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NY Times: Trump is Plunging

The New York Times reports:

Donald J. Trump’s support has plunged across the swing-state map over the last 10 days, wiping out his political recovery from September and threatening to undo weeks of Republican gains in the battle for control of Congress.

...Mr. Trump has already slipped perceptibly in public polls, trailing widely this week in Pennsylvania and by smaller margins in Florida and North Carolina — three states he cannot afford to lose. But private polling by both parties shows an even more precipitous drop, especially among independent voters, moderate Republicans and women, according to a dozen strategists from both parties who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the data was confidential.

A new Monmouth poll has Hillary up in Ohio -- but just slightly. However, when it comes to temperment: [More...]

Clinton has an even wider advantage on the issue of presidential temperament. Significantly more voters say Clinton has the right temperament for the job (59%) than say the same about Trump (33%).

Trump's former accountant Jack Mitnick, who was in charge of his tax returns from the 1960's to 1996, was on TV this week. He said Trump doesn't understand the tax code and had nothing to do with preparing his return.

"As far as I know, and that only goes through late '96, he didn't understand the code," said Jack Mitnick, a former tax adviser for Trump, in an interview with NBC's TODAY. "Nor would he have had the time and the patience to learn the provisions. That's a lifetime of experience."

He said Ivana was more interested than Trump in the topic. All Trump cared about was the bottom line.

Mitnick, however, told the TODAY show Tuesday that Trump was "not at all" involved in the 1995 filing. "He was interested in the bottom line, not the detail," Mitnick said. "Staff under my supervision did his returns - he had no involvement in the preparation."

So did Trump use business losses to offset his personal tax liability? Mitnick won't say -- he says you have to draw your own conclusions, but everything Trump did was legal in the tax code. He also warned against assuming the loss of $915 million was generated in 1995 -- he said you can't determine that from the one page released by the New York Times.

So much for the "genius" of Trump.

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    He is no kind of genius (5.00 / 3) (#1)
    by ruffian on Wed Oct 05, 2016 at 10:40:18 PM EST
    Another scam being reported....he had an arrangement with a jewelry store where he'd bring his lady in and pick out something of course extremely expensive, and say to ship it to NJ to avoid NY sales tax. The store would ship an empty box to NJ  lady would walk out of the store with the item.

    I believe that one is illegal.

    Illegal, yes. On the other hand, (5.00 / 1) (#3)
    by Mr Natural on Thu Oct 06, 2016 at 07:22:30 AM EST
    New York taxes are criminal.

    "We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes" - Leona Helmsley

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    NY Taxes (5.00 / 1) (#5)
    by BackFromOhio on Thu Oct 06, 2016 at 10:48:02 AM EST
    are high, but they pay for extensive services afforded to those of us who live here. Where else can you get around easily without owning a car? We complain about snow removal every year, but buses are usually up and running within hours after a bad snow storm. I have also lived in burbs of another state, and snow removal and other services were at the mercy of real estate taxes, so snow removal was often non-existent or way slow.

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    There are a lot of public services being ... (5.00 / 1) (#7)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Thu Oct 06, 2016 at 12:52:33 PM EST
    ... being provided to us which we tend to take for granted. But we'd sure take notice quickly if they weren't.

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    In re: Helmsley (none / 0) (#6)
    by Peter G on Thu Oct 06, 2016 at 11:07:49 AM EST
    See my comment #4, just above.

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    Do you have any proof that Trump (2.00 / 1) (#25)
    by jimakaPPJ on Fri Oct 07, 2016 at 11:40:25 AM EST
    did this??

    And whether he did our did not, the argument is that those who do rob government of funds needed to run the government.

    Have you ever purchased anything over the Internet and didn't pay sales taxes?

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    If that's who needs to run the government (none / 0) (#26)
    by Militarytracy on Fri Oct 07, 2016 at 12:07:38 PM EST
    Then how come you aren't rooting for all those welfare users and abusers to run the government too?

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    Well there's just something (none / 0) (#27)
    by jondee on Fri Oct 07, 2016 at 12:28:26 PM EST
    about a self-absorbed uber-rich guy with a "beautiful piece of as*" wife that makes some tea bagger types hearken back to the Founding Fathers, Lincoln, and FDR..

    It's the dignity of bearing..the embodying of all that we aspire to..

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