‘Few others were able to do what I did,’ Trump taunted the media. Picture: Evan Vucci/AP

According to thousands of documents obtained by Newsweek Trump’s tactics include destroying documents, hiding emails, official documents and digital records to frustrate litigants in the dozens of lawsuits he faces year-in year-out.

The Republican presidential candidate’s tactics also include building legal hurdles — forcing his plaintiffs to spend massive sums in legal fees — as the cases drag “on for years”.

There’s dozens of litigants with stories to tell about the Trump family’s infamous stall tactics, but the most notorious case involved two American Indian casinos in Florida and a real estate developer called Cordish Cos. Literally as the doors to the casinos opened after their construction in 2005, Trump sued in the state court, claiming in his lawsuit that the companies had conspired with his former associates to cheat him out of the deal.

Trump’s knowledge of the US tax code is second to none. Picture: Jeff KowalskySource:AFP

Trump’s lawsuit argued that the casinos should be handed over to him. Eventually, Trump and his company dropped their litigation but only after years of court battles where it was claimed Trump’s staff and companies wiped their computers clean every year in deliberate attempts to thwart the legal process. As Newsweek stated in its news feature; “The Trump strategy was simple: deny, impede and delay, while destroying documents the court had ordered them to hand over”.

The Newsweek investigation comes in the same week The New York Times finally answered the question Americans all wanted answered: what tax mechanism did Trump use to write off US$915m in debt in his 1995 tax return?

Trump’s tax returns — or failure to disclose them — have been used by Hillary Clinton as a counter to attacks on her integrity, but it turns out Trump’s 1995 tax return was legitimate, allowing him to turn a $915m loss into a plus.

“I was able to use the tax laws in this country and my business acumen to dig out of the real estate mess,” Trump said on Monday in a campaign appearance in Colorado. “Few others were able to do what I did.”

The tax loophole, which has since been closed, is simple: companies which report a loss can offset those losses against future earnings. More than 500,000 other businesses took advantage of the same law in 2005, it’s just that Trump’s loss was on an almost unheard-of scale. The scheme used by Trump’s lawyers was called ”stock for debt” swap (equity for debt), a clever tax manoeuvre which allowed Trump to avoid paying tax for the next 18 years, but which left his creditors millions of dollars out of pocket.

WHY GOOGLE SAYS CLINTON IS A ‘LIAR’

Trump’s been calling Hillary Clinton a liar for months, and now it appears Google agrees with him.

The Democrat presidential candidate’s face and profile appears in the top results when users enter the keywords “pathological liar”. Next to an image of Clinton is a description explaining the disorder.

“It is a stand-alone disorder as well as a symptom of other disorders such as psychopathy and anti-social, narcissistic, and historic personality disorders, but people who are pathological liars may not possess characteristics of the other disorders. Excessive lying is a common symptom of several mental disorders,” the description reads.

Hillary Clinton’s name has become synonymous with lying in the minds of some Google users.Source:News Corp Australia

The results are further embarrassment for the Democrat candidate, whose integrity has been questioned again this week after the FBI reopened an investigation into private emails found on the laptop of former Congressman Anthony Weiner.

Naturally, Twitter erupted over the Clinton news:

CNN CONTRIBUTOR FILED OVER CLINTON LEAK

It was a long time coming, but CNN has finally parted ways with election contributor Donna Brazile, who has been accused of leaking two primary event questions to the Clinton camp in March. Her deal had previously been suspended in July when she became the interim head of the DNC

CCN released a statement which read: “On October 14th, CNN accepted Donna Brazile’s resignation as a CNN contributor.”

“CNN never gave Brazile access to any questions, prep material, attendee list, background information or meetings in advance of a town hall or debate. We are completely uncomfortable with what we have learned about her interactions with the Clinton campaign while she was a CNN contributor.”

CNBC reports that the announcement coincided with multiple media agencies reporting on a second WikiLeaks email purporting to show Brazile leaking the primary event information to Clinton’s camp, although there are threats of lawsuits to test the validity of those claims.

Donna Brazile has parted ways with CNN over the leak scandal. Picture: Paul Sancya/APSource:AP

TRUMP’S RUSSIAN BUSINESS TIES SCRUTINISED

An ABC News (US) investigation claims it has evidence that Donald Trump has “numerous ties” to Russian interests, and that despite his July 27 tweet claiming that “For the record, I have ZERO investments in Russia”, he actually earns millions through investments.

According to the report Russian businessmen were “happy to invest with and work with Donald Trump”, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars to the Republican candidate’s US businesses.

The profits are apparently through his Miss Universe contest in Moscow in 2013 and selling Trump-branded real estate to “large numbers” of Russian buyers.

These business dealings “obviously present a great conflict of interest between the personal finances of a potential President and the foreign policy of our nation, which seeks to curtail the disruptive and corrupting influences of the Russian oligarchs and put a check on Russian territorial aggression in Eastern Europe”, reported Occuopy Democrats.

There’s a reason why Trump has more money than most of us. Picture: Jeff Kowalsky/AFPSource:AFP

TRUMP FAILS TO PAY ANOTHER CONTRACTOR

Trump has also reportedly refused to pay a pollster, to whom he allegedly owes US$766,756 (AU$1,008,080), according to the Washington Post.

The Federal Election Commission is involved in the matter, in which Trunmp is contesting the bill from polling firm Fabrizio, Lee and Associates.

Trump has a long history of failing to pay contractors and vendors, with Newsweek claiming the list numbers “in the hundreds”.

The most public of these was his refusal to pay for a microphone set-up at a recent rally.

“I believe in paying, but when somebody does a bad job like this stupid mic, you shouldn’t pay,” he said at a campaign event in January.

“And you gotta be tough with your people because they’ll pay, they don’t care. They’ll pay. So we’re not going to pay. I guarantee I’m not paying for this mic.”

According to filings with the Federal Election Commission Trump did not pay Fabrizio until September, months after he was hired. The pollster’s firm claims it is also owed $55,300 in addition to the larger amount.