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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP.  There's being circumspect and then there's being an ostrich.  Trump has acted fraudulently in his charity, in his university, in his casinos, etc.

Why should we presume that these suspicious inconsistencies are merely the result of legitimate accounting errors?  Because the fraud in all of his other business dealings were ... no evidence of any sort of pattern of behavior?[/quote]

Gotcha. To clarify, though, these wouldn't be accounting errors, per se. They could be very much intentional and also very much legal. Based on what is in that article, we can't know right now. But the basic point, I guess, is that he deserves no benefit of the doubt anymore at this point. The counterpoint, though, is that you leave openings for Trump to claim victim status and control political narratives when standards for scrutiny are dropped. Just a few days ago ABC news had to apologize for mistakenly showing a 2016 clip from a Kentucky shooting range as footage from the theater of war in Syria. This kind of sloppiness and rush to conclusions just feeds into Trump's game and creates a cloud of suspicion over other good, judicious and thorough work that is being done.[/quote]

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