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In reply to the discussion: BREAKING: Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses [View all]Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)76. Maybe, but remember he really is the dumbest adult alive, worst businessperson who ever lived
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BREAKING: Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses [View all]
lanlady
May 2019
OP
Let's compare those numbers with the ones he handed other banks and insurance companies
htuttle
May 2019
#1
Maybe, but remember he really is the dumbest adult alive, worst businessperson who ever lived
Eliot Rosewater
May 2019
#76
I think we'd be making a mistake to underestimate Tiny..... if nothing else he's a shrewd conman
groundloop
May 2019
#91
That is exactly how his family business was set up by Fred Trump & refined by Don & siblings
Hekate
May 2019
#127
Today Forbes released, online, its 1990 story about removing Trump from the Forbes 400
More_Cowbell
May 2019
#129
The year Art of the Deal came out he lost 4 million dollars. Out of the 10 years that
applegrove
May 2019
#15
By every metric he is a loser of a businessman. He is a master con man and carnival barker.
Pepsidog
May 2019
#49
He lost big money. Remember trump airlines? It went belly up in that time period. That's just one...
brush
May 2019
#50
It's worth using one of your ten free NYT articles just to bask in the pithy writing!
fierywoman
May 2019
#34
1% of all losses individual taxpayers reported to the I.R.S in 1991 came from individual, Trump.
ffr
May 2019
#38
Let us not forget that Trump was very willing to share all of his business acumen
GetRidOfThem
May 2019
#123
Let's consider this just one piece of the legacy of a career liar and criminal and con-artist.
Evolve Dammit
May 2019
#47
I wonder that as well. The corruption is staggering, largely because the odds on getting caught are
Evolve Dammit
May 2019
#133
FBI & CIA both employ forensic accountants as agents/analysts. Just one more reason for ...
Hekate
May 2019
#130
He had income of 52.9 mil in 1991 generated from stocks bonds investments etc
Thekaspervote
May 2019
#72
"Trump appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer"
dalton99a
May 2019
#87
Like every organized crime figure, I am sure he exagerated his losses to scam paying less tax.
sarabelle
May 2019
#108
I'm dying to know HOW the NYT got hold of this. Enquiring minds want to know.
Honeycombe8
May 2019
#113
If the bankers hadn't let him get away with his "sport," we wouldn't be in this mess now.
Vinca
May 2019
#117
But all the conservatives have been telling me for years he's a financial genius?
Blue_Tires
May 2019
#120