It looks like great reporting highlighting issues voters should consider
I don't think I need to spend time summarizing a really long article for you, as you are one of the few smart conservatives left on here (hence you not voting for Trump). A few highlights from memory:
- The optics of how little he pays are terrible, not remotely a surprise but voters deserve to know this
- Also no surprise, his most profitable activities were being a celebrity and stiffing lenders. Not being a businessman or a real estate developer where if his returns are true he was running big operating losses before the pandemic
- His properties like the DC hotel and Mar a Lago are benefiting from him being president
- I didn't read anything saying definitively he broke the law or was a tax cheat, but there's a ton of smoke there that hopefully the IRS will sort out. And his family is very much mixed up in these items. His eagerness to appoint lackey's and exert pressure on agencies should be concerning.
- To me the conclusion was not that he was a tax cheat (although he may be), but that Trump has some major debts coming due and a potential 9 figure audit loss, which combined would mean he needs to come up with more than $400M in a few years with very little liquid holdings. Adding to many other opportunities documented where he could have conflicts of interest with foreign governments.
To know how this piece is evidence that the NYT's is biased and doesn't feature great investigative journalism is my question back to you. This man has presented himself as a genius businessman whose wealth makes him impossible to buy. The NYT serves up additional evidence that he's a terrible businessman and potentially facing desperate financial circumstances.
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Posted: 09/27/2020 at 8:34PM