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Remember When Democrats Won Back The House And The American Public Was Finally Going To Get A Look At Trump’s Tax Returns?
Treasury and Justice doing all they can to make sure that red letter day for Liberals does not come to pass…
Update: the New York Times confirms today (to a large extent), the two main reasons we speculated about when we originally published this piece as to why Trump is dead set on forever concealing his taxes. First, that Trump paid no personal income tax between 1989–1995, and also that, according to the Times, from the mid-80s to the mid-90s “Mr. Trump appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer”. Trump doesn’t deny the story in early morning Tweets, though he calls it “a highly inaccurate Fake News hit job.” He contends in the 80s and 90s “almost all” real estate developers generated massive losses for tax purposes: “it was sport”, the President Tweets. The Times’ data does not cover returns for the years leading up to his Presidency, which is what the Treasury and Justice Departments are denying House Democrats. Also, none of that disqualifies anybody from getting elected President, as long as they get the votes. So, great work by the Times, which has done a better job than anybody parsing Trump’s finances. But…
