The Thing in Trump's Taxes That Will End Him
Huffington Post
By Eric Schmeltzer
May 17, 2016
The newest media parlor game is wondering what Donald Trump could possibly be hiding in his taxes.
Could it be low charitable donations?
Could it be financial support for causes conservatives hate?
Could it be an evasion of taxes?
It's highly unlikely that Trump would try too hard to hide any of those things.
Thus far, if there's one thing we know about Donald Trump, it is that on a lot of charges, he's really good at accepting the hit to defang it.
In the first debate, he laughed off charges that he called women "pigs," and has readily admitted to infidelity.
Perhaps anticipating stories about him not paying his fair share of taxes, he's already told George Stephanopoulos, "I try very hard to pay as little tax as possible and have said that for the past two years...I fight very hard because this country wastes our money.
They take our tax money and throw it down the drain...So I fight very hard to pay as little as possible."
BUT THERE IS ONE AREA WHERE TRUMP WILL FIGHT YOU TOOTH AND NAIL - HIS WORTH
It's a subject that he won't let go of.
He leaves no opportunity behind to tell people how "really rich" he is.
There is a reason for that, besides his ego.
The image of Trump as the independent guy who isn't beholden to the establishment system is built on a foundation of him being so rich that he doesn't owe them anything and can't be pulled by their strings.
If, somehow, it was proven that he's really not rich, the foundation cracks.
If it was proven that he's actually in hock to the moneyed elites, the Trump Tower comes crashing down.
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