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@asymmetricinfo @EsotericCD The issue is not Trump losing money. It's his manipulation of the US tax code to avoid paying any income taxes

@Izengabe_ @EsotericCD This doesn’t show manipulation, unless you think he actually didn’t lose money. I’m pretty sure he lost a ton of $$$

@asymmetricinfo @Izengabe_ @EsotericCD The debt parking angle may be manipulation http://bit.ly/2dKVUff 

@EmilyYV68 @Izengabe_ @EsotericCD IF it happened, and IF the IRS didn’t deem it to be debt forgiveness anyway. That’s pretty thin.

@asymmetricinfo Such a great businessman lost 1 BILLION in a yr & maybe not paid fed income tax for the next 18 years seems major to me.

@asymmetricinfo That's not what people think will move the polls. The notion that he may have paid $0 in income tax for 18 years is.

@rapid_rar That was basically groundless speculation by the NYT, not a fact.

@asymmetricinfo The whole premise of his run is that he's a genius businessman.

@LMandrakeJr Look, I too think that’s ridiculous. But “he lost a bunch of money in Atlantic City" didn’t move voters. Why will it start now?

@asymmetricinfo ? "many people say" that they support him do to his brilliant success at business.

@lynnanne123 And those people have been impervious to the last million times the media pointed out his many business failures.

@asymmetricinfo the Trumps have repeatedly said there is nothing interesting in the returns. This kinda refutes that.

@holdingthebag I don’t find anything particularly interesting or novel here.