>>THE NEW YORK TIMES HAS PUBLISHED A DAMNING ARTICLE
REGARDING DONALD TRUMP'S TAX RETURN FROM 1995.
ALTHOUGH THEY
ONLY HAD A PORTION OF THE TAX RETURN AND ALTHOUGH IT IS
MISSING A LOT OF INFORMATION, THE INFORMATION WE DO HAVE DOES
GIVE US A SENSE OF JUST HOW MUCH HE LOST IN HIS FAILED BUSINESSES
AND HOW MUCH THOSE LOSSES HAVE HELPED HIM EVADE TAXES LEGALLY
MOVING FORWARD AFTER 1995.
I SAY EVADE TAXES BUT ESSENTIALLY
BECAUSE OF HIS INSANE LOSSES HE WAS ABLE TO ESSENTIALLY GET AWAY
WITHOUT PAYING TAXES FOR UP TO 18 YEARS AFTER 1995.
SO LET'S
GET INTO THOSE DETAILS --
>>A LOT
OF PEOPLE LIKE TO TALK ABOUT DONALD TRUMP BEING A
WINNER BECAUSE HE IS ABLE TO USE THIS RIGGED SYSTEM IN HIS FAVOR
AND BASICALLY DO AWAY WITH INCOME TAXES MOVING FORWARD.
HOWEVER, HE FAILED, HE FAILED SO MISERABLY THAT HE LOST $916
MILLION.
HERE IS SOME MORE INFORMATION ON THAT --
>>SO HIS SUPPORTERS ARE LIKE HE'S REALLY SMART, HE IS A
GENIUS BECAUSE LIKE HE USED THE FACT THAT HE FAILED BADLY TO
AVOID PAYING TAXES.
BUT HE STILL FAILED REALLY BADLY, AND WE WILL
GET INTO ALL THE DIFFERENT BUSINESSES THAT BASICALLY WENT
UNDERWATER AND THE INSANE AMOUNTS OF MONEY HE OWED HAS A
RESULT, BUT BEFORE WE GET INTO THOSE DETAILS WHAT YOU THINK
ABOUT ALL THIS?
>>I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, JIMMY, BUT SOMETIMES I WILL GO TO LUNCH
WITH MY AGENT OR MANAGER AND THE BILL IS 150 BUCKS, AND I'M LIKE,
AM I ALLOWED TO WRITE THIS OFF?
I FEEL A LITTLE GUILTY, IT WAS A
GOOD LUNCH, BUT $916 MILLION, I FEEL GOOD ABOUT WRITING OFF
$150.
THIS GUY IS GETTING WAY WITH MURDER, I KNOW IT IS LEGAL,
BUT STILL.
IT IS DIRTY, AND PART OF IT TOO IS THE WAY THE SYSTEM
IS SET UP, I READ THAT EVEN THOUGH HE LOST 916 MILLION OR
WHATEVER IT WAS, HE CONTINUED TO LIVE HIS LAVISH LIFESTYLE, I
THINK THEY SAID SOMETHING LIKE THERE WAS SOME SETTLEMENT OR
SOME SORT OF AGREEMENT WHERE HE WAS ABLE TO SHOW THAT HE NEEDED
$450,000 A MONTH FOR HIS LIFESTYLE.
SO HE CONTINUES TO
LIVE LIKE THAT.
THE GUY IS AN IDIOT.
>>WHAT IS AMAZING IS A SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS OR THE MIDDLE
CLASS, WORKING CLASS -- IF THEY DO ANYTHING REMOTELY WRONG IN
THEIR TAXES OR REMOTELY WRONG IN THEIR BUSINESS AND ARE UNABLE TO
STAY AFLOAT, THEY REALLY DO SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES.
HERE IS
A MAN WHO IS ALWAYS TOUTING HOW BUSINESS SAVVY HE IS, HOW
SUCCESSFUL HE IS, HOW WELL HE KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT BUSINESS
AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND ALL THAT, WHEN IN REALITY HE
INHERITED THE MONEY HE HAS, AND HE LOST A GIGANTIC CHUNK OF IT.
SO HOW DID HE FAIL?
WHAT WENT WRONG IN HIS BUSINESS VENTURES?
IT TURNS OUT IT WAS THE MISMANAGEMENT OF NOT ONE, NOT
TWO, BUT THREE ATLANTIC CITY CASINOS, A FAILED AIRLINE
BUSINESS, AND ALSO THE PLAZA HOTEL IN NEW YORK CITY WHICH PUT
HIM UNDERWATER AS WELL.
AGAIN, $916 MILLION, THIS IS NO JOKE,
HE LOST THAT AND USE THAT TO HIS ADVANTAGE, BUT ONLY USED IT TO
HIS ADVANTAGE BECAUSE THE TAX CODE IS WRITTEN IN SUCH A WAY
THAT IT BENEFITS THE WEALTHIEST, AND HE WANTS TO CONTINUE
CREATING A SYSTEM THAT CONTINUES BENEFITING THE WEALTHIEST, NOT
THE WORKING-CLASS OR THE MIDDLE CLASS, NOT PEOPLE LIKE US.
>>YEAH.
>>SO WHEN HE WAS ASKED AT THE DEBATE -- HE DIDN'T PAY ANY
TAXES, THAT'S WHAT HILLARY SAID, HE SAID THAT MEANS I'M SMART.
YOU KNOW WHO ELSE DOESN'T PAY ANY TAXES BECAUSE THEY LOST A
LOT OF MONEY?
I GUESS HE'S ABOUT AS SMART AS MC HAMMER, DIDN'T
THAT HAPPEN TO HIM TOO?
HE'S GOT THAT MC HAMMER BRAIN WORKING
OVERTIME.
>>WESLEY SNIPES.
>>HE'S GOT THAT TOUCH, I LOSE SO MUCH THAT I WON'T EVER HAVE TO
PAY TAXES.
HE ALMOST LOST $1 BILLION ON CASINOS, WHICH I
DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW, THE GAMES ARE RIGGED.
>>THE CASINOS ARE RIGGED AGAINST THE PATRONS.
>>LIKE OUR ECONOMY IS AGAINST WORKING PEOPLE.
>>THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS.
>>UNLESS DONALD TRUMP IS THE HEAD OF IT.
>>IT WOULD BE LIKE IF GOLDMAN SACHS WASN'T MAKING MONEY RIGHT
NOW IN THIS ECONOMY, THAT'S HOW BAD IT IS, THAT'S HOW BAD TRUMP
IS AS A CASINO OWNER.
HOW COULD THEY NOT MAKE MONEY?
THE BANKS,
I MEAN.
THEY GET MONEY FOR FREE, THEY CAN CHARGE US 30% ON CREDIT
CARDS, THIS IS AN UNSUSTAINABLE SYSTEM BUT THIS IS WHAT WE LIVE
WITH.
SO JUST LIKE THAT, DONALD TRUMP LOSES $1 BILLION ON A
RIGGED GAME IN HIS FAVOR, BY THE WAY.
I WOULD LOVE TO SEE HOW BAD
THIS GUY DOES AS PRESIDENT.
>>HE WOULD DO HORRIBLY, BUT WHILE HE IS DOING HORRIBLY SO
MANY PEOPLE WOULD SUFFER AS A RESULT OF THAT.
>>THEY ALSO SAY THAT HE DIDN'T PAY THE TAXES, AND ALSO NOW IT
IS COMING OUT SLOWLY BUT SURELY, HE DIDN'T PUT MONEY INTO HIS
CHARITY.
SO WHAT HAS HE BEEN SPENDING HIS MONEY ON?
I GUESS
THOSE TIES --
>>HE SPENDS HIS MONEY ON GARBAGE.
WE WILL GET TO SOME OF
THE DRAMA INVOLVING HIS CHARITY IN THE NEXT STORY BECAUSE THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL IN NEW YORK HAS DECIDED TO SEND HIM A CEASE AND
DESIST ORDER SO THE TRUMP FOUNDATION CAN NO LONGER SOLICIT
MONEY, AND THE REASON WHY IS BECAUSE HE WAS CAUGHT GIVING
POLITICAL DONATIONS THROUGH THE FOUNDATION TO PEOPLE THAT, YOU
KNOW, HE DIDN'T WANT TO INVESTIGATE HIM BECAUSE OF TRUMP
UNIVERSITY.
HE SPENT THAT MONEY ON TIM TEBOW MEMORABILIA IN
2007.
THIS GUY IS A JOKE, AND HE KEEPS TALKING ABOUT HOW
SUCCESSFUL HE IS WHEN IN REALITY HE'S NOT SUCCESSFUL.
LET ME GIVE
YOU SOME MORE INFORMATION ON THAT --
>>AGAIN, WHERE DOES THE MAJORITY OF HIS WEALTH COME FROM?
IT
COMES FROM THE FACT THAT HE INHERITED THE MONEY FROM HIS
FATHER AND THEN HE JUST GETS INTEREST FROM THAT MONEY, THAT'S
WHERE THE MAJORITY OF HIS INCOME COMES FROM.
HIS BUSINESSES ARE
NOT SUCCESSFUL, HE HAS GONE BANKRUPT SO MANY TIMES, AND I
DON'T KNOW WHAT MORE WE CAN GIVE IN TERMS OF EVIDENCE AND
INFORMATION TO HIS SUPPORTERS TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT HE IS
NOT WHAT HE SAYS HE IS.
>>IN THE DEBATE HILLARY WAS LIKE, WHAT IS HIDDEN IN YOUR
TAXES?
IS IT THAT YOU DIDN'T MAKE AS MUCH MONEY AS YOU SAY
YOU DID, IS IT THAT YOU DIDN'T PAY THE TAXES, WHAT IS HIDDEN?
AND WENT SHE SAID YOU DIDN'T MAKE AS MUCH MONEY, HE SAYS I
HAVE $650 MILLION IN THE BANK, I CHECKED MY ACCOUNT TODAY.
AND I
WAS LIKE, SO THIS IS A MAN OF THE PEOPLE?
HE WAS LOOKING AT
HIS $650 MILLION BANK ACCOUNT TODAY?
HOW DOES HE SELL HIMSELF
TO THESE PEOPLE WHO SAY HE WILL FIGHT FOR YOU?
>>ALL HE IS EVER DONE IS SAY DISPARAGING THINGS ABOUT YOU.
NOT YOU SPECIFICALLY, BUT YOU AS PART OF A CLASS OF PEOPLE.
AND
IT MAKES ME SO SAD TO THINK THAT WE ARE IN THE SITUATION WE ARE
IN RIGHT NOW, WHERE HE IS SUCH A HORRIBLE CANDIDATE AND EVEN ON
THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE, YES, HILLARY IS BETTER, BUT SHE IS
NOT THE BEST CANDIDATE EITHER.
PEOPLE ARE FRUSTRATED, AND I
THINK THE REASON A LOT OF PEOPLE DO SUPPORT HIM IS BECAUSE THEY
ARE ANGRY, THEY SEE A SYSTEM THAT IS RIGGED AGAINST THEM, AND
DONALD TRUMP SPEAKS OUT AGAINST IT BUT HE DOESN'T SPEAK OUT
AGAINST IT BECAUSE HE PLANS ON CHANGING IT.
HE HAS BEEN
BENEFITING FROM THE RIGGED SYSTEM, THIS STORY IS A PERFECT
EXAMPLE.
YOU THINK HE WANTS TO CHANGE A SYSTEM THAT HAS ALLOWED
HIM TO AVOID PAYING INCOME TAXES FOR UP TO 18 YEARS?
HE IS NOT GOING TO CHANGE THAT, HE THINKS HE'S A GENIUS FOR
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF IT.
>>I THINK WHAT WE ARE WITNESSING -- I'M NOT AN
ECONOMIST, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE THE FAILURE OF GLOBAL -- [BUFFERING]
>>THEY WANT TO MAKE TRUMP ABOUT RACISM, CERTAINLY THERE ARE BIG
ELEMENTS OF THAT, BUT THAT IS CLASSIC.
FASCISM HAS SCAPEGOATS,
AND WHAT CREATED TRUMP IS THE PROBLEM, WHAT CREATED TRUMP IS A
POLITICAL CLASS THAT HAS TURNED ITS BACK ON ITS WORKERS, SO NOW
THE PEOPLE WHO USED TO REPRESENT WORKERS, THE DEMOCRATS, GOT IN
BED WITH WALL STREET, WALL STREET'S AGENDA IS
DEMOCRATICALLY OPPOSED TO WORKERS.
SO WHEN THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY RIGGED THE SYSTEM FOR HILLARY CLINTON TO TRY TO SCREW
OVER A POPULIST LIKE BERNIE SANDERS, THEY WERE SAYING IT IS
MORE IMPORTANT FOR US TO DEFEAT THE AGENDA OF WORKERS THAN IT IS
TO RISK LOSING TO A REPUBLICAN.
THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE ALL ABOUT,
THEY HAD TO MAKE SURE THEY DEFEATED THE AGENDA OF WORKERS,
WHICH THEY DID, NOW WE ARE LEFT WITH TWO PARTIES THAT BOTH SERVE
CORPORATE POWER, MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL POWER, THERE
IS NO WAY TO VOTE AGAINST GOLDMAN SACHS OR RAYTHEON, NO
WAY TO VOTE AGAINST BIG PHARMA OR FRACKING, AND THAT IS WHAT
LED US TO DONALD TRUMP.
AND THE THING PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE IS
THAT THE FIX FOR THAT IS NOT MORE NEOLIBERALISM, EVERY FOUR
YEARS IT GETS WORSE, SO I SAY THE NEXT DONALD TRUMP WILL BE
MAYBE NOT CRAZY ON THE OUTSIDE -- IMAGINE IF IT WAS TED CRUZ,
WHO IS ACTUALLY AN EVIL GENIUS, UNLIKE TRUMP, WHO IS AN EVIL
NINCOMPOOP.
TED CRUZ PROPOSED A LAW ON THE SENATE FLOOR TO BAN
MUSLIMS, BUT HE'S NOT AS CRAZY AND HE SAYS IT SOFTER.
>>HE DOES HAVE A MELTING FACE.
BUT THIS SPEAKS TO BIGGER
THINGS, TRUMP IS THE SYMPTOM OF A PROBLEM AND HE'S NOT THE
PROBLEM, AND I THINK THAT HILLARY CLINTON, IT LOOKS LIKE
SHE HAS THE ELECTORAL ADVANTAGE, SHE WILL BE PRESIDENT -- I HATE
TO SEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN ANOTHER FOUR YEARS, THAT'S
WHAT I'M AFRAID OF.
>>I THINK THERE ARE CHANGES WE CAN MAKE WITH GRASSROOTS
MOVEMENTS AND HOPEFULLY -- YOU ARE RIGHT, THE SYSTEM IS NOT SET
UP AT ALL, THE REASON THESE PEOPLE ARE SO UPSET IS BECAUSE
THEIR JOBS ARE GONE AND THEY ARE NOT MAKING THE MONEY AND THE
LIVELIHOOD THEY USED TO HAVE.
I PERSONALLY IN THIS CASE SUPPORT
HILLARY, BUT I'M THE FIRST ONE TO SAY WHEN SOMEONE SAYS SHE IS
NOT THE PERFECT CANDIDATE, I AGREE.
SHE HAS PROBLEMS, ISSUES,
YOU ARE RIGHT.
WHAT I FIND UNBELIEVABLE SOMETIMES IS WHEN
YOU SEE TRUMP SUPPORTERS, WHEN YOU BRING THEM THIS FACT THAT HE
LOST ALL THIS MONEY, WHICH MEANS HE WASN'T A GREAT
BUSINESSMAN, DIDN'T PAY ANY TAXES, WHAT YOU THINK?
AND THEY SAY THAT MAKES HIM SMART, HE DIDN'T PAY TAXES.
>>IT WAS ALL ABOUT FRAMING, YOU CAN FRAME ANYONE'S FAILURE AS
AMAZING SUCCESS, AND IN THIS CASE HE FAILED -- TO YOU IMAGINE
FOR A SECOND IF THE TABLES WERE TURNED IN HILLARY CLINTON WAS
THE ONE WHO LOST $916 MILLION IN BUSINESSES?
THE KINDS OF ATTACKS
SHE WOULD FACE -- BY THE WAY, JUSTIFIED ATTACKS SHE WOULD FACE
-- AND SHE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO RECOVER.
WHETHER OR NOT DONALD
TRUMP RECOVERS I DON'T KNOW, IT SEEMS LIKE HE IS UNTOUCHABLE AND
WE CAN, WITH THE WORST, MOST HIDEOUS STORIES ABOUT HIM AND HE
WILL STILL HAVE A VERY CLOSE ELECTION TO HILLARY.
BUT IF THE
TABLES WERE TURNED IN HILLARY WAS THE ONE BEING COVERED THIS
WAY IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, THERE IS NO QUESTION IN MY MIND THAT
THAT GAP BETWEEN THEM WOULD WIDEN IN THE POLLS.
>>AND QUICKLY, THE THING ABOUT THE TAXES TOO, WERE SUPPORTERS
SAY IT MAKES HIM SMART, HE AVOIDED TAXES, NO ONE WANTS TO
PAY TAXES -- I WAS LISTENING TO A PIECE AND THIS GUY WHO WAS A
SOLDIER WAS SAYING LISTEN, WHEN YOU DON'T PAY TAXES THE
EQUIPMENT I NEED TO PROTECT ME IN THE THEATER OF WAR OR OUR
ROADS TRUMP IS COMPLAINING ABOUT, NO MONEY IS GOING TO
THAT.
IF WE ALL PLAYED BY THE TRUMP RULES, THIS MILITARY HE
SUPPORTS, THIS RESTRUCTURING OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE, WOULD
NOT HAPPEN.
>>I GET INTO A LOT OF TROUBLE FOR CALLING AVID TRUMP
SUPPORTERS DUMB, BUT THEY ARE DUMB.
AND THE REASON WHY THEY
ARE DUMB IS BECAUSE YOU ARE SUPPORTING A CANDIDATE WHO IS
SAYING THAT HE IS SMART FOR NOT PAYING TAXES.
YOU PAY MORE TAXES
THAN HE DOES, WHICH ESSENTIALLY MEANS THAT HE THINKS YOU ARE AN
IDIOT FOR HAVING TO PAY TAXES.
YOU WEREN'T SMART ENOUGH TO TAKE
ADVANTAGE OF LOOPHOLES -- BY THE WAY THERE ARE NO LOOPHOLES FOR
THE MIDDLE-CLASS AND WORKING-CLASS -- BUT YOU HAD TO
PAY TAXES, YOU ARE NOT A GENIUS LIKE TRUMP.
HE IS AN UNPATRIOTIC
PIECE OF CRAP AND THE REASON I SAY THAT IS BECAUSE IF YOU ARE
IN THIS COUNTRY TAKING ADVANTAGE OF ALL THESE OPPORTUNITIES THAT
WILL MAKE YOU WEALTHY, THAT WILL MAKE YOU A SUCCESS, AND YOU
REFUSE TO PAY THAT MONEY BACK OR GIVE OPPORTUNITIES TO PEOPLE
AFTER YOU, THEN YOU ARE UNPATRIOTIC, YOU ARE THE
DEFINITION OF THAT.
AND BY THE WAY THE TAX RETURNS ALSO
INDICATE THAT HE REFUSED TO GIVE CHARITABLE DONATIONS TO VIETNAM
VETS.
LET ME TELL YOU THAT INFORMATION --
>>NO ONE IS FORCED TO PAY FOR CHARITY OR GIVE DONATIONS TO
CHARITY, BUT IT'S JUST HILARIOUS TO ME THAT HE TALKS ABOUT HOW
MUCH HE CARES ABOUT OUR MILITARY AND OUR SOLDIERS AND OUR TROOPS
WHEN HE WON'T EVEN GIVE ANY MONEY TO THE VETERANS THROUGH
CHARITABLE DONATIONS.
>>THAT IS PART OF WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT, THE DONATIONS --
IT CAME OUT HE HAD THAT FUNDRAISER DURING ONE OF THE
LAST DEBATES IN THE PRIMARIES, I THINK, AND THE GUY INVESTIGATING
START CALLING ALL THESE DIFFERENT VETERANS GROUPS AND
GOING, DID YOU GET MONEY?
AND THEY WERE LIKE, NO.
THEN AFTER
THE FACT THE TRUMP FOUNDATION GAVE SOME MONEY TO BE LIKE, IT
WAS COMING, IT WAS IN THE MAIL.
>>AND THEN HE GAVE THAT SPEECH WHERE HE SAYS I DIDN'T HAVE TO
DO THIS.
THAT'S THE WAY HE GIVES CHARITY, I DIDN'T HAVE TO DO
THIS.
THAT'S THE WORST WAY TO GIVE TO CHARITY.
WHEN HE CHEATS
ON HIS TAXES IT IS LIKE WHEN HE CHEATS ON HIS WIFE, EXCEPT WHEN
IT IS HIS TAXES IT IS AMERICA HE'S FUCKING BEHIND OUR BACKS.
>>EXACTLY, AND WE BELIEVE IT AT THAT.