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To be fair, Trump may have lied on his taxes to save money. Twain admitted doing so - or at least suggested it.
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> On May 8, 2019, at 3:41 PM, Larry Howe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Matt--
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> Now I get it. DJT is 269 x the bad business man that Sam Clemens was! And given that _Art of the Deal_ was entirely ghosted, Trump was zero times the writer that Mark Twain was.
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> --LH
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> Larry Howe
> Professor of English & Film Studies
> Department of Literature and Languages
> Roosevelt University
> Editor, Studies in American Humor
> President, Mark Twain Circle of America
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> From: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Matthew Seybold <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2019 2:18:06 PM
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> I feel compelled to convert yesterday’s NYT expose about the President’s tax returns into terms which Twain scholars will comprehend: Over the course of a single decade Donald Trump lost, after adjusting for inflation, 269 Paige Typesetters.
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> Matt Seybold
> Assistant Professor of American Literature & Mark Twain Studies
> Elmira College
> Editor, MarkTwainStudies.org
> MattSeybold.com
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