$0
What “billionaire” Trump paid in federal income tax in 10 of last 15 years.
$750
What Trump paid in federal taxes in 2017.
$15,598
What Trump paid in taxes to Panama in 2017.
$70,000
Amount paid to style his “hair” when he was at The Apprentice.
$109,433
What Trump wrote off as expenses for “silver and linens” at Mar-a-Lago in 2017.
$130,000
What Trump paid in “hush money” to Stormy Daniels.
$145,400
What Trump paid in taxes to India in 2017.
$156,824
What Trump paid in taxes to the Philippines in 2017.
$480,000
Salary earned by Junior, Eric & Ivanka via the family business.
$747,622
Consultant fees illegally paid for Ivanka Trump in 2017.
$1,900,000
Amount paid by Trump Org for Junior’s legal fees re: the Trump Tower meeting with the Russians. (Not a legit biz expense).
$2,000,000
Losses from Miss Universe Pageant, 2012.
$2,300,000
What Trump personally made in licensing fees from an Azeri oligarch with ties to Putin, for holding the Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow in 2013.
$3,800,000
Losses from Miss Universe Pageant, 2014.
$13,000,000
Amount earned from Trump’s deals in Turkey.
$21,100,000
Charitable deduction claimed by Trump for owning a mansion in New York State.
$47,400,000
Losses Trump claimed on his tax returns in 2018.
$55,500,000
Losses from Trump’s Washington hotel, 2016-18.
$72,900,000
Amount of refund from government Trump received that is now in dispute.
$100,000,000
Approximate amount he will owe federal government in back taxes if government rules against him in dispute.
$125,000,000
Mortgage on Doral golf course, due in three years.
$287,000,000
Amount Trump has stiffed lenders, 2010-present.
$315,600,000
Losses from Trump’s golf courses since 2000.
$421,000,000
Amount in loans that are coming due in next four years that Trump has personally guaranteed.
$427,400,000
Revenue Trump earned from The Apprentice.
$915,700,000
Losses Trump claimed on his tax returns in 1995.
Loser, phony, fraud, fake, criminal.
Give We The People back our money, Donnie.
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On January 19, 2021, in the last hours of his presidency, Donald Trump wrote a memo in which he announced that the “binder of materials” received from the FBI via the DOJ a month prior was “declassified to the maximum extent possible.”
This was less than a week after Trump’s second impeachment—just 13 days after his MAGA horde besieged the Capitol in a failed attempt to thwart the peaceful transition of power.
Trump’s presidential Sharpie was busy that morning. On January 19, 2021, he issued pardons for, among many others: Steve Bannon, Elliott Broidy, Jeanine Pirro’s ex-husband Alex, and the disgraced art dealer Helly Nahmad, who had run an illegal gambling operation at Trump Tower.
Elaborating on #DebateNight thoughts that I shared on last night's Five 8 show.
[THREAD]
1/ Why the Dem freakout after the debate? We are all traumatized by 2016, and Biden's performance in the debate triggered our collective trauma. "No! Not again!" Hence the panic.
2/ Where does the panic come from? Is it fear that Joe can't do the job? No. Because we know he can. He's done it for 3.5 years at the highest possible level. The government is in good hands with Joe/Kamala. No worries there. None.
Alito's comments here are similar to remarks made by Rev. C. John McCloskey, Opus Dei priest and spiritual godfather to the Catholic extremist Leonard Leo cabal, to Charles Pierce 21 years ago. He, too, regarded the so-called culture wars as a Manichean struggle.
"Do I think it’s possible for someone who believes in the sanctity of marriage, the sanctity of life...to choose to survive w/ people who think it’s OK to kill women & children or for—quote—homosexual cpls to exist and be recognized? No, I don’t think that’s possible,” he said.
"But, unfortunately, in the past, these types of things have tended to end this way. If American Catholics feel that’s troubling, let them. I don’t feel it’s troubling at all.”
Like many leaders of the reactionary right—Mike Johnson, Mike Davis, Stephen Miller, and so on—the current head of the Heritage Foundation has a dull, forgettable name: Kevin Roberts.
[THREAD]
2/ Roberts has a winsome smile, a PhD in U.S. history, a background in academia, & a well-earned reputation as a nice guy. Who could have imagined that this bright, friendly Gen Xer would be leading a Christian conservative counter-reformation—a crusade to end American democracy?
3/ In 2013, Roberts, who is Catholic, became the second president of Wyoming Catholic College, a strict, almost monastic institution est. in 2007 that provides “a rigorous immersion in...the spiritual heritage of the Catholic Church”—and that will throw you out if you hook up.
If action is character, as F. Scott Fitzgerald proposed, then it is instructive to look at the life of Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson in reverse, Benjamin Button style. . .
[THREAD]
1/ It is the night before Veteran’s Day, 2021. On his primetime Fox News program, Tucker Carlson argues that the U.S. should back Russia, and not Ukraine, in the escalating conflict between the two countries. “Why would we take Ukraine’s side and not Russia’s side?”
2/ He insists that choosing Putin’s dictatorship over Zelensky’s democracy is a no-brainer because of “energy reserves.” This is either breathtaking ignorance of the region’s history or straight-up Kremlin propaganda. Or, I suppose, both.