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The New York Times has rammed its army boot into Donald Trump’s privates: “The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due“.
“The New York Times has obtained tax-return data extending over more than two decades for Mr. Trump and the hundreds of companies that make up his business organization, including detailed information from his first two years in office. It does not include his personal returns for 2018 or 2019. This article offers an overview of The Times’s findings; additional articles will be published in the coming weeks.”
Ouch!
“As the president wages a re-election campaign that polls say he is in danger of losing, his finances are under stress, beset by losses and hundreds of millions of dollars in debt coming due that he has personally guaranteed.”
Bye bye Trump.
It was the tax that got Al Capone too.
Trump will be absolutely furious about this from the Grey Lady. He will explode his nappy with rage. He will scream himself hoarse. He will threaten to turn their lights off, turn their water supply off, whatever. New York is a Satanic fake paid by China!
I never believed the politely trotted out media line that Trump’s tax affairs would probably be kept out of the public eye until after 3 November, because of grand jury secrecy. Of course they won’t be. Eric Trump may be criminally charged before then too. (If things go well, so will Jared, Ivanka, and Donald Junior). It was especially interesting that the federal judge didn’t rule in the Trump tax case on Friday. Will he rule on Monday, or will he wait until he can see the whites of Trump’s eyes on Tuesday, as the Orange Loon preps up for the TV debate that evening? If he’s still in the race by then, will he have much more in his arsenal than screaming at Joe Biden “You’re on drugs!”, “You’re controlled by anarchists”, and “You don’t care about health”? This is the guy who can’t cope with a press conference when a woman asks him a difficult question, even when a man does it for that matter. He won’t be able to cope when not only will a presenter ask him questions that aren’t fawning (can he call the presenter “fake”?), but to make things worse he will have an OPPONENT standing in the same studio as him, accorded equal respect as a co-participant, being allowed time to talk when Trump – the Great Trump! – is supposed to keep his trap shut, while the opponent of the Great Trump addresses the world to say that Trump ain’t so great, and perhaps even tells Trump directly to his face.
*Sniff* *sniff* *big massive sniff* “You’re on drugs!” *sniff* *sniff* *sniff*
Trump played a tycoon in “The Apprentice” but he doesn’t seem able to run a successful business for toffees. He even lost money when he owned casinos. He has filed for corporate bankruptcy several times. Isn’t there a word for a person who pretends to be what he isn’t?
Apparently the Trump Organisation has been paying “consulting fees” to Ivanka, one of its own senior executives.
“His 2016 presidential campaign may have been partly an attempt to resuscitate his brand.”
How did that go? 🙂
“In his first two years in the White House, Mr. Trump received millions of dollars from projects in foreign countries, including $3 million from the Philippines, $2.3 million from India and $1 million from Turkey.”
Oh dear…
“In 2012, he took out a $100 million mortgage on the commercial space in Trump Tower. He has also sold hundreds of millions worth of stock and bonds. But his financial records indicate that he may have as little as $873,000 left to sell.”
Trump said at yesterday’s press conference that it’s “fake news” that he paid only $750 in federal tax in 2016 and 2017. If it is, then it’s easy for him to rebut. All he has to do is publish his tax returns for those years.
Note to any Trump supporters reading this: the retort “Why should he do what his opponents tell him?” would be infantile. Refusing to publish this information while denouncing what his opponents say about it is pathetic. It makes him look weak. As does almost any path from where we are now. Bad news indeed for the “greatest” man in the world. This is what the puncturing of a brand looks like. This guy will go down in history as a cardboard-cutout blowhard and “fake”. His whole “Apprentice” image was fake. His whole wrestling ring image as a man worth not one billion, not two, not three, but seven, was fake. He can hardly open his mouth without lying.
In one TV debate in 2016, Hillary Clinton suggested that the reason Trump wasn’t releasing his tax returns was because he hadn’t paid anything in federal taxes. He replied, “That makes me smart”.
So which is it, then? Is it
a) the allegation is true, and it is also flattering, because tax avoidance is something to be proud of?
or
b) the allegation is false, and outrageous too, because he would never do anything so disgusting?In principle, either of those positions could be argued, but obviously not both. And in this particular case, Trump isn’t going to be able to argue either of them. All he will be able to do, for as long as he stays in the presidential race, is bluster, rage, and scream at his critics that they’re stupid, traitorous, communist, corrupt, and anti-God.
I have to say, this is beautiful timing by Trump’s opponents.
Let’s hope they understand the importance of combining timing with surprise and a concentration of attacks on weak spots – laws of strategy that they handled pretty badly in 2016.
The media’s sudden falling into “silent mode” regarding the Trump vs Vance case before the federal appeals court (2nd circuit) remains unexplained. I hope Trump’s side hasn’t had too much of a hand in that delay. But whatever the reason, it’s clear that nobody pushes the Grey Lady around.
Trump is, literally, a fascist leader. And his spiel is now collapsing into little more than denunciations of a conspiracy of Godless “communists” and traitors paid by foreign powers. He has literally said the Democratic Party has been taken over by “socialists” and probably beyond that, “communists”. And he keeps going on about how somebody spied on his campaign in 2016, which he is convinced was the greatest crime in the history of the USA. Didn’t he win that election? But so what? Deep down he knows he’s fake, he feels he’s a “loser”, a man whom the whole world is against. Poor guy. Soon it will be over.
Azerbaijan and Armenia have begun another shooting war over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Is the building formerly known as the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Baku finished yet?
Those interested in flags might like to look at the flag of the Republic of Artsakh. Like the Indian flag, it symbolises motion, albeit irreversible and not cyclical.
I was expecting Eric Trump to be the first member of the Don’s closest family to be arrested. [*] But now it seems it may be Ivanka.
Her hubby Jared Kushner carries a wallet stitched by his father Charlie when he was in jail. Perhaps soon he and Ivanka will be able to sew tokens for each other in their respective cells?
The Kushners along with Sheldon Adelson were key in getting their idiot tool Donald into the White House.
As for the foreign country in which Donald Trump’s dirty business deals will loom largest in the events that bring him down, my money was on Germany (Deutsche Bank). But there are so many strong runners in the field: Turkey, India, Azerbaijan, UAE, Philippines, as well as Ukraine and Russia.
As I said: Trump’s opponents MUST combine skill at timing with the use of surprise and with a concentration of their attacks on weak spots. These are the laws of conflict. They do not change.
One thing I noticed in yesterday’s press conference was that Trump boasted that the Republicans were so united. Yeah, right. He knows they’ll get rid of him. That’s how it sounds.
Note
*) At least since Fred Trump was arrested in 1927 for refusing to disperse from a Ku Klux Klan demonstration.One of the offences for which Jared Kushner’s father Charles was jailed was witness tampering. (He hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law who was cooperating with federal officials, and then sent the tape to his sister. Nice guy.)
Jared’s response? He blames Chris Christie, who was then the US federal attorney for New Jersey. He says the matter should never have been prosecuted. He says it should have been handled by the family itself or the rabbis.
Say hello to organised crime. This is what it looks like.
The Anti-Defamation League (a part of the organisation called “Zionism” which polices US culture and politics) has demanded that Donald =to apologise or issue an explanation “now” for calling on the violent fascist white-power group called the “Proud Boys” to “stand by”.
I have never known the ADL back down on anything. This is curtains for Trump.
One could of course comment on the similarity between the Proud Boys’ racist “band of brothers” organisational style and the racist “band of brothers” organisational style of the B’nai Brith from which the ADL itself originates, but that is beside the point.
Brad Parscale, the Trump campaign’s top “digital media” guy, who ran the whole campaign until July, has “stepped down” after he was locked up for mental health reasons (“sectioned”, as it would be in Britain) after going psycho with one of his 10 guns. (Any middle class reader who wants to put that in bureaucratic language is welcome. Perhaps “he underwent a psychiatric incident with his firearm” or something like that.) According to his wife’s testimony, he beat the crap out of her, and when they had an argument he pulled a loaded gun. The police took him away in handcuffs and reported cuts and bruises to his wife’s arms and face. After having at first shown the police her bruises and said they had been caused in argument between the two of them, she later retracted.
Perhaps George Soros and Antifa sent the cops round, eh, Donald?
Is all not well in the Trump camp?
Looks like Trump now has a reply!
How many Republican donors can now say “I gave Trump $50,000 and he gave me COVID-19”?
Trump is talking about Biden being assassinated.
Why is Trump wearing black gloves? Has he got “blue hands” (cyanosis) because of pneumonia?
Funny how Dom and Don, Cummings and Trump, fall together.
Cummings I’m sure has contempt for Trump but he probably has great respect for Stephen Bannon, or at least did have until the latter broke the 11th commandment and was caught with his fingers in the till. Nobody has yet been in the dock from Vote Leave or for government contracts awarded in the Covid era to Cummings’s associates without being put to tender.
Yet.
Carrie Symonds is probably “chaff”, a non-player in Number 10. Haven’t she and Johnson split up anyway?
The parallelism might just be an artefact of how the US presidential election (3 Nov) and inauguration (20 Jan) sandwich the build-up to the end of the Brexit transition period (will cross-Channel trade continue harmoniously or not?), but I doubt it.
It seems that Trump is about to start a war with Iran. In the past several days Trump has sacked leading defence and intelligence figures and replaced them with men more to his and his backers’ liking. Does one detect a sense of urgency?
Look at this form of words in the Daily Heil, presumably okayed by the Foreign Office en route from the US Embassy to the Heil’s copypasting “journalist”:
“The flaunted breach of the Obama-era nuclear pact could inflame tensions“.
But the US under Trump has already reneged on its 2015 agreement with Iran. (In fact, that may have even been the reason why the m*****f***** Trump was put into the White House a year after the treaty.) After reneging (or “withdrawing” as the pro-US media frame it), the US imposed further sanctions on Iran. Now their lickspittle media are complaining about Iranian “breaches”. You what??
It was a US attack on the Iranian navy and rumours of a US invasion of Iran that triggered the 1987 financial crash.
Trump was so happy when he was allowed to say he had had something to do with finding a new home for the UAE oil sheikhs’ tongues up Netanyahu’s fundament.
Assassination today in Iran. Western media are linking it to the “Iran is a threat” theme. In other words they are purveying the Netanyahu doctrine as it is also called. Those who want a better world need to drop the “Sunnis vs Shias” idea, because that religious difference has little or nothing to do with the strategic situation. It helps not one jot with an understanding of the conflict between (Shia) Azerbaijan – backed by Turkey, Daesh, and Israel, by the USA and indirectly by Russia, but not by Iran – against Armenia. There is a real danger of a continuation of the genocide against Armenians.
Facebook, i.e. the CIA, is assisting the Azeri war effort.
Background: Adolf Hitler drew inspiration from the Turkish genocide against Armenians when pushing towards the German genocide against the Jews. “Who remembers the Armenians now?” he sneered. The vile western “journalism” that says things like “Baku is investigating allegations of war crimes that have been made about both sides” is reminiscent of similar Gaza-related Israeli propaganda. Victims and perpetrators do not have moral equivalence, not in Gaza, not in Auschwitz, not in Nagorno-Karabakh.
