First of all, you have zero evidence that the IRS has found nothing, so asking me to provide evidence that they have is ridiculous. Neither of us is privy to the IRS investigation, and anything said here is pure speculation. What we do know is that Trump is still being audited. Why does it take so long, again, neither you nor I can possibly answer that question. What we can surmise, however, is that analyzing his taxes is significantly more difficult than doing the same to yours or mine. I'm certain Trump has a team of lawyers scrutinizing every move, which also delays the process. And the IRS has seen a full third of its workforce slashed over the past decade. There's a reason the agency goes after poorer people: low handing fruit.
But all of these efforts to explain his taxes by people who claim to understand the complexities of the tax code for real estate or businesses ignores the fact that his taxes don't just show losses, which may be normal for a real estate business, but he also earned hundreds of millions of dollars from the Apprentice. That's pretty obviously not a real estate business, and still he paid little to no taxes. His tax returns also show all sorts of questionable deductions. Paying his daughter hundreds of thousands of dollars in consulting fees when she was actually an independent contractor is the exact sort of thing the IRS has pursued others for civil penalties. A massive deduction for his home, which he claimed to be an investment property rather than his private residence; a $70,000 hair care expense, not to mention $421 million in personally guaranteed debt.
Alas, instead of addressing the questions that his taxes raise, the conservatives on the board are embracing arguments which they've clearly heard on extreme right media, like Hannity and Limbaugh. False equivalency, rants about people who aren't elected officials, more Hillary nonsense, and baseless claims of deep state conspiracy driven by Trump himself. Think of the mental gymnastics the Repubs must go through every day to convince themselves of the sheer multitude of falsehoods. The pandemic wasn't real, or it didn't matter, never mind that 200,000 people died. They could have just as easily died in a car accident or in an elevator. Repubs dive head first into the empty pool fantasy that Trump has put Americans first. Even as California burns and the Gulf coast is hammered by yet another hurricane, they shout that climate change is a farce dreamed up by liberals. Trump waves his tiny hands and his flock see the vision of an alternate universe, where the only violent thugs are BLM, funded by a secretive society that nobody can seem to actually locate, but they know its there. Never mind that far right conservative militia are in the middle of the riots.
The debates should be fund.