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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe NYT delivers an October surprise on September 27...two decades' worth of Trump tax info.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html
The New York Times has obtained tax-return data extending over more than two decades for Mr. Trump and the hundreds of companies that make up his business organization, including detailed information from his first two years in office. It does not include his personal returns for 2018 or 2019. This article offers an overview of The Timess findings; additional articles will be published in the coming weeks.
The returns are some of the most sought-after, and speculated-about, records in recent memory. In Mr. Trumps nearly four years in office and across his endlessly hyped decades in the public eye journalists, prosecutors, opposition politicians and conspiracists have, with limited success, sought to excavate the enigmas of his finances. By their very nature, the filings will leave many questions unanswered, many questioners unfulfilled. They comprise information that Mr. Trump has disclosed to the I.R.S., not the findings of an independent financial examination. They report that Mr. Trump owns hundreds of millions of dollars in valuable assets, but they do not reveal his true wealth. Nor do they reveal any previously unreported connections to Russia.
The New York Times has obtained tax-return data extending over more than two decades for Mr. Trump and the hundreds of companies that make up his business organization, including detailed information from his first two years in office. It does not include his personal returns for 2018 or 2019. This article offers an overview of The Timess findings; additional articles will be published in the coming weeks.
The returns are some of the most sought-after, and speculated-about, records in recent memory. In Mr. Trumps nearly four years in office and across his endlessly hyped decades in the public eye journalists, prosecutors, opposition politicians and conspiracists have, with limited success, sought to excavate the enigmas of his finances. By their very nature, the filings will leave many questions unanswered, many questioners unfulfilled. They comprise information that Mr. Trump has disclosed to the I.R.S., not the findings of an independent financial examination. They report that Mr. Trump owns hundreds of millions of dollars in valuable assets, but they do not reveal his true wealth. Nor do they reveal any previously unreported connections to Russia.
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The NYT delivers an October surprise on September 27...two decades' worth of Trump tax info. (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Sep 2020
OP
beastie boy
(9,486 posts)1. If this is a September surprise, I can't wait til October!
Pee tapes, anyone?
Cha
(297,763 posts)2. Wow.. finally trump tax returns that he desperately
didn't want revealed.
spinbaby
(15,090 posts)3. The article starts like this:
Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750.
He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years largely because he reported losing much more money than he made.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)4. So either he's massively unsuccessful or a tax cheat.
Im betting both.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)5. Yeah, both.
His only success is convincing lenders to keep giving him money.
crickets
(25,986 posts)7. Definitely both. nt
Gothmog
(145,631 posts)6. Let the fun begin