and the suggestion the netanyahu reported that for maybe 19 years wouldn t have to pay any federal income tax. listen to that exchange. did you use that $916 million loss to avoid paying personal federal income taxes of course i do. of course i do. can you say how much years you avoided paying personal income tax? no. but i pay tax and i pay federal tax, too. sort of unclear whether he paid any federal income tax as a result of that $916 billion loss. right, but again he said of course i do. of course i did that. so that feeds this perception he is not paying taxes in a way that most americans would like the president of their, of the country to contribute, and i think that the polls show that this is an issue that matters. that people care about this issue, and if you step back and look broadly, hard to see one thing that donald trump said or did last night that moved people who already weren t in his camp,
control, we also learned something new about his taxes. you have not answered, though, a simple question. did you use that $916 million loss to avoid paying personal federal income taxes of course i do. of course i do. and so do all of her donors or most of her donors. but i will tell you that number one i pay tremendous numbers of taxes. i absolutely used it and so did warren buffett and so did george soros. okay. so essentially, what mr. trump is saying, look, i used the tax loopholes available to me within the law and so do other wealthy people like hillary clinton and her buddies. so what s wrong with that? you know, it s a surprisingly effective defense. mike pence said the same thing in the vice presidential debate. donald trump asking other people, other americans do you not take all of your personal deductions? i think if people think these deductions were legal and they always do stress that they were legal, then they kind of can t
in jail when you have an fbi director who said criminal charges against her is not even a close call. that no prosecutor would have brought them. i mean, this is a typical case of not just criminalizing judgment, criminalizing political difference. but you can imagine a discussion between two voters. a voter who says, gosh, i really can t stand hillary clinton. just don t think she has integrity. i can t believe her. trump said he should throw her in jail. you can imagine that voter saying that goes kind of crazy and that goes too far. that is a scenario who hurts dawned trump. he will have a hard time getting those voters who goes way over the top as he did in that answer. jackie, last night another point that donald trump seemed to clarify and that is he did not pay. it seems he confirmed federal income tax for the past 18 years. listen to this. you have not answered, though, a simple question. did you use that $916 million loss to avoid paying personal federal income taxes? of
would hurt him seems to be false. his business, real estate business, doesn t really use carried interest. we haven t seen his taxes so we re not certain he doesn t make use of this but in general the real estate business does not. his advisors have told me on several owe kags now that his tax plan would not change the part of the tax code that he used that would allow him to take that $916 million deduction. they think that is good tax policy. many democrats do. but he would not suffer in any way. in fact, given the tax cuts for
and education is wrong. we want to make sure no corporation and no individual can get away without paying his fair share for our country. i want to give the chance to response. the last month, taxes were the number one issue on facebook for the first time. the new york times published your tax returns and show you claimed a loss which means you could have avoided paying income taxes for years and you said you paid state and employee and real estate and property taxes. did you use that $916 million loss to avoid paying taxes? of course i do. and so do all of her donors. i know many of her donors. they take massive write offs. a lot lot of my write off was depreciation and she always allowed this. the people that give her all