Trump during the 2016 campaign: Yes, I’ll release my taxes just as soon as they’re ready. (Never did.)

Trump during his maladministration: Yes, I’ll release my taxes right after the audit. (Never did.)

Trump during his indictment for fraud: This is a private company. I was never going to release that information! (Emphasis added…)

Hey, at least he finally uttered a truth – and proved, yet again, that the MAGA cons are fools to trust him…

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Here’s the letter I’d like to see:

‘Dear Mr Trump:

We here at the Palm Beach County Assessor’s Office take our work very seriously. We strive for accuracy as our primary goal. As such, based on intrinsic property considerations, we valued your Mar-a-Lago property between $18 million and $26 million dollars. We have noted that you have objected, quite vociferously, to this valuation, claiming the property is worth “at least 100 times that amount!”

If pressed, we here at the Palm Beach County Assessor’s Office will have to admit, we did not take “intangibles” into account when arriving at our assessed value. But your (admittedly informal) request to re-assess using intangibles such as “Brand” has been honored and caused us to re-evaluate our earlier conclusions. We are STILL able to support your claimed valuation based on the property alone but in this one case, because you’re you, we’ve decided to accept your valuation and have reassessed the property known as Mar-a-Lago at your seemingly random number of $1.8 BILLION dollars. ($18 million x 100). Going forward, you will see this as your new valuation and property taxes will be billed accordingly, setting your new tax rate at $18,360,000 per year.

Unfortunately, the re-assessment means that you’ve been underpaying your property taxes for the 38 years you’ve owned the property, as well. As a result, you now have an outstanding tax assessment in the amount of $690,703,200 dollars, which is due a payable immediately. We expect this past-due amount in our office no later than end-of-business on Friday, October 27, 2023. Otherwise, we will be forced to initiate foreclosure proceedings to recover the outstanding tax amount now due.

If you would like to appeal this decision, please contact this office during normal business hours and an appeal will be initiated. But in truth, as we’re only using your stated valuation and you’re such a proven business genius (who are we to argue?) we don’t expect anything other than payment in full in our office on or before the due date.

Sincerely,

The Palm Beach County Assessor’s Office’

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When grand-daddy Drumpf had to change his name because he had brought so much shame on the family name through cowardice in Germany, he chose ‘Trump.’ The word ‘Trumpery’ was in common usage at the time. It means “fraud.”

How apropos that Drumpf trumpery is costing the family the last of the fortune started (reportedly) through human trafficking in the Klondike during that gold rush…