During the entire campaign, we have all been wondering why Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been refusing to release his tax returns. Every presidential nominee since 1980 has released their tax returns.
This week, The New York Times released some of Donald Trump’s tax records from 1995. The document showed that Trump reported a $916 million loss.
Trump likely didn’t have to pay income tax on that loss for 18 years. When someone runs a business and loses money, they don’t have to pay taxes on it. The person can spread that amount out over the years if they want to when the loss is that big. And Trump thinks he’s so smart for not paying them.
Last night, Trump’s second wife, Marla Maples, tweeted this:
#FallLove Breathe it in as if 2day's the first day of your life. The kabbalist's say 2nite Adam&Eve were created. S… https://t.co/8OClFyMDw9
— marla maples (@itsmarlamaples) October 2, 2016
Since she was married to him in 1995, she would have access to tax returns from that year. Maple’s spokesperson declined to comment.
Here is some more information that shows that it could have absolutely been Marla who released this return. Via The Daily Beast:
- The documents were mailed with a New York City postmark and a Trump Tower return address to Times reporter Susanne Craig.
- Maples returned from visiting family in Georgia with Tiffany to New York, where she now lives, on September 20th. We met the 21st. The Times received the tax returns the 23rd.
She is still afraid to say anything bad about Trump. Their daughter Tiffany, who is 22-years-old now, is just starting to have a relationship with her father. Maples doesn’t want to upset their daughter.
The Daily Beast reported:
“Her predicament is incredible: a self-described liberal and deeply spiritual woman, who devotes much of her time to charity, who no doubt possesses some of the most intimate and likely damaging information about the man who may become president of the United States, and she feels as though she can’t say an honest word.”
There is another clue pointing to Maples being the one who leaked it. In 1999, when Trump was considering running for president then, she said:
“If he is really serious about being president and runs in the general election next year, I will not be silent … I will feel it is my duty as an American citizen to tell the people what he is really like.”
Spokespeople and attorneys for Marla Maples have not responded to inquiries.
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