{"id":176019,"date":"2020-09-27T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/09\/27\/of-course-this-drops-just-before-kol-nidre\/"},"modified":"2020-09-27T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T21:57:00","slug":"of-course-this-drops-just-before-kol-nidre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/09\/27\/of-course-this-drops-just-before-kol-nidre\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Course This Drops Just Before Kol Nidre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/27\/us\/trump-taxes-takeaways.html\">gotten its hands on more than 20 years of Donald Trump&#8217;s income tax returns<\/a>, and it appears that this is the real deal<sup>*<\/sup>, revealing a pattern of massive losses and next nothing in taxes paid.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m about to eat, and then fast, so I have barely had a chance to glance at the article.<\/p>\n<p>The nickel tour appears to indicate that he&#8217;s a money loser who cheats on his taxes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This raises the question:&nbsp; How has the Trump Org continued to be a going concern over all of these years?<\/p>\n<p>My answer is that he&#8217;s been laundering money for the mob, whether it is US, or, as is more likely, foreign organized crime.<\/p>\n<p>To quote Bette Davis, &#8220;Fasten your seat belts, it&#8217;s going to be a bumpy night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">As opposed to <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2017\/03\/this-must-have-been-what-it-was-like-to.html\">Rachel Maddow&#8217;s widely mocked expose of a handful of Trump&#8217;s tax documents in 2017<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has gotten its hands on more than 20 years of Donald Trump&#8217;s income tax returns, and it appears that this is the real deal*, revealing a pattern of massive losses and next nothing in taxes paid. I&#8217;m about to eat, and then fast, so I have barely had a chance to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[482,573,523,380,480],"class_list":["post-176019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-breaking-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-journalism","tag-religion","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}