A former chief scientist for the Georgia Tech Research Institute has been sentenced to five years and 10 months in federal prison for defrauding both the university and the CIA.
cannot do it until the audit i finished, obviously. it is under, i i will revisit when the audit i completed. my tax returns are very simple, they are under a minor routine audit as they have bee for many years every year i get audited at the appropriate time hourly slumber right now amateur routine audit, nobod cares. now, when donald trump was candidate there was no way o verifying whether he was actually being audited as soon as he became president he became subject to a one lin provision in the irs handbook, also dating back to the 70s, the handbook specifies that th individual tax returns for the president and the vice president are subject to mandatory review so, during his presidency donald trump was being audited like every other america president, right wrong! that is the big revelation i tuesday s report from the hous ways and means committee which found that the irs did
will release them, but right now i m under routine audit. the only one who cares about my tax returns are the reporters. you dont think the american public is concerned? i don t think so. i won. i became president. no, i don t think they care at all. but his taxes. right now, the house ways and means committee is meeting on whether to publicly release them, the one thing he has never, ever wanted. joining me is andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and former senior member of the mueller probe, and tara setmayer, senior adviser for the lincoln project. andrew, i want to start with you. the tax thing feels in a sense like the least of trump s worries. but we re going to focus on it anyway because there has been this long-standing desire for the public and democrats to see them like every other president has shown them. here s what trump has said about flouting tax laws in the past. as a businessman and real estate developer, i have legally used the tax laws to my benefi
conversation and bring in now michael d antonio, elli honig ad gloria borger. i ll start with you and big picture, donald trump has been promising to release his tax returns for a decade now. first he linked them to former president obama s birth certificate, and he said if he releases that i ll release my tax returns and he s a candidate again. significance now of seeing these returns potentially. well, it s usually significantly for donald trump. he has been saying that he has been under what he calls a routine audit by the irs now for years and years. then he said, well, these are very complex. it would take a long time to compile them. i m sure they are complex. we ve also seen his longtime accountant just testify in the case against the trump organization and say that, look,
it will be released. i ve been audited i think for 15 straight years. when the audit is done, i ll release them. i m under routine audit. and i think it s a very unfair thing. as soon as my routine audit is done, i ll release my returns. i would be very proud to. i would love to give them, but i m not going to do it while i m under audit. it s very simple. according to maggie haberman s new best-seller confidence man , i ll release it when it s over is something trump came up on a flight in march of 2016. quoting in the book, you know taxes under audit. i ll release them when i m no longer under audit because i ll never not be under audit. he didn t tell voters that part. but when democrats in congress demanded the returns, he didn t try the audit excuse on them, he just said no. here is his acting chief of staff at the time. to be clear, you believe