Posted on 12/23/2022 6:25:42 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I never cared much about Donald Trump’s tax returns. Why should I? Why should anybody?
So I pretty much ignored all the hoopla surrounding the release when they were dumped out into the public. Of all the presidents we have had in the past few decades, Trump was the one least likely to use his office to get rich.
He is already rich. So rich that he donated his salary every year that he was president.
All the ridiculous talk of emoluments, schemes to use the office to enrich himself seemed beside the point. Trump loves himself some money and will do ridiculous things to make it, but even if he did use his office to enrich himself he wouldn’t be stupid enough to have it show up on his tax returns.
And sure enough, his returns tell us little except that Trump seems to be the only human being on the planet who didn’t get richer while he was president. He lost over a billion dollars of net worth.
As with most Trump controversies, it was much ado about nothing. Nothing bad was done by Trump, and while lots of commentators are cherry picking years when Trump paid little in taxes due to business losses, they ignore the fact that over his presidency he paid a million dollars in taxes.
Trump never claimed that he liked paying taxes; he even bragged that he did everything he could legally to avoid the practice. As any red-blooded American should. The federal government wastes trillions of dollars and you are an idiot to simply donate to the government what isn’t legally required.
This controversy, like almost every Trump “outrage,” is nothing but a smear. There are lots of reasons to dislike Trump but enriching himself in office is not one of them. Trump wines, on the other hand….
I would be much more interested in seeing the financials of politicians who entered office without much wealth but have grown immensely wealthy during their tenure. By what mechanism, exactly, did they do this on their relatively modest salaries? What about their families, who also often find their fortunes improve during their tenure.
The idea that anybody who supports Joe Biden could care about any financial malfeasance by Trump is ludicrous. The Biden family is little more than a circle of grifters using Joe’s political connections to get rich. Bill Clinton entered office a relative pauper and together with Hillary is now worth north of $100 million.
That is quite an achievement for a guy who has never worked in business. “Public service” has been very good to the Clintons, I would say.
One of the things that is easy to notice is that every accusation that is hurled by the Left at a Republican is a projection of their own greed and malfeasance. Elites often get where they are through some grift or another, they use their own experience to hurl invective at their opponent. It’s a rare Leftist who gets rich through starting and running a business, so perhaps they genuinely cannot comprehend making money legitimately.
Not every grifter is a Leftist–there are plenty to go around–but nearly every Leftist is a grifter.
Still, I am not that interested in seeing their tax returns. I am sure their accountants are as good at manipulating numbers as well as Trump’s. What I would really like to see is somebody doing a correlation between the investments of politicians and the legislation they write and have access to.
That would be a great project for a forensic accountant.
I assume he has no interest in Pelosi’s return, or any other Congress critter?
Trump declared zero income in 2015 and 2016 too.
RE: Trump declared zero income in 2015 and 2016 too.
What did the IRS say?
Looks like they were fine with it. I was responding to the headline. He declared zero not only during the presidency, but on the two years we know about before it.
Even while mildly criticizing the left, the Never-Trumpers have to get their “orangemanbad” sentences into anything they say on the subject.
Trump was fine before he announced his campaign in 2015. People wanted him at their parties. They wanted to play at his golf courses. They wanted to stay at his hotels. They gave him awards for his work with the minority community. It was only when he bucked and they realized he had no bridle or reins to allow them to control him did they become unglued. THEN Trump became “controversial” and “divisive”. The democrats and the media piled all the baggage they could onto Trump, and then exclaimed, “You can’t elect him! He has all that baggage!”.
They have done the same to every GOP candidate since as far back as I can remember, and they will do it again in the future. Many conservatives fall for it every damn time!
Onward to the Biden tax returns!
The tax returns of every member of Congress as well as the president and vice president should be easily accessible on a website.
He’s released them for his entire presidency and in 2020.
“He’s released them for his entire presidency and in 2020.”
During his presidency he said he might release them after he leaves office. Do you have a source?
He’s released them for his entire presidency and in 2020.
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Not good enough. Biden needs to go back into the Obama years when he was using his son to fraud for the Ukraine.
The Rat Congress releasing the Trump tax returns as a political stunt is moral and legal degeneracy. If it was done anywhere but on the floor of Congress it would have been several felonies.
The Clintons have made their money through speaking engagement money laundering. $250,000 for a 30 minute speech is a lucrative business.
Zero INCOME because he GAVE HIS INCOME AS PRESIDENT AWAY.
They’ll try to make a big deal out of that...it is something that is foreign to the LEFT...IT’S THE TRUTH!!!!
Seems like he has 2016-2020 posted on his campaign website:
https://joebiden.com/financial-disclosure/
This page has links to 1998-2015:
we all know the truth about these despicable humans, they not only need to be kicked to the curb but also prosecuted and jailed
Brandons purported tax returns do not support the fact he has numerous mansions and a lavish lifestyle
Well we all know he cant claim the ‘Big Guys 10%’-
Shortly after Bammy left office, he got a $50 million “advance” for a future book.
Trump taxes, much adieu about nothing. The IRS , with their army of accountants have been trying to mail him for years and have failed.
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