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

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How the f*** do you accrue $915 million in losses???

Run a business the way he's run his campaign: on ego, narcissism, and lies, with big helpings of stupid and ignorant.

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I think this is the nail we were looking for.

Nah, that takes three.

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If the losses are real, it is legitimate to deduct the loss. End of story. The income tax is about taxing income.

Except that, to quote the TrumpMiller campaign, "Mr. Trump is a highly-skilled businessman".

He's held that up as his biggest qualification for President. (His campaign surprisingly doesn't count Trump's ego as an asset.) When it turns out that his 'great business skills" consist of losing a billion a year, he looks a lot more like the conman he is.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

So much gold in Donnie's twitter archives...



https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/317227284996186112

That's probably still true when you account for property, sales, and state income taxes.

Which won't matter if the meme of Trump the Tax-cheat gets momentum.

Spending the next 4 weeks using his unreleased tax returns to explain how he technically didn't cheat will murder even his zombie campaign.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Funny. Because Trump would pay me to post polls -- both positive and negative -- about his campaign, right? If I were on the payroll, I'd only be posting the ones with Trump up, not every day of a tracking poll no matter where it lies.

Of course its actually the Clinton campaign who is hiring paid trolls.  We had the same thing in the UK, people posting pro Brexit or UKIP comments on social media or news media below the line comments sections would be accused of being paid UKIP trolls (as if UKIP had the money to spend on paid trolls) whereas it was actually the EU that was hiring plenty of paid trolls.

pro tip: nobody is paying trolls. the sad fact is we all do this for free

Well that, plus the fact that Trump doesn't pay his employees.