Unless you live under a rock somewhere — in which case, either scoot over and make room for me or get out from underneath there, the world is on fire — there’s simply no way you missed the bombshell report from the New York Times regarding Donald Trump’s tax returns.
And before you say anything, I get it. We hear about the guy’s taxes all the time, it seems. You sort of start to feel like “what’s new?” right?
But this one is a doozy, folks.
According to the report, “paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years — largely because he reported losing much more money than he made.”
The report goes on to reveal that Trump “has reduced his tax bill with questionable measures, including a $72.9 million tax refund,” that’s now under the scrutiny of an IRS tax audit. All in all, the Times report explained that billionaire Donald Trump only paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017 — I’m FAR from a billionaire and I pay more than that every single year.
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To say the least, the Trump clan has been losing their collective minds over the story, grasping at every straw they can think of to defend themselves against something that’s undefendable.
And given their behavior, it looks as though they’re drowning their sorrows in Donnie’s alleged special cocktail of Adderall and Xanax.
Unsurprisingly, Don Jr. was quick to take to the only place he knows is safe anymore to defend his father against the explosive report, Fox News.
But from the looks and sounds of that interview, he did it with more than a little artificial courage, mixed with a heaping helping of fear.
Wondering what I mean? Well, just look at the guy:
750 dollars says the presidents large adult son is freaking out
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) September 28, 2020
Junior attempted to defend his father by ranting about payroll and property taxes that have absolutely nothing to do with the situation at hand before brushing it all off as a Democratic ploy to give Biden the upper hand right before tomorrow night’s debates.
But y’all, social media just wasn’t having any of it:
He may have done $750 worth of nose candy for this interview.
— Andrew C Laufer, Esq (@lauferlaw) September 28, 2020
Individual-1 Jr.’s heart is going to explode if he doesn’t lay off the Bolivian marching powder
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) September 28, 2020
Looks like Jr. is consuming Larry Kudlow-like amounts of blow these days..morning, noon and night.
— Art Martin (@gartmartin9) September 28, 2020
The street value of what went up his nose in the past 24 hours is probably superior to what Sleazy Don paid in taxes in the past ten years.
— GJ Groothedde Poesjkin 🇪🇺 (@eetschrijver) September 28, 2020
Junior, here’s some free advice: Don’t talk about this on tv (high as a kite, btw). You’ll be wanting to take the 5th and this is, well, a waiver of that right.
— Anarchist Jurisdiction Michael (@Merv515) September 28, 2020
He’s coking as well as can be expected.
— JV (@JV2O2O) September 28, 2020
He’s using all day long, isn’t he? Morning, noon, night… doesn’t matter.
Looking at the debt his family business is carrying – that we know of – and the characters that likely gave them that money in the first place… I suppose I’d be on drugs 24/7/365 too.
— Kat (@MiamiKat) September 28, 2020
Holy crap he snorted $750 worth of cocaine this morning.
— Chanandler Bong ©️ (@_ChanandlerB_) September 28, 2020
Gonna be real hard to plead the 5th in the coming months if you spill all the beans through the cocaine sweats on Fox News beforehand. Just sayin’.
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