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kpete

(71,986 posts) Wed Mar 15, 2017, 09:51 AM Mar 2017

The Trump tax returns are significant. Here's why:

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The Trump tax returns are significant. Here's why: (Original Post) kpete Mar 2017 OP

There has been endless speculation that Trumpy paid AJT Mar 2017 #1

There wasn't "endless speculation". It was a fact Trump earlier wrote an almost billion dollar loss. KittyWampus Mar 2017 #3

those folks you describe are already predisposed bigtree Mar 2017 #2

AJT

(5,240 posts)

1. There has been endless speculation that Trumpy paid

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Mar 15, 2017, 10:24 AM

Mar 2017

no taxes. All the show did was prove to most peope, who would usually pay little attention to details, is that he did pay his taxes. Anything else, the other long winded speculation that followed, meant nothing to them. It was an abject failure and pushed basic voters toward trusting Trumpy.

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)

3. There wasn't "endless speculation". It was a fact Trump earlier wrote an almost billion dollar loss.

Reply to AJT (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 15, 2017, 10:34 AM

Mar 2017

bigtree

(85,989 posts)

2. those folks you describe are already predisposed

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Mar 15, 2017, 10:34 AM

Mar 2017

...to disbelieve anything about Trump.

Trump's taxes are headlining every news report today, with most of the focus on what isn't revealed in this 'leak.' Having the issue of the taxes he's hiding front and center doesn't strike me as a winning strategy.

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