The BIG ONE: 20 years of Trump taxes obtained by NYTs

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So basically he was making tons of cash from the Apprentice and licensing deals, which he plowed into money-losing golf courses to the tune of $400+ million. And since the Apprentice is over and the licensing has gone to pot, he's in a bind.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump’s 15 Golf Resorts Have Lost More Than $315.6 Million. Is That Par for the Course?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/trump-taxes-golf-resort-losses-depreciation.html

One of the biggest sinkholes contributing to Trump’s losses and debts is his numerous golf courses. According to his tax filings, the president has lost more than $315.6 million total since 2000 from his 15 golf resorts in the U.S., Ireland, and Scotland. Trump spent $150 million in 2012 to purchase his largest resort, the National Doral in Miami, and lost $162.3 million on the property over the next six years. He also has a $125 million mortgage due on it in the next three years. He lost an additional $63.6 million on his three golf courses on the British Isles.

For everyone here screaming about depreciation, worth noting that golf courses are mostly land.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trump’s 15 Golf Resorts Have Lost More Than $315.6 Million. Is That Par for the Course?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/trump-taxes-golf-resort-losses-depreciation.html

One of the biggest sinkholes contributing to Trump’s losses and debts is his numerous golf courses. According to his tax filings, the president has lost more than $315.6 million total since 2000 from his 15 golf resorts in the U.S., Ireland, and Scotland. Trump spent $150 million in 2012 to purchase his largest resort, the National Doral in Miami, and lost $162.3 million on the property over the next six years. He also has a $125 million mortgage due on it in the next three years. He lost an additional $63.6 million on his three golf courses on the British Isles.

For everyone here screaming about depreciation, worth noting that golf courses are mostly land.

Perhaps they became tainted somehow. Was the Trump name associated with them?

[Anonymous]

I’m late to the party. Is this going to have any effect on the polls or are people numb to everything Trump by now?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m late to the party. Is this going to have any effect on the polls or are people numb to everything Trump by now?

It will definitely help peel off people who were going to vote for Trump, because living in such luxury and not paying taxes is so viscerally unfair that most people can respond to that, whatever the legalities are. It breaks his populist image completely and makes him part of the swamp. And since he's not leading in the polls, peeling off some his voters might clinch it for Biden. The reason that it won't be more is that Fox News has buried the story, after denying it, so many Trump voters won't really hear about it.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m late to the party. Is this going to have any effect on the polls or are people numb to everything Trump by now?

I think this will move the needle with non-entrenched people. The big question is how many of them there are at this point.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m late to the party. Is this going to have any effect on the polls or are people numb to everything Trump by now?

I think this will move the needle with non-entrenched people. The big question is how many of them there are at this point.

it probably demotivates marginal trump supporters, much like the emails with Clinton.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m late to the party. Is this going to have any effect on the polls or are people numb to everything Trump by now?

I think this will move the needle with non-entrenched people. The big question is how many of them there are at this point.

it probably demotivates marginal trump supporters, much like the emails with Clinton.

Naw, the report isn't seen as credible when considering the times previous failed attempts, they cried wolf too many times

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m late to the party. Is this going to have any effect on the polls or are people numb to everything Trump by now?

I think this will move the needle with non-entrenched people. The big question is how many of them there are at this point.

it probably demotivates marginal trump supporters, much like the emails with Clinton.

Naw, the report isn't seen as credible when considering the times previous failed attempts, they cried wolf too many times

Uh. No.
It’s the rare occassion that the democrats get to attack with such a simple and delightfully unnuanced statement.
Trump paid 750.00 in taxes.

So delightful. So easily digested.
You paid more taxes than Donald Trump. Boom.

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The walls are closing in! This is the beginning of the end!

[Anonymous]

Did thousands of Kurds died because he owes Erdogan?

Trump gets money from Turkey from sources Erdogan can control. So Trump got paid to betray Afrin Kurds, Christians and Ezidis in 2018 in Afrin. Then he did it again in October 2019 betraying the same east of Kobani. 100%.

HOw being compromised impacts US foreign policy and real people get rreated like pawns on a chessboard.

[Anonymous]

The more I think about this, the more I wonder whether or not the golf courses actually qualify as a trade or business or more appropriately treated as a hobby for purposes of the internal revenue code. Hmmmmm . . . .

[Anonymous]

Forgive me if this has already been answered: How did the New York Times finally get access to his tax returns?