Outright Tax Fraud & Lying About His Fortune by Trump? Yep....Yawn!
A new bombshell New York Times article based on 1 1/2 years of in-depth research concludes that DT has lied consistently about how much money he was loaned, given and inherited from his parents (actually totaling over $400 million in current value!) and how much he made himself, and also concludes that his family committed tax dodging and outright tax fraud to the tune of tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in and before the 1990s. Trump’s father was actually caught on tax evasion a couple of times in his career. Fred Trump also bailed out Donald a few times from his disastrous business deals. Some of these shady practices resulted in hiking rents for tenants in rent controlled NYC apartments. Under ordinary circumstances, this would be the lead story on every news outlet and would displace all other political news for a week or longer. However, in the current toxic and bizarre political climate (as well as with the competing lead political story about Kavanaugh) it will probably fade from the news after a couple of days, with the White House and Trump’s lawyer already on the counterattack, Trump certain to call it all fake news if he responds at all, and with his base certain not to believe it and/or not care and his opponents not to be at all surprised! This is presumably one main reason why Trump is the only president in modern history who has refused to release any of his tax records for public scrutiny. Of course the criminal statute of limitations has long run out on the events described in the article, but there is apparently no statute of limitations for civil penalties. However, the IRS has been progressively gutted by the Republicans, and is reportedly a shell of its former self in terms of having the resources to audit and investigate things like this. How very convenient for Trump and other ultrawealthy individuals and businesses, who basically own our government!
Meanwhile, the amazing Brett Kavanaugh confirmation saga continues on the heels of the riveting senate judiciary committee hearing last Thursday, with a re-opened FBI background check and resultant delay forced on Trump and McConnell by a trio of uncommitted Republican senators, albeit with an artificially limited timeline of no more than a week and a limited scope which is still a secret, as is who is really calling the shots on who and how many witnesses will be interviewed. They obviously want to do the bare minimum to satisfy the hold-out senators. It looks like they have no intention of interviewing Dr. Ford or most if any of the witnesses she is providing names of, and maybe not even Kavanaugh himself again! And it appears that the FBI findings will probably only be provided to senators, not to the public! Although confirmation was initially a pretty sure thing, this now can potentially still go either way, and will probably be a nailbiter, with the 3 Republicans holding all the cards. And now, after initially complimenting her on her “credible testimony”, the asshole-in-chief is on the campaign trail appealing to his base, especially white men, by mocking Dr. Ford and saying that “it is a very scary time for young men in America” because of the risk of false accusations by women!! Of course, this is the REAL Donald Trump. Whichever way this goes, I really hope women all across America are listening carefully and planning to vote!