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2017-05-11 01:05:01 UTC
Last Week Tonight host John Oliver has emerged as one of the leading anti-
Donald Trump personalities in the entire media landscape, with his biting
critiques often shared, discussed, and debated in the mainstream press. But
according to a Wednesday report in the Observer, the late-night funnyman used
a tax loophole created in part by Trump in the 1970s to allegedly avoid paying
a large tax bill on the $9.5 million New York City apartment he purchased in
2014, weeks before deriding tax breaks for the wealthy during a segment on his
HBO show.
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very minute they figure out how they're sppsd to feel about Trump firing
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Donald Trump personalities in the entire media landscape, with his biting
critiques often shared, discussed, and debated in the mainstream press. But
according to a Wednesday report in the Observer, the late-night funnyman used
a tax loophole created in part by Trump in the 1970s to allegedly avoid paying
a large tax bill on the $9.5 million New York City apartment he purchased in
2014, weeks before deriding tax breaks for the wealthy during a segment on his
HBO show.
Donald Trump is wildly unpopular with coastal elites, but few despise
him as feverishly as the Hollywood Brigades, led by Meryl Streep, and
the late night comedian squadrons, headed by The Tonight Shows Stephen
Colbert, The Daily Shows Trevor Noah, and Last Week Tonights John
Oliver.
The hypocrisy really gets ratcheted up with John Oliver, the No. 1
darling to so many liberal anti-Trumpies, who regularly attacks GOP tax
schemes as giveaways to the rich and detrimental to the poor. (Again,
thats an apt description, but they evinced less rage about Obamas
economic and tax policies, which also funneled money upward to an
extreme degree.)
For years, Oliver has criticized the estate tax, which defenders, in a
smart linguistic move dreamed up by Frank Luntz, long ago labeled the
death tax; and the tax codes raft of loopholes that benefit special
interests he identified as oil companies and hedge fund managers.
Oliver even briefly established the bogus Our Lady of Perpetual
Exemption to draw attention to tax-exempt status granted to churches
and charities.
Back in July 2014, in an episode in which he lamented the Wealth Gap in
America (which has resulted in the richest one percent of Americans
controlling 20 percent of annual income), Oliver said, At this point
the rich are just running up the score What sets America apart is that
we are actively introducing policies that disproportionately benefit
the wealthy, such as tax cuts and loopholes like trusts.
So its a little surprising to discover that just months before, Oliver
had a tax attorney set up two revocable trusts, one for him and one for
his wife, to hide the couples purchase of a $9.5 million Manhattan
penthouse. Then he used a tax loophole created by Donald Trump himself
back in the 1970s, when the current president was merely a prominent
New York real estate developer and aspiring celebrity author.
[1]: http://observer.com/2017/05/john-oliver-property-tax-scam-trump/him as feverishly as the Hollywood Brigades, led by Meryl Streep, and
the late night comedian squadrons, headed by The Tonight Shows Stephen
Colbert, The Daily Shows Trevor Noah, and Last Week Tonights John
Oliver.
The hypocrisy really gets ratcheted up with John Oliver, the No. 1
darling to so many liberal anti-Trumpies, who regularly attacks GOP tax
schemes as giveaways to the rich and detrimental to the poor. (Again,
thats an apt description, but they evinced less rage about Obamas
economic and tax policies, which also funneled money upward to an
extreme degree.)
For years, Oliver has criticized the estate tax, which defenders, in a
smart linguistic move dreamed up by Frank Luntz, long ago labeled the
death tax; and the tax codes raft of loopholes that benefit special
interests he identified as oil companies and hedge fund managers.
Oliver even briefly established the bogus Our Lady of Perpetual
Exemption to draw attention to tax-exempt status granted to churches
and charities.
Back in July 2014, in an episode in which he lamented the Wealth Gap in
America (which has resulted in the richest one percent of Americans
controlling 20 percent of annual income), Oliver said, At this point
the rich are just running up the score What sets America apart is that
we are actively introducing policies that disproportionately benefit
the wealthy, such as tax cuts and loopholes like trusts.
So its a little surprising to discover that just months before, Oliver
had a tax attorney set up two revocable trusts, one for him and one for
his wife, to hide the couples purchase of a $9.5 million Manhattan
penthouse. Then he used a tax loophole created by Donald Trump himself
back in the 1970s, when the current president was merely a prominent
New York real estate developer and aspiring celebrity author.
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Democrats will comment on how they feel about Trump firing Comey the
very minute they figure out how they're sppsd to feel about Trump firing
Comey.