A decade of Donald Trump’s tax returns just surfaced. Here’s the truly ugly part for him.
In a lengthy and detailed new expose this evening, the New York Times has revealed that it has obtained a decade’s worth of Donald Trump’s tax returns, from 1985 through 1994. These aren’t the years that most people are interested in, and they’re not going to tell us much about Trump’s more recent financial relationship with Russia. But there’s a truly ugly aspect of this for Trump.
We’re not talking about the contents of Donald Trump’s tax returns from those early years, though they reveal a number of ugly things. Most notably, Trump lost more than a billion dollars during the course of that decade, meaning that he’s either always been the world’s worst businessman, or he was falsely listing all of his businesses as having lost money so he could fraudulently write them off. In eight of those ten years, he paid no taxes at all. That’s ugly enough – but we think there’s something even worse in all this for Trump.
Even as House Democrats have been trying to obtain Donald Trump’s more recent tax returns, his personally loyal Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has been illegally blocking that effort. Mnuchin will be held in contempt and possibly arrested, and the courts will eventually rule that the tax returns have to be turned over. But there’s also a public relations battle in all this, in the sense that the Trump regime’s stonewalling effort will collapse if the public overwhelmingly decides that Trump has no right to keep his returns a secret.
Now we have a decade of Donald Trump’s older tax returns out there in public view, and they’re extraordinarily suspicious in nature to say the least. The dam has been broken. The public now has a taste for seeing what the financially corrupt President of the United States has really been up to behind the scenes, and it’s ugly, and now they’re going to demand more. You can read the full NY Times expose here.
