America The United States Treasury did not audit Trump during the first two years of his presidency
America's best kept secret, with the possible exceptions of the atomic bomb and the Coca-Cola formula, has been out.
Former President Donald Trump
's income tax statement
has been made public
by order of the House of Representatives, controlled by the Democratic Party.
It is the result of no less than 9 years of controversies (or 23, if one goes to Trump's oldest statements on the transparency of politicians), his revelations are formidable: in Trump's personal income tax there is no secret.
There is no Iranian or Russian money.
There is no laundering.
Everything is perfectly legal.
It is true that Trump has not had to pay anything in personal income tax for several years, and that in other years he has had to deliver minuscule figures to the treasury compared to his patrimonial wealth.
The biggest novelties with which the US Treasury did not inspect Trump in 2017 and 2018, as it is obliged to do with the president, which overshadows the thesis of the alleged "fiscal harassment" of the former head of state and government, and that the Trump's net worth actually dropped considerably in those two years, which, if it had any effect, would be favorable to the 2024 candidate, since he could confirm that getting into politics cost him money.
But that had already been told in 2020 by the
New York Times
, in an exclusive that came just five weeks before the elections in which Trump was defeated by Joe Biden.
And the rest has been revealed in the countless lawsuits
, which Trump has almost always lost, about his business practices, and that have led him to have to close a large part of his business operations in the state of New York due to a court ruling of november.
Trump's very little philanthropic activity - at least by the parameters of his wealth - is also exposed in his personal income tax.
Although, once again, that should not surprise anyone after his non-profit operation was closed by the Justice in 2018 for appropriating funds destined to the fight against childhood cancer.
Personal income tax seems to reveal that Trump is much less wealthy than he claims.
Again, that is discovering the Mediterranean.
Likewise, it is true that Trump manages his assets through a tangle of instrumental organizations that make it difficult to know what is going in and what is going out (and that they are possibly in the ability of his daughter, Ivanka, to deduct the hairdresser's tax claiming that it is a professional expense).
But that is perfectly legal.
Trump has used all the tricks of the "globalist" elites he hates so much to reduce his payments to the Treasury.
In fact, in 2020, he asked that the treasury give him 5.47 million dollars (5.2 million euros).
Nothing that any American millionaire - whether pro-Trump, anti-Trump or half pensioner - has not done over and over again.
So Trump, the master of getting attention, has achieved a new success, as long as there isn't something truly scandalous hidden among the thousands of papers.
Since that doesn't appear to be the case, the former president has kept the United States obsessively upset with his Tax Return,
with his more hot-headed rivals hoping there was some account in Switzerland in his name and that of Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin, or some Mohamad bin Salman's check for the US president
that he might have deposited at the branch of the White House employees' credit union at the corner of 18th and F streets, about two hundred yards in a straight line from the Oval Office.
None of that has appeared.
If anything, only a bad precedent has been set, because now the US Congress will be able, at least in theory, to disclose
urbi et orbe
the Personal Income Tax Returns of any citizen.
Trump, the incombustible, has emerged unscathed from this fire once again.
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