The NY Times bombshell report on Trump's taxes is a typical Trumpistan story. There are several items that suggest criminal behavior. He is either defrauding the federal government or his lenders (or both). He is using bullshit loopholes to avoid taxes and (like his own father) funnel money to his children to avoid paying taxes on it. Without being able to clearly say it, the article suggests rank criminality.
It will not matter to the MAGAts. It will not matter that he's losing money hand over fist. It will not matter that he paid less in taxes than the plumber from Au Claire who has five Trump bumperstickers on his pickup truck. It will not matter to Congressional Republicans that they have consistently shielded a criminal from accountability.
It will obviously not matter to the plurality and perhaps majority of Americans who are ready to vote him out of office.
But it will matter to a sliver of voters who are (somehow) still undecided and the other sliver of voters who might just stay home.
Trump is losing, perhaps by as much as ten points. Every day that gets closer to the election that he can't make up that deficit is a day he's lost. Of course, every day closer to losing the election brings him closer to an accountability moment with the law. At some point there are diminishing returns in not breaking the law more. Given that his Attorney General is enabling his criminality, perhaps it's time to impeach William Barr, if for no other reason than to keep him busy and unable to ratfuck the election.
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