Wednesday 21 October 2020

Trump DID pay tax - in China

It's just another hilarious anecdote in the Donald Trump presidential saga. He did, after all, pay quite a large amount in tax. But in China!! According to the latest delvings by The New York Times, Trump still has a bank account in China and paid more than $188,000 dollars in tax over a three-year period as a result. I should say the Trump business empire rather than Trump himself although it's difficult to disassociate one from the other. There's nothing wrong in having a bank account in China. Trump was hoping to build a hotel there, just like he had plans to build one in Moscow. But neither ambitions were fulfilled. It's the tax-paying that is so hilarious.Such a wonderful contrast to the years of avoiding tax in the US because of year-by-year business losses. Apparently. None of this stuff being produced by The New York Times in a series of Trump-bashing articles will make a blind bit of difference in voters' minds. Trump voters will vote for him whatever he has done in the past and whatever he is doing as president now. You only have to see the adoring, cheering faces on red-capped supporters as he speaks at rallies to know that young, middle-aged and old fans of the president remain loyal and devoted. Having a bank account in China? So what, they will say. The dirt dredged up by The New York Post on Hunter Biden and his father Joe and the Ukraine gas company seeking influence in Washington is beautifully timed to bash at Biden. If true, it could have a negative impact on Biden's hopes of winning the White House. But, again, I doubt it. Voters are pretty sick of all this stuff, aren't they? Also having read all about how the newspaper acquired the dirt - from a laptop left for repairs at a shop and not picked up and, maybe it was Hunter Biden who left it, all sounds highly dodgy to me. Could this have been a huge scam mounted by the Kremlin? Must be a possibility. No doubt all this will come up at the TV debate between Trump and Biden tomorrow (Thursday). I suspect the mute button available to the moderator to shut off the sound of fury from either participants will be the star of the show.

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