Discussion: Is Trump A Tax Code Genius? Hardly, Says Former Trump Accountant

Nothing to see here. . . just another Trump lie. Move along.

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Iā€™m gonna hire him ā€¦ wanna be a ā€œgeniusā€ too ā€”

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Trumpā€™s response: ā€œBut I did a tremendous job hiring this guy. There are plenty of tax experts out there who didnā€™t know you can use capital losses to offset capital gains. Almost no one knows that. Except this guy. And me. I knew that, so I hired him. I did a tremendous job.ā€

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Is Trump A Tax Code Cheat Genius?

Certifiably.

jw1

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ā€œI did all the tax preparation. He never saw the product until it was presented to him for signature.ā€

I understand Mitnick was laid off when Trump outsourced his tax preparation to China.

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If only he would release his taxes so we could behold his genius firsthand. Iā€™m sure theyā€™re suitable for framing and, possibly, worthy of a permanent shrine/display at Wharton.

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Trump: Fine. I am still a genius in running a business and losing around $1 Billion. Who can say that in America? I did it at the time when Billion$$ meant something.

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Cheeto Donnieā€™s only ā€˜geniusā€™ vis-a-vis the tax code is hiring accountants and lawyersā€¦

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Some one needs to count all the tax laws/codes and figure out how many days/years it would take tRump to read, comprehend, discuss with appropriate committees, and get them changed/fixed.
Iā€™m willing to be that tRump doesnā€™t have the stamina nor concentration to get through reading one law.

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uhhhhā€¦ Ooh! Ooh!
Thatā€™s because Donald already knew all the answers! Right?

Hey, has any member of the press actually asked Donnie a moderately difficult tax question with a clear simple answer that anyone who knows the tax system best could actually answer off the top of his head?

Say, a question off a test youā€™d need to pass to do taxes for H&R Block.

Yā€™know, to demonstrate his prowess. There should be no difficult with that, should there?

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Canā€™t wait to see how donald will be bragging after someone does brain surgery on him for the first time. 'Cause that experience alone will make him a top flight neurosurgeon. the best.

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I would love to hear that somebody in the town hall debate would ask trump detailed questions about the tax code. As in stuff only an expert would understand. I bet trump would deflect somehow and blame Hillary for rigging the debate.

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I believe this guy. After watching Trump for almost a year now, itā€™s clear he doesnā€™t sweat the details. Heā€™s undoubtedly no tax expert.

Unfortunately, the position heā€™s running for requires a mastery of details. As such, heā€™s remarkably unsuited to be President. About the only thing he has going for him is his birth certificate.

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This could be meant a snarkā€¦

And yet, Hugh Hewitt used this as the main positive in the Trump campaign after Hewitt announced that ā€œPence won the debateā€.

Hewitt stated that Trump would say, in effect, that his selection of the (skillful) Pence at VP proved that, as President, he has the ability to select an outstanding teamā€¦thus making the case (to swing voters and undecideds) that (a) Trump should be elected and (b) there would be a massive upswing in Trumpā€™s polling.

In itself, this meant little. Political factions are going to portray their situation in the best possible light.

I have mentioned elsewhere that the journalistic malpractice of Chris Mathews in rendering an ā€œobjectiveā€ analysis of the VP Debate as close to Hewittā€™s nonsense as humanly possible was a shameful tarnishing of whatā€™s left of his ā€œreputationā€.

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Dr. Ben Carson would give DT an A+, even if the patient died.

And then DT would blame Hillary.

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The extent of Trumpā€™s tax code genius:

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He understands taxes better than accounts, war better than generals and brain surgery better than Ben Carsonā€¦ok ā€¦that last one is trueā€¦he he heā€¦

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Here are the circumstances under which Iā€™d consider Trump a genius:

  1. He prepared the taxes himself.
  2. He paid no taxes for 18 years.
  3. The IRS found nothing untoward about the returns.
  4. This was all based on personal income of $916 million.

That would be impressive.

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