If Biden were capable of complex coherent multi-sentence thoughts he might be able to spin it into a larger narrative about how Trump has only ever cared about himself and his “rich” friends. Tie it to the fact that he wants to take away your Healthcare. Tie it to the epic tax break he signed that gives people like him even more ability to avoid paying taxes. Tie it to the fact that during a 100-year pandemic his administration was focused on boosting the stock market rather than saving lives or giving regular people stimulus checks.
But yea, probably best for Joe to ignore it and just talk ACA or something.
You think any of this affects the base? It is all about getting people who didn’t vote last time to vote against him this time. The only thing that would change the way his base votes is a grease fire.
What about a 3 pronged attack of touchstones with intermittent mentions of his how his taxes show he will screw you over.
Healthcare
Covid
All the people who trump has insulted and fkd over. This is a long list that includes the fricking pope, military joes and generals, church goers, women, etc…
All this excused for his economic prowess. Just have to connect the dots.
You are right that many of Trump’s supporters will just decide to interpret this as ACTUALLY GOOD NEWS! Because it is a cult after all. But consider that Trump had gone out of his way to hide his taxes, leaking them is damaging simply because it can be presented as an airing of embarrassing secrets that Trump was hiding. If the “I don’t pay taxes and that proves I’m smart” line was something Trump wanted then he would have released his tax returns and bragged about it. He obviously doesn’t want to talk about them and that’s enough.
He’s one guy, I think a lot of them would be pissed… I hope the Biden team is running a ton of focus groups.
I dunno, man, that new Alaska poll is sexy, I’m down to flip some people and have a four year stand with that beautiful wintry wilderness. Maybe snag a Senate seat along with it and play for 60 seats in 2022.
This guy doesn’t care about you, he’s a billionaire who wants to take away your healthcare, social security and Medicare so he can get another tax cut… And he only paid $750. C’mon, man!
Trump lied and 200,000 Americans died. Oh and he’s drowning in debt and desperately needs his hotels to reopen. You do the math.
He thinks the military is full of losers and suckers, and he thinks you’re a sucker if you paid any taxes because he only had to pay $750 as a billionaire.
tRUmp has been operating under the assumption that if he does his illicit activity out in the open that no one will believe that anything could possibly be illegal or wrong.
He hid his taxes and went to the ends of the earth to keep them from seeing the light of day.
That tells me he knows this is the one thing that unequivocally presents the opportunity to penetrate the façade of the successful businessman persona.
Agree with most of this. Except it’s not relevant that Biden or I or the homeless guy on the corner paid more than Trump. Trump paid $750 in income tax because his empire is smoke and mirrors. The emperor not only isn’t wearing clothes, he can’t afford them. The tax returns are evidence that he’s the opposite of what he claims to be. By his own measures, he’s a loser.
Edit: Not relevant assuming we’re arguing with Trump’s base. Have to strip the argument down the bare minimum.
Steals from his own military charity, calls people who serve “suckers and losers,” had a foot ouchie so he couldn’t serve himself, avoids taxes in order not to support the military, bows to North Korean generals, gives away US military secrets to russians IN THE OVAL OFFICE…
I’ve been telling trumpers he is a broke ass cheat loser who kills everything he touches for a while. Now there are receipts and I’ll be bashing them over the head with them regardless if it changes minds…