2016 Oct 4^th

We know that the “Times” has released information showing that Donald Trump lost very nearly a billion dollars in 1995. As a result his tax attorneys have filed returns for him claiming he owes no taxes and with that loss carried forward will possibly owe no taxes for some years. Now his sycophant, Rudy Giuliani, is hailing him as a “genius” for taking advantage of the tax code. (Giuliani recently gave a speech to The Commercial Finance Association at the Waldorf Astoria in NYC where he felt it necessary to insult their Mexican kitchen workers. It was so embarrassing that the people who arranged for Giuliani to speak apologized to the membership for his remarks.) Giuliani must believe that Trump does his own tax returns. If there is any genius here, it is the hired tax preparers not Donald Trump.

This “businessman” managed to lose very close to a billion dollars in 1995 running gambling casinos. How can that be? We have gambling casinos here in Michigan run by Native American tribes that are prosperous year after year. Trump tried desperately to stifle the competition from Native American tribes in New York that he felt would compete with his Atlantic City casinos. He was fined by the government for ads lobbying against the Ramapough Tribe’s casino. In testimony before the House of Representatives Native American Sub-Committee Trump complained that the Pequot Tribes’ officials “Don’t look like Indians to me.” Now Trump has managed to lose nearly a billion dollars trying to run gambling casinos while the Pequots are doing nicely running Foxwood, a giant gambling location just north of the city. If you ask his paid help they’ll tell you that “Mr. Trump is a genius as a businessman.” Maybe he should hire a few Pequot Tribe members to help him if he goes the gambling casino route again.

Trump has produced an enormous amount of detritus this week, everything from fat shaming a Miss Universe over and over again, to recommending his tweet readers watch a little porn staring that same Miss Universe, to suggesting that Hilary Clinton was staggering away from a meeting, to suggesting that she hadn’t been faithful to Bill Clinton…”And really folks, why should she be?”

You would suppose that his surrogates bouncing about on various TV shows would have some difficulty defending him; not at all. Their script is easy to follow: Regardless of the question do not talk about “Mr. Trump.” Begin immediately to talk about Hilary Clinton; you can mention her hidden emails, her disgraceful treatment of Bill Clinton’s girlfriends, and her soliciting funds for the Clinton Foundation, even the Benghazi raid;  but under no circumstance let the mainstream media force you to talk about Mr. Trump.