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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPaul Begala: "Trump has a strategy: undermine any independent check on him:"
"Trump has a strategy: undermine any independent check on him: Office of Gov Ethics, the press, civil rights icon, intel community."
https://twitter.com/PaulBegala/status/820754823872204800
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,021 posts)and who knows if he truly has the wealth he brags about. And power - that can go pretty quickly. Fingers crossed that he has already begun his undoing.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)especially if you subtract out the debts he owes so many people.
Remember the big news that he had not paid taxes in 20 years because he had a nearly $1 billion loss 20 years ago that he was using to offset his earnings? You're only allowed to offset what you earn - so, once you exceed that $1 billion loss, you no longer have any loss deductions (unless you lose big again) In other words, Trump's combined income these past 20 years has not been enough to offset that nearly $1 billion loss. $1 billion over 20 years is $50 million/year. Great money and 1% money for sure. But he's more in league with a Kardashian or a top pro athlete with endorsements than the elites of the financial world like Warren Buffet or some hedge fund titans.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)This is the destruction of the United States as a functioning democracy.
It is now a puppet/dictatorship with the disgusting assistance of the republican party.
They are all, every one of them, along with most of the media, real traitors to the country.