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I caught Trump's son responding to the possibility his father had not paid taxes in 18 years. The son was emotional, defensive, seemed hurt by the revelations about his father. All of that very natural of course. Still, I couldn't help wondering if there's also some hurt caused by his father and the kind of person his father acts like for all the world to see. It must be tough whether he feels his father is completely innocent or not. But if the son is a decent person at all it must also be rough to see his father say the kinds of things he says and so obviously lie about things such as Donald's now disproved tax genius. There's got to be something in the kid telling him he loves his father and wants to stay loyal to him, but even a loyal son must be troubled by a father who acts so poorly at times and all of it being digested by the media and the public over and over and over.
Regarding Trump's claims as a tax genius who could revamp the system:
Trump Tax Attorney: 'He Didn't Understand the Code'
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-tax-attorney-he-didn-t-understand-code-n660111
An attorney who oversaw Donald Trump's income tax returns in the mid-1990s said the Republican presidential candidate had little interest in the tax code — contrasting with the billionaire's claim that he understood taxes "better than anyone" who had run for the White House.
"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."
Mitnick oversaw Trump's income tax returns in 1995, portions of which were published Saturday by the New York Times. The documents showed a reported loss of nearly $916 million — a deduction tax experts hired by the newspaper said was so large that Trump might have legally avoided paying federal income taxes for up to 18 years.
Trump clings to the lie about his tax genius despite the facts from his own tax attorney:
Trump responded to the report on Twitter: "I know our complex tax laws better than anyone who has ever run for president and am the only one who can fix them" — a stance he has repeated on the campaign trail.
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."
"He knew that we would produce the lowest possible tax for him within the law. And he never went into the details," said Mitnick, who said it took him six months to prepare Trump's taxes. "He understood that he had to rely on us to generate the returns, that it was beyond his knowledge."
Cheers
I caught Trump's son responding to the possibility his father had not paid taxes in 18 years. The son was emotional, defensive, seemed hurt by the revelations about his father. All of that very natural of course. Still, I couldn't help wondering if there's also some hurt caused by his father and the kind of person his father acts like for all the world to see. It must be tough whether he feels his father is completely innocent or not. But if the son is a decent person at all it must also be rough to see his father say the kinds of things he says and so obviously lie about things such as Donald's now disproved tax genius. There's got to be something in the kid telling him he loves his father and wants to stay loyal to him, but even a loyal son must be troubled by a father who acts so poorly at times and all of it being digested by the media and the public over and over and over.
Regarding Trump's claims as a tax genius who could revamp the system:
Trump Tax Attorney: 'He Didn't Understand the Code'
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-tax-attorney-he-didn-t-understand-code-n660111
An attorney who oversaw Donald Trump's income tax returns in the mid-1990s said the Republican presidential candidate had little interest in the tax code — contrasting with the billionaire's claim that he understood taxes "better than anyone" who had run for the White House.
"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."
Mitnick oversaw Trump's income tax returns in 1995, portions of which were published Saturday by the New York Times. The documents showed a reported loss of nearly $916 million — a deduction tax experts hired by the newspaper said was so large that Trump might have legally avoided paying federal income taxes for up to 18 years.
Trump clings to the lie about his tax genius despite the facts from his own tax attorney:
Trump responded to the report on Twitter: "I know our complex tax laws better than anyone who has ever run for president and am the only one who can fix them" — a stance he has repeated on the campaign trail.
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."
"He knew that we would produce the lowest possible tax for him within the law. And he never went into the details," said Mitnick, who said it took him six months to prepare Trump's taxes. "He understood that he had to rely on us to generate the returns, that it was beyond his knowledge."
Cheers
