney documents, he said.

    Yet the media “made him look bad,” Trump said. “In fact, I think he lost his election because of that.”


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    Secular
    Secular
    7 years ago

    What about Clinton foundation emails and Goldman Saks speeches ?

    Boochie
    Boochie
    7 years ago

    I don’t care about his taxes, it’s stupidity, if he was cheating he would be in jail, if he is using loopholes good for him – let’s stick to real issues

    The context of the DNC emails are cause for concern ….

    bennyt
    bennyt
    7 years ago

    Moishe – – the moving business is much shadier than Trump’s businesses.

    ralph1527
    ralph1527
    7 years ago

    Ask Moshe how many people he ripped off on moving jobs !!!!!

    7 years ago

    Moishe – don’t talk to me about dishonesty. About 30 years ago I used you to move me from Broadway & 68th St to Broadway & 3rd St in Manhattan. I cost more than moving from Washington,DC to Broadway & 68th St the year before, and took longer. As for Trump’s tax returns, why not ask the Russians to get them? They probably already have them. As for Trump’s asking the Russians to release the emails, he had to have meant those they already grabbed, not the deleted ones. In order to get deleted items you really need physical possession of the disks. If they hacked them before they were ever deleted, then it would be trivial to release them.

    By the way, I’ve worked in Computer Security for almost 50 years, and tying a hack back to a particular country is very difficult, if not impossible. Right now, for example, I am writing this from New York, yet to anyone looking at the traffic going by on the internet it will look like I am sending it from Holland from ip address 195.191.165.5. Even the US Government won’t be able to track it. If I can do it, certainly anyone else who wants to can do it.

    Butterfly
    Butterfly
    7 years ago

    I do not think anybody is ever going to see those tax returns!! except for the IRS!! My hunch is that he has been audited and the news is not good!! With all his law suits and trials $$$ is going out faster than it is coming in!!

    hmmmm
    hmmmm
    7 years ago

    The guy that has the dirty pictures on his trucks ?

    yankee96
    yankee96
    7 years ago

    hey moishe, how about…….
    when hiLIARy machshaifa release her e mails of TREASON to the public,than Trumpster will release his tax forms!!.
    when we find out why her boyfriend Foster was murdered and by whom, than we will release tax returns.!!
    when we find out what her involvement in whitewater scandal was,is,than we release tax forms.
    when we have her admit to murdering our ambassadors and men in Benghazi,than we will release tax returns .
    when we find out how she received and from who she received all the monies for the fake foundation,than we will release returns
    when she admits to the deals for Uranium as secretary of state with the Russians,than we will release the returns
    when she admits to all the deals with her muslim friends who gave her hundreds of millions than we will…..
    HOW IS THIS MACHSHAIFA RECEIVING EVEN 1 vote from a jew???????

    achin vey on klall yisroel

    7 years ago

    Some people clearly don’t deserve the bra ha of money Hashem gave them! Boycott Moishes Moving trucks!

    eli845
    eli845
    7 years ago

    What’s most amazing is that there are so many people in this country that fall for his words every time he speaks. If the country is so great after his (almost) 8 years why do they have to work so hard convincing people that it is. And if it is not and we need her to make it better, doesn’t she stand for what he says? So how will she make it better? What boggles my mind even more is, the amount of Jews (on here at least) are for her. There are so many things to see why they are wrong with their policy, how can you not see it? It amazes me. The end of the day “Lev melachim vesarim byad hashem” don’t ever doubt that. Just as a person with brains, how can you even defend her with a straight face. Maybe someone can enlighten me.

    7 years ago

    Trump must be afraid of showing that he actually is nowhere as rich as he claims to be.