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njbill wrote: ↑Sat Sep 26, 2020 5:16 pm Joe won’t take the bait. None of Wallace’s questions will be about irrelevant issues (should we get into the criminal investigation against Eric?).

If Trump tries to get personal, Biden can simply pivot and ignore him. It will make Trump look petty (easy to do) and Biden presidential.

cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 7:25 am

njbill wrote: ↑Sat Sep 26, 2020 5:16 pm Joe won’t take the bait. None of Wallace’s questions will be about irrelevant issues (should we get into the criminal investigation against Eric?).

If Trump tries to get personal, Biden can simply pivot and ignore him. It will make Trump look petty (easy to do) and Biden presidential.

Pivot and ignore would be the right move. Easy to say and harder to do. Bidens dislike for trump goes beyond skin deep. IMO it is easier for trump to dump on Biden than to discuss his knowledge of the issues.

youthathletics wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 9:46 am drip-drip-drip....https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... ebody-pus/

Mr. Biden said Ms. Harris, a senator from California, is “so good” and “so damn bright and knowledgeable.”

“She’s ready to be president on day one if I - if somebody pushed me off a roof or something,” he said. “There are a lot of really fine women that I had to choose from, but I think she’s ready on day one.”

Maybe this is why she bounced early in the primary...so the DNC could pair her with their choice.

ggait wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 4:42 pm Flag flies on my house 365 days a year. And I’m 100% Never Trump.

Country over party is patriotic.

MAGA not patriotic at all.

ggait wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 4:42 pm Flag flies on my house 365 days a year. And I’m 100% Never Trump.

Country over party is patriotic.

MAGA not patriotic at all.

ggait wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 4:42 pm Flag flies on my house 365 days a year. And I’m 100% Never Trump.

Country over party is patriotic.

MAGA not patriotic at all.

cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 4:56 pm

ggait wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 4:42 pm Flag flies on my house 365 days a year. And I’m 100% Never Trump.

Country over party is patriotic.

MAGA not patriotic at all.

+1 our flag is for all Americans.

njbill wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 5:26 pm Pete, what do you think the design on the flag will look like with 52 stars?

The President’s Taxes
Long-Concealed Records Show Trump’s Chronic Losses and Years of Tax Avoidance

The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due.

By Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and Mike McIntire

Sept. 27, 2020

Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750.

He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years — largely because he reported losing much more money than he made.

As the president wages a re-election campaign that polls say he is in danger of losing, his finances are under stress, beset by losses and hundreds of millions of dollars in debt coming due that he has personally guaranteed. Also hanging over him is a decade-long audit battle with the Internal Revenue Service over the legitimacy of a $72.9 million tax refund that he claimed, and received, after declaring huge losses. An adverse ruling could cost him more than $100 million.

The tax returns that Mr. Trump has long fought to keep private tell a story fundamentally different from the one he has sold to the American public. His reports to the I.R.S. portray a businessman who takes in hundreds of millions of dollars a year yet racks up chronic losses that he aggressively employs to avoid paying taxes. Now, with his financial challenges mounting, the records show that he depends more and more on making money from businesses that put him in potential and often direct conflict of interest with his job as president.

The New York Times has obtained tax-return data extending over more than two decades for Mr. Trump and the hundreds of companies that make up his business organization, including detailed information from his first two years in office. It does not include his personal returns for 2018 or 2019. This article offers an overview of The Times’s findings; additional articles will be published in the coming weeks.

The returns are some of the most sought-after, and speculated-about, records in recent memory. In Mr. Trump’s nearly four years in office — and across his endlessly hyped decades in the public eye — journalists, prosecutors, opposition politicians and conspiracists have, with limited success, sought to excavate the enigmas of his finances. By their very nature, the filings will leave many questions unanswered, many questioners unfulfilled. They comprise information that Mr. Trump has disclosed to the I.R.S., not the findings of an independent financial examination. They report that Mr. Trump owns hundreds of millions of dollars in valuable assets, but they do not reveal his true wealth. Nor do they reveal any previously unreported connections to Russia.

Peter Brown wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 5:13 pm

cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 4:56 pm

ggait wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 4:42 pm Flag flies on my house 365 days a year. And I’m 100% Never Trump.

Country over party is patriotic.

MAGA not patriotic at all.

+1 our flag is for all Americans.

It used to be...

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/09/27/l ... -unlawful/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... tland.html

https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2020/se ... nd-threats

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 4:57 pm

ggait wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 4:42 pm Flag flies on my house 365 days a year. And I’m 100% Never Trump.

Country over party is patriotic.

MAGA not patriotic at all.

Our 4th of July little flags have remained up all summer and into the fall.
Probably should pack'em up, but I'm feeling ornery.

RedFromMI wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 5:50 pm

The President’s Taxes
Long-Concealed Records Show Trump’s Chronic Losses and Years of Tax Avoidance

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... e=Homepage

The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due.

By Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and Mike McIntire

Sept. 27, 2020

Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750.

He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years — largely because he reported losing much more money than he made.

As the president wages a re-election campaign that polls say he is in danger of losing, his finances are under stress, beset by losses and hundreds of millions of dollars in debt coming due that he has personally guaranteed. Also hanging over him is a decade-long audit battle with the Internal Revenue Service over the legitimacy of a $72.9 million tax refund that he claimed, and received, after declaring huge losses. An adverse ruling could cost him more than $100 million.

The tax returns that Mr. Trump has long fought to keep private tell a story fundamentally different from the one he has sold to the American public. His reports to the I.R.S. portray a businessman who takes in hundreds of millions of dollars a year yet racks up chronic losses that he aggressively employs to avoid paying taxes. Now, with his financial challenges mounting, the records show that he depends more and more on making money from businesses that put him in potential and often direct conflict of interest with his job as president.

The New York Times has obtained tax-return data extending over more than two decades for Mr. Trump and the hundreds of companies that make up his business organization, including detailed information from his first two years in office. It does not include his personal returns for 2018 or 2019. This article offers an overview of The Times’s findings; additional articles will be published in the coming weeks.

The returns are some of the most sought-after, and speculated-about, records in recent memory. In Mr. Trump’s nearly four years in office — and across his endlessly hyped decades in the public eye — journalists, prosecutors, opposition politicians and conspiracists have, with limited success, sought to excavate the enigmas of his finances. By their very nature, the filings will leave many questions unanswered, many questioners unfulfilled. They comprise information that Mr. Trump has disclosed to the I.R.S., not the findings of an independent financial examination. They report that Mr. Trump owns hundreds of millions of dollars in valuable assets, but they do not reveal his true wealth. Nor do they reveal any previously unreported connections to Russia.

My bolding - this is a very long article, and looks like they really have the goods.

njbill wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 5:38 pm Well if you like the 50 star version, after we add DC in Puerto Rico, we could combine North and South Dakota and North and South Carolina.

njbill wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 5:38 pm Well if you like the 50 star version, after we add DC in Puerto Rico, we could combine North and South Dakota and North and South Carolina.