OK, whatever it is .......I'm loving #ChrisChristie spewing truth to burn the Trump/Kushner house to the ground....@NicolleWallace had clips from his NH launch...BRUTAL....but true...about Trump narcissism and family grift! Keep talking Chris...keep talking!!!

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#TrumpGrifts #Trump #Kushner #Corruption #SaudiArabia #MbS #NoPaywall

https://wapo.st/3Ylq8HA

Donald Trump went beyond taking classified documents that didn’t belong to him back to his private home. Trump took some of those classified documents, gave them to an aide, and had electronic copies made.

Trump Is The Real Laptop Scandal https://politicususa.substack.com/p/trump-is-the-real-laptop-scandal

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#TrumpSchemes
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"Donald Trump went beyond taking classified documents that didn’t belong to him back to his private home. Trump took some of those classified documents, gave them to an aide, and had electronic copies made.

As Republicans prattle on about Hunter Biden’s laptop, which appears to have been accessed and altered multiple times since its discovery, Donald Trump was in Florida having one of his aides copy US secrets onto a laptop.

Democrats repeatedly mentioned during the first set of House hearings over the last week into the weaponization of the federal government that whatever Republicans accuse Democrats of doing is usually what they are doing themselves..."

Consistency and integrity are not his hallmarks. Lying to get whatever he wants and avoid consequences are.

Montage Exposes Donald Trump’s Fifth Amendment Hypocrisy In Less Than A Minute | HuffPost Latest News https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-taking-fifth-hypocrisy_n_63da1040e4b04d4d18e9291a

#TrumpGuilty
#TrumpLies
#TrumpGrifts

"A montage further exposes Donald Trump’s hypocrisy when it comes to pleading the Fifth Amendment.

On Tuesday, CBS released hourslong video of Trump repeatedly invoking the constitutional right some 440 times during a 2022 deposition for the New York attorney general’s fraud investigation into his firm.

Twitter user Ron Filipkowski, a former Republican turned fierce critic of the MAGA GOP, shared a supercut featuring Trump’s comments alongside his previous wildly different takes on people who take the Fifth.

Trump last year claimed he took the Fifth because he was the target of “an unfounded, politically motivated witch hunt.”

But in the older scenes, he calls pleading the Fifth “disgraceful” and “horrible,” adding that: “The mob takes the Fifth, if you’re innocent why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”

Trump and his kids will say anything to cover their asses or get what they want. They have no integrity and are shamelessly sociopathic and narcissistic. Yet one political party thinks they are viable candidates and role models. In other words, The GOP is the party of liars, grifters, fascists, sociopaths, racists, fundamentalists, the greedy and power hungry, and the brainwashed. No party like that should ever play a prominent role in any democracy that wants to survive!

N.Y. AG's office: Trump and kids 'falsely deny facts they have admitted'
Both the former president his children “falsely deny facts they have admitted in other proceedings.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/31/new-york-attorney-generals-office-says-trump-and-his-children-falsely-deny-facts-they-have-admitted-in-250-million-lawsuit-00080417

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#GOPIsUnworthyOfOffice

"The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James says former President Donald Trump and three of his adult children lied in the answers they submitted to the court in response to James’ $250 million lawsuit accusing them and the Trump Organization of large-scale financial fraud.

Both the former president his children “falsely deny facts they have admitted in other proceedings,” deny knowing things “ that are plainly within their knowledge,” and use defenses “repeatedly rejected by this Court as frivolous and without merit,” Kevin Wallace, senior enforcement counsel in the Attorney General’s office, said in a letter to New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron.

James’ office is seeking a pre-trial conference to work out fact from fiction and to “sanction Defendants and their counsel,” for the false claims, according to the letter.

'Greatest witch hunt': Trump deposition released in New York fraud case

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Some of those claims include Trump’s denial that he served as the inactive president of the Trump Organization while in the White House, despite Trump’s own sworn testimony that he did so; an argument from from Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump that “they are being improperly targeted for investigation,” despite the court previously rejecting the “witch-hunt” argument; and Ivanka Trump’s inability to confirm the contents of her own emails, according the letter from James’ office.

The new accusations against Trump and his children are the latest in what has been a series of legal tiffs between the prominent New York attorney and the former president. Earlier this month, Trump’s attorneys withdrew a lawsuit filed against James in Florida that sought to block her access to a trust that holds a number of his business assets."

Well of course MBS is paying Trump off. Trump let him off the hook for murder and this is chump change to MBS. And of course, Trump is accepting the bribe! Trump is all about Trump and money!

Mohammed bin Salman 'has been paying Donald Trump unknown millions for the past two years' https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/18/2147876/--Mohammed-bin-Salman-has-been-paying-Donald-Trump-unknown-millions-for-the-past-two-years

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#TrumpTreason

"However, all those concerns could turn out to be minor. That’s because a court case in California, where LIV has filed an antitrust suit against the PGA, has gone in a direction that LIV definitely, definitely did not want. While fighting back against this suit, the PGA has sought to compel discovery about the real sources behind the fund picking up the ticket on LIV’s considerable expenses. As it happens, a slip of the tongue from a LIV attorney during the trial revealed that the fund owns 93% of LIV Golf and covers all of its expenses.

The chairman and controlling officer of that fund is Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Its bin Salman paying all the bills and taking all the risks for LIV Golf. But who is making a profit?

[LIV Golf] has paid Trump-owned golf resorts unknown millions of dollars to hold its events there, and former President Trump has publicly championed the new league, made prominent appearances at its events, and urged PGA players to sign on with LIV Golf.

Exactly how many millions is bin Salman funneling to Donald Trump through LIV? We don’t know.

That LIV Golf was at least partially owned by Saudi sources was never a secret and has been a concern since the tour began. However, as a private company, its internal ownership and funding was obscured until the unfolding court case opened up the details of just how little involvement there is from anyone else. It’s not just that bin Salman owns 93% of the tour on paper. He’s picking up 100% of the bill.

In response to the effort to compel discovery on LIV’s finances, the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF) insisted that it could not be forced to reveal anything. They don’t have to talk, because they are an “organ of the Saudi state” and protected by “foreign sovereign immunity.”

That doesn’t exactly make things better.

According to Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director of Democracy for the Arab World Now, “The revelation that a fund controlled by Crown Prince MBS actually 100% funds LIV Golf means that MBS has been paying Donald Trump unknown millions for the past two years, via their mutual corporate covers.” She also stresses that this has implications that go way beyond golf and beyond Trump fattening his wallet. “The national security implications of payments from a grotesquely abusive foreign dictator to a president of the United States who provided extraordinary favors to him are as dangerous as they are shocking," said Whitson.

In 2018, Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner paid a visit to bin Salman at a time when he was seeking $1.8 billion to bail his company out of a devastatingly bad real estate investment. At the time, there was great suspicion that Kushner, who later received his rescue in the form of a secret bailout, may have been selling bin Salman national security secrets, including the names of U.S. sources and dissidents in Saudi Arabia.

Also in 2018, bin Salman had Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi lured into a Saudi embassy, bound, tortured, dissected, killed, and burned. In that order. Later reports showed that, while he would not admit it, Trump was aware of bin Salman’s role in the journalist’s horrific death.

In 2022, the classified documents found in Trump’s private office in Mar-a-Lago reportedly included nuclear secrets from a foreign nation. Many reports have indicated that this information related to the Iranian nuclear program — information that would certainly be of direct interest to bin Salman.

Still, Donald Trump is being paid millions by Mohammed bin Salman. How many millions? We don’t know. What did bin Salman get from Trump in return? We don’t know."

Over the course of Trump's presidency, he received payments from at least 22 foreign countries including China & Brazil. https://therecount.com/watch/over-the-course-of-trumps/2645887829

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#TrumpCorrupt

#GOPLies
#GOPCorrupt
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Of course Trump cheated on his taxes, he also lies all the time. Anyone who is surprised has not been paying attention to his character all along.

Trump and the IRS: A massive tax cheat and a hapless, corrupt agency | Salon.com https://www.salon.com/2022/12/21/and-the-irs-a-massive-cheat-and-a-hapless-corrupt-agency/

#TrumpGrifts
#TrumpCheats

...The committee released a report on its findings Tuesday night...The first big takeaway is that the IRS, which is supposed to audit all presidential tax returns under the Mandatory Presidential Audit Program, never even got around to looking at Trump's. It was only after the committee began its inquiries in 2019 that the IRS finally opened an investigation of Trump's 2016 returns, even though it had been tasked by that time with auditing him from 2015 through 2018.

That's very strange, to put it mildly, and it certainly validates the committee's stated premise for opening the case. Its members are now recommending that the Mandatory Audit Program, which has been in place since the Carter administration, be codified into law.
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So what we now know is that the IRS did not even begin its mandatory audits of Trump's taxes until 2019 and has completed none of them. So the returns the committee finally has in its possession are missing the backup information that would routinely have been requested of any return under audit to prove the legitimacy of its claims. So there are many unanswered questions about the validity of Trump's numbers, although we already about his sleazy tax avoidance schemes through the myriad lawsuits and criminal proceedings he has faced, as well as voluminous reporting by the New York Times and others.

Back in 2018, the Times reported on a trove of Trump family financial documents, including tax returns of Fred Trump, the ex-president's father. Fred had evidently gone to huge lengths to pass large sums to his children through dubious or outright illegal methods, mostly to evade paying taxes over many years. His son has apparently followed that tradition for many years. That issue has come up both in the investigation of these tax returns and in the recent criminal case against the Trump Organization, in which the family business was found guilty of nine criminal counts including tax fraud. It also features prominently in the New York attorney general's civil case against Trump and three of his adult children.

In 2020, the Times came into possession of more Trump tax returns, including some of those the committee will be release this week. The story they told was pretty stunning:

Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750. He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years — largely because he reported losing much more money than he made.

Perhaps the most intriguing detail in that story was that Trump was in fact still embroiled in an audit from 2009, with the IRS questioning the validity of a $72.9 million tax refund he received after declaring huge losses. If the IRS eventually ruled against him, the Times reported, he could end up owing more than $100 million.
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But it's clear enough why he didn't want to. The story those returns clearly tell is of a man who publicly bragged that his businesses were hugely successful even as he claimed massive losses. He was afraid of being seen as the phony he is and was worried, reasonably enough, that the audit would expose him as a tax cheat who owed the government $100 million that he probably doesn't have.
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This is the man who refused to divest himself of his businesses the whole time he was in the White House, which is also massively unethical. If Trump was hiding something during his tenure, as he pretty clearly was, the public has a right to know about it. After all, he's running again. I think we can feel fairly confident that he'll never come clean voluntarily.

The committee's report also shows that something is very wrong at the IRS, which appears to be understaffed and unqualified to deal with big-money malefactors' labyrinthine financial schemes. That can theoretically be fixed by staffing up the agency and recruiting people who know what they are doing and have enough oversight so there's less chance of corruption and cronyism. Perhaps the bigger problem is with the tax code, which favors rich cheaters like Donald Trump (and many others) who pay next to nothing in income taxes while the rest of us struggle to make ends meet and pay our fair share. We don't know yet whether Trump actually committed tax fraud on his personal tax returns. But there can be no doubt that much of what he did that was legal was deceitful and unjust."