{"id":36899,"date":"2019-05-08T00:52:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T00:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36899"},"modified":"2019-05-08T00:52:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T00:52:27","slug":"what-trump-lost-a-bundle-of-cash-wow-who-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36899","title":{"rendered":"What? Trump lost a bundle of cash? Wow! Who &#8230; knew?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%40POTUS%20%23NYTimes%20%23Trumpbusinesses&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/donald-trump-no-collusion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36255\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/donald-trump-no-collusion-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/donald-trump-no-collusion-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/donald-trump-no-collusion-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/donald-trump-no-collusion-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/donald-trump-no-collusion.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The New York Times released a scoop today, telling the world that Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed &#8220;self-made&#8221; business genius, lost more than a billion bucks for a decade ending in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Well, who would&#8217;ve thought that?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll admit to being not terribly surprised. <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/442614-irs-docs-show-trump-ran-up-over-1-billion-in-business-losses-over-a\">The NY Times<\/a> was able to obtain tax documents &#8212; not the actual returns, mind you &#8212; that tell of Trump&#8217;s business misadventures.<\/p>\n<p>In 1990 and 1991, according to those documents, Trump lost $250 million, which reportedly is the largest amount lost during that time by an American taxpayer. The documents also reveal that Trump lost so much money that he didn&#8217;t pay any taxes for eight of those 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>How about that?<\/p>\n<p>The world already knows that his late father, Fred, staked him a huge amount of money to get started when he finished his education at the &#8220;best college.&#8221; Donald Trump, though, had previously portrayed himself as a self-made tycoon, a mogul who built his huge empire from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. Not so.<\/p>\n<p>Now we are able to look just a little more deeply into what kind of fraudulent picture he painted of himself.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney was right in 2016 when he described the future Republican Party presidential nominee as a &#8220;phony&#8221; and a &#8220;fraud.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%40POTUS%20%23NYTimes%20%23Trumpbusinesses&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times released a scoop today, telling the world that Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed &#8220;self-made&#8221; business genius, lost more than a billion bucks for a decade ending in 1994. Well, who would&#8217;ve thought that? I&#8217;ll admit to being not terribly surprised. The NY Times was able to obtain tax documents &#8212; not the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36899\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What? Trump lost a bundle of cash? Wow! Who &#8230; knew?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1424,3101,3360,6110],"class_list":["post-36899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-mitt-romney","tag-ny-times","tag-tax-returns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36900,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36899\/revisions\/36900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}