The Donald Trump Score Card

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  1. Hip Pickle Rick

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  3. Vanilla Gorilla

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    Might as well move the Whitehouse to Beijing if Biden wins
     
  4. Hip Pickle Rick

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    Hey Gorilla Monkey, I forgot to mention, please feel free to ask my brother for a free consultation. I think it might do you a world of good..
     
  5. Vanilla Gorilla

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    For about 3 days, then it will be on to whatever new lame "bombshell"
     
  6. Vanilla Gorilla

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    Bullshit


    Wisconsin jumped over 1000 cases a day on 21st of July and stayed over that

    They have had less than ten deaths a day the last two weeks

    Any increase in deaths should have shown up 7 weeks ago let alone now
     
  7. Vanilla Gorilla

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  8. Vanilla Gorilla

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    You do know 200,000 is a lot less than 2 million right?
     
  9. Tishomingo

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    Source?
     
  10. Vanilla Gorilla

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    I hope for your sake that is not true

    The birthdate you put on your profile is likely within a week of your actual birthdate, and hackers can easily track down your name if you live in the same state as your brother, not a good idea to give such personal information on the net
     
  11. Tishomingo

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    Write off? In taxes, you mean? What kind of write off would that be? I guess he could declare personal bankruptcy. That would be interesting. Or he could sell some of those $3billion in assets or get somebody to take them for another loan--if he has them. Otherwise, maybe its Guido with the baseball bat! Better hope he keeps his secret service protection! Oh, wait. There's another alternative. I'm sure some friendly foreign power would be happy to help him out. For certain undisclosed favors.
    Trump Needs To Win The Election To Keep His 'Get Out Of Jail Free' Card
    What Trump’s taxes tell us about his foreign entanglements
    Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses
    Some of those foreign entanglements are with Turkey. Is that why he sold out the Kurds?
     
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  12. Tyrsonswood

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    Care to explain?

    Oh, that's right, you can't...

    Obvious troll is obvious
     
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    What Trump’s taxes tell us about his foreign entanglements
    Countries use Trump’s business to influence US foreign policy.
    By Alex Ward
    Sep 28, 2020, 3:40pm EDT

    What Trump’s taxes tell us about his foreign entanglements

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    "In 2017, the Washington Post detailed how Trump made millions licensing his name to real estate projects around the world. Congressional committees revealed foreign governments booked rooms at Trump’s hotel in Washington ahead of official meetings.

    And Open Secrets, a group researching the influence of money in politics, reported in 2019 that Trump held $130 million in foreign assets by the end of his second year in office. His most recent personal financial disclosures, covering 2016 through 2019, showed revenues of up to $4.1 million came from India, up to $7 million came from Turkey, and up to $5 million came from the Philippines, per the researchers.

    “Trump is continuing to profit from his foreign business interests,” Open Secrets’ Anna Massoglia told me, adding that the Times report has helped illuminate how he’s doing so, “as well as on other financial entanglements that he’s paying taxes on.”

    However, Massoglia noted, “there are a lot of gaps because he hasn’t disclosed his tax returns.” Those personal tax returns would provide an even more detailed picture than the documents the Times collected.

    The Times’s tax return story, though, still drives home that Trump has made — and is still making — more money from other countries than he’s admitted publicly. That’s troubling, especially since it could negatively interfere with his job as president and remit as the unquestioned authority of US foreign policy."
     
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    What Trump’s taxes tell us about his foreign entanglements

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    "That issue becomes more acute when you factor in Trump’s $421 million in debt, much of it owed in the next four years. It’s unclear exactly who he owes that money to, but it’s not unreasonable given the scope of the Trump Organization’s foreign business to assume some of the debt is held by foreign lenders like Deutsche Bank, which has loaned Trump’s businesses several hundred million dollars in recent years. These debts could mean Trump has financial concerns on his mind during officials chats with his counterparts.

    Ensuring foreign powers don’t have financial leverage over government officials is why, as Eoyang pointed out on Twitter, “Debt is one of the factors that goes into the denial of a security clearance. Foreign Indebtedness is a red flag.”"
     
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    Trump’s Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax Avoidance

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    "Tax records do not have the specificity to evaluate the legitimacy of every business expense Mr. Trump claims to reduce his taxable income — for instance, without any explanation in his returns, the general and administrative expenses at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey increased fivefold from 2016 to 2017. And he has previously bragged that his ability to get by without paying taxes “makes me smart,” as he said in 2016. But the returns, by his own account, undercut his claims of financial acumen, showing that he is simply pouring more money into many businesses than he is taking out.

    The picture that perhaps emerges most starkly from the mountain of figures and tax schedules prepared by Mr. Trump’s accountants is of a businessman-president in a tightening financial vise.

    Most of Mr. Trump’s core enterprises — from his constellation of golf courses to his conservative-magnet hotel in Washington — report losing millions, if not tens of millions, of dollars year after year.

    His revenue from “The Apprentice” and from licensing deals is drying up, and several years ago he sold nearly all the stocks that now might have helped him plug holes in his struggling properties.

    The tax audit looms.

    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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    Herman Cain tweet on June 12, 2020: “Don’t believe the scare stories. A serious look at the numbers tells you there’s no second wave starting.”

    Cain's death was part of the second wave that he had denied.

    He and Trump were wrong again..At the time, the death toll hadn't yet caught up with the increase in cases. The disease may take weeks to advance and death certificates may take weeks to be recorded and counted.

    Whatever the data for new cases and deaths may show and models may predict about the virus that has killed over 200,000 Americans, Trump and his base will always dismiss it instead of express concern..

    Trump has resorted to increasingly hapless alibis since the virus started, including a recent one that said the death toll isn't that bad when not counting deaths he blamed on democrats.

    Trump finally resorted to the biggest dismissal of all by simply contending at a rally that the coronavirus affects almost no one.
     
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    Michael Cohen says behind closed doors Trump is probably panicking: ‘He’s lost, he’s confused, he’s dazed’
    By Sarah K. Burris
    September 28, 2020

    Michael Cohen says behind closed doors Trump is probably panicking: ‘He’s lost, he’s confused, he’s dazed’

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    “Trump has over $420 million in outstanding loans that are coming due,” said Cohen. “Now, in the event, there is a potential tax liability for the time period that they’re talking about, I mean, it could be hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars. If you add those together, I mean, he’s very realistically facing a potential bankruptcy where people are concerned about in terms of your previous guest about foreign influence. I mean, the more likely scenario that I see is that he’ll find some corrupt foreign entity to help him out of the situation. Not too much dissimilar than 666 Fifth Avenue.”

    In that case, Jared Kushner, “in his capacity as a senior adviser to President Trump, reportedly played a central role in supporting a blockade of Qatar by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates,” explained JustSecurity. “Kushner never disclosed his meeting with Saudi Arabia and the UAE on the blockade to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the time. Later, a financial company tied to Qatar brokered an especially valuable deal to rescue the Kushner Companies’ property at 666 Fifth Avenue.”

    There’s never been any investigation into the deal."
     
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    Trump said that Biden is taking performance enhancing drugs. Stormy Daniels said trump should have been taking performance enhancing drugs.
     
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    Just a few tidbits..............................


    $750 – federal tax Trump paid in 2016, when he won the presidency.

    $750 – federal tax Trump paid the following year.

    Zero – federal tax paid by Trump in 10 of the previous 15 years, including 2014 and 2015.

    $100,000 a year – by comparison, the kind of figure regularly paid in federal taxes by Trump’s predecessors, Barack Obama and George W Bush

    $70,000 – paid to style Trump’s hair for television, claimed as expenses…..lol…..

    $95,464 – the total sum nine of Trump’s companies have paid as expenses to style Ivanka Trump’s hair.

    $210,000 – the amount written off as expenses to hire a photographer taking photographs at the Mar-a-Lago club.

    $26m – “consulting fees” charged as a business expense between 2010 and 2018, at least some of which appears to have been directed to a company co-owned by Ivanka Trump.

    $434m – what Trump declared his earnings to be in the 2018 presidential public annual financial disclosure.

    $47.4m in losses – what he had declared to the IRS for tax purposes over the same period.

    $421m – outstanding loans that Trump owes, most of which becomes due within the next four years.

    $73m – revenue generated from outside the US, presenting a potential conflict of interest with US foreign policy.

    $13m – earned in one licensing deal for Trump Towers in Istanbul, including $1m since he became president.

    $72.9m – the tax refund Trump claimed and was awarded, which is now the subject of a decade-long audit battle with the IRS. It covered all the federal tax he had paid between 2005 and 2008.

    $1.4m – the annual average amount of federal tax paid by Trump between 2000 and 2017. It compares with the $25m in federal income taxes the average American with similar declared earnings could expect to pay.

    $100m – the amount Trump could now have to pay back to the IRS, including penalties, if it finds against him in the audit.

    $315m – the sum reported “lost” by Trump’s golf courses since 2000.

    “Tens of millions of dollars” – what Alan Garten, a lawyer for the Trump Organization, claims the president has paid in personal taxes since 2015......lol.......
     
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  20. Hip Pickle Rick

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    No worries. Everything I posted was true. Your attempt to impugn my integrity just pissed me off a bit. You have a right to your opinions. Thanks for the warning.
     

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