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Well, I do kind of suspect Trump has been somewhat disappointed in his two previous picks.

Which one is it?

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Which one is it?

Neither.

Neither is not even a possibility.

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Neither is not even a possibility.

It is when your source is OAN. They aren't known for presentation of either facts or truth. Heck, they make FOX News seem mostly honest.

Yawn...

Let me know when you have something of honesty, integrity and value to share. I'll be on a decades long vacation til then.

It turns out that there was some truth to the Russian collusion we heard so much about over the past four years. Employing several cutouts including the Perkins Coie law firm, the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee colluded with a suspected Russian spy to trash Donald Trump and give the FBI what it wanted to spy on the Trump campaign and undermine the Trump presidency. On that score, mission accomplished.

It is a shocking story on which we have long had a handle. This past week, however, the picture came into sharper focus with newly declassified evidence regarding the key source for the lurid allegations of the Steele Dossier. See Eric Felten’s RCP column “Dossier Source Was a Suspected Russian Spy, and the FBI Knew It When It Spied on Carter Page” and Andrew McCarthy’s NR column “Steele’s Dossier Source Was a Suspected Russian Spy.”

This is the biggest political scandal in American history — and the most prominent organs of the mainstream media as well as many of their lesser lights are complicit in it. It goes to the top of the Obama administration and implicates the Democratic presidential nominee. As of this moment, however, they all go on their merry way. Whether any protagonist will ever pay a price remains at best an open question.

LONG-CONCEALED RECORDS SHOW TRUMP’S CHRONIC LOSSES
AND YEARS OF TAX AVOIDANCE

The Times obtained 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.

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 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 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
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 Trump has disclosed to
the I.R.S., not the findings of an independent financial examination. They report that 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.

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LONG-CONCEALED RECORDS SHOW TRUMP’S CHRONIC LOSSES
AND YEARS OF TAX AVOIDANCE

The Times obtained 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.

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 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 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
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 Trump has disclosed to
the I.R.S., not the findings of an independent financial examination. They report that 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.

(nyt)

This article
offers an overview of The Times’s findings; additional articles will be published in the coming weeks.

NYT 1, coldjoint zero.

Biden Compares Trump To Nazi Goebbels, As Dems Scream About ‘Reichstag’

The left—who not only state they will not accept a Trump win but are openly planning to pack the Supreme Court, add two new states to shore up a Senate majority, and demolish the Electoral College—is leaping on this craziness as if it has meaning or is in any way tethered to reality.

Of course, they have not an ounce of self-awareness about who is really seeking “total power” and which lies they keep repeating hoping they are believed.

Bottom line, this is old news repackaged.

It points out that they still have nothing on Trump but accusations.

and questioned how a UN "resolution" could possibly result in sending a first-world nation back into the stone age, with slave trading on the streets.

Yawn...

Let me know when you have something of honesty, integrity and value to share. I'll be on a decades long vacation til then.

to coldjoint:

Sturgis wrote:

Yawn...

Let me know when you have something of honesty, integrity and value to share. I'll be on a decades long vacation til then.