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Monday, September 28, 2020

Bombshell?

Not really. Everybody who doesn't need a glass navel to see already knew that the Resident is a total phony who is an utter failure at business, doesn't pay federal income taxes, and why was he so desperate not to have his tax returns public? Duhh.

But actually, he's a criminal, as, again, everybody whose head can be found without a colonoscope already knew that too. The enablers are seizing on the sentence in the NY report that says there is no new information about ties to Russia, but the returns don't tell us anything about who he owes the $300 million to. But we already know the answer to that. Who would loan $300 million without collateral to a serial bankrupt? 

The problem is that everybody who didn't already know this would need a glass navel to see, and they don't have one. So it doesn't really matter as far as the election is concerned. It will suck up most of the oxygen for the next couple of weeks, I should think, and make him more desperate. Narcissists handle humiliation like swallowing hot coals. What the actual outcome may be I prefer not to contemplate.

Sad update: As I fully expected, the response of cultists to this non-revelation is that he's smart not to pay taxes and doesn't everybody try to beat the tax man? So right on cue, I get the comments to that effect. But one consequence of being willfully blind is that you can't read. The point is not his federal income tax payments, it's that he is a criminal who owes hundreds of millions of dollars that he cannot repay to entities unknown. Maybe we should find out who they are.

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