NYT acquires 1995 Trump tax return; he deducted $916 million in business losses

[mark_twain]

1. Debate performance
2. His bizarre tweet storm at 3am
3. Infidelity accusation
4. This

If you still support Trump, I have no empathy for you whatsoever. You can't explain all of that and his history. A decent person just can't.

A racist, narcissistic, pathological lying, sexist, secretly mentally disturbed, cheating, idiotic bastard like Trump should never hold office. Simple as that.

This man NEVER tells it likes it is. He doesn't care about us.

No matter what demographic of Trump supporter you are, you need to admit that you are deplorable.

Very well said!

[mark_twain]

Time for him to drop out.

Drop out for legally using the tax code and carrying over operating losses as he is allowed to? Give me a break. The amount of financial illiteracy on this board is astounding.

Further, the Times broke the law by publishing these documents. They should be ashamed of themselves.

And it's all in your head...

Try telling your arguments to the millions of middle-class workers in OH and PA, whom Trump is desperately counting on for votes, who pay every penny of taxes to the government for their hard-earned dollars.

And, yes, it might be legal, but that is beside the point. The point is that the Clinton campaign has every right to use this story to damage Trump so that he does not get elected...

[mark_twain]

Maybe the Trump campaign really did leak this

1. It gives him a reason for not paying taxes
2. It makes him look sympathetic ("It was leaked without my permission!")
3. His supporters don't care because they're terrible people

I doubt it.

Trump really needs to sway the undecided voters, and this will turn off a high percentage of them in one shot.

[mark_twain]

Yeah, they don't seem to really have standing to criticize anyone for not paying any taxes.

It's not even relevant. People can bitch at the NYT too, but it doesn't change what Trump did.

"What Trump did" a/k/a use a legal deduction that people have a right to use.

How unhinged you red avatars have become over this is laughable. I guarantee you if any single one of you were in his position, you would have used the same deduction. Like the New York Times has. Like Clinton hero Mark Cuban has. Like I am sure Warren Buffet has. Like the Clintons have.

The New York Times and the Clinton campaign is preying on the fiscal illiteracy of the American public here. Trump did absolutely nothing wrong.

Don't believe me on the Hillary Clinton claim? The source material is on pages 17 and 18 of this document.

https://m.hrc.onl/secretary/10-documents/01-health-financial-records/Clinton_2015_Form_1040_with_Signature_Page.pdf

They (the media and the Clinton campaign) are rightly taking this opportunity to damage Trump for the sake of the people, if only for a sense of moral dignity.

Americans are not fiscally illiterate to know that what Trump did was wrong. On the contrary, the fiscally intelligent know that Donald Trump committed a massive injustice against working class Americans by not paying his fair share of taxes.

Legal or not does not have a bearing, as elections are run by votes, not the rulings of judges or juries. This is made more clear by Trump's reliance on the rust belt states (especially PA and OH), which he is trying to use to build his vote total. After hearing this news, the voters with common sense will wake up to see that they are being played by this crook...but in the end, it is up to them to decide not to vote for him.

[mark_twain]

Irrelevant...I would never be in Trump's shoes.

He is in his own world...