Sunday, September 27, 2020

New York Times:2000년부터 트럼프 지난 10년 동안에 인컴텍스 한푼도 안냈다 주장. 뉴욕타임스, CNN은 정치적으로 트럼프와 철천지 원수이기에.



나는 트럼프 대통령을 두둔하는 사람은 아니다. 그러나 트럼프와 언론들, 특히 CNN과 NY times는  같은 이슈를 놓고 항상 피터지게 싸우는 철천지 원수지간이다.  앞으로 약 1개월 후에는 미국대선이 있게된다. 시기적으로 지금 CNN과 NY times가, 트럼프가 인컨텍스를 한푼도 안냈다고 보도를 하면, 선거에 치명적인 결과를 초래 할수도 있다는, 언론폭격을 가한 것이다.  

그러한 확인되지 않은 뉴스보도로, 한국에서 오래전에 이회창씨와 노무현씨가 대선에서 싸울때, 노무현을 지지하는 언론에서, 갑자기 이회창씨의 아들이 아버지의 빽을 업고 군면제를 받았다는 엉터리 뉴스를 보도했었고, 그결과 여론조사에서 노무현을 앞서가던 이회창 후보는 결국 선거에서 패배하고 말았던 쓰라린 기억을 국민들은 지금도기억하고 있는 것이다. 

미국의 언론은 그렇타치고, 한국의 언론들은 트럼프에 대한 인컴텍스와 관련된 보도를 할때는 CNN과 NY times 보도내용뿐만 아니라, Fox News같은 뉴스보도 또한 동등하게 보도하면서, 단서를 달았어야 했다. 나는 "정중동"언론을 주로 본다. 왜냐면 그나마 문재인과 그 찌라시들의 역적행위를 그언론들을 통해서 알수 있기 때문이다. 이언론들이 CNN과 NY times 의 확인되지 않은 보도를 그대로 보도하여, 국민들을 현혹시키는 자세는 심히 걱정되는 점이다. 나같았으면, 트럼프를 반대하는 언론과 지지하는 언론의 뉴스내용을 보도하면서, 판단은 독자들 몫으로 남겼을 것이⁷다.

Fox News뉴스를 보면, 트럼프가 CNN과 NY times 뉴스보도에 대해, 완전 새빨간 거짖말로, 선거를 며칠 앞둔 시점에서 트럼프를 떨어뜨리기위한 모함이고, 엉터리 뉴스보도라고 일축하면서  연방, 그리고 해당주에 많은 세금을 냈었다고 자세한 설명을 했다.  아무리 CNN과 NY times 의 뉴스보도가 사실이라 해도,  양심있는 언론이라면, 아니 트럼프를 떨어뜨리기위한 Conspiracy가 아니라면 신중했어야 했다.  이들 두언론에 너무도 실망이 크다. 한국판 북풍으로 몰아부쳐, 노무현이를 대통령으로 당선시킨 그때의 기억이 무섭게 떠오르게 했다. 선거후 이회창 아들의 군미필은, 병으로 신체검사에서 불합격하여 면제 됐음이 확실히 당시의 신검 서류를 통해 밝혀 졌지만, 이미 뻐스는 떠난 뒤여서, 노무현 대통령을 무고죄로 고발할수도 없었던 무서운 계략의 결과였음이 밝혀진것 뿐이다. 


외신보도 내용을 간추려 놨다. CNN과 NY times 보도는 아래의 영어원문을 참조하면 된다.

트럼프 대통령이 지난 10년동안에 한푼의 연방인컴텍스를 납부하지 않았다는, 뉴욕타임스의 보도를 맹렬히 비난하면서, 이보도는 완전 "가짜뉴스"라고 일축하면서, 그자신은 엄청난 많은 세금을 연방과 주지방정부에 인컴텍스를 납부했었다고 주장했다.

"엉터리 가짜뉴스로 완전히 흠집내기위해 만들어낸 것이다. 그보도 자체가 완전 틀린것이다. 너무도 황당하다"라고 트럼프는 일요일 이뉴스가 보도된지 한시간도 안되여 가진 기자회견에서 주장한 것이다.

New York Times 보도에 따르면, 트럼프는 그의 인컴텍스 파일을 철저히 공개하지 않았고, 현대사회에서 인컴파일을 공개하지 않은 유일한 대통령으로, 그가 대통령에 당선된 해에 그가 연방에 납부한 세금은 $750달러였고, 대통령으로서 첫해에도 $750달러뿐이었다고 했다.

뉴욕타임스에 의하면 지난 20여년동안에 걸친 인컴텍스보고를 기본으로 해서 밝힌 것인데, 이것은 오는 화요일에 있게될 첫번째 대통령 후보간 정책 토론회를 앞둔, 매우 민감한 시점에 보도함으로써 여론을 분열시킬수있는 치명적인 때에 했다는 점이다. 전재산이 수십억 달러라고 주장한 트럼프는 인컴텍스를 그렇게 조금냈다는 보도를 전면 부인한 것이다. "나는 합당한 많은 세금을 연방및 주정부에도 납부했다"고 주장했다.

그가 2016년도에 대통령으로 당선되여 백악관에 입성하기전에 트럼프는 그의 세금파일을 공개하지 않았다고 많은 비난을 받았었다.  트럼프는 미국세무성으로 부터 정기 세무검사를 여러차례 받았었다고 주장했으며, "나는 현제도 세무감사중에 있으며, 세무성에서는 그의 재산평가를 하는중에 있다"라고 설명하면서 세무감사가 끝난후 바로 모든 세금파일을 공개 할것이라고 말했다.

트럼프의 변호사, Alan Garten씨는 뉴욕타임스가 주장하는, 트럼프대통령이 그렇게 소액의 세금을 납부했다는 보도를 전면 부인하면서,  Fox News뉴스가 입수한 자료에 의하면, "트럼프는 개인인컴택스에서 수천만 달러를 납부했으며, 2015년 대통령에 출마 할것을 발표한 이후 납부한 수백만 달러의 개인세금을 납부한것이 포함되여 있다"고 설명했다. 

"뉴욕타임스의 보도내용은 완전히 엉터리로 마치 수수께기를 하는것 같다. 지난 10여년 동안에 대통령은 수천만 달러의 인컴텍스를 연방정부에 납부했었고, 그내용을 뉴욕타임스에 설명하는동안, 그들은 나의 설명듣기를 거부했으며, 우리가 반복해서 관련된 서류를 보여 달라는 요구하는것 자체를 완전 거부했었다"라고 Garten씨는 답답해 했다.

그는 또 설명하기를 "이러한 엉터리 보도를 한 뉴욕타임스의 의도는 앞으로 며칠 남지 않은 선거운동에서 트럼프에 피해를 주기위한 흑색선전에 불과할 뿐이다"라고 한탄했다.

뉴욕타임스는 보도는 하면서, 그들이 갖고있는 트럼프의 세금보고 파일의 사본을 전연 공개하지 않고 있으며, 철저히 그파일을 입수한 곳도 전연 보도하지 않고 있다.

이상의 Fox News보도는, 뉴욕타임스와 이를 인계받아 보도한 CNN의 보도와는 완전히 100%다른 내용이다.  이뉴스를 한국의 언론들도 자세히 살펴본후에 보도했어야 했다. 트럼프와 적대관계에 있는 언론들의 보도내용만 카피해서 보도하면, 영어를 모르는 국민들의 트럼프에 대한 생각을 완전 나쁜 사람으로 판단하게 하는 큰 잘못을 저지르는 것이라고 나는 생각한다.  

문재인 좌파 정부의 잘못을 대부분의 한국언론들은 옹호하고 있는 상황에서 "조중동"언론이 이에 맞서 싸우는것과 무척 흡사한 상황이라고 본다.


President Trump lambasted a New York Times report that said he paid no federal income taxes for 10 of the past 15 years, calling the story “fake news” and arguing that he paid large federal and state taxes.

“Its fake news, it’s totally made up,” Trump said Sunday during a press briefing less than an hour after the story broke in the newspaper. “Everything was wrong, they are so bad.”

According to the New York Times report, Trump, who has fiercely guarded his tax filings and is the only president in modern times not to make them public, paid $750 in taxes to the federal government the year he was elected and $750 again his first year in office.

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The disclosure, which the Times said comes from tax return data extending over two decades, comes at a pivotal moment ahead of the first presidential debate Tuesday and a divisive election.

Trump, whose net worth is claimed to be in the billions, denied that he paid such a small amount in taxes.

“I’ve paid a lot and I’ve paid a lot state income taxes too,” he said.

Even before being elected to the White House in 2016, Trump was heavily criticized for not releasing his tax filing. He has claimed multiple times that he is under a routine audit by the Internal Revenue Service and will release his filings once the audit is over.

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“I’m under audit,” Trump said Sunday. “They’re doing an assessment.”

A lawyer for the Trump Organization, Alan Garten, also denied to the New York Times that the president paid such a small amount of taxes – saying in a statement obtained by Fox News that Trump "has paid tens of millions of dollars in personal taxes to the federal government, including paying millions in personal taxes since announcing his candidacy in 2015.”

“The New York Times’ story is riddled with gross inaccuracies.  Over the past decade the President has paid tens of millions of dollars in personal taxes to the federal government," Garten said. "While we tried to explain this to the Times, they refused to listen and rejected our repeated request that they show us any of the documentation they purport to be relying on to substantiate their claims."

He added: "Obviously this is just part of the Times’ ongoing smear campaign in the run up to the election.”

The New York Times did not release the copies of Trump’s tax filings they had received, saying they were protecting sources.


The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due.

Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750.

He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years — largely because he reported losing much more money than he made.

As the president wages a re-election campaign that polls say he is in danger of losing, his finances are under stress, beset by losses and hundreds of millions of dollars in debt coming due that he has personally guaranteed. Also hanging over him is a decade-long audit battle with the Internal Revenue Service over the legitimacy of a $72.9 million tax refund that he claimed, and received, after declaring huge losses. An adverse ruling could cost him more than $100 million.

The tax returns that Mr. Trump has long fought to keep private tell a story fundamentally different from the one he has sold to the American public. His reports to the I.R.S. portray a businessman who takes in hundreds of millions of dollars a year yet racks up chronic losses that he aggressively employs to avoid paying taxes. Now, with his financial challenges mounting, the records show that he depends more and more on making money from businesses that put him in potential and often direct conflict of interest with his job as president.

The New York Times has obtained tax-return data extending over more than two decades for Mr. Trump and the hundreds of companies that make up his business organization, including detailed information from his first two years in office. It does not include his personal returns for 2018 or 2019. This article offers an overview of The Times’s findings; additional articles will be published in the coming weeks.

The returns are some of the most sought-after, and speculated-about, records in recent memory. In Mr. Trump’s nearly four years in office — and across his endlessly hyped decades in the public eye — journalists, prosecutors, opposition politicians and conspiracists have, with limited success, sought to excavate the enigmas of his finances. By their very nature, the filings will leave many questions unanswered, many questioners unfulfilled. They comprise information that Mr. Trump has disclosed to the I.R.S., not the findings of an independent financial examination. They report that Mr. Trump owns hundreds of millions of dollars in valuable assets, but they do not reveal his true wealth. Nor do they reveal any previously unreported connections to Russia.

In response to a letter summarizing The Times’s findings, Alan Garten, a lawyer for the Trump Organization, said that “most, if not all, of the facts appear to be inaccurate” and requested the documents on which they were based. After The Times declined to provide the records, in order to protect its sources, Mr. Garten took direct issue only with the amount of taxes Mr. Trump had paid.

“Over the past decade, President Trump has paid tens of millions of dollars in personal taxes to the federal government, including paying millions in personal taxes since announcing his candidacy in 2015,” Mr. Garten said in a statement.

With the term “personal taxes,” however, Mr. Garten appears to be conflating income taxes with other federal taxes Mr. Trump has paid — Social Security, Medicare and taxes for his household employees. Mr. Garten also asserted that some of what the president owed was “paid with tax credits,” a misleading characterization of credits, which reduce a business owner’s income-tax bill as a reward for various activities, like historic preservation.

The tax data examined by The Times provides a road map of revelations, from write-offs for the cost of a criminal defense lawyer and a mansion used as a family retreat to a full accounting of the millions of dollars the president received from the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow.

Together with related financial documents and legal filings, the records offer the most detailed look yet inside the president’s business empire. They reveal the hollowness, but also the wizardry, behind the self-made-billionaire image — honed through his star turn on “The Apprentice” — that helped propel him to the White House and that still undergirds the loyalty of many in his base.

Ultimately, Mr. Trump has been more successful playing a business mogul than being one in real life.

“The Apprentice,” along with the licensing and endorsement deals that flowed from his expanding celebrity, brought Mr. Trump a total of $427.4 million, The Times’s analysis of the records found. He invested much of that in a collection of businesses, mostly golf courses, that in the years since have steadily devoured cash — much as the money he secretly received from his father financed a spree of quixotic overspending that led to his collapse in the early 1990s.

“The Apprentice,” along with endorsements and other income that sprang from his growing fame, brought Donald Trump $427.4 million. Rob DeLorenzo/Zuma Press

Indeed, his financial condition when he announced his run for president in 2015 lends some credence to the notion that his long-shot campaign was at least in part a gambit to reanimate the marketability of his name.

As the legal and political battles over access to his tax returns have intensified, Mr. Trump has often wondered aloud why anyone would even want to see them. “There’s nothing to learn from them,” he told The Associated Press in 2016. There is far more useful information, he has said, in the annual financial disclosures required of him as president — which he has pointed to as evidence of his mastery of a flourishing, and immensely profitable, business universe.

In fact, those public filings offer a distorted picture of his financial state, since they simply report revenue, not profit. In 2018, for example, Mr. Trump announced in his disclosure that he had made at least $434.9 million. The tax records deliver a very different portrait of his bottom line: $47.4 million in losses.

Tax records do not have the specificity to evaluate the legitimacy of every business expense Mr. Trump claims to reduce his taxable income — for instance, without any explanation in his returns, the general and administrative expenses at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey increased fivefold from 2016 to 2017. And he has previously bragged that his ability to get by without paying taxes “makes me smart,” as he said in 2016. But the returns, by his own account, undercut his claims of financial acumen, showing that he is simply pouring more money into many businesses than he is taking out.

The picture that perhaps emerges most starkly from the mountain of figures and tax schedules prepared by Mr. Trump’s accountants is of a businessman-president in a tightening financial vise.

Most of Mr. Trump’s core enterprises — from his constellation of golf courses to his conservative-magnet hotel in Washington — report losing millions, if not tens of millions, of dollars year after year.

His revenue from “The Apprentice” and from licensing deals is drying up, and several years ago he sold nearly all the stocks that now might have helped him plug holes in his struggling properties.

The tax audit looms.

And within the next four years, more than $300 million in loans — obligations for which he is personally responsible — will come due.

Against that backdrop, the records go much further toward revealing the actual and potential conflicts of interest created by Mr. Trump’s refusal to divest himself of his business interests while in the White House. His properties have become bazaars for collecting money directly from lobbyists, foreign officials and others seeking face time, access or favor; the records for the first time put precise dollar figures on those transactions.

At the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla., a flood of new members starting in 2015 allowed him to pocket an additional $5 million a year from the business. In 2017, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association paid at least $397,602 to the Washington hotel, where the group held at least one event during its four-day World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians.

The Times was also able to take the fullest measure to date of the president’s income from overseas, where he holds ultimate sway over American diplomacy. When he took office, Mr. Trump said he would pursue no new foreign deals as president. Even so, in his first two years in the White House, his revenue from abroad totaled $73 million. And while much of that money was from his golf properties in Scotland and Ireland, some came from licensing deals in countries with authoritarian-leaning leaders or thorny geopolitics — for example, $3 million from the Philippines, $2.3 million from India and $1 million from Turkey.

In the Philippines, where Mr. Trump licensed his name to a Manila tower, he or his companies paid $156,824 in taxes in 2017. Hannah Reyes Morales for The New York Times

He reported paying taxes, in turn, on a number of his overseas ventures. In 2017, the president’s $750 contribution to the operations of the U.S. government was dwarfed by the $15,598 he or his companies paid in Panama, the $145,400 in India and the $156,824 in the Philippines.

Mr. Trump’s U.S. payment, after factoring in his losses, was roughly equivalent, in dollars not adjusted for inflation, to another presidential tax bill revealed nearly a half-century before. In 1973, The Providence Journal reported that, after a charitable deduction for donating his presidential papers, Richard M. Nixon had paid $792.81 in 1970 on income of about $200,000.

The leak of Mr. Nixon’s small tax payment caused a precedent-setting uproar: Henceforth, presidents, and presidential candidates, would make their tax returns available for the American people to see.

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The contents of thousands of personal and business tax records fill in financial details that have been withheld for years.

“I would love to do that,” Mr. Trump said in 2014 when asked whether he would release his taxes if he ran for president. He’s been backpedaling ever since.

When he ran, he said he might make his taxes public if Hillary Clinton did the same with the deleted emails from her private server — an echo of his taunt, while stoking the birther fiction, that he might release the returns if President Barack Obama released his birth certificate. He once boasted that his tax returns were “very big” and “beautiful.” But making them public? “It’s very complicated.” He often claims that he cannot do so while under audit — an argument refuted by his own I.R.S. commissioner. When prosecutors and congressional investigators issued subpoenas for his returns, he wielded not just his private lawyers but also the power of his Justice Department to stalemate them all the way to the Supreme Court.

Mr. Trump’s elaborate dance and defiance have only stoked suspicion about what secrets might lie hidden in his taxes. Is there a financial clue to his deference to Russia and its president, Vladimir V. Putin? Did he write off as a business expense the hush-money payment to the pornographic film star Stormy Daniels in the days before the 2016 election? Did a covert source of money feed his frenzy of acquisition that began in the mid-2000s?

The Times examined and analyzed the data from thousands of individual and business tax returns for 2000 through 2017, along with additional tax information from other years. The trove included years of employee compensation information and records of cash payments between the president and his businesses, as well as information about ongoing federal audits of his taxes. This article also draws upon dozens of interviews and previously unreported material from other sources, both public and confidential.

All of the information The Times obtained was provided by sources with legal access to it. While most of the tax data has not previously been made public, The Times was able to verify portions of it by comparing it with publicly available information and confidential records previously obtained by The Times.

To delve into the records is to see up close the complex structure of the president’s business interests — and the depth of his entanglements. What is popularly known as the Trump Organization is in fact a collection of more than 500 entities, virtually all of them wholly owned by Mr. Trump, many carrying his name. For example, 105 of them are a variation of the name Trump Marks, which he uses for licensing deals.

Fragments of Mr. Trump’s tax returns have leaked out before.

Transcripts of his main federal tax form, the 1040, from 1985 to 1994, were obtained by The Times in 2019. They showed that, in many years, Mr. Trump lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer. Three pages of his 1995 returns, mailed anonymously to The Times during the 2016 campaign, showed that Mr. Trump had declared losses of $915.7 million, giving him a tax deduction that could have allowed him to avoid federal income taxes for almost two decades. Five months later, the journalist David Cay Johnston obtained two pages of Mr. Trump’s returns from 2005; that year, his fortunes had rebounded to the point that he was paying taxes.

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