{"id":28687,"date":"2019-05-07T21:13:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T02:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28687"},"modified":"2019-05-07T21:13:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T02:13:51","slug":"briefly-nyt-obtains-old-trump-tax-records-to-prove-his-success-was-a-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28687","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: NYT obtains old Trump tax records to prove his success was a lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want to know why Donald Trump doesn\u2019t want to release his tax returns? I\u2019m not a psychic, but I\u2019m pretty sure I know. Trump has made his career peddling the illusion that he was a brilliant and fabulously successful businessman. The truth is far different. He\u2019s a charlatan who routinely swindled smaller vendors and he lost lots of money making bad deals. He\u2019s a liar and a cheat. His entire persona has always been built on the ability to bamboozle gullible people who accepted his bombastic lies. The New York Times has now obtained <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/5-takeaways-from-10-years-of-trump-tax-figures\/ar-AAB2BDR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10 years of his income tax<\/a> information \u2014 from 1985 to 1994 \u2014 and it paints a pictures of a money-losing operation which is completely at odds with his lies about success. Trump has spent his entire adult life pretending to be something he\u2019s not. Tax records would prove he\u2019s been scamming the public \u2014 and his ego can\u2019t take that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want to know why Donald Trump doesn\u2019t want to release his tax returns? I\u2019m not a psychic, but I\u2019m pretty sure I know. Trump has made his career peddling the illusion that he was a brilliant and fabulously successful businessman. The truth is far different. He\u2019s a charlatan who routinely swindled smaller vendors <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28687\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7sH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28688,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28687\/revisions\/28688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}