Trump’s America: poor targeted, red carpet for wealthiest tax avoiders

Donald Trump has cheated repeatedly on his taxes, at least as far back as 1983, when he cheated on New York City sales taxes, for which then Mayor Ed Koch said Trump should have served 15 days in jail. He went to farcical lengths to evade $3 million of payments he owed in lieu of taxes to New York City.

Trump has been tried twice for civil tax fraud. He lost both times, a story I broke four years ago. It was not reported by America’s major news organizations except for a passing mention in the wedding announcement section of The New York Times. Two years ago, however, that newspaper did an exhaustive report showing years of calculated gift tax cheating by two generations of Trumps. In recent weeks that newspaper has revealed many…