Dumdumleft media dismiss Trump’s tax fraud, defend him against Russia charges
After The New York Times’ Sunday report that Donald Trump paid only seven hundred and fifty dollars in income tax in 2016 and 2017 — while teachers, firefighters, and nurses paid thousands more — ostensibly left figures excused his failure to pay any “income taxes at all in ten of the previous fifteen years.”
From the September 27 New York Times’ article:
“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.”
Assad apologist Kyle Kulinski:
The Insurgents’ podcast host Jordan Uhl:
Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi responded smugly to the New York Times’ revelations about Trump’s tax fraud: “Lol at this offhand detail in the Times piece: ‘Nor do [tax records] reveal any previously unreported connections to Russia.’”
Genocide denier Aaron Maté spun the story as proof of no Trump-Russia malfeasance:
Anti-Semitic commentator Niko House complained that Trump’s tax fraud distracted from “Bill Clinton being caught with underage women on Epstein Island.”
Doxxer Tim Black asked on the September 29 edition of TBTV: “How’d Trump get so rich? He got so rich because they’ve been bolstering Trump from the beginning. Trump is so in part due to Joe Biden. Who wrote the tax code? See, there’s a lot you can blame Trump for, but you can’t blame him for anything political in our country. A system in our country that has garbage politics. That has tax codes that benefit the rich, and screw over the poor and the middle class… This is not a phenomenon that was created by Donald Trump. This exists for all businesses, you know who else didn’t pay taxes? I have no problem with you being critical of Donald Trump, in fact, I welcome criticism of Donald Trump. Just make it fair criticism and make it across the board.”
Director at the American Economic Liberties Project, Matt Stoller, gave a slippery “both sides” take on The Hill’s Rising: “We know he doesn’t pay taxes. He’s a bad businessman who doesn’t pay taxes, and inherited all of his money. And basically he’s a con artist, and we’ve known that for a long time… I hope democrats make a big deal of it — it is a big deal — but at the same time, if Obama had enforced the law against the powerful.”
He expounded: “If we had a real justice department that was focusing on white-collar crime, Donald Trump wouldn’t be President,” adding that Trump’s tax fraud was “a bipartisan problem.”
Stoller clarified that “Donald Trump should be held accountable for not paying taxes, for what could be tax fraud.”
Rising’s September 28 video was excitedly headlined “Krystal and Saagar REACT: NYT REVEALS Trump Taxes, Corruption Revealed, Russiagaters HUMILIATED.”
“There’s a lot of gross stuff here, but don’t forget the way it was built up, if we see these returns, his presidency is over,” Krystal Ball said snarkily. “He’s finished. Politically dead.”
“Because of the way these things were built up by the media,” Ball said. “The fact that they’re normal bad, instead of earth-shattering, catastrophic bad means that it will have a lot less political impact than if they hadn’t built up expectations so high.
“So, obviously one of the ways where the expectations were built to the moon was on Russia, Matt points it out,” Ball added. “There is one line in the story — ‘btw, no Russia entanglements that we hadn’t seen before.’ There’s another line that some have seized on. I saw John Hardwick on CNN last night trying to make something of this, The Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow was particularly profitable… so they’re like we have a lot of questions about that. It’s like, come on guys! Just let it go.”
Lee J. Carter, an incumbent member of the Virginia House of Delegates
from the 50th district, wrote on Twitter:
Jimmy Dore, who recently declared that Michelle Obama should be in prison, responded to the gravity of Trump’s tax fraud by reading a graph from The Post titled “The top tax rate has been cut six times since 1980 — usually with Democrat’s help.”
He reminded listeners — via a David Sirota tweet — that the one percent steal two hundred and sixty-six billion dollars in unpaid taxes every year.
“Trump did not make that — that’s been going on for a long time — Trump has added to it,” Dore stated.