Yes. But this was part of Trump's appeal to his base in the Republican primary of 2016. Republicans wanted someone who wasn't beholden to the swamp to run his campaign. Trump did pay taxes on his salary even though he didn't accept it.
Funny how he has always promised to release his tax information while at the same time trying as hard as he can to not release them ever.
I'd give the man the shirt off my back. He's a very loved man amongst his supporters. He's going to be fine. We take care of our own.
So was Jim Jones, L Ron Hubbard, etc. by the way Trump has never thought of you as his own, but you are to blind to see it.
And now Romney is in the senate trying desperately to protect the political establishment of both parties to make sure the American people never get to know about this. This concerns me a little more.
If they don't know then how do you? At least he released his taxes. How sad is it that people who claimed to hate the swamp voted for the guy who has drastically expanded it for his own benefit.
I'd give the man the shirt off my back. He's a very loved man amongst his supporters. He's going to be fine. We take care of our own.
Donald Trump 2016 Inaugural wrote:“At the bedrock of our politics will be a total allegiance to the United States of America. Through our loyalty to our country, we will rediscover our loyalty to each other.
Donald Trump believes that personal loyalty to him is more important than being loyal to principles. I find an echo in that when you say "We take care of our own". In the context of politics, it sounds very tribal, like the Hatfields and McCoys. "My country, right or wrong" has been transmuted into "Donald Trump, right or wrong."
You may give him the shirt of your back, but he sure as hell wouldn't return the favor.
"The great problem of any civilization is how to rejuvenate itself without rebarbarization." - Will Durant "We've kept more promises than we've even made" - Donald Trump "Of what meaning is the world without mind? The question cannot exist." - Edwin Land
One of the most discouraging realities for me, and one of the biggest dangers to our democracy is that Trump's hard core base continues to support him, not really because they are unaware that he consistently cheats and breaks the law for his own benefit, but because they don't care that he does that, and, if anything, actually admire him doing that, and being clever enough to get away with it. Trump's claim of being the "law and order President" is a complete joke, and anyone who believes that claim is either hopelessly naïve, or aspires to get away with a fair amount of lawbreaking of their own.
No precept or claim is more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
― Harlan Ellison
What good did that do Romney? He's a strange man always seeking the favor of those who will hate him regardless.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.