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Originally Posted by 2MuchMark
It might be huge. Even if you put aside that Trump is now the prez', doing this deal might still be illegal.
The question is then: Are there other deals like this? And more importantly, can Prez T end up being influenced because of those deals to perhaps go easy on a bad-ass country? Could he be in a position to be blackmailed? I think these are the bigger questions.
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I'm guessing that over the course of time since the 1970's you can find PLENTY of times that Trump paid cash both overseas and in the U.S.
Just like every business does on specific occasions. Is it illegal? No.
Not reporting it on your taxes? Yes that is illegal...just like running a stop sign and just as common.
There are very FEW times that anybody receiving cash reports it. But that isn't what Trump did.
He paid OUT cash. And I'd bet you dollars to donuts that any time that Trump has paid anyone in cash he got a receipt and filed taxes on it to write it off.
Don't you do that when you pay cash for something?
Anyway...waitresses, waiters, cab drivers, doormen, etc. across the country definitely understand what it means to get cash instead of credit or a check.
If Rachel Maddow thought her reporting on this on MSNBC's HUGE audience was going to anger real working people...she is greatly mistaken, and as always: out of touch with the people.