Subject: RE: The Irony! Trump’s VP Hopeful WILL Have to Submit Tax Returns
From: "Paustenbach, Mark" <[email-masked]>
To: "Paustenbach, Mark" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 23:26:19 +0000

The irony continues…

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Writing in the Wall Street Journal in 2012, he described how deep the vetting dive goes, demanding the potential picks hand over their "tax returns, medical histories, financial statements, court records" while answering very personal questions about "infidelity, sexual harassment, discrimination, plagiarism, alcohol or drug addiction, delinquent taxes, credit history, and use of government positions or resources for personal benefit."
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Trump Taps Washington Lawyer to Help Vet Potential Running Mates<http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-05-18/trump-taps-washington-lawyer-to-help-vet-potential-running-mates>
Bloomberg – Kevin Cirilli and Jennifer Jacobs

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has tapped lawyer A.B. Culvahouse Jr., a longtime Washington fixture, to help vet his vice presidential picks, according to people familiar with the campaign.
The role for Culvahouse, who visited Trump Tower in Manhattan earlier Wednesday for a meeting with Trump's aides, is a familiar one. He ran the vetting process for Republican presidential nominee John McCain in 2008 that ultimately selected Sarah Palin.
Trump has said publicly that he's relying on multiple people to recommend vice presidential picks, including campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and one-time rival Ben Carson, though neither has the legal qualifications that are essential to the vetting process.
Trump, who is expected to announce a running mate at the GOP convention in July, has narrowed his shortlist to five or six candidates with “deep political resumes," he told the Associated Press last week. Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, is being considered, people close to the campaign said. Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey has not been ruled out, Trump has said, though a poll today showed that such a ticket would be deeply unpopular in the state.
From 1987 to 1989, Culvahouse served as White House counsel to President Ronald Reagan, helping to handle the failed Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork. He is currently a lawyer in the Washington, D.C. law firm O’Melveny & Myers, and did not respond to a request for comment. The Trump campaign also did not respond to requests for comment.
During five elections, Culvahouse has both helped potential running mates deal with the intrusive vetting process and served as the vetting interrogator. He has a reputation for being very deliberate in establishing the credentials of potential candidates, and their pitfalls.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal in 2012, he described how deep the vetting dive goes, demanding the potential picks hand over their "tax returns, medical histories, financial statements, court records" while answering very personal questions about "infidelity, sexual harassment, discrimination, plagiarism, alcohol or drug addiction, delinquent taxes, credit history, and use of government positions or resources for personal benefit."
Culvahouse wrote that his team started with two dozen candidates, none of whom knew that McCain had selected them for consideration.

Mark Paustenbach
National Press Secretary &
Deputy Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202.863.8148

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Subject: The Irony! Trump’s VP Hopeful WILL Have to Submit Tax Returns

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NBC reported today that Donald Trump’s vice presidential hopefuls WILL have to turn their tax returns over to the Trump campaign to be vetted.

WATCH<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9RjewdIplE>

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9RjewdIplE>

Donald Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns, as well as his false claim that voters would learn nothing from them anyway, demonstrates he is not being forthright with the American people and is unfit to occupy the White House. But the fact that he plans to have his vice presidential pick release his tax returns to even consider being vice president is complete hypocrisy.

Never mind that Donald Trump is now backtracking on his previous commitment to transparency. When Trump first considered running for President in 1999, he said he, “probably wouldn’t have a problem with” releasing his tax returns if he ran. Later, in 2012, he said if you’re running for President, “at a minimum, probably, you’re going to have to show your [tax] returns” and they should be released by April 1st of the election year.
"That any potential number two would have to make their full taxes available to even be considered is a testament to the fact Donald Trump doesn't hold himself to basic minimum standards. This again raises serious questions about what he’s hiding and how much he would benefit from his own reckless tax plan. It is the American people's business and Trump must be held accountable." – DNC Communications Director Luis Miranda

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