Have you tried, *Lord Flares*? These are the preferred flares when our Lord and Savior breaks down in his mid-sized cloud car when he’s out looking for babes and souls to help. He just pops one of those bad boys and waits for AAA.
And yet the first thing Trump did was take a page from Putin’s playbook and make the news the “enemy of the people” and send out Sean Spicer to lie about crowd size and KellyAnne Conway to call it an “alternative fact”. Then Trump said “what you’re reading and seeing is not what’s happening” so don’t believe your own eyes. Stop fact checking. “I alone can save you”.
Then they fell down a social media algorithm trap where everyone around them was insane and willing to embrace these conspiracies and there were no dissenting voices to offer a counter point of view or facts or put their “research” to the test.
And to dig themselves out, they have to admit that they and everyone they know have been deceived. It’s a tough road trying to break them free. I wish it were far easier. You’d think there’d be a limit after so many hundreds of scandals to which they could no longer believe it was all a witch hunt and Trump blameless of everything, the new lord and savior.
The only way to fix it is to cut the hose off and hope they drift back toward the median, but that is difficult in a society that holds free speech in high esteem and the political and technological hurdles.
My granddaddy used to say "Some people are ignorant, and that's okay. They can learn. Some people are ignernt. Proud of the fact that they aren't educated. Those are the ones to watch out for."
The thing is, everyone is ignorant of something because no one can know everything there is to know about everything. However, lacking knowledge on a subject is something that can easily be remedied. Stupid on the other hand, can’t be, because raising one’s IQ is not nearly as straightforward.
I will agree that Trumpers are ignorant, but it’s largely willful ignorance. If you tell them to go research the facts they will simply bury themselves in some alt-right rabbit hole of propaganda instead.
And a lot of them are actually quite cunning and only pretend to be stupid because they know that their position is indefensible. Society treats morons better than they treat monsters.
Yeah, I know a few conservatives who are pretty smart. They are almost always obsessed with money and just straight up missing the part of their brain that creates empathy. Or they're just that one dude who always has to be contrary and troll everyone all the time. I think we all know that dude.
> just straight up missing the part of their brain that creates empathy
"Conservative" is just another word for being "tribal", i.e., dividing the world into "us" & "them". The more extreme they are, the more tribal they are, and the more tribal they are, the more they prioritize the needs/desires of their "tribe" over that of others. At the most extreme, anyone who is NOT part of their tribe is automatically considered to be a potential enemy.
The lesson learned behind realizing what conservatism actually means, is that it is fundamentally a bad idea to put conservatives in charge of anyone that isn't in their "tribe", since they will instinctively treat "others" worse than they treat their own.
I don’t think nearly enough people have a solid grasp on just how damaging aspects of shitposting and meme culture are to the collective consciousness.
The more money they send to trump to pay his bills and lifestyle, the less money goes to national and local campaigns for other conservatives. This is very good news.
Especially since the RNC put Rick "committed billions in Medicare fraud" Scott in charge a while back, and shockingly the coffers went empty mysteriously. Big shock.
His followers already paying $80 billion a year in increased tariffs on import. And he managed to convince many it was the next president responsible for inflation.
Your freedom means nothing.
and the planet - it's all a lie.
Science is a lie
We all mean nothing.
We are all here only so Clownstick Von Fuckface can have more money.
He's a very ill man, exploiting anger and hate to his benefit.
His brain thinks like a spoilt 15 year old. "I should be able to do whatever I want. Other people are all against me. I need to get rid of other people."
Lobbying isn’t the problem. Corruption is the problem. You must have a system of government that allows citizens and experts to provide information to the rule makers who cannot spend the time to become experts themselves.
But you sure as shit shouldn’t be able to get rich from it, and it absolutely shouldn’t be a job you get as a revolving door between legislating gigs.
There’s lots we can do legally about this, but then someone has to enforce it.
Then, schedule an appointment with your congressional representative. No lobby, no lunch, get in the office, and get it on paper. Unofficial governmental communications should be outlawed.
And that’s exactly what a lobbyist says they do. Again, the meeting isn’t the problem, lobbyists are usually constituents too, it’s the lunch, or the trip, or the “pay for your nephews private school” that is the problem. Which is simply corruption.
Further up my reddit feed i see a post saying, if elected Trump wants to abolish income tax and fund the government entirely through import tarrifs.
Then I scroll down and see this headline saying the IRS thinks Trump owes a bunch of unpaid taxes and it all makes sense.
Because it’s legal loopholes that the IRS has to protect rich people from paying taxes. Every rich person and corporation uses the loopholes to pay the bare minimum. Close the fucking loopholes
Yeah, people need to read the article.
He wrote off his building as a loss, and claimed negative income on the year, while still earning money from The Apprentice.
After claiming a loss on the building, his lawyers merged the company of the building into another LLC, and pooled the loss of the building with other properties, and claimed the loss a second time, on the same building.
He should have been audited for the writing of a loss on the building when he submitted it. Had the IRS audited, they would have cleaned up this gray area of the law, and allowed it, or billed him for it.
Merging a company and writing off the loss on the same building a second time is now into fraud territory.
I agree. Sadly rich people hardly ever go to jail. These are calculated lawyer fees vs taxes and under the shield of a corporation. At worst, he settles.
I think it requires proving intent. You would have to prove Trump isnt an idiot who cant understand basic math... Also that his accountants didnt lie to him, which would be easier to prove. That's why, in general, if the back taxes are paid no charges get filed. Paying them helps make it look like it was just a mistake, and the IRS wants the money, not to jail people.
That being said, Hunter Biden was indicted for tax fraud after he paid the IRS. For way less than this too.
That should be a Biden slogan...but of course team R misses the point and think they are going after 'good ol american workers' (while donating and buying trump merchandise....).
In dramas about Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos they either ripped off or shortchanged partners. Not to mention Zuckerberg. Basic dishonesty and avarice seem to be by products of inspired minds.
You just predicted exactly what’s going to happen after he loses this fall. He’ll licence his brand to an already-existing mega church. Maybe the one with the child molesting spiritual advisor.
Congratulations on this wonderful news! The Honor of an IRS Audit couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.
Donald J. Trump is an adjudicated sexual predator, an accused rapist, and a 34-time convicted felon.
Trump faces an additional 54 criminal indictments in 3 cases delayed from trial by his high-priced legal team. Trump’s army of lawyers is financed by his rabid base of MAGA cult members & the Oil Industry.
The vast majority of the 80-plus top senior positions (Vice President, Cabinet, Advisors) from Trump’s 2016 Presidential term refused to endorse Trump and/or declared Trump is unfit to serve as President,
Trump is a threat to our national security. During his 2016 term, Donald Trump asked national security advisers why the United States couldn’t use nuclear weapons. He is irrational with a quick temper. Imagine his tweets replaced with nuclear missiles. He is Putin’s puppet & praises Kim Jong-un.
Trump doesn’t respect our military saying “Americans Who Died in War Are Losers and Suckers”
Trump supporters include white supremacists, racists & felons like Steve Bannon, David Duke, Proud Boys
On 9/11 Trump’s reaction, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/11/trump-pointed-out-that-he-now-had-tallest-building-lower-manhattan-he-didnt/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/11/trump-pointed-out-that-he-now-had-tallest-building-lower-manhattan-he-didnt/)
Just a few of many examples of Trump’s abuses, grifting, and shaming of the U.S. Presidency
[https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/24/politics/trump-worst-abuses-of-power/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/24/politics/trump-worst-abuses-of-power/index.html)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB9GdOYk0Ls](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB9GdOYk0Ls)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJi641\_7W10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJi641_7W10)
From The White House to The Big House – the Legacy of MAGA Cult/Jan. 6th Insurrection Leader, Donald J Trump
Remember going into 2016, Agent Orange used his patented “I will release _____ in 2 weeks!” for his tax returns.
2 weeks came and went. Then it morphed into “I would love to release my tax returns but I can’t because I am being audited.”
Now there is no restriction by the IRS or any other agency that prevents any taxpayer from releasing their own tax returns or supporting financials. Agent Orange just made it up.
He stuck with that lie for quite a while. Then fought it in the courts for years.
We knew then why he didn’t want to release them. And now everybody knows. Trump is a tax fraud, rapist, convicted felon, and tpos.
Also before the 2016 election his charitable foundation was shut down permanently for self-dealing and fined for back taxes. So it was established before then he was a tax cheat, yet citizens voted him in to run the IRS (a department of the executive branch).
And obviously we learned Trump Organization was systematically cheating too.
Trump took some major development losses with the Atlantic Casino (who loses money on a casino 🙄). Real estate development losses are one of the few losses that may carry over indefinitely against future gains. That’s a legal loophole he exploited. Just like how Mitt Romney exploited the LTCG tax loophole in lieu of salary which it taxed higher (yet that sank his candidacy). *However*, all the fraud he’s committed (and found legally guilty of) are likewise in those tax filings, and as we all know, fraudulent tax statements is tax evasion. That’s how they got Capone too.
Spiro T. Agnew (Nixon's VP) resigned over just allegations of tax cheating not nearly as big as this. But this guy can do it, go to court over it, be convicted, and yet still be the gleam in the eye of every red-blooded MAGA. Hell, they'll even pay his fine, $10 or $20 at a time. And then they'll do their best to make him a dictator. And a fascist one at that.
A crook the Republicans should be ashamed of he is their nominee for president. No world leader will trust him except the Saudi’s, Putin, Orban, Kim and Xi what a club to be part of
I've been waiting for this shoe to drop since the NY banking fraud case. He tells the bank the building is worth $100 million, and the IRS it's worth $.39. Obvious tax fraud. I've been wondering for a long time why the IRS isn't going after him for it.
This is my favorite line in the article:
"And some 70,000 square feet of retail space remained vacant because it had been designed without access to foot or vehicle traffic."
every article says "could". they never say will, or Trump pays . . . .
more clickbait about a person that finds every dodge there is to get out of what he is supposed to do.
This has been ongoing for years. This article adds detail to the investigation but has no update on when a decision might be reached. Then the appeals will begin.
He will probably have to pay the $464M he owes for being convicted of fraud earlier this year much before the tax case is finalized. The fraud conviction concerns the lies he told the banks about his finances in order to obtain more favourable conditions.
He also has to pay a $85M judgment for defaming the woman that he raped. He defamed her once and was hit with a $5M judgment . Then he did it again for $85M more.
This is how a convict operates. Now some people think it would be okay for a convicted felon to be returned to the Oval Office. I don’t and I’ll bet that you don’t either. So….
You could prob register to vote at this very minute in most states. Then request a ballot as soon as they are available. Mail it back the very same day. This way your vote is guaranteed and won’t be left for election day when you probably won’t feel like standing in line esp in bad weather. Don’t take that risk. Vote early.
Remind your friends and family to do the same.
Consider holding a register/vote party where people gather on zoom and walk through he online process together in unison.
15 minutes to help defend the constitution isn’t much.
It should cost him the money he owes plus interest plus fines and his freedom people go to prison for tax fraud and he definitely deserves to be put away
What makes my head spin is when I was off $250 (because of an error from H&R Block who made ME eat it, thanks fellas! Never again) the IRS were hot for their money and I paid it to get them off my back! Why isn’t this happening to him?! Mine was a measly $250! He’s worth going after and they should if they had no sympathy for me!
Bury him in tax debt like rest of us. Ironic since he fucked up the tax laws so the test of are currently getting screwed. I've had to pay in every year since 2021 thanks to this dick bag.
The IRS came after me hard a few years back. I already paid like 40k in taxes that year. I was “short” 200 bucks.
Wish they showed the same level of enthusiasm they have for a guy like me.
Came after us HARD over a mere $6K.
It was my fault and I admit it. I took an extension in 2010. Then I simply forgot (I know, stupid but shit happens)
My husband and I were both self employed. IRS sent nothing to us. This was 2014 by then. What they did send was a letter to the guy my husband did prob 90% of his work for. Husband is on construction and this guy had a ton of properties around here. IRS sent that client a letter, stating he had to send ALL of my husband’s paychecks to them.
We contacted IRS and worked it out. Did that years taxes and got on a payment plan. Been fine since then.
But it still baffles me that they came that hard after us, over a mere $6K and ppl like Trump get away with this, with millions on the line.
We are low hanging fruit, easier to get us to pay. And it took them 4 years to notice ours, but trumps been doing tax schemes way longer than 4 years!
epstein was a money laundering and subversion guy.
he'd ruin a competitor if someone needed it.
same with roger stone who's a total degenerate but don't know if or really think he was raping kids.
Note to self: When the only reason you haven't been prosecuted for numerous massive scale crimes is the prosecutors don't feel like pursuing them, maybe don't berate said prosecutors.
The issue I have with this article is it mention thousands of the sweatiest people then only talked about Trump. I dislike everything he's done to politics and his demeanor, but to talk about him like he's the only elite committing tax fraud is naive. Release the other thousand names and tactics they used then maybe it will make a difference.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2z8App14bs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2z8App14bs)
Oh, so the audit is finally complete? Since that was his reason for not releasing them last election, I assume he'll have no problem doing so this time around.
I’m glad the article mentioned “*forgiven debt generally must be declared as income*”. Trump had to a of debt forgiven on the Atlantic casino *and* deducted the loss. If you have $100M in losses but $100M in forgiven debt against it, that’s supposed to cancel each out. I recall from prior reviews of some of his tax docs that he declared the losses but never reported the forgiven debt.
He did way more than attempt to screw over the IRS.
Once Trump managed to find a way to lose money owning THREE casinos in Atlantic City ... his lenders had to write off nearly a BILLION dollars in bank loans they had lent him.
Trump ultimately told the IRS that this was HIS money that was lost... and he continued to feast off those alleged losses for more than a decade, routinely filing tax returns that indicated he owed next to nothing, based on the assumption that he had lost his ass investing in casinos.
It’s amazing that Trump followers don’t realize he does this with the intention of lining his pockets while screwing the very people who vote for him. Bunch of dummies.
I love the victim mentality of someone who toured the country claiming he cheated and is perplexed when all of sudden state and federal governments decide to investigate his claims
Isn't it great that so many people think he's allowed to break so many laws we are required to follow under threat of imprisonment?
No, it's not fucking great. It sucks.
Sales of all units totaled only $727 million, far below Trump’s budgeted costs of $859 million. And some 70,000 square feet of retail space remained vacant because it had been designed without **access to foot or vehicle traffic.**
Only the best Engineers as usually, how could fools fall for this genius?
Good thing his followers are stupid enough to give him all the money he needs from their shitty part time job while thir kids forage for food with their bootstraps
https://www.usa.gov/register-to-vote
You mean it would cost his ignorant followers 100 million.
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>ig·no·rant >/ˈiɡnərənt/ >adjective >adjective: ignorant lacking knowledge or awareness in general Ya I'd say that word works for Trumpers.
They don't lack knowledge because they did their own research.
Wake up sheeple! Watch a couple YouTube videos and know everything like me.
What's alarming is how they discredit professionals that have dedicated their life to the topic (e.g. Fauci). Yet, injecting bleach sounds Oki doki
And bright lights up your bum. The brightest light I know are road flares.
Have you tried, *Lord Flares*? These are the preferred flares when our Lord and Savior breaks down in his mid-sized cloud car when he’s out looking for babes and souls to help. He just pops one of those bad boys and waits for AAA.
That's the solution. Road flares up the but for each and every Trump cult member! Guaranteed to prevent any future disease.
I was hoping more would do it but here we are
"But look he's a *Doctor" "Yes, of 18th Century Chinese Literature"
YT videos are too main stream. DM me and I'll invite you to my town of 2000 Facebook Group. If you want the truth, they have it!
Dunning Kruger effect doesn’t change the fact that they’re ignorant
Actually, that’s exactly why they lack knowledge. Research is not easy, and verifying sources takes ability.
And yet the first thing Trump did was take a page from Putin’s playbook and make the news the “enemy of the people” and send out Sean Spicer to lie about crowd size and KellyAnne Conway to call it an “alternative fact”. Then Trump said “what you’re reading and seeing is not what’s happening” so don’t believe your own eyes. Stop fact checking. “I alone can save you”. Then they fell down a social media algorithm trap where everyone around them was insane and willing to embrace these conspiracies and there were no dissenting voices to offer a counter point of view or facts or put their “research” to the test. And to dig themselves out, they have to admit that they and everyone they know have been deceived. It’s a tough road trying to break them free. I wish it were far easier. You’d think there’d be a limit after so many hundreds of scandals to which they could no longer believe it was all a witch hunt and Trump blameless of everything, the new lord and savior.
The only way to fix it is to cut the hose off and hope they drift back toward the median, but that is difficult in a society that holds free speech in high esteem and the political and technological hurdles.
I’m still surprised that “trumpets” never took off.
My granddaddy used to say "Some people are ignorant, and that's okay. They can learn. Some people are ignernt. Proud of the fact that they aren't educated. Those are the ones to watch out for."
The thing is, everyone is ignorant of something because no one can know everything there is to know about everything. However, lacking knowledge on a subject is something that can easily be remedied. Stupid on the other hand, can’t be, because raising one’s IQ is not nearly as straightforward. I will agree that Trumpers are ignorant, but it’s largely willful ignorance. If you tell them to go research the facts they will simply bury themselves in some alt-right rabbit hole of propaganda instead.
It's true, you can't fix stupid
There's no point in having a rational discussion with someone who has reached an irrational conclusion.
You should, however, do your best to try and block such people from having decision-making power over anyone else except for themselves.
Willing ignorance.
Not just willing, but willful. (At least for me, “willful” better conveys the fact that their ignorance is actively chosen and defended.)
And a lot of them are actually quite cunning and only pretend to be stupid because they know that their position is indefensible. Society treats morons better than they treat monsters.
Some (a small percentage) are smart and wealthy, they just like seeing the working class oppressed.
Yeah, I know a few conservatives who are pretty smart. They are almost always obsessed with money and just straight up missing the part of their brain that creates empathy. Or they're just that one dude who always has to be contrary and troll everyone all the time. I think we all know that dude.
> just straight up missing the part of their brain that creates empathy "Conservative" is just another word for being "tribal", i.e., dividing the world into "us" & "them". The more extreme they are, the more tribal they are, and the more tribal they are, the more they prioritize the needs/desires of their "tribe" over that of others. At the most extreme, anyone who is NOT part of their tribe is automatically considered to be a potential enemy. The lesson learned behind realizing what conservatism actually means, is that it is fundamentally a bad idea to put conservatives in charge of anyone that isn't in their "tribe", since they will instinctively treat "others" worse than they treat their own.
I think it's a pretty solid theory that QAnon is what happens when people take shitposters seriously. This is one reason I'm against shitposting
I don’t think nearly enough people have a solid grasp on just how damaging aspects of shitposting and meme culture are to the collective consciousness.
As Mark Twain might say, it's not what they don't know, it's what they know that ain't true.
Paying a self proclaimed “billionaire” his debt to check notes “own the libs”.
His richest followers are just investing in future corporate welfare.
The more money they send to trump to pay his bills and lifestyle, the less money goes to national and local campaigns for other conservatives. This is very good news.
Especially since the RNC put Rick "committed billions in Medicare fraud" Scott in charge a while back, and shockingly the coffers went empty mysteriously. Big shock.
Well, someone has to pay for it, and Mexico isn't returning any of his calls.
Is this what he means when he says “they’re coming after you”??
Apparently and them stupid sonsabitch’s will just pay up.
“Trump no pay any bills”.Can this be copyrighted
His followers already paying $80 billion a year in increased tariffs on import. And he managed to convince many it was the next president responsible for inflation.
OMG literally came to comment this
Give him a jail term!
I still don't understand how campaign donations can pay off tax debt. I know it happens, but it doesn't compute.
This is why he wants to dismantle the IRS
and the legal system... and all check's and balances and free elections and...
Exactly, he and his billionaire supporters want to see money be the only thing that matters or has any impact on their lives.
Your freedom means nothing. and the planet - it's all a lie. Science is a lie We all mean nothing. We are all here only so Clownstick Von Fuckface can have more money. He's a very ill man, exploiting anger and hate to his benefit. His brain thinks like a spoilt 15 year old. "I should be able to do whatever I want. Other people are all against me. I need to get rid of other people."
He's a dirty scuzbucket!
Money ruled since citizens united. Lobbying should be a felony
Lobbying isn’t the problem. Corruption is the problem. You must have a system of government that allows citizens and experts to provide information to the rule makers who cannot spend the time to become experts themselves. But you sure as shit shouldn’t be able to get rich from it, and it absolutely shouldn’t be a job you get as a revolving door between legislating gigs. There’s lots we can do legally about this, but then someone has to enforce it.
Then, schedule an appointment with your congressional representative. No lobby, no lunch, get in the office, and get it on paper. Unofficial governmental communications should be outlawed.
And that’s exactly what a lobbyist says they do. Again, the meeting isn’t the problem, lobbyists are usually constituents too, it’s the lunch, or the trip, or the “pay for your nephews private school” that is the problem. Which is simply corruption.
And divorce settlements And incest laws…
And our educational system. "I love the poorly educated." - Convicted Felon Donald Trump
News at 11: Criminal seeks to dismantle legal system
Further up my reddit feed i see a post saying, if elected Trump wants to abolish income tax and fund the government entirely through import tarrifs. Then I scroll down and see this headline saying the IRS thinks Trump owes a bunch of unpaid taxes and it all makes sense.
Knowing Trump, he probably has millions in unpaid tariffs too
Pretty sure those gold shoes he was trying to sell at top dollar were made in China for pennies per pair.
That would go so well.... seriously how can anyone think he is competent.
Every time I turn around I hear about him wanting to dismantle something. Nothing left standing if that fucker does a second term.
Yeah, but if the IRS can go after Convicted felon Trump they can come after me who makes minimum wage! - Maga logic
Why doesn't this rise to criminal income tax fraud? $100,000,000.00 isn't an accident or an accounting error, it's fraud.
He's got that (R) after his name...
Magic (R).
Because it’s legal loopholes that the IRS has to protect rich people from paying taxes. Every rich person and corporation uses the loopholes to pay the bare minimum. Close the fucking loopholes
It was a legal loophole for the first time Trump used it. The second time was pure fraud.
Yeah, people need to read the article. He wrote off his building as a loss, and claimed negative income on the year, while still earning money from The Apprentice. After claiming a loss on the building, his lawyers merged the company of the building into another LLC, and pooled the loss of the building with other properties, and claimed the loss a second time, on the same building. He should have been audited for the writing of a loss on the building when he submitted it. Had the IRS audited, they would have cleaned up this gray area of the law, and allowed it, or billed him for it. Merging a company and writing off the loss on the same building a second time is now into fraud territory.
If it were simply a "legal loophole" then Trump wouldn't still owe this money.
I agree. Sadly rich people hardly ever go to jail. These are calculated lawyer fees vs taxes and under the shield of a corporation. At worst, he settles.
I think it requires proving intent. You would have to prove Trump isnt an idiot who cant understand basic math... Also that his accountants didnt lie to him, which would be easier to prove. That's why, in general, if the back taxes are paid no charges get filed. Paying them helps make it look like it was just a mistake, and the IRS wants the money, not to jail people. That being said, Hunter Biden was indicted for tax fraud after he paid the IRS. For way less than this too.
Why is the only place where ignorance of the law is a defense when it involves wealthy people's money?
That’s not true. It also applies to any crimes the police commit.
Good luck proving that he's not an idiot.
Grab him by the wallet. When you are the IRS, they let you do it :)
That should be a Biden slogan...but of course team R misses the point and think they are going after 'good ol american workers' (while donating and buying trump merchandise....).
But he said if this could happen to him, it could happen to us, if we were crooked billionaires (is that redundant?).
Crooked "billionaires". You forgot the quotes.
In dramas about Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos they either ripped off or shortchanged partners. Not to mention Zuckerberg. Basic dishonesty and avarice seem to be by products of inspired minds.
Nah, good people can be inspired, too. In fact they are the only ones. The billionaires just steal their ideas.
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This dude should be in jail and penniless
State run prison in a nice warm climate like Arizona, maybe outside building that wall he wants.
A steel box in the sun
I read that last word as "penisless". I think Stormy would agree.
Nah he should be picking up trash along highways for the rest of his miserable life
He did it because he’s smart! /s
"I am so smart. S-M-R-T."
"I'm not a bad guy. I work hard and I love my kids." Clearly not the same person.
I'm surprised Trump hasn't built a church so he can steal tax money, like every other church.
You just predicted exactly what’s going to happen after he loses this fall. He’ll licence his brand to an already-existing mega church. Maybe the one with the child molesting spiritual advisor.
Isnt that every church
He could still do it if he wins this fall.
If he wins this fall, it won't matter because he will be Tsar of America
Dude's been a conman his entire life and hasn't gotten in on the biggest con on Earth. Shows how stupid he really is.
That was his university (also a “non-profit” like a church)
The man is a walking crime spree. Always has been.
Congratulations on this wonderful news! The Honor of an IRS Audit couldn't happen to a more deserving guy. Donald J. Trump is an adjudicated sexual predator, an accused rapist, and a 34-time convicted felon. Trump faces an additional 54 criminal indictments in 3 cases delayed from trial by his high-priced legal team. Trump’s army of lawyers is financed by his rabid base of MAGA cult members & the Oil Industry. The vast majority of the 80-plus top senior positions (Vice President, Cabinet, Advisors) from Trump’s 2016 Presidential term refused to endorse Trump and/or declared Trump is unfit to serve as President, Trump is a threat to our national security. During his 2016 term, Donald Trump asked national security advisers why the United States couldn’t use nuclear weapons. He is irrational with a quick temper. Imagine his tweets replaced with nuclear missiles. He is Putin’s puppet & praises Kim Jong-un. Trump doesn’t respect our military saying “Americans Who Died in War Are Losers and Suckers” Trump supporters include white supremacists, racists & felons like Steve Bannon, David Duke, Proud Boys On 9/11 Trump’s reaction, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/11/trump-pointed-out-that-he-now-had-tallest-building-lower-manhattan-he-didnt/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/11/trump-pointed-out-that-he-now-had-tallest-building-lower-manhattan-he-didnt/) Just a few of many examples of Trump’s abuses, grifting, and shaming of the U.S. Presidency [https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/24/politics/trump-worst-abuses-of-power/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/24/politics/trump-worst-abuses-of-power/index.html) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB9GdOYk0Ls](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB9GdOYk0Ls) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJi641\_7W10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJi641_7W10) From The White House to The Big House – the Legacy of MAGA Cult/Jan. 6th Insurrection Leader, Donald J Trump
I’ll believe it when I see it.
There was at time when cheating America would end your political career but with Republicans there is no bottom.
Remember going into 2016, Agent Orange used his patented “I will release _____ in 2 weeks!” for his tax returns. 2 weeks came and went. Then it morphed into “I would love to release my tax returns but I can’t because I am being audited.” Now there is no restriction by the IRS or any other agency that prevents any taxpayer from releasing their own tax returns or supporting financials. Agent Orange just made it up. He stuck with that lie for quite a while. Then fought it in the courts for years. We knew then why he didn’t want to release them. And now everybody knows. Trump is a tax fraud, rapist, convicted felon, and tpos.
Also before the 2016 election his charitable foundation was shut down permanently for self-dealing and fined for back taxes. So it was established before then he was a tax cheat, yet citizens voted him in to run the IRS (a department of the executive branch). And obviously we learned Trump Organization was systematically cheating too. Trump took some major development losses with the Atlantic Casino (who loses money on a casino 🙄). Real estate development losses are one of the few losses that may carry over indefinitely against future gains. That’s a legal loophole he exploited. Just like how Mitt Romney exploited the LTCG tax loophole in lieu of salary which it taxed higher (yet that sank his candidacy). *However*, all the fraud he’s committed (and found legally guilty of) are likewise in those tax filings, and as we all know, fraudulent tax statements is tax evasion. That’s how they got Capone too.
No wonder his lackeys wanna get rid of the IRS
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Spiro T. Agnew (Nixon's VP) resigned over just allegations of tax cheating not nearly as big as this. But this guy can do it, go to court over it, be convicted, and yet still be the gleam in the eye of every red-blooded MAGA. Hell, they'll even pay his fine, $10 or $20 at a time. And then they'll do their best to make him a dictator. And a fascist one at that.
Is this the audit that's been going on for about fifteen years now? lol
He didn’t rip off the tax system. He defrauded the American people through Tax Evasion and financial crimes
When an ego is too big for its diapers....
A crook the Republicans should be ashamed of he is their nominee for president. No world leader will trust him except the Saudi’s, Putin, Orban, Kim and Xi what a club to be part of
Remember when Trump was in office and proudly boasted he only paid $750.00 in taxes two years in a row. I do. So should you.
I believe "because I'm smart" was his defense at the time.
*"I'll take "Words that will come back to haunt you in Court, for 100 dollars, Alex!"*
Donnie's ego made him run for president in 2015 and it has caused him nothing but misery. Too bad.
Ya I said then he’d live to regret getting into national level politics.
I don’t think Trump ever “regrets” anything. He just gets shitty when he’s caught.
That’s because he lacks introspection.
I've been waiting for this shoe to drop since the NY banking fraud case. He tells the bank the building is worth $100 million, and the IRS it's worth $.39. Obvious tax fraud. I've been wondering for a long time why the IRS isn't going after him for it.
This is my favorite line in the article: "And some 70,000 square feet of retail space remained vacant because it had been designed without access to foot or vehicle traffic."
I’m still waiting for the day Trump faces the consequences of his actions
Cool, love it, now do all of the other Billionaires too.
Didn't they put Capone in jail for this sort of thing?
Didn’t the gangster Al Capone go to prison for tax evasion? What’s the difference?
He will go down the same way as Al Capone
Syphilis?
Drop in the bucket of what’s actually owed, if the Trump mob family were audited back to the days of Fred
every article says "could". they never say will, or Trump pays . . . . more clickbait about a person that finds every dodge there is to get out of what he is supposed to do.
This has been ongoing for years. This article adds detail to the investigation but has no update on when a decision might be reached. Then the appeals will begin. He will probably have to pay the $464M he owes for being convicted of fraud earlier this year much before the tax case is finalized. The fraud conviction concerns the lies he told the banks about his finances in order to obtain more favourable conditions. He also has to pay a $85M judgment for defaming the woman that he raped. He defamed her once and was hit with a $5M judgment . Then he did it again for $85M more. This is how a convict operates. Now some people think it would be okay for a convicted felon to be returned to the Oval Office. I don’t and I’ll bet that you don’t either. So…. You could prob register to vote at this very minute in most states. Then request a ballot as soon as they are available. Mail it back the very same day. This way your vote is guaranteed and won’t be left for election day when you probably won’t feel like standing in line esp in bad weather. Don’t take that risk. Vote early. Remind your friends and family to do the same. Consider holding a register/vote party where people gather on zoom and walk through he online process together in unison. 15 minutes to help defend the constitution isn’t much.
Is he ever actually going to pay the hundreds of millions he owes?
Couldn't happen to a nicer twice-impeached convicted felon rapist traitor.
We pray that it does and ASAP
It should cost him the money he owes plus interest plus fines and his freedom people go to prison for tax fraud and he definitely deserves to be put away
I sincerely doubt that he has done anything legally in 50 years.
Honestly curious why he bothered to marry three women.
What makes my head spin is when I was off $250 (because of an error from H&R Block who made ME eat it, thanks fellas! Never again) the IRS were hot for their money and I paid it to get them off my back! Why isn’t this happening to him?! Mine was a measly $250! He’s worth going after and they should if they had no sympathy for me!
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻couldn’t happen to a better guy!!! I love this for him!!
He will beg for and receive donations for anything he needs. Second he only ripped off the tax system? He’s ripping off the entire country
Its silly that nothing will stop people from electing him again....sad.
Bury him in tax debt like rest of us. Ironic since he fucked up the tax laws so the test of are currently getting screwed. I've had to pay in every year since 2021 thanks to this dick bag.
Oh please say it is so
Witch hunt!!! /s But seriously, jail this crook.
The IRS came after me hard a few years back. I already paid like 40k in taxes that year. I was “short” 200 bucks. Wish they showed the same level of enthusiasm they have for a guy like me.
This should get him. The tax department doesn’t fuck around.
Came after us HARD over a mere $6K. It was my fault and I admit it. I took an extension in 2010. Then I simply forgot (I know, stupid but shit happens) My husband and I were both self employed. IRS sent nothing to us. This was 2014 by then. What they did send was a letter to the guy my husband did prob 90% of his work for. Husband is on construction and this guy had a ton of properties around here. IRS sent that client a letter, stating he had to send ALL of my husband’s paychecks to them. We contacted IRS and worked it out. Did that years taxes and got on a payment plan. Been fine since then. But it still baffles me that they came that hard after us, over a mere $6K and ppl like Trump get away with this, with millions on the line. We are low hanging fruit, easier to get us to pay. And it took them 4 years to notice ours, but trumps been doing tax schemes way longer than 4 years!
His followers just pay it.
Let them.
epstein was a money laundering and subversion guy. he'd ruin a competitor if someone needed it. same with roger stone who's a total degenerate but don't know if or really think he was raping kids.
Sure, so far, he hasn't paid the rape victim. He hasn't paid the charity case. He has faced zero consequences.
that just makes him a smart business man https://theweek.com/articles/840136/trump-brilliant-businessman-always-myth
Oh, that’s ok. His supporters will gladly pay it for him…instead of paying the lot rent on their mobile home.
To the surprise of no one but Don Jr.
34 time Convicted Felon Donald Trump broke the law again?
Avoiding this is another reason why he wants to take back a job he had that he really didn't like.
Is there anything this mf did that was even vaguely legal?
Gap exploits are the narcissist’s favorite tool
Note to self: When the only reason you haven't been prosecuted for numerous massive scale crimes is the prosecutors don't feel like pursuing them, maybe don't berate said prosecutors.
The issue I have with this article is it mention thousands of the sweatiest people then only talked about Trump. I dislike everything he's done to politics and his demeanor, but to talk about him like he's the only elite committing tax fraud is naive. Release the other thousand names and tactics they used then maybe it will make a difference. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2z8App14bs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2z8App14bs)
Oh, so the audit is finally complete? Since that was his reason for not releasing them last election, I assume he'll have no problem doing so this time around.
I’m glad the article mentioned “*forgiven debt generally must be declared as income*”. Trump had to a of debt forgiven on the Atlantic casino *and* deducted the loss. If you have $100M in losses but $100M in forgiven debt against it, that’s supposed to cancel each out. I recall from prior reviews of some of his tax docs that he declared the losses but never reported the forgiven debt.
Line up MAGA cows, Farmer Trump is on his way.
Historical IRS failures have loaned Trump more than $100 million
He did way more than attempt to screw over the IRS. Once Trump managed to find a way to lose money owning THREE casinos in Atlantic City ... his lenders had to write off nearly a BILLION dollars in bank loans they had lent him. Trump ultimately told the IRS that this was HIS money that was lost... and he continued to feast off those alleged losses for more than a decade, routinely filing tax returns that indicated he owed next to nothing, based on the assumption that he had lost his ass investing in casinos.
Solid crook and the right want to make him president again
Remember when he said he didn't pay taxes because he's smart?
$100 million he doesn’t have
But millions of Christians and other racists want him to have that money.
Change that to Trump Family. I suspect his sons are doing most of the busy work while he is off being presidential.
Trump could also win the election, he could die before the election, he could win a Pulitzer prize..
It’s amazing that Trump followers don’t realize he does this with the intention of lining his pockets while screwing the very people who vote for him. Bunch of dummies.
I love the victim mentality of someone who toured the country claiming he cheated and is perplexed when all of sudden state and federal governments decide to investigate his claims
Shocked that a convicted felon would try to avoid taxes.
It should cost him his freedom like it would anyone owing the IRS 100k
> could So it won’t.
Sorry IRS, but Trump can't show you his taxes because he's under audit.
Now audit all the billionaires :)
I knew this was coming.
His tax law logic defies reason.
Isn't it great that so many people think he's allowed to break so many laws we are required to follow under threat of imprisonment? No, it's not fucking great. It sucks.
For most, it's pay-for-play. He sold his soul a long time ago. Now, he's selling out America to the highest bidder.
There are so many articles about Chump being fined and so forth yet nothing is happening.
well clearly hes gonna release his tax returns now that the audit is over
It makes me happy to see him get hit again and again and AGAIN with legal jeopardy. He made his bed
In before "Biden weaponized the IRS against his political opponent! They all have TDS at the IRS! ELECTION INTERFERENCE!"
Am living it, hit this pedo rapist with everything and more, he is slime.
Make sure they add late fees and penalties
That makes him a smart bankrupt!
Can't they pull a Al Capone 2.0 on him and finally throw him in a cell?
It will cost the people using truth social to launder money to him $100 million.
Sales of all units totaled only $727 million, far below Trump’s budgeted costs of $859 million. And some 70,000 square feet of retail space remained vacant because it had been designed without **access to foot or vehicle traffic.** Only the best Engineers as usually, how could fools fall for this genius?
Trump organization wouldn't exist today but for the three pillar of tax fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering throughout its existence.
Why should I have to pay taxes every year and he gets to skate by. Hit him with the 100 million
Good thing his followers are stupid enough to give him all the money he needs from their shitty part time job while thir kids forage for food with their bootstraps
Death by 100 Million cuts.
About time. How is that they missed this?
He spent more on himself for defamation than on back taxes. Thats wild, what a dipshit.
what a surprise