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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Oct 5, 2016, 06:27 PM Oct 2016

Another tax bombshell: Daddy Trump had to set up $38 million slush fund to bail Donald out prior...

Source: RawStory/Newsweek

Another tax bombshell: Daddy Trump had to set up $38 million slush fund to bail Donald out prior to 1980

According to the latest bombshell report from Newsweek writer Kurt Eichenwald, the recent report from the New York Times that GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump took a massive financial hit in 1995 was not his first brush with business failure.

Over the weekend, the New York Times was able to obtain tax documents showing Trump took a $915 million loss in 1995, which would have allowed him to possibly avoid paying income taxes for 18 years.

According to Eichenwald, at the same time that Trump and his surrogates are attempting to spin those losses as an example of Trump’s “genius,” documents show Trump had to be bailed out years earlier by his father who was forced to set up a $35 million credit line for his son at Chase Manhattan Bank.

Based upon files found at Division of Gaming Enforcement for the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety, Trump applied for a gaming license in 1980 which led to a state investigation into his background.

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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/another-tax-bombshell-daddy-trump-had-to-set-up-38-million-slush-fund-to-bail-donald-out-prior-to-1980/

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Another tax bombshell: Daddy Trump had to set up $38 million slush fund to bail Donald out prior... (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2016 OP
Kick Hekate Oct 2016 #1
Couldn't be the same Donald we are told is a genius. No, say it isn't so! ffr Oct 2016 #2
Kurt Eichenwald NastyRiffraff Oct 2016 #3
Yes he is ...... Kathy M Oct 2016 #7
+1 Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2016 #10
Still working on it but...he's already won a Pulitzer Prize in my mind. Hope nothing happens to him. George II Oct 2016 #17
Yet another death knell to the 'self made billionaire' song and dance. groundloop Oct 2016 #4
Yeah jerkface, let's see you spin this as a positive! lark Oct 2016 #5
So.. He's ALWAYS been this dumb. annabanana Oct 2016 #6
K & R Kathy M Oct 2016 #8
Gee, I wish I had a rich daddy that could spend almost $40 million to bail my ass out 4lbs Oct 2016 #9
This man possesses no business acumen Matthew Rose Oct 2016 #11
Jesus H Christ, this guy is such a spoiled fucking loser it makes my head spin. Fast Walker 52 Oct 2016 #12
I want this story tto be Hillary's bait to trap him in the next debate. You KNOW napi21 Oct 2016 #13
With that much slush to shovel, moondust Oct 2016 #14
AND he was so broke in the 90s he had to borrow $20M TexasBushwhacker Oct 2016 #15
you know that expression "Born on third base and thought he hit a triple?" Still In Wisconsin Oct 2016 #16
and the beat goes on. . . and on. . . niyad Oct 2016 #18
well isn't that special Skittles Oct 2016 #19

ffr

(22,671 posts)
2. Couldn't be the same Donald we are told is a genius. No, say it isn't so!
Wed Oct 5, 2016, 06:31 PM
Oct 2016


More bad news for Donald.

4lbs

(6,858 posts)
9. Gee, I wish I had a rich daddy that could spend almost $40 million to bail my ass out
Wed Oct 5, 2016, 07:19 PM
Oct 2016

whenever I screwed things up badly.

napi21

(45,806 posts)
13. I want this story tto be Hillary's bait to trap him in the next debate. You KNOW
Wed Oct 5, 2016, 08:25 PM
Oct 2016

he wouldn't be able to just let it go. He'll flip out just like he did in the first one, and his kids & Kellyann can be al mad at him AGAIN!

moondust

(20,002 posts)
14. With that much slush to shovel,
Wed Oct 5, 2016, 08:42 PM
Oct 2016

I'm pretty sure a blindfolded orangutan could have done as well as TheRump just by picking investment options out of a hat.

 

Still In Wisconsin

(4,450 posts)
16. you know that expression "Born on third base and thought he hit a triple?"
Wed Oct 5, 2016, 09:11 PM
Oct 2016

Well, it appears the Donald was born on third base and then stole second and first!

Skittles

(153,174 posts)
19. well isn't that special
Thu Oct 6, 2016, 01:22 PM
Oct 2016

how much more will it take for EVERYONE to realize this man's only genius has been in SELF-PROMOTION

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