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On 15 Jul 2023, Rebel <nowomr@protonmail.com> posted some news:u8v16q$g5ds$3@dont-email.me:



President Donald Trump’s self-appraisal is that he is “a very stable
genius,” but now comes The New York Times with new evidence suggesting, as
Joe Biden would put it, that this is malarkey.

The Times’ writers themselves, in the introduction to their ground-shaking scoop, say that two decades of Trump tax returns “tell a story
fundamentally different than the one he has told the public.”

When someone makes a disparaging assertion about Trump, with his long
history of thwarting conventional expectations, it is a good rule to ask:
Are we sure about that?

As far as Trump’s finances, the Times does indeed demolish the adjective. “Stable” is hardly the right word to describe the reality of hundreds of millions of dollars in loans coming due, a long battle with the IRS over a questionable $72.9 million tax refund, scores of dodgy deductions and
dubious consulting arrangements with family members, all woven into a
financial structure that revolves around the personal brand of a 74-year-
old man with a history of bankruptcies, severed personal relationships and increasingly erratic behavior.

But it is the noun that Trump cares most about. What we learned from
Trump’s taxes does suggest he possesses an astonishing gift which could reasonably be called “genius” — if you accept that as a descriptive word
rather than a term of praise.

Genius, in this context, means something more than “very smart.” It means
an ability to see connections and possibilities in circumstances that even people who are smart in conventional ways do not see. There are some
people who possess genius of a certain type in certain arenas who might actually qualify as kind of dumb when it comes to more conventional intelligence of the sort measured in conventional arenas.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/09/29/the-new-york-times- confirms-trump-is-a-genius-422837

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