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It Will Never Happen


We have all determined that Politicians lie, they do it on our dime and to us repeatedly. The cure or at least a partial cure is to allow them 2 two terms only. Politicians should not have the ability to retire on taxpayers funds. These positions were designed to be part time as many members had other forms of work and income (including slaves). Keep in mind that the Congress will never place term limits on their tenures since they are the people who make and enact these laws. The only cure is the vote. When we (VOTERS) stop phoning it in in elections we have an opportunity to have a functioning government that truly represents ALL VOTERS. We (voters) have become addicted to “entertainment” electioneering and political campaigns, we need to get over it and do our due diligence in vetting the people we vote for. Our current elected officials have made Government a punch line instead of a way to run a country. The political class (if you can call it class) has made public service a way to manipulate society in their favor and enhance themselves and their associates. Consider the current Presidency and the abetting Congress, their goal is to permit “Conservative” control over the government which will only perpetrate the ills of the past 50 plus years on all (especially the lower income Americans). The vote is the most powerful tool as Americans we have and we need to use it intelligently and in an informed way. Unless we as voters understand the impact of electing or re electing bad government managers, good government will never happen.

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The Art Of The Deal aka The Con


It should be clear now that we have a con man masquerading a the POTUS. This con has encompassed the Judicial and Legislative branches. The executive branch was lost on day one (1) in 2017. The phrase: ” promises made promise kept” was and is just another catch phrase used by a consummate liar and con man. TOTUS has assembled a cadre of followers to do his bidding and to propagate his web of falsehoods to spread over his loyal base. The recent “debate” showed how inept TOTUS is at his job but how great he is at the “con”. It is unclear to me how so many “loyal followers” fail to comprehend their duplicity in the con along with the GOP. It must be understood that the GOP is using the big con to run the smaller con of lining their pockets now and for later. We (voters) have the opportunity to remove this cancerous administration in about 30days. While we may have issues with the opposition, it is a much better choice than what we currently have.

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Trump’s past tweets slammed others for not paying enough taxes and claimed he pays ‘more’


Of course we now know he misconstrued, conflated or Bernie Madoffed the truth. MA

Ben Werschkul

·DC Producer

Mon, September 28, 2020, 9:37 AM CDT

Over the years, President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed has featured messages slamming others for not paying taxes, bragging about how rich he is, criticizing those paying taxes overseas, and even claiming he pays “more taxes in one year than you pay in your entire life.”

It all reads differently now after The New York Times obtained decades of Trump’s tax information and found that he “has been more successful playing a business mogul than being one in real life.”

Perhaps nowhere is the disconnect between his public message and apparent private financial situation more stark than in the messages Trump has tweeted out over the years.

President Donald Trump looks at his phone during a roundtable discussion on the reopening of small businesses at the White House in June. (REUTERS/Leah Millis)

For the record, Trump has denied the report. “It’s totally fake news,” he said Sunday evening and added Monday morning that he “paid many millions of dollars in taxes but was entitled, like everyone else, to depreciation & tax credits.”

It’s often been noted that there’s “always a tweet” buried somewhere in Trump’s timeline that relates to the scandal of the moment. In this case there are scores of them. With an assist from the always helpful Trump Twitter Archive, here are some of the starkest examples.

Times he slammed others for not paying taxes

The key finding in the Times report was that he paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency and another $750 in 2017. He also paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years.

That didn’t stop him from attacking others for supposedly not paying enough in taxes. In 2012, he tweeted that then-President Barack Obama “only pays 20.5%” of his earnings in taxes.


Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

@BarackObama who wants to raise all our taxes, only pays 20.5% on $790k salary. http://1.usa.gov/HFZJKH Do as I say not as I do.

1:19 PM · Apr 13, 2012

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The same year, he sent along a story about Americans not paying taxes “despite crippling govt debt.”

These tweets came during a 2012 presidential campaign when tax avoidance was a big issue among Republicans. Later in the year, the Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, got into trouble after suggesting that the 47% of Americans who pay no income taxes were Obama supporters.

In more recent years, during his own run for president and since taking office, Trump has repeatedly gone after another perceived political enemy, Amazon (AMZN), for not paying its taxes.

Trump actually bragged about paying taxes in a few instances. In 2013, he retweeted an account that claimed “Trump is an American that will pay more taxes in one year than you pay in your entire life.”

@realDonaldTrump

“@conservativeJT: @bluejoni @realDonaldTrump Trump is an American that will pay more taxes in one year than you pay in your entire life.

5:50 AM · Mar 28, 2013


According to the Times report, 2013 was actually one of the years that Trump lost the most money and when he was likely able to avoid taxes. Trump National Doral, one of his Florida golf resorts, lost over $65 million in 2013 alone, according to the report.

 Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

“@conservativeJT: @bluejoni @realDonaldTrump Trump is an American that will pay more taxes in one year than you pay in your entire life.

5:50 AM · Mar 28, 2013


The next year, he retweeted a message telling Trump that since he pays his taxes, he “should be able to put up whatever signage you want.”

Foreign entanglements

Another revelation in The New York Times story is Trump’s foreign entanglements. His financial ties in places like Turkey are more extensive than previously known, and there are a host of countries where he actually paid more taxes than in the U.S.

As the story by Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and Mike McIntire says, “The president’s $750 contribution to the operations of the U.S. government was dwarfed by the $15,598 he or his companies paid in Panama, the $145,400 in India and the $156,824 in the Philippines.”

But in 2012, he asked whether Obama was the first president “who earned over 1/3 of his income from foreign sources and paid taxes to another country?”


Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

Have we ever had a POTUS before @BarackObama who earned over 1/3 of his income from foreign sources and paid taxes to another country?

12:29 PM · Jul 12, 2012


Trump also sent many many tweets touting his foreign properties from Turkey to Panama to the Philippines to India.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

I just had an amazing day in Mumbai, India. Building an almost 80 story building, super luxury, which is doing great! Press is going wild.

5:58 PM · Aug 12, 2014 from Navi Mumbai, India

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Other revelations

The report details a range of other findings from Trump’s use of “consultant fees” to give money to people like his daughter Ivanka to the ongoing IRS audit that could cost him $100 million to the staggering amount of personal debt he reportedly currently holds.


Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

I am “the king of debt.”That has been great for me as a businessman, but is bad for the country. I made a fortune off of debt, will fix U.S.

11:55 AM · Jun 21, 2016

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As the Times report says, “Within the next four years, more than $300 million in loans — obligations for which he is personally responsible — will come due.”

As for consultants, the president has often dismissed them in tweets, calling out the Republican party’s “consultant class of losers” in 2013.

On the audit process — which Trump has used as a shield to avoid releasing his taxes — he called the process “routine” in tweets and comments. Trump’s own IRS commissioner has confirmed that there is no rule precluding the president from releasing his tax returns while under audit.

On his propensity for loans, Trump has actually been somewhat open about that:

On Monday, he claimed that he was under leveraged. “I have very little debt compared to the value of assets,” he tweeted.

But what The New York Times story doesn’t reveal — and what Trump is widely expected to try to keep secret — is who precisely holds the loans that he has personally guaranteed.

If Trump wins, the story notes, “Lenders could be placed in the unprecedented position of weighing whether to foreclose on a sitting president.”Ben Werschkul is a producer for Yahoo Finance in Washington

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Does He Know?


Does TOTUS Know:

He is the President of the UNITED STATES?-this means ALL citizens with no distinction between them.

His Leadership (?) shapes the health of the country financially and Physically.

To be the President requires advice from the smartest people he can find, not Toadies to carry his water.

Respect for the Congress (such as it is)

The Justice department is not his personal lawyer

Our NATO allies are really allies not enemies.

The bad actors in the world are not our friends but we need to engage them to keep an eye on them

Our borders while relatively secure do not require an expensive “wall” but regular maintenance.

We need to reform our emigration policies rather than saddle our Southern allies with migrants and outstripping their resources.

We need to join our allies in propping up the poorer Nations so their residents can remain in their own country.

He is not the star of the show, just a temporary lead to keep the show going.

He should not be the Liar-in-chief, chief medical officer or major propagandist.

He should be aware that what is done to the least of us, is done to to ALL of us.

News programs are not a good source for information used to govern-That’s why you have a cabinet.

Finally no matter what a new job entails, there is always a learning curve

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