It's Not That He Only Paid $750 In Taxes

[rustysgurl]

His base doesn't care about that. Hell, him avoiding taxes probably makes them stand up and applaud.

It's that he lied about being a successful businessman who was going to leave his ivory tower, drain the swamp, help the American people and "make America great again."

And they're so drunk on the Kool-Aid that they may not even care about that. But then again, they can't look UP to their boy anymore, because in some cases they're probably more well-off than he is. So who knows how they'll react?

[Statistical]

1. Exactly. Which is why leave the tax evasion up to the district attorneys. The angle to push is

Trump is a broke failure and the Republican base got conned by a loser.

First is that plenty of people respect unethical successful people but nobody respects a broke failure. Second is that Trump being called broke and a failure is going to keep him off message. His image of being a successful bigshot is the single most important thing to him. Nothing else even comes close.

[Ohiogal]

2. Both of you exactly right

The OP and Statistical

[Midnight Writer]

3. It's also that his tax info doesn't match the loan applications he made. That is bank fraud.

[lunatica]

4. I'm not too sure about that

Sure they love it when he hurts liberals, but very few people like paying taxes because they take it personally as the government stealing from them while never making the connection to the myriad benefits we receive in exchange. But when Trump doesn’t pay taxes they feel conned. And the smarter ones feel that in some underhanded way Trump is personally benefitting off of their taxes. Which he is.

Evangelical leaders are tax evaders themselves so they will approve, saying that’s how god showers “blessings” on them. In those cases the fools will give their leaders even more money because they think god would want that and will welcome them into heaven. But in spite of everything many regular MAGATs will resent people who get to benefit from things which they are forced to give up their hard earned money to. It’s one thing to fly around in airliners and live in golden towers, but if they feel it’s at their expense, behind their back, leaving them to struggle and hardship, they will turn on him.

Not all of them of course. But probably most of them.