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Trump's tax returns

I took a look over at FOX News to see what the were talking about. Not a word about the NYT article. They were interviewing that idiot Sen. Kennedy about Amy Coney Barrett. He was hoping that the Dems weren't going to make it illegal to believe in God.
 
There were several years where Trump was losing more money than anyone in America.
 
So many people hand waving this away before it has had time to be digested.

He's getting millions from people wishing to garner favor from Trump.

And within the next four years, more than $300 million in loans — obligations for which he is personally responsible — will come due.
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The IRS wants $100 million from him if he can't make it go away. And if he wins reelection he will do just that, corruptly make it go away, or at least try.

He's on the take:
for example, $3 million from the Philippines, $2.3 million from India and $1 million from Turkey.
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All kinds of foreign money is flowing into his real estate. A story came out last week:
Vanity Fair: ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN AMERICAN HISTORY”: HOW EVERYONE FROM FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS TO FEDERAL CONTRACTORS IS QUIETLY LINING TRUMP’S POCKETS (caps are theirs)
It sure seems like the Qatari government is using a dummy office to pay the president. Countless other foreign and American companies are also handing Trump money—sometimes without even knowing it—creating the most tangled web of ethical pitfalls the White House has ever seen.
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He's taken it a step higher than money laundering through his real estate holdings.
That means that Trump, who holds his commercial real estate portfolio through a web of entities, does not have to disclose who his tenants are. It’s a massive loophole in federal disclosure laws, one that allows the president to accept money from entities all over the world without ever having to tell federal ethics officials who is paying him.
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Corruption:
It’s an ethical nightmare. Four foreign government entities—from China, Qatar, India, and the United Arab Emirates—have rented space in Trump’s buildings while he’s served as president. At least 35 tenants lobbied the federal government on policy issues. Twenty of those pitched the White House or the president personally. Thirty or more tenants collected over $8 billion in federal government contracts from 2018 to 2019 alone. At least 17 faced federal investigations on matters including fraud, money laundering, and corruption. Add it all up and Trump’s tenant relationships create one of the most significant potential conflicts of interest in American history.
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Then there is Trump's lie he's given back the money foreign governments paid him to the US Treasury.
That appears to be enough money to disprove the Trumps’ claim that they are handing over all their profits from foreign governments to the U.S. Treasury. In 2017 and 2018, the Trump Organization donated a reported $343,000 in profits from foreign governments. Over those same two years, however, the Trump Organization collected ...[after expenses] ... you still end up with $1.2 million. In other words, more than three times as much as the Trump Organization’s donations to the Treasury. And that $1.2 million figure is before accounting for any of the foreign money flowing through Trump hotels in D.C. and elsewhere.
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It goes on and on.

Now we need a similar corruption disclosure about McConnell.
 
Also from reading that article I'd say the New York Times needs to make space for another Pulitzer on its mantel.
 
What I'm puzzled about is why this issue will have no major negative impact on Trump's campaign, and it may well be a positive ("look at everyone piling on our Donnie"). If this happened to any other leader of a democratic country, he or she would be out the door before the day ended.
 
Oh, this news makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside! Hopefully the simple meme that comes from all of it is "Trump only paid $750 in taxes the last two reported years". Most average people have to pay much more than that.

I was amused at one of the pictures that accompanied the article. It would only take a little simple Photoshopping to change that pedestal into an image that denotes how he should be feeling right about now.
 

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So he got over 400 million for the Apprentice and was pumping that into his failing properties. He also got income from Turkey in licensing deals while in office. Two groups so far paid large fees to Trump properties who were at the time, lobbying the government.

The Trump organization has said the facts are inaccurate so we can assume the details are correct.

It's funny that if Trump had taken the 400 or so million dollars his dad gave him and went to an Edward Jones broker in any strip mall in America, he'd be twice as rich as he is now.
 
lionking said:
What I'm puzzled about is why this issue will have no major negative impact on Trump's campaign, and it may well be a positive ("look at everyone piling on our Donnie"). If this happened to any other leader of a democratic country, he or she would be out the door before the day ended.
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People are convinced because no one cared if Trump murdered someone on 5th Ave they will never care about anything.

I don't agree. There is some self-fulfilling prophesy going on. But this Oct surprise dribbled out by the Times, along with more Woodward tapes coming out might have some impact.
 
Apparently, there is even more to come from the NYT.

I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it
I'm about to lose control and I think I like it
I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
People are convinced because no one cared if Trump murdered someone on 5th Ave they will never care about anything.
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Because if Trump had spent his entire term, all 4 years of it, 40 hours a week, shooting someone on 5th Ave every 2 minutes and 30 seconds non-stop... he still wouldn't have killed as many Americas as have died of COVID.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
People are convinced because no one cared if Trump murdered someone on 5th Ave they will never care about anything.

I don't agree. There is some self-fulfilling prophesy going on. But this Oct surprise dribbled out by the Times, along with more Woodward tapes coming out might have some impact.
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I hope so, but the gap is narrowing and I now think Trump will win regardless of these revelations.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
People are convinced because no one cared if Trump murdered someone on 5th Ave they will never care about anything.

I don't agree. There is some self-fulfilling prophesy going on. But this Oct surprise dribbled out by the Times, along with more Woodward tapes coming out might have some impact.
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Murdering people is hypothetical. But taxes...almost everybody else in America pays taxes, and a very large percentage of his own voting base pays more than $750 a year. Taxes are very, very real things to a lot of people. And 750 is a solid, real number. A very low number compared to what most of us pay. This is something people can get angry about.

And amusedly contemptuous. I don't know what's sillier: that he paid such a ridiculously low amount, or that with all that financial skullduggery and cheating he couldn't get it down to zero.
 
Stacyhs said:
Apparently, there is even more to come from the NYT.

I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it
I'm about to lose control and I think I like it
I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it
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I would love to see one of the last bastions of good journalism destroy him.

$750? I pay more than ten times that much every year. I guess I'm just a sucker and a loser.
 
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