Democrats finally got the dirt on 76-year-old former President Donald Trump with the Supreme Court and House Ways and Means Committee releasing five years of the former president’s tax returns. Since Trump announced for president at Trump Tower in Manhattan June 17, 2015, Democrats and the press hounded him to release his tax returns. Seven years later, Democrats and the press finally get what they want in the most anti-climactic news event imaginable. What do middle class reporters know about any billionaire’s tax returns, other than feeling green with envy over the incredible wealth of certain lucky individuals. Democrats and the press got what they wanted Nov. 8, 2020 when Trump was bounced out of office. But releasing his tax returns did nothing to discredit the former president, or, for that matter, preventing him from running for president again in 2024;
Trump’s tax returns show his fantastic wealth but, more importantly, he uses IRS tax laws to his advantage as real estate investor. Trump fought releasing his tax returns over the last seven years thinking that ordinary people would hold his clever tax strategies against him in any future election. While Democrats and the press salivate, the public yawns about the release of Trump’s tax returns. “The Democrats should have never done it, the Supreme Court should have never approved it, and it’s going to lead to horrible things for so many people,” Trump said on his Truth Social network. Whether it leads to any consequences to ordinary citizens is anyone’s guess. Trump refers to the invasion of privacy, something that goes with the territory for politicians and celebrities. But with Democrats releasing Trump’s tax returns, they’ve accomplished nothing, most voters could care less.
Trump’s political problems in the 2020 campaign stemmed from Democrats and the media’s relentless demonization, blaming him for everything wrong with America. In 2020, Covid-19 was ravaging communities around the country, with hospitals and clinics slammed, with ordinary citizens dropping like flies. No one knew what to expect other than death-and-disease with no end in sight. Democrats and press made sure that Trump was blamed for the Covid-19 global pandemic, at least the U.S. response to the health crisis. Washington Post’s 79-year-old journalist Bob Woodward of Watergate fame and 82-year-old Dr. Anthony Fauci, heading Trump Covid-19 task force, teamed up to blame Trump for mishandling the crisis. Woodward joined the Democrat Party effort to blame Trump for the Covid-19 crisis, with Fauci giving nonstop interviews to the anti-Trump press.
Adding to the perfect storm against Trump, the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd and months of race riots that followed was also blamed on Trump. Added together, Trump was so demonized by the time the election rolled around, 80-year-old President Joe Biden benefited from confluence of events. Trump didn’t know what hit him until Election Day, handing him a crushing defeat. Trump was in such disbelief that he lost to Biden, he thought the election was rigged or some type of massive fraud took place. No matter how much anyone looked for voter irregularities, nothing was ever found by election officials or courts of law. Trump insisted he was robbed of his second term, prompting Democrats to call his claims of voter fraud the “Big Lie.” But the “Big Lie” was not, as Democrats and the press said, a crime, only Trump’s expression his own eccentric opinion.
House Democrat spent 18 months and millions of dollars on the Jan. 6 House Select Committee hearings, in the most partisan and biased government hearings in U.S. history. House Democrats interviewed one thousand witnesses all with intent of blaming Trump from the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Democrats, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) failed to convict Trump in the U.S. Senate of “incitement of insurrection” Feb. 13, 2021, following up with the Jan. 6 House Select Committee. Democrats tried to prove Trump planned, orchestrated and colluded with right wing groups, the Oathkeepers and Proud Boys, to overturn the 2020 election results. All the Committee showed was that certain groups and individuals broke the law Jan. 6, 2021, vandalized the Capitol and paid a draconic price with long jail sentences. Democrats and the press conflate Jan. 6 rabble-rousers with Trump.
Democrats and the press have spent years trying to frame Trump on a variety of spurious charges. For his 2016 presidential campaign, the FBI, under Obama White House approval, tried to frame his as Russian asset, claiming he colluded wit the Kremlin to win the 2016 election. Former FBI Director James Comey, 62, spent years trying to frame Trump using former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s fake Steele dossier, totally fabricated paid opposition research. New York Times and Washington Post won Pulitzer Prizes for fake reporting on Trump’s alleged ties to Russia. Trump’s team exposed a monstrous conspiracy at the DOJ, FBI, CIA and National Security Agency [NSA] to frame Trump as a Russian asset. Not one Democrat or media organization ever admitted apologized to Trump for their fabricated Russian conspiracy stories. Trump is left shaking his head with what happened to him.
About the Author
John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
