RE: There Has To Be Something Awful In Them
August 24, 2016 at 9:31 pm
(This post was last modified: August 24, 2016 at 9:35 pm by Jenny A.)
I think that his 2015 income tax return would provide more evidence number of things we already know:
He not only is not very charitable, but he has not given to many causes he says he has. As a doner, Trump is very much a the-check-is-in-the-mail kind if guy. He claims to have given the profits from all of his books, and Trump U, to charity. But the donees appear nonexistent. He also also routinely claims to have given money actually given by The Trump Foundation or other people. Since he hasn't given to the Trump Foundation in years, that isn't Trump's money.
He's net worth is somewhere between three and four billion, not the ten or eleven he claims.
He doesn't own many of the buildings with his name on them.
He owes a lot of money to Chinese and Russian companies.
He has a lot of assets that would be conflicts of interest should he become president and he has zero interest in selling them off.
He doesn't pay much in the way of taxes.
That last would be the most revealing, as the other items are easier to show without tax returns. The Washington Post, Fortune Magazine, and The New York Times are responsible for most of our info. If his supporters cared, they wouldn't vote for him now. One year of taxes won't change their minds and they won't give us all that much more information that hasn't been unearthed already. Ten or twenty years of taxes would be much more revealing.
He won't release his taxes because he considers releasing any info to be a sign of weakness. Beyond that, having all that info on the table would hamper future business negotiations.
He not only is not very charitable, but he has not given to many causes he says he has. As a doner, Trump is very much a the-check-is-in-the-mail kind if guy. He claims to have given the profits from all of his books, and Trump U, to charity. But the donees appear nonexistent. He also also routinely claims to have given money actually given by The Trump Foundation or other people. Since he hasn't given to the Trump Foundation in years, that isn't Trump's money.
He's net worth is somewhere between three and four billion, not the ten or eleven he claims.
He doesn't own many of the buildings with his name on them.
He owes a lot of money to Chinese and Russian companies.
He has a lot of assets that would be conflicts of interest should he become president and he has zero interest in selling them off.
He doesn't pay much in the way of taxes.
That last would be the most revealing, as the other items are easier to show without tax returns. The Washington Post, Fortune Magazine, and The New York Times are responsible for most of our info. If his supporters cared, they wouldn't vote for him now. One year of taxes won't change their minds and they won't give us all that much more information that hasn't been unearthed already. Ten or twenty years of taxes would be much more revealing.
He won't release his taxes because he considers releasing any info to be a sign of weakness. Beyond that, having all that info on the table would hamper future business negotiations.
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