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Trump: "No one knows money better than me"
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)He's coming up with flimsy excuses and he knows that they are flimsy excuses and he knows that we know these are flimsy excuses. Except... he doesn't care about what we are thinking. He is essentially trying to bury the topic by not talking about it.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)And that releasing his tax returns would be far more damaging to him.
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)He sees himself as a god among men and conducts himself that way.
He doesn't have to release his taxes because he is the all knowing supreme being and he knows what is in there and the rest of us are too little to understand.
This is the thinking of a mad-man.
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)so he's never releasing them.
librarylu
(503 posts)http://www.snopes.com/trump-did-not-donate-to-nambla/
Trump has noted releasing tax returns hurt Romney. Maybe his returns are similar.
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)He had no problem releasing his tax returns.
librarylu
(503 posts)There's enough on him without making stuff up. Or would you rather believe a bot?
Romney paying a lower rate than an average secretary hurt. We don't know what Trump's rate is.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)He should release his taxes to clear up any confusion.
librarylu
(503 posts)because it's customary, not to quell unfounded allegations. Did you read Snopes?
"A Reddit moderator who goes by 'Faiz' and claims to have helped launch the bot told us that he believes it turns Trump's own manner of generating suspicions against his opponents against him:
We didn't expect it to take off like this, but the community effort on EnoughTrumpSpam really helped it go viral. The joke spread off Reddit and began confusing people so much so that some news outlets even began picking the story up. I think it's success is, in a way, emblematic of the way Trump spreads lies and gets people to believe them by constantly repeating them.
A random user originally posted the block of text and it became instantly popular on Reddit. We all loved it because of how much it imitated Trump's style of making unsubstantiated accusations. You really can't tell the difference between some of the text in the meme and some things Trump wrote during Obama's birther conspiracy.
As for why Trump, we picked it up mostly because, as suggested by the name (EnoughTrumpSpam), we are an anti-Trump community and we found this to be a perfect foil to highlight the way Trump spreads conspiracy theories."
IMO spreading this is as bad as RW posters speading those fake "Records" claiming Hillary has a brain disease.
We go high when they go low, right?
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Many, many people are asking questions about that. It could be yuuuuge.
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)Lots of really smart people.