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  Next you’re gonna tell me that he was planning to pocket the proceeds from that charity fundraiser he did instead of attending a debate until people at the veterans’ charity started going on TV saying they still hadn’t received any money.
context: I'm starting to think this guy might not be telling us the truth all the time. >
  
  I'm sure that once his supporters find out they're going to abandon him. >
  
  It's all just a misunderstanding.  He donated celery.  A restaurant gave him some with his wings, he didn't want it, and he gave it to a secret service agent.
  -His supporters (probably) >
  
  What'd he do with the ranch tho??🤔 >
  
  Probably bathes in it, tbh >
  
  Looks more like he bathed in Thousand Island dressing, if anything >
  
  He probably tried to annex Thousand Island at some point. >
  
  His tax returns don't "dispute" his claim, they disprove it. There's no debate or disagreement, his claim is a lie. He publicly lied 30,000+ times in four years. >
  
  So unfair that you ignore the 17 times he told the truth during that same span. >
  
  17 seems a little high, tbh. >
  
  I think 16 of those were answering, "What's your first name?" >
  
  Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV >
  
  As I've said before, that test was lauded by trump as proof of his memory and mental aptitude. He used these as an example of the words he had to remember for the test
  They were 5 things in front of him (TV being teleprompter), rather than being 5 unrelated words as are used in the test
  Edited to address a mistake >
  
  That just shows how excellent his vision is. Some say the best ever. 
  Also, it's proof he doesn't use a teleprompter. Somehow. >
  
  He does all that rambling off the top of his head? 
  I’d imagine he had a team of monkeys prepare that for him. >
  
  The monkeys all live in his head >
  
  
  Donald Trump donated nothing to the Department of Health and Human Services during the height of the pandemic, despite claiming publicly to have done so, his tax returns revealed on Friday.
  The release of his returns came as the result of the end of a years-long legal battle between the now-former president and the House Ways and Means Committee, which released its final report this week after recently obtaining the returns when the Supreme Court declined to intervene in the case.
  The picture painted by the documents is crystal clear: Donald Trump claimed zero charitable donations throughout 2020, meaning that his tax burden was not reduced at all (at least in that regard). He would still go on to pay $0 in income tax for the year in total.
  
  Can't say I'm too surprised.  
  Happy New Year! >
  
  I'm almost positive I remember him crowing on Twitter about what a generous philanthropist he is as he displayed a cheque for $100k to the National Parks Service or something, and I swear that cheque had a 2020 date on it. Guess he never mailed that one either. >
  
  If it's the same event I remember, it was shortly after he slashed their budget to a fraction of itself.  His "donation" was a paper towel trying to soak up a flood. >
  
  There was no donation.  He just let them die >
  
  My working theory has been that Donald Trump is perpetually desperate for cash flow. He’s even milking his children with loaned property or other assets that generate interest back to Donald. 
  It would be tough for him to part with $400K of clean cash each year. >
  
  That's my feeling as well, he had to be getting desperate to get into small time scams like Trump U. >
  
  Or his NFTs >
  
  I’m sure he didn’t pay whoever developed those NFTs. So it’s all profit. >
  
  If I heard right, most of the outfits that were photoshopped in, were from smaller clothing stores. If you reverse image search them, you can verify if most of the content is also stolen. I hope they sue him for infringement. 😂 >
  
  Interesting. Thanks for educating me on this. >
  
  Trump’s tax returns weren’t audited for half his term as required. We know he lies; if this is what he acknowledged in his returns, what is he HIDING??? >
  
  You knew how I know Trump was lying. There was no photo op with an oversized cheque. >
  
  He also lies when he does that of course >
  
  Always assume Trump is lying. You will usually be right. >
  
  Unless he says something like "I don't take responsibility at all." >
  
  In Spring 2020 his press team said he donated 100k of his salary back to the fed to fight COVID
  Then Secret Service spent 150k+ just to reserve golf carts for the summer so Trump could golf at his pricy private resorts.
  Even if he didn't donate the money, he cost the taxpayer WAAAYYYYY more than he donated.
  He whined that Obama spent too much time golfing and on vacation, but then he exceeded Obamas 2-term personal travel cost in just one term.
  Basically, it's public knowledge that he leeches off of the taxpayer. Republicans just ignore it and pretend like it doesn't matter.
  Case in point, the right wing site Judicial watch FOIAd the hell out of the Obama administration to track every nickel and dime he spent on personal travel.
  Judicial Watch STOPPED doing that with Trump one year in when his tab started to skyrocket >
  
  someone should post this in r/conservative
  LOL >
  
  Incoming ban for not posting a Babylon bee article >
  
  The sources that r/conservative links are absolute garbage. No wonder they're batshit for conspiracies over there. >
  
  Any news source that doesn't match their beliefs is obviously part of the MSM and not to be trusted 🙄
  Anything that comes out of science or other academia is not to be trusted. Any expert who has spent their life studying a subject is not to be trusted.
  CEOs and soccer moms (just the dumb ones) can be trusted tho. >
  
  The fucking greedy idiot once cashed a check for 13 cents! he didn't donate a damn thing and the returns DISPROVE that he donated, there's no dispute. >
  
  I am not a Trump supporter and believe that he is a grifter. With that being said, people like him make a lot of royalties off residing of certain things on TV. Depending on contracts these royalties m, at times, pay pennies. Many people that earn these royalties just batch and mass deposit small checks like that. It is not quite out of character for someone that has worked in television to collect and deposit tiny checks.. >
  
  
  "Spy correspondent Julius Lowenthal wanted to know just how cheap some of the city’s richest figures were. So he set up a company, called the National Refund Clearinghouse, and sent letters with checks for $1.11 enclosed, “for services that you were overcharged for.” The letters went out to 58 “well-known, well-heeled Americans,” 26 of whom promptly cashed them. Curious as to how low they might go, Lowenthal sent those 26 “nabobs” a second refund check, for $0.64. This time, 13 people cashed them.
  Finally, he sent those 13 respondents a check for $0.13. This time, only two people cashed the check. One was an arms dealer. The other was Donald Trump, whom the magazine identified as a “demibillionaire casino operator and adulturer.”
  
  Edit: punctuation and quoted text >
  
  No I read the article, before I typed my response…my argument still stands. He might be in the habit of depositing checks with less than a dollar value. Anyway, he is a penny pinching grifter so I have no interest in arguing for him. >
  
  Wait...you're telling me Trump claimed he donated his salary and he never did? How is this possible? Everything he says is real. I find this hard to believe.        /s (a huge /s) >
  
  Trump supporters believe he actually gave money to the US Government LMFAO >
  
  “Dispute claim?” No, his tax returns showed they lied. Lying, you know, that thing we call it when someone claims something is true that they know is false. Dispute sounds very intelligent and proper, like Trump might be having a scholarly dispute over the correct taxonomy of Floridian finches. 
  This is just slavish obedience to “journalistic neutrality”. It’s tantamount to twisting the truth. >
  
  I take issue with the title of the article. It should say “Trump’s tax returns refute his claim…” >
  
  Putting that aside, I want to ask about what inference you can draw from his returns.  I know next to nothing about taxes in this context, but would it be accurate to say they prove that Trump is either a) a criminal, or b) a really terrible businessman?
  I ask because I’ve spoken to people who still defend everything he says/does and still think he’s some brilliant businessman.  It seems to me like the tax returns on their own are a pretty quick and simple way of showing that Trump has been lying about who and what he is without even bringing up the line between tax avoidance and tax fraud.
  If I’m wrong, could someone ELI5? >
  
  
  Trump has been lying about who and what he is without even bringing up the line between tax avoidance and tax fraud.
  
  The Trump organization was convicted of 17 counts of tax fraud and falsifying business records in NY State.
  In 2015 he claimed a $76 million  loss, although not clear where, or when the loss occurred or if it's even legit.  So is he a brilliant businessman.  Nope.
  If he had invested his inheritance in an S&P500 index fund, he'd be much wealthier than he is today. >
  
  “Dispute” 
  Love that. 
  One is an incontrovertible fact, the other is a statement my trump. 
  Why is there a debate, he lied. Say it. >
  
  What a grifter… >
  
  Doesn’t it seem odd how if you make a $5 product and lie about it that you’ll get sued into oblivion and face huge fines from places Ike the FTC - but if the person running the country lies there are zero consequences. 
  I guess we hold our $5 products to higher standards than our elected officials. >
  
  That Al Frankin book, "lies, and the lying liars who tell them" was really on point >
  
  Sitting US president salary pays Chinese taxes.  Cool cool. Republicans are happy with this arrangement. >
  
  My grandpa, who lives to watch Faux News would always bring this up, but is very silent when EACH GOD DAMN LIE TRUMP SAID COMES TO LIGHT.
  Yo it's like playing football in the NY Jets stadium, and the other team said fuck it, we are moving our endzone to LA. >
  
  The MaGA cult bought it hook line and sinker while the rest of us just shook our collective heads at yet another lie and grift by the conman. >
  
  He made that claim around the time of his Inauguration and then I don't remember ever hearing it again.
  His supporters on the other hand... >
  
  Around the time he was going to make Mexico pay for the wall then? >
  
  Wasn't that before he was elected? 
  The wall wasn't even his idea. Someone else brought it up and he tested it at a rally, liked the response he got, and from then on, it was his thing. >
  
  Apparently, yes, it was near the beginning of his campaign in June 2015,
  Sorry, it's all a sad and unbelievable blur to me. >
  
  Oh surprise! >
  
  Pro tip: when Trump says anything, believe the opposite >
  
  I didn’t believe this even before so no shocker >
  
  This is delicious. One of my childhood friends has been sucked into Maga country, and whenever we got into arguments on facebook about Trump, one of his go to defenses was "Well Trump is giving away his Salary, Obama didn't do that."
  I love watching this train wreck implode, though I have to admit his cult programming hasn't wavered at all... >
  
  He would have had to donate his salary for 360 years to make up for just the $144 million in expenses related to the golf trips he said he’d be too busy to take. 
  And the fact that ANY of that money went back in his own pockets should have been grounds for impeachment all by itself. >
  
  Did anyone really believe he donated his salary? I bet this asshole has never donated to a charity (unless it was one of his own) >
  
  I'm not from the USA so I'm not exactly sure how your reporting works, but knowing the type of person trump is, I'll put money on him saying that he chose not to declare it as a deduction because he's such a charitable guy. Can he do that? It >
  
  His salary was reported as income on his tax return, (after he said he wasn't taking a salary) It doesn't qualify as a deduction. It also showed that he gave very very little to charity. >
  
  How much did he declare as income of the costs the secret service has to pay to stay at his golf courses while protecting him while he ignored his duties. >
  
  It DISPROVES IT! Not a dispute >
  
  Don the con strikes again. >
  
  dude lied?  no way! >
  
  Oh, so he lied? That's so out of character..  /s >
  
  So you're saying privacy wasn't the reason why he was refusing to provide his tax return? I'm shocked, I'm telling you. This comes as such a surprise. >
  
  I see the confusion. He donated his salary to his favorite charity, himself. >
  
  Nothing is shocking anymore.  This is trivial compared to him & his cronies actively brainwashing 1/3 of the population.  Put this motherfucker under the prison. >
  
  What’s ironic is that these little lies may be what actually hurts his popularity with his base. That NFT thing actually hurt is polling- something that hasn’t happened in a long time despite multiple other controversies and complicated lies. >
  
  He has never donated a penny to anyone.   Nor have his spoiled brat children.   They are all thieving scumbags and that is all they ever will be.  The Grift is life for them. >
  
  Did you hear about that time he  crashed an event honoring a foundation that provides for child victims of HIV and took the seat of the guest of honor? >
  
  Holy crap.   No I haven't heard that before. >
  
  I wish his fans would see this because I remember all of them claiming what a saint he was because he “dOnaTeD hIs SaLaRy.” >
  
  *Trump's claim >
  
  Lie number 25,001? I've lost count. >
  
  This is my shocked face. >
  
  Trump making false or misleading statements? This is surely the first time he’s ever done such a horrible thing (/s) >
  
  Omg Trump LIED about donating his presidential salary?! >
  
  Shocking >
  
  Trump just lost track of time between the UV suppositories and the disinfectant enemas. >
  
  surprising only the biggest idiots in the world.  who won't believe it anyway. >
  
  "He would never do that!".      
  The sentence works for pro and anti Trump. >
  
  Wow shocked >
  
  I'm shocked I tell ya. Completely and utterly shocked. >
  
  So shocking...
  ​
  /s >
  
  If Trump said he donated his salary it’s a sure bet that it never happened. >
  
  He’ll say he told someone to do it and thought he did. And people will believe it. >
  
  I am shocked. Shocked! 
  ...Well not that shocked. >
  
  Breaking News: Habitual liar lied about something else >
  
  Thank you to all the commenters. You give me hope that there is people with common sense out there. >
  
  A kleptocratic kakistocracy. >
  
  Shocking I say, shocking. >
  
  Why is this the thing getting so much attention when it is one of the most trivial things his taxes revealed. >
  
  Probably because we’ve all heard his supporters talk about it so much. As if it was proof that the former president was a super awesome human being who was only doing his best and never lies and isn’t a bit racism, etc.
  It’s an easy “gotcha” to throw back at them.
  *racist, not racism >
  
  Wait he lied no >
  
  Well, DUH!!! >
  
  Grifters gonna grift >
  
  And yet, Trump supporters are made up of people that, for the most part, live pay cheque to pay cheque. And pay way more taxes each year than this schmuck. >
  
  "Despite his spokeswoman’s claim, returns show he donated nothing to charity in 2020"
  "Regardless of when the actual salary was received, any donation made in 2020 should have been reported on that year’s returns. Though US citizens are not required by law to report charitable donations, the tax incentives for doing so are clear and Mr Trump had just reported hundreds of thousands of dollars in charitable donations the year before." >
  
  Half the country doesn’t care. >
  
  To limit the amount of wasted time just assume anything trump or his white house minions said is a lie and you'll be correct. So, basically, if it has anything to do with trump just press delete and move on to something worth your time. TRUMP IS DONE, FINISHED, OVER\~