The Clinton campaign released a web video Monday morning targeting Donald Trump over a New York Times report that he declared nearly $1 billion in business losses on his 1995 tax return, likely allowing him to avoid income taxes for the next 18 years.
The video intersperses audio and video from politicians, reporters, analysts and newscasters poking holes in the fundamental premise of Trump’s campaign for president: his business expertise.
“He’s selling himself as a brilliant businessman,” CNN’s Jake Tapper says to Rudy Giuliani in one clip, before the video cuts to news of Trump’s business loses. “That doesn’t sound particularly brilliant to me.”
“How do you lose $915 million in a rising real estate market if you’re the great real estate genius?” journalist David Cay Johnston asks.
“I’m worth billions, I’m a successful businessman, but I don’t pay any taxes!” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) says, impersonating the Republican nominee. “But you, you make 15 bucks an hour, you pay the taxes, not me.”
“It certainly puts a new tack on makers versus takers, doesn’t it?” MSNBC’s Joy Ann Reid wonders, against video of a verklempt Trump.
The video closes with the message, “Donald Trump is a business failure who has gotten rich at your expense. That’s what three pages of tax returns show. Imagine what he’s hiding in the rest.”
Watch below:
Can a man who lost $1 billion in one year, stiffed small businesses, and may have paid no taxes really claim he’s “good at business”? pic.twitter.com/ZeXgrkJhzj
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 3, 2016
Trump says we should elect him precisely because he is so good at gaming the tax laws to his advantage. He pairs that boast with the implicit message he can be counted on to change those very laws, somehow being obliquely critical of the fact he’s prospered by their existence and simultaneously saying future taxpayers shouldn’t have access to such breaks.
This reminds me of those bank robbers and hackers that rent themselves out to corporations, extracting ransom to spill the beans on what security experts need to do to stop people like them.
We’re supposed to elect Trump because we’d rather have a conniving con artist inside the Oval Office working for us (allegedly) than one in the private sector swindling us blind.
Great, great ad, awesome drums and ambient sound. Let it roll! "Makers vs. Takers"
Along with fakers, easy to figure out who the taker is on this one.
Perhaps wrote a million of boxes of this off at $910 per game … 'cause they were ‘fantastic & valuable’
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In regard to his supposed business skill it puts clown makeup on him and then throws him out naked in the snow, it folds in Bernie just to touch that base, it’s brilliant. Fast and deadly all the way along, and then the ending is a brutal knockout: “Imagine what he’s hiding in the rest.” You can’t say enough about how well done that was.
Yeah…Sorta like this guy too:
Genius, I tellz ya…