WALSH: Donald Trump Hasn’t Paid Much In Income Tax. Good For Him. 

I am reminded of 2018, all of those centuries ago, when Michael Cohen, Trump’s lawyer and fixer — his Harvey Keitel from “Pulp Fiction,” as he was portrayed at the time —  revealed that he had been secretly recording conversations with his former boss. What sort of deep, dark, dirty misdeeds might be contained in those tapes? Surely, if Trump is as corrupt as we are told then clandestinely recorded discussions with his crooked lawyer must contain a treasure trove of scandalous and probably indictable morsels.

Then CNN played the tapes. Mostly they contained rather humdrum business dealings. At one point they apparently talk about buying the rights to a story about a Playboy model who says she had an affair with Trump. You can’t hear Trump’s part of the conversation, but whatever he said, it wasn’t illegal or terribly shocking. The tapes were still ballyhooed by the media but any honest and objective person who listened to them couldn’t help but think: if this is the worst thing that Trump ever said to his lawyer, maybe he isn’t the criminal mastermind he’s been made out to be.