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fightforfreedom

(4,913 posts)
Sat Sep 10, 2022, 02:07 PM Sep 2022

One simple law and the Trump era, presidency, would have never happened.

All presidential candidates, nominees, are required to show their taxes. Trump would have never run for president if that law existed.

He learned it was not required and he simple said , I'm being audited, he lied.. The rest is history.

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One simple law and the Trump era, presidency, would have never happened. (Original Post) fightforfreedom Sep 2022 OP
We don't even need a single new law to have prevented TFG's presidency. If existing laws RockRaven Sep 2022 #1
tRUMP is a legal loophole locating con-artist. magicarpet Sep 2022 #2
What's sad though is that his voters didn't care that he paid almost no taxes for decades wishstar Sep 2022 #3

RockRaven

(14,958 posts)
1. We don't even need a single new law to have prevented TFG's presidency. If existing laws
Sat Sep 10, 2022, 02:10 PM
Sep 2022

had been enforced, he would have been imprisoned for fraud long, long ago.

magicarpet

(14,144 posts)
2. tRUMP is a legal loophole locating con-artist.
Sat Sep 10, 2022, 02:55 PM
Sep 2022

Roy Cohn, who daddy Fred tDUMP handsomely rewarded to be his son's mentor, taught him well.
Roy Cohn was the lawyer the Mafia Dons and Crime Bosses sought out when criminal legal problems came kicking in their doors.

tRUMP is a viper when it comes to litigation.

Roy Cohn taught him all he knows. Making "The Donald" into the arrogant piece of shit we are forced to deal with today, day in and day out.

Most sane people shy away from legal entanglements. But tRUMP thrives upon protracted litigation. It boosts and inflates his ego to pull yet another fast one on litigants, Prosecutors, and the courts. Often tRUMP will just quietly just bribe an official to make his problems magically go away.

Doing all this while leaving his legal adversaries in a cloud of dust caused by his speeding away limousines,, helicopters, and private jets.

He is laughing his ass off as he yet chalks up his next win. As he gleefully further hones his shyster-ing skills so he can extort, or commit fraud against, or royally rip off his next innocent mark and/or unsophisticated victim.

wishstar

(5,268 posts)
3. What's sad though is that his voters didn't care that he paid almost no taxes for decades
Sat Sep 10, 2022, 03:23 PM
Sep 2022

because he had claimed so much in business losses due to his bankruptcies. We did find that out before 2016 election and later his most recent returns came to light showing that in recent years he paid only $700 to $1000 per year and got even more voters than in 2016.

Just like they didn't care he molested women and defrauded people with the fake Trump University and was banned from setting up another charitable foundation due to misuse of funds from the Trump Foundation.

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