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Originally Posted by dth123451
NYT proved $400 million of estate tax fraud. Nothing happened. Nothing matters.
I think that's different. His criminality is baked in. He is "playing the system". That's why I think revelations he's (relatively) poor are potentially more dangerous than criminality.
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Originally Posted by Rococo
Bolded would not matter at all. People who think Trump is some brilliant business mind would either (i) assume the information was false; or (ii) shrug it off as cyclical variations for a guy who they are convinced always claws his way back to the top.
This is probably true. Especially since his byzantine taxes will be difficult to interpret and easy to spin. Does there exist a scenario where his tax returns make him business acumen look so bad that it hurts his approval is the question? i.e, the $400mm tax fraud didn't move his approval because no matter how much his supporters publicly proclaimed to believe his business career was kosher, they knew it wasn't. Is the same true regarding his business acumen? I think his supporters believe he
is good at business and
is mostly self-made/wildly successful (some exaggeration is baked in). I think they'd be surprised if it turned out, say, he inherited $1bn inflation adjusted and is worth $100mm. But maybe not. And maybe they'd be surprised but rationalise it.