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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMuch of the distrust of Donald Trump began when he lied about turning over his tax returns.
At first, it was his story that they were "in audit" and that he would definitely turn them over before the election in 2016.
He lied and he was successful in hiding his tax returns. He has managed to hide them up to this very day. He has gone all the way to the Supreme Court in order to keep them secret.
What was in those returns that was damaging that he would go to such extremes. Except for Republicans, most everyone was suspicious of his refusal to make public his tax returns or his business dealing with foreign leaders, including dictators unfriendly to America.
It was "un-American" not to be concerned with his financial activities. How could any honest American pretend that it didn't matter?
The distrust of Donald Trump began there with most of the voters, in my opinion. His lies and his dishonorable actions only became more pronounced as his actions became more and more suspicious.
No honest person would trust him as far as they could throw him.
OAITW r.2.0
(28,081 posts)None of his cult gave a shit. Probably still don't. His problem is his lying is also killing his base. That's a real problem with the cult.
calguy
(5,733 posts)I spend some time battling hard core trumpers at another chat site for entertainment purposes only. And you're right, they don't care what trump does or how many lies he tells. They couldn't care less about his taxes or anything else.
Celerity
(46,154 posts)The key to understanding the way of the MAGAt is to realise that what we hate, they love, and what we love, they hate.
They have built a mental dam against truth and justice, fairness and love, tolerance and knowledge.
They live for hate, greed, power, and abuse.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)There are more of US than those cretins for rumpie. GOTV 2020
RainCaster
(11,463 posts)He showed me back then that he was a lying racist psychopathic piece of shit.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)brooklynite
(96,882 posts)Frasier Balzov
(3,448 posts)"Not releasing my tax returns apparently didn't matter to the voters, so there's no need to release them."
Weasel. Welcher. Swindler.
misanthrope
(8,081 posts)When his shenanigans drove the USFL into the ground ahead of schedule. He continued it with his burgeoning celebrity which made more obvious his narcissism. Then came the Central Park Five.
And that was all before the 1980s ended.
mnhtnbb
(31,933 posts)Trump has been a disreputable con man for his entire professional life. People from NY were screaming about it, trying to warn the country, in 2016.
Solly Mack
(92,313 posts)I was ever so happy that he was New York's problem. Even though he seemed to be the new novelty some people were excited by (at the time), I thought him icky and ugly.