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Trump is creating serious debt in the US.
His tax cuts to the rich has reduced incoming revenue.
He's talking about huge subsidies to the farmers, to offset the Chinese retaliation.
He hasn't pulled troops out of the Middle East, because Fox news told him he shouldn't.
And he's talking about deploying 120,000 troops to invade Iran.
Is it any wonder he lost 10 billion dollars in 10 years personally?
Funny how Republicans only want to cut spending when the Democrats are in control.
Hate to be picky, especially when I think Trump is lower (and harder to get rid of) than toe fungus, but isn't that graph pre-Trump?
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The New York Times - Steven Mnuchin Refuses to Comply With Subpoena for Trump’s Tax Returns
May 17, 2019
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Friday refused to comply with a congressional subpoena to hand over President Trump’s tax returns ...
For more than a month, the Treasury Department and House Democrats have exchanged letters about the request, which was initiated in April by Representative Richard E. Neal, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
Mr. Mnuchin said that lawyers in the department concluded that the original request, made using an obscure provision of the tax code, was not legitimate.
Mr. Neal changed course last week and issued a subpoena to try to gain access to six years of Mr. Trump’s personal and business tax returns. ...
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Hate to be picky, especially when I think Trump is lower (and harder to get rid of) than toe fungus, but isn't that graph pre-Trump?
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The Washington Post - Trump places the Middle East on ‘a knife edge’
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... on Sunday, possibly goaded by a segment on Fox News, Trump launched another broadside on Twitter, warning that conflict between the two countries would mark “the official end of Iran.”
The atmospherics are making many officials in Washington and capitals elsewhere nervous. ...
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/19/business/deutsche-bank-trump-kushner.html
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Deutsche Bank Staff Saw Suspicious Activity in Trump and Kushner Accounts
Tammy McFadden, a former Deutsche Bank employee, saw potentially suspicious transactions involving the company of Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, she said.
By David Enrich
Anti-money laundering specialists at Deutsche Bank recommended in 2016 and 2017 that multiple transactions involving legal entities controlled by Donald J. Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, be reported to a federal financial-crimes watchdog.
The transactions, some of which involved Mr. Trump’s now-defunct foundation, set off alerts in a computer system designed to detect illicit activity, according to five current and former bank employees. Compliance staff members who then reviewed the transactions prepared so-called suspicious activity reports that they believed should be sent to a unit of the Treasury Department that polices financial crimes.
But executives at Deutsche Bank, which has lent billions of dollars to the Trump and Kushner companies, rejected their employees’ advice. The reports were never filed with the government.
The nature of the transactions was not clear. At least some of them involved money flowing back and forth with overseas entities or individuals, which bank employees considered suspicious.
Real estate developers like Mr. Trump and Mr. Kushner sometimes do large, all-cash deals, including with people outside the United States, any of which can prompt anti-money laundering reviews. The red flags raised by employees do not necessarily mean the transactions were improper. Banks sometimes opt not to file suspicious activity reports if they conclude their employees’ concerns are unwarranted.
But former Deutsche Bank employees said the decision not to report the Trump and Kushner transactions reflected the bank’s generally lax approach to money laundering laws. The employees — most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to preserve their ability to work in the industry — said it was part of a pattern of the bank’s executives rejecting valid reports to protect relationships with lucrative clients.
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kingdragonfly:
and immigration policy ...
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