New York Times and CNN: CNN releases a document within seconds of NYT publishing it, must be collusion!
Russia, WikiLeaks, and Trump: Trump discusses documents within seconds of WikiLeaks leaking documents obtained illegally by the Russian Government. No Collusion at all!
(Note that the NYT and CNN collaborating on a story is in no way, shape, or form illegal. Unlike a Presidential Candidate accepting substantial support from a foreign intelligence agency…)
(It’s like they think all words mean “bad things only Lub-tards can do”)
There were a lot of other screw-ups. He lost all of his casino management keymen in one air crash, didn’t do his due diligence and missed the upcoming competition from Native American casinos, and piled a lot of money into the hotel and restaurant and entertainment parts of the Taj Mahal to make it the best, really the classiest American resort (in Atlantic City, where the degenerate gamblers were happy to sleep off their binges in alleys before enjoying meals from the convenient garbage cans). Even without the debt he took on in his obsession to buy the Taj Mahal from Merv Griffin he would have tanked it.
Loophole? I’m not sure how this is a “loophole” and not just another business expense that gets subtracted while calculating profit. That’s no more of a loophole than a musician depreciating an instrument or a business depreciating their delivery van.
The logic cycles around this are kind of amazing.
Trump: “I lost over $1 billion on purpose to save money on my taxes!”
Fox: “He’s a bold businessman who knows how to game the system!”
Trump: “But all of those tax documents are fake news and none of it is true.”
Fox: “Wow! He played the liberal media by falsifying his taxes 30 years ago!”
Typical of narcissists: blaming the mere existence of other parties in their lives for their own massive screw-ups and then maintaining the grudge for decades. Of course, he can’t help throwing some racism into the mix.
I’m not sure how that would work. The point of money laundering is usually to channel more money into your bank account (or your business’ bank account).
At any rate nothing Trump has done in the last 30 years suggests he is a Machiavellian business genius, so I’m more apt to believe the simplest explanation: he sucks at everything he does and lost a bunch of money through incompetence.
Yep, they seem to be focused in on Iran, now. No one on the US side seems to know what they’re doing, though. Pompeo is trying to convince Iraq that a particular array of groups that were previously fighting Daesh are Iranian “proxies” that need to be taken out, which is somewhat difficult argument to make when they’re a bunch of religiously diverse groups directly supported by the Iraqi government. And it seems like the presence of these groups in Iraq is the justification for the US escalations…
