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riversedge

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Tue Sep 29, 2020, 08:53 PM Sep 2020

#Trump's debt makes him a foreign agent's dream -- and America's nightmare





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Frank Figliuzzi New York Times' Trump taxes bombshell reveals massive national security threat
The revelations of the president’s tax records must become part of a larger and still unresolved investigation into Trump’s potential compromise by foreign powers.
President Donald Trump departs a rally in Swanton, Ohio on Sept. 21, 2020.
President Donald Trump departs a rally in Swanton, Ohio on Sept. 21, 2020.Mandel Ngan / AFP - Getty Images
Sept. 29, 2020, 1:53 PM CDT
By Frank Figliuzzi, former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence and NBC News/MSNBC analyst

Benjamin Franklin reminded us that “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Now, President Donald Trump’s financial records raise the possibility that the latter of the two inevitabilities might figuratively bring about the former.

This week’s detailed reporting by The New York Times may signal the demise of our president’s self-inflated facade of business acumen and success.

That’s because it’s possible this week’s detailed reporting by The New York Times on 20 years of Trump’s personal and business tax records may signal the demise of our president’s self-inflated facade of business acumen and success. Importantly, the Times' reporting also exposes a related, yet even greater truth — that Trump’s big lie about his deal-making prowess and the truth about his debt means that he may be one of American history’s most vulnerable presidents when it comes to leaving himself open to nefarious actors offering to come to his financial rescue.
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Trump’s tax records reveal a staggering amount of personal debt — as much as $420 million that he is on the hook for within the next four years. That’s four years that he might spend as our president. He’ll need a way out of his debt, and plenty of foreign intelligence services will be more than happy to provide that help to him — for a price.
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