The Washington Post Makes The Case For Donald Trump’s Presidency…

They don’t mean to; quite the contrary, they publish an article intended to diminish Donald Trump – with an outline of how some of the contracted construction workers at the Washington DC “Post Office Hotel” are illegal alien workers.

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Screen Shot From Washington Post 7/6/15

However, this is exactly why there is a benefit to Donald Trump as an irregular candidate.  Trump is actually a “Main Street” businessman, not a “Wall Street” financier.

Trump’s business interests, and ultimately most of his net wealth, is actually physical in nature.  Hotels, resorts, golf courses, brands etc. are all real commodities with actual valuation based on their individual business model returns.

The various Trump assets employ Human Resource departments, managers, hiring offices, and down-the-line workers who do the physical work.   This “main street” traditional business model is fundamentally different from the customary “business candidate”, who, as Mitt Romney personified, comes more from a “Wall Street” financial industry background based on mergers, acquisitions and other movements of capital (money) without specific attachment to physical asset.

Trump’s businesses are traditional businesses, in short Main Street; and that makes him a non-traditional modern-era political candidate.   The political machine, and the Washington Post are not used to having to report about a main-street owner/operator and therefore don’t know the distinction inherent in their attacks.

Candidate Jeb Bush attends Chamber of Commerce dinner with Fox's Rupert Murdoch and Valerie Jarrett (December 2014)
Candidate Jeb Bush attends Chamber of Commerce dinner with Fox’s Rupert Murdoch and Valerie Jarrett (December 2014)

This is also why Trump is not part of the greater conglomerate of U.S. Chamber of Commerce policy positions which are based on Wall Street’s best interests, and not main street – but that’s a larger discussion for another day.

Suffice to say, the GOP (writ large), Tom Donohue, The Chamber of Commerce, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, all work on policies antithetical to U.S. business interests because they only focus on the balance sheet policy issues.

Again, these ‘high-finance’ driven policies are not in alignment with Donald Trump’s businesses which are more traditional in nature.

The GOP machine, and all the aforementioned political interests, aligns with Jeb Bush, and ask yourself (WHJB) what has Jeb built?   Within that question you find the fundamental difference between Bush and Trump.  Bush is Wall Street, Trump is Main Street.

Obviously the author of the Washington Post article, “Antonio Olivo”, and the editors who frame the Post presentation, also don’t see the difference.  If they did they would never open the door so wide for Donald Trump to walk in and DOMINATE the issues inherent within it.

Here’s why !

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Trump employs people; he operates a massive corporation of employees; he also has a legal and HR department who easily already know what I’m about to outline.  In addition, Trump hires companies to build his properties.  Those companies are contractors who hire sub-contractors.  All of these smaller companies also have HR departments, and all of their owner/operators likewise know this information:

♦  FIRST – According to EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission), or EEO, rules and laws, IT IS UNLAWFUL NOT TO HIRE ILLEGAL ALIENS.

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According to EEO laws, under the auspices of their guiding principle of Disparate Impact (in discrimination rulings), a business cannot use any employment eligibility standard that disqualifies a protected category (in this example ethnicity) from employment.

Here’s how it works on Main Street.  If you require all applicants to be legally eligible to work in the U.S., and part of that application process is the applicant providing you documents to prove that eligibility, you cannot verify those documents –> if the verification of those documents would exclude a larger percentage of ethnic applicants, protected class applicants, than the general application pool.

Meaning, if you check Social Security numbers (example E-Verify) and that verification disqualifies a disproportionate amount more Latinos than all other applicants, then the verification itself is unlawful because it creates a “Disparate Impact” against Latinos.

The Washington Post doesn’t know this, but Trump does.

ICE-550x412SECONDThe illegal aliens get work with the presentation of false documents; and as outlined the business cannot disqualify the applicant because of those false documents.

The Dept. of Homeland Security now has the responsibility for telling employers how to scrutinize hiring documents; as you can see below DHS doesn’t want employers being critical.

In short, to avoid running afoul of EEO laws (ie avoiding lawsuits, fines, penalties), and because DHS essentially discourages critique, most businesses don’t even check Social Security Numbers – and if the eligibility documents look legit, DHS says “accept them”.

The only legal requirement is for the business to complete the federally required I-9 employment form with the information from the documents provided by the applicant when hired.  This I-9 form, along with W-4, is then sent to the IRS and a copy kept on file for random audit/inspection within the business.

The fact the information is false has no bearing on the business.  The hiring company has to take the word of the employee as to the truthfulness therein.  Illegals know this, and pay for false documents ($300 to $600 per set) to complete this part of their employment.

Dept of Homeland Security gives guidelines for I-9 completion.  If it looks legit, just accept it.
Dept of Homeland Security gives guidelines for I-9 completion. If it looks legit, just accept it.

This is how illegals get jobs.  This is also why the Democrats oppose “Card Check” legislation which could stop illegal aliens from getting employment.

THIRDIt is an absolute lie that illegals pay federal income taxes.   80% of the illegals working will never file income tax returns.  Instead, the way they keep their money is to falsify the number of dependents on their W-4.  It is not unusual to see W-4’s from illegal aliens claiming up to 10-15 dependents.  This keeps them from paying much, if any, federal income taxes.

The illegals will never file returns so a tax refund is never part of their considerations.  Instead they work on avoiding paying taxes on the front-end, their paychecks.  However, they do pay into SSI which they cannot avoid.

FOURTHHow do they get away with it?  The IRS and Social Security Office have a process of comparing Social Security numbers based on the SSI collections, and the database of social security numbers when generated by the feds.  (*Note* you might be familiar with SSI benefit statements from the Social Security office during your work history – usually rec’d in the mail).

The comparison of SS numbers to SS/IRS/Data-base filings generates a list known as a Miss-Matched Social Security list.   If you have an employee on that list, the feds send you a notification of mis-matched social security number.

There are some instances where a married woman with a name change might appear on that miss-matched list; however, the vast majority are fraudulent social security numbers.

The business is notified and is obligated (10 days) to re-verify the employee information, and send them to the local SS office to reconcile/fix the disparity within 30 days.

It can take years, sometimes many years, for the SS Administration to catch the illegal SS# being used.  In the interim the employee is getting paid just like every other employee.  I’ve personally seen illegals with 5 to 15 years of employment before they appear on the list.

As soon as you tell an illegal alien you have received that notification, they’ll simply quit.  If you have a good relationship with them, they’ll admit they are illegal – and simply go get another job and start the process all over again.

That’s it.  It’s not a grand or significant conspiracy.  No big mystery.  No-one goes looking, no-one comes to see you. Just *poof* the illegal disappears, and the business hires someone else, probably another illegal.

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This is just the way it works.  It is not the fault of the business, who are simply complying with employment and labor laws.

However, what most people don’t know is what you just read; that EEOC hiring rules are in direct conflict with Dept of Labor hiring Laws when it comes to employment eligibility and “disparate impact”.

Candidate Mitt Romney didn’t understand that; Mitch McConnell and John Boehner probably don’t understand that; and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce doesn’t give a crap about that – because it doesn’t pertain to the world of ‘high finance’ and Wall Street.  It’s a Main Street problem, therefore it doesn’t warrant attention.

The Washington Post is brutally oblivious to it, and Hillary Clinton has no concept of building a long term anything – so her circle will be just as oblivious.

But Donald Trump knows.  He knows because he runs a Main Street company, he runs a massive HR business and his managers are all taught how to operate carefully within this world of employment law. And all of his subsidiaries and contractors known this too.

If the Washington Post thought they were doing a great hit job with this article they just might regret it if Trump chooses to pull the rug back and expose this ridiculous reality that all businesses work within.

That’s why having Donald Trump, an actual Main Street businessperson, as a candidate for President of the United States, is so valuable.

Trumps’ opposition really doesn’t know how to attack him, because Trump is, in essence, middle America.  A guy like ‘Dirty Jobs’ Mike Rowe would understand, because as you’ve seen recently….

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…. this is really just Git-R-Done, ‘Merica !!

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