Why are we arguing what might kneecap the base a bit and what is true at the same time? If enough people start pointing and laughing and going “LOL you broke!” - the effect will be the same whether he’s actually broke or not.
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I work for a large bank in commercial real estate. I’m not just randomly speculating.
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OK, but you could halve their valuations of all his assets and he’d still be worth $600m.
Day 1:
–Reads 16-minute inauguration speech he falsely claims to have written himself.
–In that speech, inadvertently quotes movie villain Bane from Batman.
–Announces the Alt-Right’s theme of America First as policy and philosophy.
–Cites American ‘carnage’, without going into detail as to what that might entail.
–Falsely claims it stopped raining when he began to speak.
–Passes over long-time inauguration parade announcer Charlie Brotman, replacing him with no one.
–Six journalists are arrested while covering the inauguration and charged with felony rioting.
–Trump signs emergency order increasing mortgage costs for first time home buyers.
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lol
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The stock market doesn’t and has never given a shit about who wins the presidency.
It cares about its own kerfuffle of possibilities that threatens the shit that actually changes things.
If something important coincides with the election, idiots just roll with the simple answer.
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The only way you can lose on this in a debate is if that squirrely moderator limits the discussion or you pick too narrow a line of attack that they prepped a decent parry for. This topic should dominate the debate along with COVID and there are good lines of attack from all angles of the field. There really should not be any other topics except maybe a footnote about stealing the SC seat.
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It’s fraud either way. If he donated it and claimed a donated value of $5M, he also had a taxable gain on disposal of asset of $2.25M. My guess is he took the $100M donation and quietly removed the asset from his portfolio without reporting the disposal (and the corresponding taxable gain) at all.
Over 200,000 people have died from COVID on his watch and he’s about to have $500M in debts mature and could be compromised and Chris Wallace gonna be like “30 second rebuttal and we’re moving on to climate change.”
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The media and most everyone else already is going with the wrong story. Dodging taxes feeds into his narrative of being a shrewd business man and a maverick outsider who bucks the system. His base eats that shit up
So what he paid in taxes shouldn’t be the story. The story is that what most of us suspected long ago has now been shown to be true… That he’s up to his ears in debt and a loser when it comes to business. And he’s certainly not worth near the $10B he claims. That’s the message from this that needs to be told
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The tax returns are evidence he’s broke. He wants people to believe he’s not? Let him produce all his financial records. Ofc he won’t. Why not? Same reason he hid his taxes. Because he’s broke. (Well, probably also because they’d be more evidence of crimes but w/e.)
Broke means loser. His base doesn’t have unshakeable faith. They want to insist there are 5 lights? Fine. That won’t prevent there being 4 bright spots burned into their retinas they’ll see with their eyes closed.
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Don’t say tax dodge, cuz it’s not… tax fraud, tax fraud, tax fraud, cuz he is a loser lying cheat… and once he is removed from office we will LOCK HIM UP for it just like his buddy Michael Cohen.
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It’s because it ties Donald to a pitifully small number. It defies his relentless magnificence. The biggest, the best, the most. Obviously this isn’t logically something he should feel ashamed of, but it violates his sense of self and his brand in every way that matters.
It would be one thing if Trump had paid millions more than he should–excess builds his brand. Look, he has that much money to spare.
It would be another if Trump had cheated the IRS into refunding him hundreds of millions that made him into a billionaire–massive fraud that turned him into a made man.
But this $750 shit just SOUNDS pitiful. How could Trump ever be associated with such a silly number?
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Hasn’t Forbes used sources like John Barron and David Dennison before?
i don’t think im ponied but NYT just dropped part two.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1310761212255371266?s=20
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Every time we have a debate, I think Trebek would make a fantastic moderator. Why does no one ask him??? Then I remember the one time someone did.
Corporations aren’t people, my friend.
Like I said, I’m on board with this except that it just doesn’t work on any level. This is not a situation where he superficially looks broke and you need sophisticated argument to figure out that he isn’t. He superficially owns a pile of stuff and when you look into it in detail, he does actually own a pile of stuff. You can decrease the Forbes valuation of all his assets by two thirds and he’d still be in the black.
I don’t really see a promising attack vector here, everything is either too obviously wrong or counterproductive or too abstract. You can go after him a bit for not paying any taxes but it needs to be just one element of an overall story you’re telling about him. It’s worth very little in itself.
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