The NY Times tax story about Trump wasn't the scoop they thought

Jonathon Tobin:

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Why the tepid response? The timing was awful, for one thing: Even the fervently anti-Trump readership of the Times is too obsessed with the latest slanders being slung at Brett Kavanaugh to expend much energy on the news that Donald Trump isn’t the self-made man he claimed to be.

But the deeper problem here is that we didn’t need a massive article with sidebars to know that Trump wasn’t telling us the truth about being a self-made man. As the Times acknowledged, several Trump biographers had already noted as much, And more to the point, no American with an ounce of common sense needed to be told that the son of a man whose wealth was estimated in the hundreds of millions wasn’t a Horatio Alger hero.
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The self-made-man myth was, like so much of Trump’s rhetoric, self-promotional shtick rather than accurate autobiography. There aren’t enough Pinocchios in the Washington Post’s fact-checking arsenal to cover all the lies Trump has told in the three-plus years since he came down the escalator at Trump Tower to enter our political life. There is some value in calling them all out, but even the Trump acolytes who attend his rallies like they’re Grateful Dead concerts can’t possibly believe the president pulled himself up by his bootstraps.

More to the point, the very tax tactics that the Times uncovered are part of why they love him: He was able to outfox the government agency that treats other Americans as easy prey. Even if these maneuvers weren’t exactly kosher, the Times concedes, the IRS accepted them all — and at this late date, civil fines are the biggest punishment on the table if authorities decide the Trumps broke the law. Other sanctions are limited to harrumphing by those who already despised Trump.
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While the Times has added to our store of knowledge about Trump’s rise, it has revealed nothing about why he became president. For that, we have to turn to the story readers care about this week — where we see Trump sticking with Brett Kavanaugh rather than discarding him, likely leading to the confirmation of a fifth conservative justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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The primary reason these pieces do not impact Trump voters is that his supporters like his policies and re results of them.   For some reason, the Democrats and their media cohorts don't seem to get that.