Donald Trump, US President #47, US President #45, convicted felon, twice impeached, four times indicted, liable of rape, convicted for financial fraud, guilty of hiding hush money payments to porn actress in attempt to influence 2016 elections

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#3013430 23-Dec-2022 12:29

The NY Times - Trump Audit Shows Depths of I.R.S. Funding Woes

22 Dec 2022

WASHINGTON - Before Donald J. Trump became president and after, his exceedingly complex and voluminous tax returns came under regular scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service. The number of agents assigned to the audit team: one.

After Trump left office, the I.R.S. said it was beefing up the audit team, to three.

The tax agency itself acknowledged that it was still overwhelmed by the complexity of Mr. Trump’s finances and the resistance mounted by the former president and his sophisticated army of accountants and lawyers ...

[The House Ways and Means Committee] reports released this week highlight how depleted the I.R.S. has become in the last decade, as Republicans starved it of funding. ...

That has led to a $7 trillion “tax gap” of revenue over a decade that is owed but goes uncollected, in many cases from superrich taxpayers such as Mr. Trump, who has boasted that he fights to pay as little tax as possible.

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#3013457 23-Dec-2022 14:35

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-allies-took-fifth-just-about-everything-jan-6-testimony-1768912

I bet they did, the bunch of cowards. Having said that, I guess this doesn't apply to Trump and his cronies, just everyone else: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-quote-about-fifth-amendment-resurfaces-allies-use-it-jan-6-panel-1660741

On the campaign trail in 2016, Trump bashed Hillary Clinton after some members of her staff invoked the amendment during a congressional investigation.

"You see the mob takes the Fifth," he said during one rally in Iowa. "If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?"

A very pertinent point indeed, Donald. Why are you and your "mob" pleading the Fifth to all the hard (and frankly, quite easy - see: Roger Stone's responses) questions?

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#3013575 23-Dec-2022 18:17

The NY Times - Jan. 6 Panel Issues Final Report, Placing Blame for Capitol Riot on ‘One Man’

“The central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump, who many others followed,” the document’s executive summary says.

“None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him.”

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WASHINGTON - Declaring that the central cause of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol was “one man,” the House committee investigating the assault delivered its final report on Thursday, setting out in extensive detail how President Donald J. Trump had carried out what it called “a multipart plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election” and offering recommendations for steps to assure nothing like it could happen again.

The release of the full report was the culmination of the panel’s 18-month inquiry and came three days after the committee voted on Monday to formally accuse Mr. Trump of inciting insurrection, conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction of an act of Congress and one other federal crime as it referred him to the Justice Department for potential prosecution.

While the referrals do not compel federal prosecutors to take any action, they sent a powerful signal that Congress believes the former president committed crimes.

EDIT: The House committee recommended that Congress consider barring former president Donald Trump from ever holding public office again as a result of his role inciting that day’s insurrection.

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#3013592 23-Dec-2022 20:16

The Republicans have put out their own report in response to the January 6 Committee. Unsurprisingly, there is 0 evidence provided of any actual election fraud:

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/problems-republicans-alternate-jan-6-report-rcna62968

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#3013594 23-Dec-2022 20:37

The article does not say much about the actual report.

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#3013604 23-Dec-2022 21:47

The Republican whitewash, sorry, rebuttal "report" can be read here: https://banks.house.gov/uploadedfiles/final_report_of_investigation_real.pdf

Here's a summary of it (and the actual final report January 6 one from the committee): https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/21/jan-6-final-report-trump-election-lies-foreign-adversaries-00074965

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#3013654 23-Dec-2022 22:14

Wow, they even went to all the trouble of appending "_real" to the filename to ensure you're under no confusion that this is, in fact, the real report.

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#3013710 24-Dec-2022 06:01

A few more takeaways. I hope all the recommendations are taken on board/implemented:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/12/23/23522835/january-6-committee-report-takeaways

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#3013721 24-Dec-2022 09:23

Great timing on the release of Trump's report and tax forms.

Since it's a slow news cycle, even conservative news media will push it toward the front page.

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#3013724 24-Dec-2022 09:30

May I recommend Alcatraz?

W magazine: Melania Trump’s Wish to Retreat to a “Deserted Island” Is Getting Lampooned on Twitter
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In a video captured by NBC News, 10-year-old Andy asks Trump where in the world she would most like to spend the holidays. “I would spend my holidays on a deserted island, a tropical island, with my family,” she replies with a laugh.

Twitter users immediately pounced on the video. Some poked fun at Trump’s seemingly only adding the part about her family as an afterthought. “‘Mrs. trump what do you want for chris the MOST’ ‘a coma….…. with uh, my family,'” one person wrote. Others perceived the answer as proof that Trump is extremely unsatisfied with her current situation. “This isn’t an answer. This is her escape plan,” one such Twitter user wrote. Most Twitter jokers, however, quipped that they, too, would very much like for the Trump family to retreat to a faraway deserted island. “Melania Trump wants to spend the holidays on a deserted island. Can she take her husband with her? And leave him there forever?” one tweeted.
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#3013730 24-Dec-2022 10:35

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/kari-lakes-election-loss-lawsuit-lacks-merit-according-to-arizona-state-lawyers

I hope the judge sees sense and tells Kari Lake where to shove her "election fraud" lawsuit. What a waste of the court's time.

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#3013837 25-Dec-2022 09:39

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/24/kari-lake-election-lawsuit-rejected-00075580

What great news. She probably won't be having a very merry Christmas this year - quite rightly, too! 😃

But, in the spirit of the festive season, merry Christmas...Karen 😄

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#3013848 25-Dec-2022 10:36

Regarding Kari Lake: another example of republicans being hypocrites.

One of Republicans broad complaints is about frivolous lawsuits.

Yet conservatives are the ones frequently abusing the legal systems. They have the money to fund a never-ending stream of lawsuits.

The worst for democracy is, of course, SLAPP suits, which Trump frequently employs.

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#3013850 25-Dec-2022 10:42

The Guardian: Trump, Bankman-Fried and Musk are the monsters of American capitalism

by Robert Reich

IF this past week presents any single lesson, it’s the social costs of greed. Capitalism is premised on greed but also on guardrails – laws and norms – that prevent greed from becoming so excessive that it threatens the system as a whole.

Yet the guardrails can’t hold when avarice becomes the defining trait of an era, as it is now. Laws and norms are no match for the possibility of raking in billions if you’re sufficiently ruthless and unprincipled.

Donald Trump’s tax returns, just made public, reveal that he took bogus deductions to reduce his tax liability all the way to zero in 2020. All told, he reported $60m in losses during his presidency while continuing to pull in big money.

Every other president since Nixon has released his tax returns. Trump told America he couldn’t because he was in the middle of an IRS audit. But we now learn that the IRS never got around to auditing Trump during his first two years in office, despite being required to do so by a law dating back to Watergate, stating that “individual tax returns for the president and the vice-president are subject to mandatory review”.

Of course, Trump is already synonymous with greed and the aggressive violation of laws and norms in pursuit of money and power. Worse yet, when a president of the United States exemplifies – even celebrates – these traits, they leach out into society like underground poison.
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#3013996 26-Dec-2022 12:14

Donald's Brilliant, Clairvoyant, Christmas message:

... and goodwill to all men. 🧐🧐🧐🧐

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