the election by the numbers

 You can break down just about anything by the numbers, so I figured I would take a crack at the election.  I am not getting into the obvious numbers here, such as 45, the number of presidents who have served this country -- well 44 and then the present occupant of the office -- or 270 of 538, the number of electoral college votes needed to win the election.  Let's take a look at some of the more interesting and illuminating numbers.  Where possible, I have provided links to the source of the numbers.

19 -- as in Covid

0 -- purportedly the number of times cadet bone spurs has attended a meeting of the coronavirus task force in the past several months.  

https://www.axios.com/fauci-trump-hasnt-been-to-covid-task-force-meeting-in-months-7b05721c-d670-400e-8540-2316c18553e7.html

Also the number of vaccines that are presently available to the public.  While I do not have a precise count, it is noted that cadet bone spurs has predicted any number of times that a vaccine would be ready before election day.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/16/trump-says-he-thinks-us-could-start-distributing-a-coronavirus-vaccine-in-october.html

https://fortune.com/2020/09/04/trump-vaccine-election-day-race/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-17/will-a-vaccine-be-ready-by-election-day-trump-and-scientists-disagree

54 -- The number of times he downplayed the virus in public, in spite of the fact that he knew how deadly this virus was at the time, as evidenced from the Woodward tapes.  We note that this is undoubtedly a low number as it comes from a source in May of this year.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/the-fix/54-times-trump-downplayed-the-coronavirus/2020/03/05/790f5afb-4dda-48bf-abe1-b7d152d5138c_video.html

234,218 and 1,188,211 -- Number of covid-19 deaths in the United States and worldwide as of early morning, October 30, 2020.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

545 -- Children forcibly separated from their parents at the border with Mexico and never reunited, in spite of court orders to expedite reunions.  It is reported that the organizations attempting to reunite these families believe it is never going to happen.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/lawyers-say-they-can-t-find-parents-545-migrant-children-n1244066

0 -- The number of tax returns he has released.

1 --  The number of audits his tax returns are presently undergoing -- at least, this is what he admits to.

$70,000 -- Amount of deduction he is said to have claimed for one year of having his hair made up daily.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/business/trump-taxes-hair.html

$21,100,000 -- Amount of deduction he claimed on his 2015 tax return as a nature conservancy claim for not developing his Seven Springs Estate in Mt. Kisco, NY.

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/09/eric-trump-westchester-compound-tax-write-off

$130,000 -- Hush money payoff to porn star Stormy Daniels.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-cohen/fbi-documents-point-to-trump-role-in-hush-money-for-porn-star-daniels-idUSKCN1UD18D

2010 -- The tax year of the audit he claims is preventing him from releasing his tax returns.  The audit is said to have begun in 2011. 

3 years from date of filing, and then 1 year afterwards -- The amount of time the IRS has to bring an audit of a tax return, and then the average time it takes to complete the audit.

https://www.freshbooks.com/hub/taxes/how-long-do-irs-audits-take#:~:text=After%20you%20receive%20the%20Internal,are%20completed%20within%20a%20year.

$400,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 -- The range of debts owed by him coming due within the next few years.  We presently do not know exactly to whom this money is owed and the source(s) of the original debt(s).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_of_Donald_Trump#:~:text=Trump%20has%20a%20total%20of,reported%20Forbes%20in%20October%202020.

The total may have been more; however, it is reported that he negotiated forgiveness of approximately $281,000,000 of that debt.  Once again, we do not know the original source of the debt, although it appears to have been related to a failed Chicago real estate venture, and what the creditor(s) may have gotten in return for the debt forgiveness.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/lenders-forgave-287-million-in-unpaid-debt-by-trump-report-11603844181

$750 -- The amount he appears to have paid on his federal income tax for 2017 and 2018.  He claimed at the last debate that he only paid this much because he prepaid his taxes.  Here's a hint to cadet bone spurs and to those who do not know.  When you "pre-pay" your taxes, the amount of money you pre-pay must be included on the tax return.  This is how the total amount of the taxes is calculated; therefore, they must be on the return even if "pre-paid".  This would even include taxes you paid in a previous year that would go towards the tax assessment in the year of the return.  In other words, when he said his reflected tax liability is not accurately reflected on the 2017 and 2018 returns because he pre-paid his taxes, he was either blissfully ignorant of what is included in any tax return, or he was lying.

Speaking of lying...

22,247 -- The number of proven lies he has told since assuming the presidency.  This number is undoubtedly too low, as it comes from a Washington Post article noting that the tally is from August 27, 2020.  The post indicated that he was averaging about fifty lies a day.  One wonders how many lies it would be if he did not have to take breaks to eat and go to the bathroom.

7 -- Number of presidential advisers who have been indicted.  This is as of August 20, 2020.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/20/how-many-trump-advisers-were-criminally-charged-steve-bannon-makes-7/5616793002/

I suppose we could go on and on with further numbers associated with the election, but at this point, you get the point.  So I leave you with one final number:

4 -- more years of this?  

Really?