By Hal Brown. Read other stories that piqued my interest today on my blog.
The main story from Saturday, Amy Coney Barrett, was relegated literally to being under the fold on the print NY Times replaced by the Trump tax fraud story...
… and it was the second grouping on Google News
The tax story prompted me to make this tweet this morning. 117 150 people have already looked at it on Twitter.
Last night I couldn't get images of Charles Martin Smith playing Agent Oscar Wallace from the movie “The Untouchables” who went from the follow the money accountant member of Eliot Ness’s hardened team to a shotgun wielding agent.
Last night I tweeted this. By this morning it was viewed by far more people than will read this diary.
Trump has lost Matt Drudge as a boot licking sycophant. This is his main story today. This is signifiant because he holds onto an audience that would never look at progressive sites like Daily Kos or HUFFPOST, let alone have subscriptions to The New York Times.
FoxNews, from what I can tell from their website, isn’t even calling it fake news, they are pretending it isn’t in the news:
This is Trump’s new favorite so-called news network. The tax story? Crickets.
The same goes from Breitbart:
This is the Trump friendly NY Post:
Trump, because he’s Trump, instead of doing the smart thing and ignoring the matter, is keeping this in the news for his Twitter followers:
Trump on Twitter: The Fake News Media, just like Election time 2016, is bringing up my Taxes & all sorts of other nonsense with illegally obtained information & only bad intent. I paid many millions of dollars in taxes but was entitled, like everyone else, to depreciation & tax credits..… .....Also, if you look at the extraordinary assets owned by me, which the Fake News hasn’t, I am extremely under leveraged - I have very little debt compared to the value of assets. Much of this information is already on file, but I have long said that I may release.... .....Also, if you look at the extraordinary assets owned by me, which the Fake News hasn’t, I am extremely under leveraged - I have very little debt compared to the value of assets. Much of this information is already on file, but I have long said that I may release.…
Perhaps those who only get the news from these sources, except for Twitter, have no idea that there may be a seismic scandal in the making, a Trump destroying tsunami which could drown his chances for reelection.
Trump may be counting on this. His supporters may watch reporters demanding answers in what passes for his press conferences, but his tried and true tactic of shutting them down by insulting them, spitting out his catchphrase “fake news” as if he’s found a fly in his Big Mac has worked before and will be likely to work again with his hard core supporters.
What may be Trump undermining Trump to some extent is how Biden handles the questions about the revelations in The New York Times in tomorrow’s debate. A lot depends both on how effect Biden is and how Trump is able to shut him down. I wonder if he’ll put all of his taxes online at a new website like the yet unclaimed JoeBidenTaxes.com and challenge Trump to do the same. It would appear that the web address is still unclaimed:
By tomorrow hopefully the news will have made it onto Fox, OAN, the New York Post, and Breitbart.
I am sure Biden has been working with his debate preparation team on how to most effectively confront Trump on the tax issue. Maybe they’ll use the tax website idea.
Updates: Of all the revelations the one that gets to him the most may be the one that lays lie to his narcissistic self image and exposes him as perpetrating not a series of crimes but rather a myth . HuffPost now has it as their main story.
In case you missed it, here’s the new Biden/Harris ad:
This relates to yesterday’s diary: I hope people in Texas trust their Commission on Environmental Quality and the CDC on deadly amoeba
CDC’s credibility is eroded by internal blunders and external attacks as coronavirus vaccine campaigns loom
Take the poll and let readers know what you think. Consider all the factors including the tax documents actually being released and new more damaging information coming to light, and try to come to a conclusion. Consider the chances that Letitia James and Cyrus Vance may serve up a well-timed indictment for Trump and his family related to tax laws he broke in New York. Also add in how long you think the Trump friendly media can hold out on not even reporting about this.