So Trump Didn’t Pay Any Taxes. So What?

So, if you want to figure out how much Trump cheated on his tax returns, you can go three different ways. You can download the 6,000 pages of his returns and then wade through them page after page. You can also download and examine the analysis of his returns as published by House Ways & Means. Or you can quickly read one of the many Fake News articles about his returns that have appeared over the last few days.

I did all three, and like everything else which is said or published about Trump, I ended up thinking that of course he’s a liar and a blowhard, but so what?

Let’s not forget that this is a guy (read: Donald Trump) who has earned a lot more money by doing reality TV than he ever earned from selling shirts, after-shave lotion or steaks. And reality TV is about as real as the 2024 Presidential campaign that Trump announced last month.

Yesterday or maybe the day before I saw the umpteenth ‘opinion’ piece in the Fake News about how Trump still represents a ‘threat.’ He’s going to win the election, then he’s going to get rid of Civil Service and give Marjorie Taylor Greene, his Vice President, authority to staff every Federal agency from the ground up.

In the process, the second Trump Administration will ‘terminate’ various parts of the Constitution, declare the EPA and the CDC to be shut down…