if you were writing tax law yourself, would you write it in a way that that the way you handled donald trump s tax returns would not be possible? yes. and how would you change it? what do you think is wrong with it now? for years, construction period carrying charges, interest and taxes during the construction period which could go for multiple years were currently deductible. where as they re really capital expenditures. from an accounting viewpoint. as a consequence, a developer was getting a current deduction, not paying tax and was building something of tremendous value. what was donald trump s attitude toward these tax provisions? was he familiar with them or did he just basically trust your guidance on this? he trusted our lead. he didn t know anything about them from what i was able to tell at the time. do you think it s a good idea for presidential candidates to
the trump campaign, on the other hand, is solely depend dent pence and trump that is not a ground operation. that is not the strategy you need to come out on top that said, i think a lot of folks are concerned. they don t want hillary s folks and their severe thunderstormers to feel like they can stay home. this election has to be about every single american showing up. so it s not as important to solidify the progressive base, but also to send a clear message to the republican party that they can t have a candidate like this ever again. and rick, there is a new ohio poll, monmouth university showing hillary had 44, 42. and that s where donald trump had been doing well in all the recent polls he had a lead. if hillary clinton can turn ohio around, that would close the door on trump there is no path without ohio for the republican. it s a very difficult operation. the path dependency equation without ohio in this mix for donald trump is a very steep
and now for tonight s reading from donald trump s the art of the deal. i like the casino business. i like the scale, which is huge. i like the glamour. and most of all, i like the cash flow. if you know what you re doing and you run your operation reasonably well, you can make a very nice profit. if you run it very well, you can make a ton of money. well, turns out donald trump didn t run his casino business very well. and obvious will he did not know what he was doing. donald trump failed completely in the casino business with his casinos filing for bankruptcy multiple times. and that s even with his father doing him the favor of buying millions of dollars in gambling chips at the casino and simply letting the casino keep the cash and never gambling with those chips. according to fortune magazine, no amount of spin will make
and stewart, quickly, before we go, mike pence already been declared the front-runner by some observers. does the trump association help him or hurt him in the next republican presidential a pre, whenever there that is? i honestly don t know. what is fascinating to me is had governor pence i thought did a good job last night, had he run in a primary, he would have been pro free trade. he would have been anti-putin, and he would have defended president bush s war on terror, all of which donald trump would have attacked him for. it s just donald trump is taking the party to a very different place than someone like governor pence has been in fore. and i just don t know what the outcome of this is going to be in a post november republican party. stuart stevens. thank you very much for joining us tonight. appreciate it. good to see you. coming up, what hillary clinton thought of alec baldwin s donald trump.
it s a very difficult operation. the path dependency equation without ohio in this mix for donald trump is a very steep one. especially because there are other candidates like evan mcmullen who are starting to tear it up in the mountain west a little bit. we re going to end up in a situation where trump s going to have cross pressure from a lot of directions as we go forward. and i think he is going to be looking at these states. and he is campaigning in pennsylvania, which he almost certainly can t win. in nevada, which is a really dodgy place, it shows that he doesn t have a structure. he doesn t have a campaign to speak of. and there is no strategic vision in there except for whatever impulse strikes him. in the morning says let s fire up the jet and go somewhere. rick, quickly, you would have him in ohio, ohio, ohio? well, if i were rung donald trump s effort, first off, i d lock him somewhere away safe and padded. take away his phone, rick. don t forget. oh, yeah. but