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Editor's Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative September 2020 news and views.Note: Excerpts are from the authors' words except for subheads and occasional "Editor's notes" such as this.
Sept. 27
Breaking News
New York Times, Exclusive: TRUMP’S TAXES SHOW CHRONIC LOSSES AND YEARS OF TAX AVOIDANCE, Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and Mike McIntire, Sept. 27, 2020. Records
Obtained by The Times After Years of Secrecy.- The Times has obtained tax-return data for President Trump extending over more than two decades. It tells a story fundamentally different from the one he’s sold to the public.
- Mr. Trump’s finances are under stress, beset by hundreds of millions in debt coming due and an I.R.S. audit that could cost him over $100 million.
- He paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016, and nothing at all in 10 of the prior 15 years — largely because he lost so much money.
Top Headlines
- New York Times, Exclusive: TRUMP’S TAXES SHOW CHRONIC LOSSES AND YEARS OF TAX AVOIDANCE, Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and Mike McIntire (continued)
Washington Post, Trump dismisses New York Times report that he paid nothing in income taxes for 10 years, but dodges questions about details- Washington Post, Analysis: Facing possible defeat, Trump threatens the integrity of the election, Dan Balz
- Washington Post, Biden maintains lead over Trump as support from women fuels ex-vice president’s advantage, Post-ABC poll finds
- New York Times, President Trump stoked more doubt on mail-in ballots and raised the prospect of Congress deciding a disputed election
- New York Times, U.S. Voters Believe Winner of Election Should Fill Court Vacancy, Poll Shows
Washington Post, Amy Coney Barrett, a disciple of Justice Scalia, is poised to push the Supreme Court further right- Washington Post, Democrats debate whether to engage — or withdraw — in Supreme Court fight
- Palmer Report, Opinion: Donald Trump aide Brad Parscale hospitalized after barricading himself in his house, threatening suicide, Bill Palmer
Virus Victims, Responses
New York Times, Live Updates: World Nears One Million Coronavirus Deaths as Hot Spots Keep Emerging- Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals, U.S. Deaths: 209,196
- Washington Post, Already facing its worst crisis since 9/11, airline industry set to cut more than 35,000 jobs this week
- Washington Post, Florida education commissioner orders Miami to open schools earlier than planned
- Washington Post,The 1918 pandemic killed more than 675,000 Americans
More On Trump Tax Revelations
- New York Times, Charting An Empire: A Timeline Of Trump’s Finances, Russ Buettner, Gabriel J.X. Dance, Keith Collins, Mike McIntire and Susanne Craig
- New York Times,18 Revelations From a Trove of Trump Tax Records, David Leonhardt
- New York Times, An Editor’s Note on the Trump Tax Investigation, Dean Baquet
- Washington Post, Investigation: How Trump sought control of his elderly father’s estate and ignited an epic family fight, Michael Kranish
- Palmer Report, Opinion: Donald Trump is broke and facing criminal charges, Bill Palmer
More On U.S. Law, Courts, Democracy
- Washington Post, Opinion: This is not a drill. The Reichstag is burning, Dana Milbank
- New York Times, Opinion: Amy Coney Barrett and the New, Old Anti-Catholicism, Elizabeth Bruenig
- Washington Post, Prayer march draws thousands to the Mall seeking healing for the nation
- Washington Post, Trump’s pick for high court could be seated before election day
- Palmer Report, Opinion: Fifty-seven percent, BD Holly
- Washington Post, A D.C. man who spent 25 years in prison always said he was innocent. His case was finally dismissed
World News
- New York Times, China Gives Unproven Covid-19 Vaccines to Thousands, With Risks Unknown
- Washington Post, U.S. tells Iraq it’s planning to pull out of Baghdad embassy
Washington Post, U.S. criticism of European mission to Venezuela shows growing divide over Maduro
Media News
- Washington Post, TikTok push showcases ‘central planner’ Trump and his hands-on approach to world’s largest economy
Top Stories
New York Times, Exclusive: TRUMP’S TAXES SHOW CHRONIC LOSSES AND YEARS OF TAX AVOIDANCE, Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and Mike McIntire, Sept. 27, 2020. The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due.The Times has obtained tax-return data for President Trump extending over more than two decades. It tells a story fundamentally different from the one he’s sold to the public.
Mr. Trump’s finances are under stress, beset by hundreds of millions in debt coming due and an I.R.S. audit that could cost him over $100 million.He paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016, and nothing at all in 10 of the prior 15 years — largely because he lost so much money.
The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due.
Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750.
He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years — largely because he reported losing much more money than he made.
As the president wages a re-election campaign that polls say he is in danger of losing, his finances are under stress, beset by losses and hundreds of millions of dollars in debt coming due that he has personally guaranteed. Also hanging over him is a decade-long audit battle with the Internal Revenue Service over the legitimacy of a $72.9 million tax refund that he claimed, and received, after declaring huge losses. An adverse ruling could cost him more than $100 million.
The tax returns that Mr. Trump has long fought to keep private tell a story fundamentally different from the one he has sold to the American public. His reports to the I.R.S. portray a businessman who takes in hundreds of millions of dollars a year yet racks up chronic losses that he aggressively employs to avoid paying taxes. Now, with his financial challenges mounting, the records show that he depends more and more on making money from businesses that put him in potential and often direct conflict of interest with his job as president.
The New York Times has obtained tax-return data extending over more than two decades for Mr. Trump and the hundreds of companies that make up his business organization, including detailed information from his first two years in office. It does not include his personal returns for 2018 or 2019. This article offers an overview of The Times’s findings; additional articles will be published in the coming weeks.
The returns are some of the most sought-after, and speculated-about, records in recent memory. In Mr. Trump’s nearly four years in office — and across his endlessly hyped decades in the public eye — journalists, prosecutors, opposition politicians and conspiracists have, with limited success, sought to excavate the enigmas of his finances. By their very nature, the filings will leave many questions unanswered, many questioners unfulfilled. They comprise information that Mr. Trump has disclosed to the I.R.S., not the findings of an independent financial examination. They report that Mr. Trump owns hundreds of millions of dollars in valuable assets, but they do not reveal his true wealth. Nor do they reveal any previously unreported connections to Russia.
Washington Post, Trump dismisses New York Times report that he paid nothing in income taxes for 10 years, but dodges questions about details, Felicia Sonmez, Sept. 27, 2020. Trump dismisses New York Times report that he paid nothing in income taxes for 10 years, but dodges questions about details; Pelosi: Democrats must control more state delegations in the House in case they decide the election; Appeals court halts injunction that gave extra time for mail ballot counting in Wisconsin.Washington Post, Analysis: Facing possible defeat, Trump threatens the integrity of the election, Dan Balz, Sept. 27, 2020 (print ed.). His relentless campaign against mail-in ballots seeds the ground for chaos or worse when votes are still being counted in the days after Nov. 3. Each week has brought evidence of the damage President Trump has done during his nearly four years in office. According to his own words, he is not finished. This past week brought a renewed warning of a harm he could yet inflict on the integrity of elections.The president did more than simply refuse to pledge that he would facilitate a peaceful transfer of power if he loses to former vice president Joe Biden, though that in itself was a step no previous president has taken. In doing so, he escalated his ongoing attack on mail-in ballots, seeding the ground to contest the election as rigged or fraudulent if he is not the winner and to propel the country into chaos.
Perhaps what Trump said merely reflected the mind-set of a president who knows he is running behind in his bid for a second term, one more rhetorical flailing to somehow throw the opposition off balance and to distract from the real reasons for Biden’s lead in the polls. But this close to the election, anything Trump does to question the validity of the count should be regarded as serious and treated as such.
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, interview by John OLoughlin at Lafayette Park / White House, Washington, DC (7 min. livestream video.). Two DC-based attorney / researchers discuss power structures in the nation's capital after attending the annual Red Mass at the historic Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle on Sunday.This year's celebrants included, as usual in recent years, Chief Justice John Roberts, as well as several other justices, prominent members of the U.S. foreign service and regional bar, as well as presidential cabinet members, including Attorney General William Barr and recently confirmed Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia.
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