Never-Before-Seen Trump Tax Documents Show Major Inconsistencies
A dozen real estate professionals told ProPublica they saw no clear explanation for multiple inconsistencies in the documents. The discrepancies are “versions of fraud,” said Nancy Wallace, a professor of finance and real estate at the Haas School of Business at the University of California-Berkeley. “This kind of stuff is not OK.” New York City’s property tax forms state that the person signing them “affirms the truth of the statements made” and that “false filings are subject to all applicable civil and criminal penalties.”
Documents obtained by ProPublica show stark differences in how Donald Trump’s businesses reported some expenses, profits and occupancy figures for two Manhattan buildings, giving a lender different figures than they provided to New York City tax authorities. The discrepancies made the buildings appear more profitable to the lender — and less profitable to the officials who set the buildings’ property tax.
For instance, Trump told the lender that he took in twice as much rent from one building as he reported to tax authorities during the same year, 2017. He also gave conflicting occupancy figures for one of his signature skyscrapers, located at 40 Wall Street.
Lenders like to see a rising occupancy level as a sign of what they call “leasing momentum.” Sure enough, the company told a lender that 40 Wall Street had been 58.9% leased on Dec. 31, 2012, and then rose to 95% a few years later. The company told tax officials the building was 81% rented as of Jan. 5, 2013.
A dozen real estate professionals told ProPublica they saw no clear explanation for multiple inconsistencies in the documents. The discrepancies are “versions of fraud,” said Nancy Wallace, a professor of finance and real estate at the Haas School of Business at the University of California-Berkeley. “This kind of stuff is not OK.”
New York City’s property tax forms state that the person signing them “affirms the truth of the statements made” and that “false filings are subject to all applicable civil and criminal penalties.”
The punishments for lying to tax officials, or to lenders, can be significant, ranging from fines to criminal fraud charges. Two former Trump associates, Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort, are serving prison time for offenses that include falsifying tax and bank records, some of them related to real estate.
“Certainly, if I were sitting in a prosecutor’s office, I would want to ask a lot more questions,” said Anne Milgram, a former attorney general for New Jersey who is now a professor at New York University School of Law.
Trump has previously been accused of manipulating numbers on his tax and loan documents, including by his former lawyer, Cohen. But Trump’s business is notoriously opaque, with records rarely surfacing, and up till now there’s been little documentary evidence supporting those claims.
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That’s one reason that multiple governmental entities, including two congressional committees and the office of the Manhattan district attorney, have subpoenaed Donald Trump’s tax returns. Trump has resisted, taking his battles to federal courts in Washington and New York. And so the question of whether different parts of the government can see the president’s financial information is now playing out in two appeals courts and seems destined to make it to the U.S. Supreme Court. Add to that a Washington Post account of an IRS whistleblower claiming political interference in the handling of the president’s audit, and the result is what amounts to frenetic interest in one person’s tax returns.
ProPublica obtained the property tax documents using New York’s Freedom of Information Law. The documents were public because Trump appealed his property tax bill for the buildings every year for nine years in a row, the extent of the available records. We compared the tax records with loan records that became public when Trump’s lender, Ladder Capital, sold the debt on his properties as part of mortgage-backed securities.
ProPublica reviewed records for four properties: 40 Wall Street, the Trump International Hotel and Tower, 1290 Avenue of the Americas and Trump Tower. Discrepancies involving two of them — 40 Wall Street and the Trump International Hotel and Tower — stood out.
Trump’s personal attorney at the time, Michael Cohen, keeps watch as supporters lay hands on the then-presidential nominee. “It was my experience that Mr. Trump inflated his total assets when it served his purposes,” Cohen later testified, “and deflated his assets to reduce his real estate taxes.” (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
There can be legitimate reasons for numbers to diverge between tax and loan documents, the experts noted, but some of the gaps seemed to have no reasonable justification. “It really feels like there’s two sets of books — it feels like a set of books for the tax guy and a set for the lender,” said Kevin Riordan, a financing expert and real estate professor at Montclair State University who reviewed the records. “It’s hard to argue numbers. That’s black and white.”
The Trump Organization did not respond on the record to detailed questions provided by ProPublica. Robert Pollack, a lawyer whose firm, Marcus & Pollack, handles Trump’s property tax appeal filings with the city, said he was not authorized to discuss the documents. A spokeswoman for Mazars USA, the accounting firm that signed off on the two properties’ expense and income statements, said the firm does not comment on its work for clients. Executives with Trump’s lender, Ladder Capital, declined to be quoted for the story.
In response to ProPublica’s questions about the disparities, Laura Feyer, deputy press secretary for New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, said of the Trump International Hotel and Tower, “The city is looking into this property, and if there has been any underreporting, we will take appropriate action.”
Taxes have long been a third rail for Trump. Long before he famously declined to make his personal returns public, a New York Times investigation concluded, Trump participated in tax schemes that involved “outright fraud,” and that he had formulated “a strategy to undervalue his parents’ real estate holdings by hundreds of millions of dollars on tax returns.” Trump’s former partners in Panama claimed in a lawsuit, which is ongoing, that Trump’s hotel management company failed to pay taxes on millions in fees it received. Spokespeople for Trump and his company have denied any tax improprieties in the past.
In February, Cohen told Congress that Trump had adjusted figures up or down, as necessary, to obtain loans and avoid taxes. “It was my experience that Mr. Trump inflated his total assets when it served his purposes,” Cohen testified, “and deflated his assets to reduce his real estate taxes.”
The two Trump buildings with the most notable discrepancies shared a financial trait: Both were refinanced in 2015 and 2016 while Trump was campaigning for president. The loan for 40 Wall Street — $160 million — was then the Trump Organization’s biggest debt .
The fortunes of 40 Wall Street have risen and fallen repeatedly since it was constructed in 1930. Once briefly in the running to become the world’s tallest skyscraper (before being eclipsed by the Chrysler Building and then others), the 71-story landmark had an illustrious history before falling into disrepair as it changed hands multiple times.
Trump says in his book “Never Give Up” that he took over 40 Wall Street for $1 million during a down market in 1995. Others have reported the price as $10 million . Trump gave the property his signature treatment, decking out the lobby in Italian marble and bronze and christening it “The Trump Building.” Tenants such as American Express moved in.
But the rent rolls suffered when big-name tenants fled to Midtown in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks. Less blue-chip operations replaced them. In recent years, there were more setbacks. About two years ago, for example, high-end food purveyor Dean & Deluca canceled plans to locate an 18,500-square-foot emporium on the higher-priced first floor. The space remains empty.
The building at 40 Wall was underperforming, charging below-market rents, according to credit-rating agency Moody’s. Its profits were lagging.
Trump’s company, which has sometimes struggled to obtain credit because of his history of bankruptcies and defaults, turned for relief to a financial institution where Donald Trump had a connection: Ladder Capital, which employs Jack Weisselberg, the son of the Trump Organization’s longtime CFO, Allen Weisselberg. Ladder is a publicly traded commercial real estate investment trust that reports more than $6 billion in assets. In 2015, and still today, Jack Weisselberg was an executive director whose job was to make loans.
Trump and Jack Weisselberg had history together. Jack was at UBS, in its loan origination department, in 2006, when the Swiss bank loaned Trump $7 million for his piece of the Trump International Hotel and Tower. Allen Weisselberg had bought a condo from Trump in one of his buildings for a below-market price of $152,500 in 2000. He deeded it to Jack three years later for about $148,000. Jack sold the unit for more than three times as much in 2006. (Jack Weisselberg declined to comment on Ladder’s loans or his relationship with the Trump Organization.)
Even with a sympathetic lender, the struggles at 40 Wall Street would normally raise questions. Trump’s representatives needed to demonstrate signs of the building’s financial health if they wanted a new loan with a lower interest rate.
They had a compelling piece of data, it seemed. Trump’s team told Ladder that occupancy was rebounding after registering a lackluster 58.9% on Dec. 31, 2012. Since then, Trump representatives reported, the building had signed new tenants. Income from them hadn’t fully been realized yet, largely because of free-rent deals, they said. But after 2015, they predicted, revenues would surge.
“That’s a selling point for people in the business,” said Riordan, who was previously the executive director of the Rutgers Center for Real Estate. Borrowers “want to show tremendous leasing momentum.” The steepness of such a rise in occupancy at the Trump building was unusual, Riordan and other experts said.
Documents submitted to city property tax officials show no such run-up. Trump representatives reported to the tax authorities that the building was already 81% leased in 2012.
“What is bizarre is that you have these tax filings that are totally different,” Riordan said. A gap of at least 10 percentage points between the two occupancy reports persisted for the next two years, before the figures in the tax and loan reports synced in January 2016.
The portrayal of a rapid rise in occupancy, and the explanation that income would soon follow, were critical for the refinancing. Indeed, Ladder’s underwriters were predicting that 40 Wall Street’s profits would more than double after 2015. Having reviewed Trump’s financial statements and rent roll, they estimated the building would clear $22.6 million a year in net operating income.
Ladder needed credit ratings agencies like Moody’s and Fitch to endorse its income expectations and give the loan a favorable rating, which would in turn make it easier for the next step of the plan: to package the loan as part of a bond, a so-called commercial mortgage-backed security, and sell it to investors. Without the expected rise in income, Riordan said, the loan size or terms would likely have needed to be renegotiated to satisfy the ratings agencies and investors, which would mean less favorable terms for Trump and Ladder. “There was a story crafted here,” Riordan said. “It’s contradicted by what we see in the tax filings.”
Wallace, the University of California professor, added: “Especially in underwriting loans, you are supposed to truthfully report.” Both the lender and the borrower are required to supply accurate information, she said.
Moody’s and Fitch analysts found the underwriter’s projections slightly too rosy, but Fitch conferred an investment-grade rating on the loan, allowing it to proceed as planned. Trump ultimately received a 10-year loan with a lower interest rate than the building previously had as well as terms that would allow him to defer paying off much of the principal until the end of the loan.
Once granted, the loan to 40 Wall Street ran into trouble: The year after it went through, the loan servicer put it on a “watch list” because of concerns that the building wasn’t making sufficient profit to pay the debt service with enough of a margin. It stayed on the list for three months. (Trump’s company has continued making payments.)
As of 2018, the most recent year available, the building had never met the underwriters’ profit expectations, trailing by more than 8%, according to data from commercial real estate research service Trepp. Experts say that, given the amount of research underwriters do, a property typically meets their expectations fairly quickly.
The 40 Wall Street documents contain discrepancies related to costs as well as to occupancy. Generally, there are “more opportunities to play games on the expense side,” said Ron Shapiro, an assistant professor at Rutgers Business School and a former bank senior vice president, “particularly because there are many more kinds of expenses.”
Comparing specific expense items in both sets of records is challenging, because accountants may group categories differently in reports to tax and loan officials. But some differences on 40 Wall Street documents elicit head-scratching.
For example, insurance costs in 2017 were listed as $744,521 in tax documents and $457,414 in loan records.
Then there was the underlying lease. Trump technically doesn’t own 40 Wall Street. He pays the wealthy German family that owns the property for the right to rent the building to tenants. In 2015, both Trump’s report to tax authorities and a key loan disclosure document asserted that Trump’s company paid $1.65 million for these rights that year. But a line-by-line income and expense statement, which Trepp gathered from what the company reported to the loan servicer, reported the company paid about $1.24 million that year.
“I don’t know why that would be off,” said Jason Hoffman, who is chair of the real estate committee for a professional association of certified public accountants in New York state. Like other experts, he said there are legitimate reasons why tax and loan filings might not line up perfectly. But Hoffman said the firm where he works makes sure the numbers match when it prepares both tax and loan documents for a client — or that it can explain why if they don’t.
Financial information for the Trump International Hotel and Tower raises similar questions. Trump owns only a small portion of the building, which is located on Columbus Circle: two commercial spaces, which he rents out to a restaurant and a parking garage. Trump’s company told New York City tax officials it made about $822,000 renting space to commercial tenants there in 2017, records show. The company told loan officials it took in $1.67 million that year — more than twice as much. In eight years of data ProPublica examined for the Columbus Circle property, Trump’s company reported gross income to tax authorities that was typically only about 81% of what it reported to the lender.
Trump appeared to omit from tax documents income his company received from leasing space on the roof for television antennas, a ProPublica review found. The line on tax appeal forms for income from such communications equipment is blank on nine years of tax filings, even as loan documents listed the antennas as major sources of income.
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Trump has an easement to lease the roof space; he doesn’t own it. But three tax experts, including Melanie Brock, an appraiser and paralegal who has worked on hundreds of New York City tax cases, told ProPublica that the income should still be reported on the tax appeals forms.
It’s hard to guess what might explain every inconsistency, said David Wilkes, a New York City tax lawyer who is chair of the National Association of Property Tax Attorneys. But, he added, “My gut reaction is it seems like there’s something amiss there.”
Tax records for Trump personally and for his business continue to be subjects of contention in multiple investigations. The Justice Department has intervened in the investigation by the Manhattan district attorney, whose office has sought Trump’s personal tax returns. Congressional lawmakers investigating his business dealings have sought documents from his longtime accountant, Donald Bender, a partner at Mazars. Trump is fighting the subpoenas in court. (Bender did not respond to requests for comment.)
Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md. , chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has said the committee is seeking to determine if Cohen’s testimony about Trump inflating and deflating his assets was accurate. Cummings asked for Mazars’ records related to Trump entities, as well as communications between Bender and Trump or Trump employees since 2009.
Such communications, the subpoena stated, should include any related to potential concerns that information Trump or his representatives provided his accountants was “incomplete, inaccurate, or otherwise unsatisfactory.”
More evidence he is a crook.
For your sake, I hope that's true. I feel like you need a win.
Last election was a pretty damn big win.
Not by historical standards.
The GOP lost fewer seats in Trump's first midterm than Democrats did in Obama or Clinton's first midterms.
A Blue wave ?
You do know that the Real Buck stops or Goes in the Senate ?
Which party gained in the more important part of D.C. ?
Sometimes the IRS gets it wrong, but I've never known the IRS to get it wrong in your favor. If the MSM can take a transcript of a phone call and convince many the fake is the truth and the real one is the lie, then think what they can do to a billionaire's tax information, using the general public's ignorance of even simple tax returns, much less those of this magnitude. I'm pretty confident Donald Trump has been audited every year for decades by the IRS and if they haven't put him in jail for tax fraud, then he is most definitely innocent of any tax fraud. Next.
I guess that wouldn't make for as sexy a headline.
He's been doing this stuff his entire life.
Yeah, but no one cared to try and prosecute him for it until he was elected president. That smells. If you had asked me 4 years ago if I thought Trump was crooked in some way, I would have said, Sure, probably. Why not?! He always struck me as being full of shit. But now, it's impossible not to see it as some political game.
You see it as a political game rather than the system trying to correct an error of installing what you see as a full of shit crook? Amazing.
Wow, after the Clintons how can anyone on make that statement?
We have this little thing called elections. If the majority of the voters in each state agree that Trump is not a good president, then he will be voted out of office. Or is the left now against elections?
The Dems 24/7 shit impeachment show since Trump was announced the winner has been nothing short of abuse of power. Now they are on to closed door secret impeachment inquiry; where the Dems get to ask the only questions- and only a select few Republicans can monitor.
The proper course of action for that is to elect somebody different in the next election. That's different from the purpose of impeachment, which is to remove someone from office for things they have done while they were in office, not for things they did before being elected.
For example, when Nixon was being investigated, the House committee rejected articles of impeachment for tax fraud on the grounds that even if the accusations were true, they had nothing to do with his work as president. The alleged fraud would have taken place before he was president.
No, what's amazing is that 1)you have no respect for the process and 2) you add things to my words to create a straw man. I didn't say I thought he was a crook. Conceding that he is capable of being a crook does not mean that I think he actually has committed specific crimes. And anyway, being full of shit is not a crime. If it were, we would have to jail everyone in Washington.
That's it...... The Clintons they, Hillary she.
You just can't seem to deal with the matter at hand can you?
Oh.... and BTW..... I DIDN"T MAKE THAT STATEMENT!!!! TACOS DID!
Look, we get it already that many still can't deal with the truth-Trump won the election.
He was "installed" like every single President in your lifetime was.
He got the required number of electoral votes (actually, quite a few more) like every other President in your lifetime.
You damned right it's political. All of these years of supposed nefarious actions and just NOW they decide it's time to investigate? WTF was the IRS, SDNY, and all of this bullshit in his private life? Nowhere...................for a reason. It wasn't that big a deal then..........but is now? It's fucking ridiculous. If all of this is "something", why in the holy hell did it not come out prior to his nomination and, in your words, error in installation? It's crapola and you know it but if it helps you sleep at night, enjoy..........while you can.
Are you afraid that Trump will follow Democrats' lead and not accept the results of an election?
Your point is mere speculation, while the last 3 years have SHOWN us exactly how Democrats react to a very bad loss.
I predict they will either have to embrace the doors trump has opened or they all have a meltdown when someone else uses the same tactics.
I say the latter.
Worry away, then.
Seems like a very productive thing to do.
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me neither !
When has he not accepted a defeat?
But, we do know when Democrats have not....
Impeach 45, Russia, Ukraine, two scoops of ice cream
Damn it you forgot the chocolate cake.........
And true.
Don't forget the true part.
Should he lose the 2020 election, can we expect the same from him and his followers?
.It's doubtful that he will lose in 2020. The Democrats will be up to their elbows in scandal;.
and they have no electable candidates
If all of this is "something", why in the holy hell did it not come out prior to his nomination.
I suggest you ask Moscow Mitch..... He promised to make it political if any of this information was made public BEFORE the election!!!!
And save the theatrics..... You ignored everything anyway that was in your face PRIOR TO THE ELECTION.....
Jim, you've shut your eyes to all of this information before the election, so why would we expect you to open your eyes now?
the retarded comprehension dissabilities have reached new depths in Denial.
The mental midgets Lying, while defining anything ever negative as hoax fake news is just
SO FCKN OFF THE CHARTS
even for the ma and pop tarts,
as it's below the charts,
wiping off the maps
of Sharpie unenhanced predictions from
the PREDICTATOR wanna be who only praises 'strong men ' leaders '
while being a weak minded
fooling only the like.
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And if You don't like,
it's about time to cease and insist, unless the mentally deficient can produce a coefficient argument, i'm going to have to pass on said argument.
As their inability to choose a choice worthy of a heard voice,
is larenghitus to ear & knows throats
doctored by DENIAL, FALSE FAX, PSEUDO REALITIES, WITCH HUNTZ and praise on minds too week
too dense
too invested in a Capitol Molested,
by a pussy grabbin back stabbin mentally misalighned segment in Americas History, that will be the embarrassmeant of our entire short of our meager 2 and a half men and their cent story
as HIS story,
should have been the fairy tale of course in Fiction, not the coarse cause of friction,
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the Reality forced upon US All that have been immune to the infection brought forth by minds too small that couldn't hear more than what they wanted to.
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still defending this unremovable STAIN
on Our WHITE HOUSE with the BLUE ADDRESS,
cause Trump BLOWS
all others a way that should have NEVER BEEN SWALLOWED !
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yet they still can't spit it out, our countries future is left in the doubt
My eyes are wide open. That you think that any of your "talking points" were relevant prior to the election, says more about you than me.
are you sure Trump just isn't live streaming what he projects on the screens planted while screening what Trump wants you to see through the windows openly shutting out your ability to not see what he continues to display on the interior of your openly shut eye lids ?
I love all of the ...."I don't care.", and "None of my business." responses. That's precisely the problem with so many like you willingly turning a blind eye to the truth about Trump.
Your an enabler of a shitty businessman becoming our shitty president.
What?
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Don't even bother to try and decipher the gibberish. It simply isn't worth the time or effort.
How has ANY of your "points" affected you and yours personal lives? Curious. So many never Trumpers keep pointing to things such as you did and can't answer that simple question. So now is your time to shine. And no generalizations please. I asked for personally.
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You keep making this stupid argument.
If Trump shot someone in the middle of Times Square it would not effect you personally . If Trump poisoned all the water in Ceylon it wouldnt effect you personally. If he drowned a thousand cats it wouldnt effect you personally, so by your "logic" none of those things would be wrong or disqualify him to lead America.
So wrong. So many levels. All of those would be illegal and not just some hope filled scenario if carried out. And if he did any of them, even not affecting me, I would not stand for it. Now, how does that equate if the points FN made were illegal? I'll wait.
**Hint: Lies ----- they aren't illegal last I knew**
This is about character and morality Jim. Plain and simple.
You seem to honor a liar, a cheat, a poor business acumen, a coward, and someone that has no hesitation to dishonor distinguished members of the armed services.
Trump has dishonored every aspect of the type of fairness and honor that America is suppose to stand for. Have previous presidents made mistakes that didn't serve America well? Sure they did, but never with the complete and blatant disregard for the rule of law and decency that America has been known for until this time.
Strange as you may find it, I put the entire concept that is America ahead of my life. Article I of the POW code of conduct states: I am an American, fighting in the forces which guard my country and our way of life. I am prepared to give my life in their defense. That phrase has honored a place on my desk since I left active duty many years ago. I feel more strongly today than ever about it.
Its about character and morality to lead this county. Trump has neither of those characteristics.
I know I make too much sense for some people, but I can't help it.
Trump is not being criticized for his looks. He is being impeached for illegality.
Your "argument" that he is beyond criticism because some people like what he is doing , and his wrong doing isnt effecting anyone personally, is ridiculous.
Damned good thing because there is none of that to be found in this 'president' or his family or administration or cabinet.
I honor the office and the occupant therein that holds the position that was duly elected. Do I believe all that he says? Nope. Do I necessarily approve of all the things that he may have done prior to taking said office? Nope again. I like what he sees a ss From election night 2016 to the present, he has had to face total undying vitriol from the opposing party who just couldn't deal with him winning. Did I like Mr. Obama? His private life yes. His vision for the US? Not a damned bit but, I never pounded on him the way that several here and elsewhere do on a constant and consistent basis. Yes there were some that did but not to the degree of always having to be second guessed and offered up forums, like this, to air their differences and just plain hate for the man. I look at what he does NOT what he says. Only a fool would believe EVERY word that comes forth from his cheeseberder slot. Every conservative I know just blows off the bluster as a distraction to what he is trying to do. That is, Make America Great Again and getting back to the basics of what the US was founded on. Patriotism, and the desire to follow the Constitution of the United States and quit the candyassed policies that were tried to stuff down our throats as the "new normal". The status quo was soundly rejected in 2016 and with any luck, will be again in 2020.
In closing, thank you for your service and "discussion" as I like hearing/reading other's opinions. I don't always have to agree but that is what is one of the great things about the US. Freedom of speech, thought, and the ability to express same.
So what does that say about you XD? That you don't "require character or morality out of the person that occupies the White House?
How about the emoluments clause of the US Constitution... Once again and now blatantly out in the open with the G7 being held at Trump's property:
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
Clear violation of the US Constitution that you swore to uphold and defend..... Just like I did. You giving Trump a pass on this one too?
America Great Again and getting back to the basics of what the US was founded on.
FYI.... America has always been great Jim. And as far as the basics..... Since when has any president been in violation of the emoluments clause of the US Constitution like this president is with the G7 at Doral?
it's not knew,
as a potUS can be impeached for LYING.
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luckily no evidence of that though...
That's why his folks shipped the bully/rapist to military school. It didn't take.
Which kid will Rump kick under the bus?
What.... is this a trick question?
BTW..... Where is Jared these days? I'm betting Trump is going to line him up for the death of the Kurds.....you know cause Jared knew everything about the Middle East.
He's sparing Ivanka if anyone so that would include Jared I would think.
Do we need a total revamp of the "IRS" investigation system ?
Well well well Trumpers. Ain't that a kick in the pants!
But doncha know they'll claim it's fake news etc.
These pants ?
Is it finally time to impeach Trump?
The problem with this approach is that Trump may not have done anything illegal. Many state laws allow different accounting practices for different purposes. State laws really have legalized a lot of shady practices in real estate development. That's why foreign investors have been using real estate as a tax haven in the United States.
Greed is not and never has been a moral virtue. But states really have legalized greed. Trump may have done something immoral but not illegal. Trump isn't the only politician that has taken advantage of legal but shady real estate laws.
Oh no JR posted another article from a leftwing rag that claims Trump is crooked...Shocker.
If the evidence is there charge him then, why are we writing articles about it?
Why is the sky so high?
Let us know when you have something pertinent to say.
Be thankful he didn't splatter your seed with off topic memes.
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You keep forgetting that they aren't allowed to charge a sitting President, at least not the DOJ. And ProPublica definitely cannot charge anybody themselves.
Yeah, but this time, they really, really, really, really, really have him!
LMFAO!
Typical. White collar crimes get looked over or a slap on the wrist.
It looks bad. Does it help Make America Great Again?
sewer Grate
The only thing this 'president' cares about is if it helps him great again.
Trump's grandfather was a tax evader also. The orange glow acorn didn't fall far from that tree.
So prove it then.
https://hoax-alert.leadstories.com/3470948-fake-news-no-proof-trumps-grandfather-was...
Claim: Trump's grandfather was a pimp and tax evader; his father a member of the KKK
False · Fact checked by hoax-alert.leadstories.com