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his own person. Laura Ingraham. You know all of them are just unique personalities. But on CNN it looks like everybody's a version of Jake Tapper. You've got gay Jake Tapper, Black Jake Tapper, female Jake Tapper. But they're all like a Jake Tapper-ish. But apparently at least Fox News is saying that Jake Tapper is the most professional journalist on CNN. Well Jake Tapper just mentioned a deadly…
← Previous segment →so that we can benefit a few elite athletes who can throw a hammer really far, for example, and can ski and shoot? Was the Olympics designed for the athletes? I feel like no.
The Olympics were designed for world cohesion, you know, for the benefit of the audience, for the benefit of the countries involved and their status. But it wasn't for the athletes. Of course we want the athletes to be treated well because we're good people. But they're really not the point of the Olympics. If you want to do something for the athlete, maybe join a professional team. But if you want to do something for your country, well maybe the Olympics would be a good way to do that.
So I'm not sure Gwen understands that the Olympics are not about Gwen. But more importantly, did she not understand that when she stood on that podium and the national anthem of America was played, does she miss the point that that national anthem was respecting her? It was her accomplishment as an American that was being respected by that song. It's not a question of even really her respecting the song. That song was playing respecting her and what she did for the country, etc.
So I don't think she understands what the song is for, doesn't understand what the Olympics are for, and chose the most useless skill you could ever develop which is throwing a hammer. This is a woman who doesn't understand anything about anything. I can't imagine a worse representative of the country.
So well I certainly would accept whatever her freedom of speech is and I don't condemn her at all for expressing her freedom of speech anywhere she wants to. But I don't think she understands what she's in. It's like she didn't even understand what the situation was. So when I look at what she did I can't even understand it as a strategy that's good for her, that's good for Black Americans.
Do you know what would be the best thing for Black Americans? To see a Black champion standing on a podium while the national anthem is played to effectively honor the athlete. I can't think of anything that would be better for Black Americans than seeing Black Americans succeed against all odds and everything else. Looks like that would be a good thing.
All right. Let's talk about Trump's legal problems. It doesn't matter at least in terms of the 2024 election. It won't matter if Trump is personally convicted of anything because 25 percent of the public will believe he did those crimes because they hear about them so much. If CNN and MSNBC just keep reporting about all the things that Trump may or may not have a legal problem with, 25 percent of the public will believe it happened even if none of it really ever happens. Just all the talk about it.
So in terms of the news they get everything they want politically by talking about it forever whether it ever turns into anything. How many people still believe that there was Russian collusion by the Trump administration? Probably 25 percent of the country, right? You can get 25 percent of the country to believe anything. And that would be enough to keep Trump out of office I would think if he ran again.
So here are some of the things that are being reported on CNN. One is that there's reports or rumors that there were large cash payments to employees of the Trump Organization that were not properly accounted for tax-wise. Have you seen that evidence? It's just something appearing on CNN. Do you believe that there were large cash payments made by an actual organization and that they didn't account for the tax effects? I don't know that I even believe that. I would need to see a lot more evidence that that happened.
It's one thing to say that there were perks that weren't handled right, which is actually fairly normal kind of a thing that happens with corporations. But to say that there were large cash payments just to avoid taxes, I'm going to need to see some evidence of that. So this is the perfect kind of thing to just put it out there until the public believes it's true. And then I'll bet we'll never see a charge on that.
So my prediction is you will never see an indictment or a charge based on large cash payments. I'm going to call on that one. All right. So that's my prediction for you. We'll see if that turns out. Now usually the problem of not paying enough taxes on employee benefits would be a civil case and not a criminal case. But maybe this is all to squeeze the CFO into giving up something on Trump I suppose.
Now I also have this question about what would be the point of the Trump Organization giving benefits tax-free. Work with me on this and I need an accountant or maybe a tax professional to help me. If you're the Trump Organization or any organization and you want to compensate your employees more by giving them some kind of a benefit — let's say it's a car or paying the rent on their work apartment or something like that — as a company you want to include all of that on your taxes because it will reduce your taxes.
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you were to give an employee a benefit sort of off the books somehow, you don't get the tax benefit. Now you could argue the Trump Corporation wasn't paying a lot of taxes because they had so many legal write-offs that it wouldn't matter if they included that expense or not. But I don't think so. I think it does matter, doesn't it? So I need a tax opinion on this. Is there any way that the Trump…
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