Trump's worth $3.5 billion give or take. What are you worth? To argue that he used the tax laws to help him financially is just silly. Do you write off your mortgage interest payments? Or do you pay taxes that would have been legally deferred? Who would hire an accountant who would tell them to pay taxes they don't have to pay? There are no such accountants. They'd be unemployed standing on a food line hoping to get something to eat. Give me a break.
I'm worth enough to not have to go to work as a greeter at a big box store. I have been a co-owner of an apartment building in California and am familiar with real estate depreciation and taxation. I have taken advantage of all the deductions made available to me.
Trump's been writing off his real estate property for years. The IRS looks at things like that to see if they're reasonable valuations. If he commited fraud they would have indicted him a long time ago. The IRS is always auditing him, not like me and you. Charging him with fraud based on rumor and politics is like you charging him with colluding with the Russians. You guys don't give up.
IRS audits do not cover financial fraud that is the topic of the story I linked to. had you read the article you would have seen copies of two financial documents that are publicly available that contradict each other and 'may' cause him some problems. I'm not charging him with fraud, I only said that these are problematic. I would not be surprised if there are more in this category. there have been condo developments where the Trump kids said were already sold out and that was totally wrong; in one case less than 1/4 of the units were sold despite what Ivanka said.
Show me one quote of mine where I accused the President of colluding with the Russians (don't waste your time trying to find one as I've never said this).
Of course, all these charges are made with the intent of going into the election hoping the public sees Trump as a crook. After all the Democrats have nothing else to run on. It might work. On the other hand, the public might think, "You know, these charges have been all a lot of bunk. It's all political nonsense. The democrats haven't done a damn thing in 4 years to help this country and have spent all that time trying to bring down the President.
The Republicans were in power for the first two years of President Trump's term so it is not fair to say that the Democrats have not done anything. Since the beginning of this year the Democrats have had control over the House and have passed numerous pieces of legislation which are lying dormant in the Senate as Majority Leader McConnell refuses to bring them up for a vote. The fault here is not with the Democrats who would like to do some infrastructure and health care legislation only to see things evaporate into the Senate ether.
