jerseyhoya wrote:No, it's perfect. I don't see how you all don't see how perfect this is.

it's alright. I'm not seeing the perfection in your perfect.

Perfect would be him bursting into white-hot flames in close proximity to his idiot sons, and the brietbart guy, and Conway, and Hugh Hewitt, and Omarosa, and Boris Shitstain or whateverthehell that other toady's name is

Go over your vision of perfection one more time. we'll be the judge of that

Not only will he say it's legal, but he'll turn it into a triumph, pointing out how he recovered from such a terrible time for him and the economy generally. The tax laws are very favorable to real estate developers and he'll say: "What was I supposed to do? Be a chump and not take all the deductions to which I was entitled?"

Nobody likes the IRS and trying to indict someone for deducting the losses he was entitled to take seems like pretty weak tea to me.

He can say lots of things, but his unfav rating is near 60%, his unqualified number is similar, he's mortal. The idea that Trump can just spin shit into gold is not reflected by any polling. Time and again - Curiel, Orlando, Khan, shitty debate/Machado - when he's gone off the rails, he's taken a nose dive in the polls. This cuts at multiple strengths, sets up for terrific paid media, and is sure to have him acting erratically because it gets under his skin.

Your racist uncle who has a MAGA hat isn't gonna be swayed by the NYT reporting on Trump's taxes. But your apolitical next door neighbor in Bucks County who was undecided might be.

Gimpy wrote:Wasn't Tyson likely railroaded into jail there?

I was under the impression it's widely believed he was innocent.

Tyson is a fairly introspective and self-critical dude and he's maintained his innocence. if I had to bet I'd say he's innocent but I'll never know.

JFLNYC wrote:Not only will he say it's legal, but he'll turn it into a triumph, pointing out how he recovered from such a terrible time for him and the economy generally. The tax laws are very favorable to real estate developers and he'll say: "What was I supposed to do? Be a chump and not take all the deductions to which I was entitled?"

Nobody likes the IRS and trying to indict someone for deducting the losses he was entitled to take seems like pretty weak tea to me.

I think you should walk this post back and start your logic from the start. he lost a billion in a year and then never paid taxes again.

his only angle is if he didn't do that and releases his taxes and they look super good.

It directly cuts at his business bullshit

Gabriel Debenedetti ‏@gdebenedetti
Initial reax from top Ds tonight: this isn't the end of Trump, but the story plays into all the Clinton camp's negative narratives on him...

Think this is exactly correct

Also this:

southpaw ‏@nycsouthpaw
His *only* qualification for running is his business. And his business lost a billion dollars in one year.

And this:

Edward-Isaac Dovere ‏@IsaacDovere
As the Trump team bores down into this "obtained illegally" point re the taxes, remember how gleefully they've pushed all the hacked emails

Amazing he got nominated. The national Republican party needs to rethink itself.

Trump said Clinton wasn't loyal to her husband during the Manheim rally...also accused her of being literally crazy.

Just a normal campaign.

pacino wrote:Amazing he got nominated. The national Republican party needs to rethink itself.

I mean, those pieces of #analysis are both true and not super influenced by Trump not paying taxes.

If the media goes with this stuff half as much as they did with Clinton's stuff, Trump is done.

Youseff wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:Not only will he say it's legal, but he'll turn it into a triumph, pointing out how he recovered from such a terrible time for him and the economy generally. The tax laws are very favorable to real estate developers and he'll say: "What was I supposed to do? Be a chump and not take all the deductions to which I was entitled?"

Nobody likes the IRS and trying to indict someone for deducting the losses he was entitled to take seems like pretty weak tea to me.

I think you should walk this post back and start your logic from the start. he lost a billion in a year and then never paid taxes again.

his only angle is if he didn't do that and releases his taxes and they look super good.

I like that: "start your logic from the start."

jerseyhoya wrote:

pacino wrote:Amazing he got nominated. The national Republican party needs to rethink itself.

I mean, those pieces of #analysis are both true and not super influenced by Trump not paying taxes.

Ok, 'This continues to be amazing'.

Seems like Trump only gets affected by this stuff if it becomes the talking point for the week. And then it only seems to last for that period.

Trump reenacted Clinton getting sick at one his rallies yesterday.

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:Seems like Trump only gets affected by this stuff if it becomes the talking point for the week. And then it only seems to last for that period.

This isn't really true though. He does the quick nose dive in the polls after dragging out a negative story thing - Curiel, Khan, shitty debate/Machado - and then it takes him 6 weeks of behaving somewhat normally to get back to where he was before he acted like an idiot. He doesn't have 6 weeks, and odds are slim he's going to act normally as the oppo dumps become more frequent and more personal.

JFLNYC wrote:Not only will he say it's legal, but he'll turn it into a triumph, pointing out how he recovered from such a terrible time for him and the economy generally. The tax laws are very favorable to real estate developers and he'll say: "What was I supposed to do? Be a chump and not take all the deductions to which I was entitled?"

Nobody likes the IRS and trying to indict someone for deducting the losses he was entitled to take seems like pretty weak tea to me.

Good call!

Mark Halperin ‏@MarkHalperin 15m15 minutes ago
Both Rudy & Christie calling Trump a "genius" on TV today. #TrumpTowerTalkingPoint

Quite a read. I think this is someone who would normally vote gop anyway, but Trump is the perfect candidate for her. She is part of the Republican base

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... ?tid=sm_tw