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Trump’s Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax Avoidance (Published 2020)

The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due.

www.nytimes.com

Donald Trump hit by stunning New York Times tax returns report – as it happened

Paper says Trump ‘paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency’ and another $750 in his first year in power

www.theguardian.com

Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750.

He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years — largely because he reported losing much more money than he made.

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Spoiler

As the president wages a re-election campaign that polls say he is in danger of losing, his finances are under stress, beset by losses and hundreds of millions of dollars in debt coming due that he has personally guaranteed. Also hanging over him is a decade-long audit battle with the Internal Revenue Service over the legitimacy of a $72.9 million tax refund that he claimed, and received, after declaring huge losses. An adverse ruling could cost him more than $100 million.

The Times report also reveals the financial pressure on Trump is mounting as he is personally responsible for loans and other debts totaling $421m, with most of it coming due within four years.

“Should he win re-election, his lenders could be placed in the unprecedented position of weighing whether to foreclose on a sitting president,” it reads.

Spoiler: Key findings

Update: Trump has refuted the report

"Actually I paid tax. And you'll see that as soon as my tax returns - it's under audit, they've been under audit for a long time," ...
"The IRS [Internal Revenue Service] does not treat me well… they treat me very badly,"

Maybe he's just referring to the $72.9m tax refund that's subject of an audit.

Donald Trump 'paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017' - NY Times

The New York Times alleges years of tax avoidance, a claim the US president calls “fake news”.

www.bbc.com

 

[Adorno]

US signs anti-abortion declaration with group of largely authoritarian governments

Move is part of a campaign by Trump administration to reorient US foreign policy in a more socially conservative direction

www.theguardian.com

 

[Lord Brutus]

Trump has taken the step today of requiring federal employees to swear loyalty to him and not the government. Can we say Heinrich Himmler?

 

[Arvenski]

He's got less than two weeks before the big day. Hopefully he'll lose, and then we can start fresh in January no matter what crazy **** he pulls between now and then.

 

[Lord Brutus]

I hope I'm being overly paranoid but he will remain in office till mid-January, and as commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces and de factp leader of the Proud Boys and Boogaloos, 14 of whom were trying to assassinate the governor of Michigan.

 

[Cyborg Eastern European]

Don't worry. You have that little law that makes sure stuff like that doesn't happen.

 

[eddiemccandless]

I don't really think that the US military would support a Trump golpe.

 

[Anarion]

His fearsome army of out of shape larpers who will do short work of the US military.

 

[Cyborg Eastern European]

Inshallah.
At this point, I'm a bit weary of expecting the reasonable course of events taking place.

 

[Lord Brutus]

A large group of people who labelled themselves "anti-fascists" attacked a pro-Trump rally in Manhattan today.

 

[Zombie Warrior]

Oh.
Do you think "anti-commies" will be attacking Biden rallies in retaliation?

 

[Lord Brutus]

We call them fascists, racists, or Trump supporters and they have been involved in three instances of voter intimidation already.

 

[eddiemccandless]

@Lord Brutus, I have had troubles finding reliable news on this. I don't doubt that something happen, just unclear on what actually happened. Where did you see that? I am finding things ranging from this

Family describes horror as violent maskless rioters throw rocks, attack 'Jews for Trump' convoy

A “Jews For Trump” vehicle convoy was repeatedly attacked and heckled as it made its way through New York City Sunday, video shows.

www.foxnews.com

(where the source and the title makes me think that they might, perhaps, be exaggerating a side of the story a little)

To this

Clash Between Trump Supporters, Counter Protesters in NYC Becomes Violent

A pro-Trump convoy driving from Brooklyn to Manhattan encountered opposition from counter protesters along its route on Sunday.

www.newsweek.com

and this one, which mentions involvement of the Proud Boys

Rudy Giuliani caught up in anti-Trump protests in Manhattan

Police forced to keep apart opponents during competing rallies

www.independent.co.uk

I wish journalists stopped spinning the news to fit a political agenda and just stuck with the basic damn facts so that we can each decide what to think of it, but I guess that's asking too much these days.

 

[Lord Brutus]

The two latter articles contain the NYC incident. In Philadelphia trump supporters were interrupted taking photos of people voting. In Florida a police officer in uniform entered a voting place with a Trump or nothing mask.

 

[Baguette Eater]

France 'will not give into terrorism' says Macron, after three stabbed to death in church attack | CNN

French President Emmanuel Macron has said that France "will not give into terrorism," after three people were killed in a knife attack on a church in Nice. An investigation into the incident is underway.

www.cnn.com

Here's hoping it's not the start of a trend...

 

[Pentagathoos]

I don't really think that the US military would support a Trump golpe.

Didn't a bunch of generals sign a letter stating something along the lines that he was violating the constitution during his crackdowns on BLM protests a few months back?

 

[kurczak]

France 'will not give into terrorism' says Macron, after three stabbed to death in church attack | CNN

French President Emmanuel Macron has said that France "will not give into terrorism," after three people were killed in a knife attack on a church in Nice. An investigation into the incident is underway.

www.cnn.com

Here's hoping it's not the start of a trend...

Yes, three dead, including one decapitated, and six (I think) wounded is what one """"mentally ill"""", """"unarmed""""" man with a knife can do.

 

[Pentagathoos]

The only thing that can stop a mentally ill man with a knife is a mentally healthy man with a knife.

 

[Adorno]

The word decapitated was also used about the French teacher who was killed.
But some write that the throat was cut. Was the head actually severed from the body?
I can't imagine you can cut off a head with a knife.

 

[Krik]

13 year old me who unfortunately browsed **** like bestgore can tell you that yes, you can indeed cut a head off with a knife.