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malaise

(269,054 posts) Sat Nov 11, 2017, 05:48 AM Nov 2017

Trump ally Robert Kraft revealed as longtime owner of offshore firm

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/09/donald-trump-robert-kraft-owner-offshore-firm-new-england-patriots-paradise-papers
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Donald Trump likes to style Robert Kraft as his blue-collar conscience – a whisperer to the white working-class football fans whose support he craves.

Trump has said that Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, urged him to “tax the rich people” and take care of the poor. During a Super Bowl celebration at the White House in April, Kraft hailed “hard work” as the essence of America.

Kraft, who donated $1m to Trump’s inaugural celebrations, claims he buys his coffee at Dunkin’ Donuts, not Starbucks – and pays for those in line behind him.

At the same time, files leaked in the Paradise Papers reveal, Kraft has for more than two decades quietly owned an offshore company that could be used to legally avoid or reduce US taxes.

Kraft is one of several owners of major US sports teams to appear in the leak through involvement in firms in tax havens. Wealthy bosses at franchises in the NFL, NBA and NHL are named in the leaked files as senior figures at firms incorporated in zero-tax jurisdictions such as Bermuda, the Bahamas and Barbados. Several have, like Kraft, made significant donations to political campaigns at home.

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Trump ally Robert Kraft revealed as longtime owner of offshore firm (Original Post) malaise Nov 2017 OP

there is also the question of what happened to the Inaugural Money JI7 Nov 2017 #1

It probably went into the "defense" fund for Junior and Jared FakeNoose Nov 2017 #7

Fake honest business man. safeinOhio Nov 2017 #2

Money corrupts. secondwind Nov 2017 #3

I would never trust Scarsdale Nov 2017 #4

Greedy grifters. gademocrat7 Nov 2017 #5

Lots of talk on FReak site about boycotting "failing" football. Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2017 #6

And don't forget BumRushDaShow Nov 2017 #9

These kind of "leaked files" will help torpedo the GOP tax plan. nt oasis Nov 2017 #8

K&R... spanone Nov 2017 #10

JI7

(89,252 posts)

1. there is also the question of what happened to the Inaugural Money

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Sat Nov 11, 2017, 05:53 AM

Nov 2017

Rachel Maddow has been reporting on it and still mentions it .

they didn't donate that money for nothing.

Kraft is a scumbag fraud.

FakeNoose

(32,645 posts)

7. It probably went into the "defense" fund for Junior and Jared

Reply to JI7 (Reply #1)

Sat Nov 11, 2017, 08:04 AM

Nov 2017

Scumbag lawyers aren't cheap, you know. And they have to be paid up front - especially any lawyers who work for Trump. Everybody else is on their own.

safeinOhio

(32,688 posts)

2. Fake honest business man.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Sat Nov 11, 2017, 06:40 AM

Nov 2017

secondwind

(16,903 posts)

3. Money corrupts.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Sat Nov 11, 2017, 06:45 AM

Nov 2017

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)

4. I would never trust

Reply to secondwind (Reply #3)

Sat Nov 11, 2017, 07:49 AM

Nov 2017

a "friend" of tRump. Birds of a feather flock together. He attracts the worst of the worst just be being himself, a scumbag.

gademocrat7

(10,659 posts)

5. Greedy grifters.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Sat Nov 11, 2017, 07:50 AM

Nov 2017

A cabal like no other.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,007 posts)

6. Lots of talk on FReak site about boycotting "failing" football.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Sat Nov 11, 2017, 07:54 AM

Nov 2017

They conflate declining viewership with not watching because of "taking the knee".

And we haven't even got into the crap about CONning the white working class:

1. Billionaire football team owners are not working class and haven't been for decades.

2. "Tax the rich" is all smoke and mirrors. They are laughing at the working class. They had no intention of helping them.

3. Trump doesn't pay the working class. He stiffs contractors and lets then sue and grinds them down in court for years. It's a stupid business tactic but it is one he uses.

All this is obvious to us and the 1% and the thinking working class, but not to tRumpanzees. Some tRumpanzees know, but don't care because "emails" and "the wall" and "tax cuts for corporations will boom the economy".