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Originally Posted by Ducay
I guess I'll keep playing team Trump. Happy to be the punching bag here.
Taxes: He had a $1B loss, these losses carry forward. Just like you and I and everyone else does with their taxes. Somehow framing it the way the media and Dems are makes it a ghastly negative. Heck, even Clinton had losses on her returns she carried forward/back (the horror!).
Foundation: I'm not familiar enough with this.
Crapping on veterans: Which statement are you talking about? The one where he said we need to do more with PTSD, and then the media took some liberty with the exact grammar of how he put it and made it out to be a huge negative?
But again, there is a reason the needle barely moves, people on both sides are already set in their ways, and the people that need convincing aren't being swayed by fact/policies/or scandal much.
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Clinton isn't running on being a business genius though, Trump claims to be a multi billionaire and business expert, that's his only claim to being fit for the job, he has no other, yet the one thing we know is he has had multiple bankruptcies and on the one semi recent tax return we've seen he has tanked his company into the ground and taken a vast loss. It also shows clearly he actually made around 3 million that year, that's a pretty good income for a hockey coach or the like but it isn't billionaire territory by any means.
We also know from this that he believes that there is no morality in making money, that no matter who he screws over as long as he makes money then he's doing the right thing, if this is his moral baseline (if you can call it moral!) then why would we think he'd put the US ahead of his interests if he was elected? Why would he change a tax code that benefits him? why wouldn't he just take huge payments from any foreign power to do their biding?
By his own incredibly limited standards for being fit for the role of president the tax return disqualifies him from the job.