Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) said Sunday he would not support adding justices to the Supreme Court or doing away with the filibuster if Democrats win a Senate majority and the White House.
“I'm not going to vote for anything that would cause, basically, not be able to work in a bipartisan way,” Manchin, likely the most conservative Democrat in the Senate, said on CNN’s “State of the Union,” when asked about expanding the court.
Obviously you cannot pack the court without doing away with the filibuster. I strongly suspect that there are several more Democrats who would balk at the idea of turning the Senate into a different version of the House. What has always been the source of pride for Senators is the idea that it is a less partisan chamber and that Democrats and Republicans often work together to get things done.
Moreover, I think many Democrats remember what happened when Harry Reid decided to do away with the filibuster for Judicial appointments. It came back and basically bit them in the ass. There is no reason to suspect that the same might not hold true for them if they attempted to do away with the legislative filibuster.
Let's remember that this is a rule that has been in place since 1806, or over 200 years. To believe that somehow this rule should be changed now, because one side or the other gains the upper hand (probably by 50-50 split or 51-49 split) would be extremely egotistical and self-centered. Once it's gone, it forever changes our system of government.
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Roger AmickSeptember 27, 2020 at 2:44 PM
Let's go Rams!?
��The Rams Lost Today.
President Trump paid no income taxes for 10 of the 15 years before he was elected president, with his income tax payments in 2016 and 2017 amounting to just $750, according to The New York Times, which obtained the president's tax information for the last 20 years.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html?fbclid=IwAR3egNrS7ZeMIaU799P3HKPMUyCq76I57flsLUznJxKoMjCxQzuF7B2s8oU
ChUnTruth:
"To believe that somehow this rule should be changed now, because one side or the other gains the upper hand (probably by 50-50 split or 51-49 split) would be extremely egotistical and self-centered."
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Oh, but it is not egotistical or self centered for the Republicans to have held off eleven months on an Obama appointee, stating that the next President should be the one to make the appointment, but refuse to hold off for a few days for the next President to be decided and to be the one to make the appointment now.
Waiting for NY Times to tell us how many tens of millions he paid those other years. $38M in 2003.
Can you deduct your haircut as a business expense?
Hey Rog remember when Bubba and Cankles deducted used underwear?
Mr. Trump paid alternative minimum tax in seven years between 2000 and 2017 — a total of $24.3 million, excluding refunds he received after filing. For 2015, he paid $641,931, his first payment of any federal income tax since 2010.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/12/28/bill-clintons-great-skivvies-give-away/0dac853d-cf3d-4faf-8104-bcf124bd93b4/
It's that time of year again, Mr. President.
Time to celebrate the lingering Yuletide spirit and the bright promise of the year to come. Time to savor the companionship of friends and family.
Time to donate your underpants to a charitable organization so you can later claim a deduction on your 1993 tax return.
Good times
Idiot
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html?fbclid=IwAR3egNrS7ZeMIaU799P3HKPMUyCq76I57flsLUznJxKoMjCxQzuF7B2s8oU
Distraction squared trool
The records that The Times reviewed square with the way Mr. Trump has repeatedly cited, without explanation, an ongoing audit as grounds for refusing to release his tax returns. He alluded to it as recently as July on Fox News, when he told Sean Hannity, “They treat me horribly, the I.R.S., horribly.”
He said the same thing this afternoon.
When he took office, Mr. Trump said he would pursue no new foreign deals as president. Even so, in his first two years in the White House, his revenue from abroad totaled $73 million. And while much of that money was from his golf properties in Scotland and Ireland, some came from licensing deals in countries with authoritarian-leaning leaders or thorny geopolitics — for example, $3 million from the Philippines, $2.3 million from India and $1 million from Turkey.
Trump wrote off $70,000 in haircuts as business expenses
Furious Trump Screams At Kushner For Forgetting To Shred Tax Returns!
He made money from
The committee interviewed a top Miss Universe executive, Paula Shugart, who said the Agalarovs offered to underwrite the event; their family business, Crocus Group, paid a $6 million licensing fee and another $6 million in expenses. But while the pageant proved to be a financial loss for the Agalarovs — they recouped only $2 million — Ms. Shugart told investigators that it was “one of the most lucrative deals” the Miss Universe organization ever made, according to the report.
That is borne out by the tax records. They show that in 2013, the pageant reported $31.6 million in gross receipts — the highest since at least the 1990s — allowing Mr. Trump and his co-owner, NBC, to split profits of $4.7 million. By comparison, Mr. Trump and NBC shared losses of $2 million from the pageant the year before the Moscow event, and $3.8 million from the one the year after.
If he made decisions on government business that made money for him, he might be violating the Constitution emolument rule.
Fun fact:
In 2016, Trump paid Stormy Daniels more than 173x what he paid the federal government in income taxes.
I think we will be finding out that he blew the emolument rule to smithereens, acting as if it didn't even exist in the Constitution.
Just to be fair, I don't think there's anything in the Constitution about paying off porn stars a President sleeps with.
:-)
;-)
NY Times:
Trump paid $750 in U.S. income taxes in 2016, 2017
AP
President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for president and in his first year in the White House, according to a report Sunday in The New York Times.
Trump, who has fiercely guarded his tax filings and is the only president in modern times not to make them public, paid no federal income taxes in 10 of the past 15 years.
The details of the tax filings complicate Trump’s description of himself as a shrewd and patriotic businessman, revealing instead a series of financial losses and income from abroad that could come into conflict with his responsibilities as president. The president’s financial disclosures indicated he earned at least $434.9 million in 2018, but the tax filings reported a $47.4 million loss.
The disclosure, which the Times said comes from tax return data it obtained extending over two decades, comes at a pivotal moment ahead of the first presidential debate Tuesday and weeks before a divisive election against Democrat Joe Biden.
Speaking at a news conference Sunday at the White House, Trump dismissed the report as “fake news” and said he has paid taxes, though he gave no specifics. He also vowed that information about his taxes “will all be revealed,” but he offered no timeline for the disclosure and made similar promises during the 2016 campaign on which he never followed through.
In fact, the president has fielded court challenges against those seeking access to his returns, including the U.S. House, which is suing for access to Trump's tax returns as part of congressional oversight.
During his first two years as president, Trump received $73 million from foreign operations, which in addition to his golf properties in Scotland and Ireland included $3 million from the Philippines, $2.3 million from India and $1 million from Turkey. The president in 2017 paid $145,400 in taxes in India and $156,824 in the Philippines, compared to just $750 in U.S. income taxes.
Trump found multiple ways to reduce his tax bills.
He has taken tax deductions on personal expenses such as housing, aircraft and $70,000 in haircare.
Losses in the property businesses solely owned and managed by Trump appear to have offset income from his stake in the television show “The Apprentice” and other entities with multiple owners.
During the first two years of his presidency, Trump relied on business tax credits to reduce his tax obligations. The Times said $9.7 million worth of business investment credits that were submitted after Trump requested an extension to file his taxes allowed him to reduce his income and pay just $750 each in 2016 and 2017.
Trump, starting in 2010, claimed and received an income tax refund that totaled $72.9 million, which the Times said was at the core of an ongoing audit by the IRS. The president has declined to release his taxes because of the audit.
A lawyer for the Trump Organization, Alan Garten, and a spokesperson for the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press on the report.
Garten told the Times that “most, if not all, of the facts appear to be inaccurate.”
[COULD WE HAVE SPECIFICS ON THAT, PLEASE?]
He said in a statement to the news organization that the president "has paid tens of millions of dollars in personal taxes to the federal government, including paying millions in personal taxes since announcing his candidacy in 2015.”
The New York Times said it declined to provide Garten with the tax filings in order to protect its sources.
During his first general election debate against Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, Clinton said that perhaps Trump wasn't releasing his tax returns because he had paid nothing in federal taxes.
Trump interrupted her to say, "That makes me smart.”>
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OR DOES IT MAKE HIM CROOKED?
CH and the rest of the truthers will call it fake news and a timed report to destroy Donald Trump.
Excerpt from New York Times article about Rump dodging taxes:
Testifying before Congress in February 2019, the president’s estranged personal lawyer, Mr. Cohen, recalled Mr. Trump’s showing him a huge check from the U.S. Treasury some years earlier and musing “that he could not believe how stupid the government was for giving someone like him that much money back.”
In fact, confidential records show that starting in 2010 he claimed, and received, an income tax refund totaling $72.9 million — all the federal income tax he had paid for 2005 through 2008, plus interest.
The legitimacy of that refund is at the center of the audit battle that he has long been waging, out of public view, with the I.R.S.
The records that The Times reviewed square with the way Mr. Trump has repeatedly cited, without explanation, an ongoing audit as grounds for refusing to release his tax returns. He alluded to it as recently as July on Fox News, when he told Sean Hannity, “They treat me horribly, the I.R.S., horribly.”
And while the records do not lay out all the details of the audit, they match his lawyers’ statement during the 2016 campaign that audits of his returns for 2009 and subsequent years remained open, and involved “transactions or activities that were also reported on returns for 2008 and earlier.”
Mr. Trump harvested that refund bonanza by declaring huge business losses — a total of $1.4 billion from his core businesses for 2008 and 2009 — that tax laws had prevented him from using in prior years.
But to turn that long arc of failure into a giant refund check, he relied on some deft accounting footwork and an unwitting gift from an unlikely source — Mr. Obama.
Business losses can work like a tax-avoidance coupon: A dollar lost on one business reduces a dollar of taxable income from elsewhere. The types and amounts of income that can be used in a given year vary, depending on an owner’s tax status. But some losses can be saved for later use, or even used to request a refund on taxes paid in a prior year.
Until 2009, those coupons could be used to wipe away taxes going back only two years. But that November, the window was more than doubled by a little-noticed provision in a bill Mr. Obama signed as part of the Great Recession recovery effort. Now business owners could request full refunds of taxes paid in the prior four years, and 50 percent of those from the year before that.
Mr. Trump had paid no income taxes in 2008. But the change meant that when he filed his taxes for 2009, he could seek a refund of not just the $13.3 million he had paid in 2007, but also the combined $56.9 million paid in 2005 and 2006, when “The Apprentice” created what was likely the biggest income tax bite of his life.
The records reviewed by The Times indicate that Mr. Trump filed for the first of several tranches of his refund several weeks later, in January 2010. That set off what tax professionals refer to as a “quickie refund,” a check processed in 90 days on a tentative basis, pending an audit by the I.R.S.
His total federal income tax refund would eventually grow to $70.1 million, plus $2,733,184 in interest. He also received $21.2 million in state and local refunds, which often piggyback on federal filings.
Whether Mr. Trump gets to keep the cash, though, remains far from a sure thing.
Refunds require the approval of I.R.S. auditors and an opinion of the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, a bipartisan panel better known for reviewing the impact of tax legislation. Tax law requires the committee to weigh in on all refunds larger than $2 million to individuals .
Records show that the results of an audit of Mr. Trump’s refund were sent to the joint committee in the spring of 2011. An agreement was reached in late 2014, the documents indicate, but the audit resumed and grew to include Mr. Trump’s returns for 2010 through 2013. In the spring of 2016, with Mr. Trump closing in on the Republican nomination, the case was sent back to the committee. It has remained there, unresolved, with the statute of limitations repeatedly pushed forward.
Precisely why the case has stalled is not clear. But experts say it suggests that the gap between the sides remains wide. If negotiations were to deadlock, the case would move to federal court, where it could become a matter of public record.
The dispute may center on a single claim that jumps off the page of Mr. Trump’s 2009 tax return: a declaration of more than $700 million in business losses that he had not been allowed to use in prior years. Unleashing that giant tax-avoidance coupon enabled him to receive some or all of his refund.
The material obtained by The Times does not identify the business or businesses that generated those losses. But the losses were a kind that can be claimed only when partners give up their interest in a business. And in 2009, Mr. Trump parted ways with a giant money loser: his long-failing Atlantic City casinos.
It appears that the real definition of “hoax” is the “business mogul” America saw on The Apprentice.
From NPR news
The Times says it obtained over 20 years of tax return data for Trump and the myriad companies that make up his organization.
Here are other key findings of the New York Times:
Some reductions in the president's tax liability came from unexplained consulting fees. The Times cites evidence that some of the fees may have been paid to his daughter, Ivanka Trump, though she was not an outside figure, given her role as a top official in the Trump Organization. If that were true, it could create further legal peril.
Trump's long-running IRS audit stems from a refund he claimed in 2010 totaling $72.9 million, which appears to be based on a questionable move by the president to claim he was walking away from his Atlantic City casino business.
More than $70,000 paid to style Trump's hair for his former reality show The Apprentice was written off on his taxes as a business expense. He's also written off costs related to residences and aircraft that many would consider personal expenses.
The president's businesses have brought in lots of money from overseas, detailed precisely for the first time in this report, according to the Times. In his first two years in the White House, Trump earned $73 million from overseas, mostly from his golf courses in the British Isles.
He also earned millions from the Philippines, India and Turkey.
Trump and his companies paid taxes of $15,598 in Panama, $145,400 in India and $156,824 in the Philippines in 2017, one of the years the report says Trump paid just $750 in income taxes to the U.S. government.
Some lawyers online said that he might be in jeopardy!
It describes a businessman who has racked up substantial losses he has leveraged in order to avoid paying taxes.
He's a con artist! And your not going to change your minds.
Biden isn't perfect but he actually cares about others.
Over the past 15 years, Trump paid more money for sex, than he paid in taxes.
Quote of the Day
10:48 pm
“Trump’s titanic financial losses confirm that while he campaigned as a so-called brilliant financial wizard, Trump is a cheat, a fraud and perhaps the worst businessman in the world.”
— Rep. Bill Pascrel (D-NJ), quoted by the Washington Post, on President Trump’s tax returns leaked to the New York Times.
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He's also a Stable Genius, heh, heh, heh.
Trump Still on Defense with Five Weeks to Go
9:59 pm
“The presidential battleground has shifted on the margins five weeks before Election Day, with President Trump still on defense as the contest with Democratic nominee Joe Biden is fought almost entirely in places that Trump won in 2016,” the Washington Post reports.
“Of the 13 states where Biden spent money on television last week, according to Biden’s head of paid media Patrick Bonsignore, only three — Minnesota, New Hampshire and Nevada — were won by Hillary Clinton four years ago. Of the 12 states where Trump is spending, all but Minnesota and Nevada are places that he won in 2016.”
Another Judge Bars Postal Service Delivery Cuts
11:08 pm EDT
“A third federal judge on Sunday ordered the U.S. Postal Service to halt changes that have delayed mail delivery nationwide, handing the latest judicial rebuke to unilateral service cuts that critics allege would suppress mail-in voting in November’s elections,” the Washington Post reports.
Federal income taxes paid in 2017 (jointly with spouse):
Joe Biden - $3,742,974
Kamala Harris - $516,469
Bernie Sanders - $343,882
Elizabeth Warren - $268,484
Donald Trump - $750
yawn i suggest comments just be turned off
How Trump Is Preparing for the Debates
“President Trump has been practicing with flashcards and prepping with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie before Tuesday’s presidential debate,” Axios reports.
“Top aides tell Axios he’s been testing his attacks on the campaign trail for weeks, seeing what ignites his crowds or falls flat. One of the biggest themes Trump plans to drive home is his ‘tough guy’ persona, which advisers see as an advantage with voters in key states.”
"Mr. Tough Guy."
HOW EXCITING!
Let's all tune in and watch David slay Goliath!
Mr. Vice President, how do you think you will do in the debate?
watch his answer in two videos
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/09/27/how-will-biden-do-debating-trump-we-asked-those-who-have-faced-the-former-vp/24632211/
"What makes Joe Biden so strong as a candidate, including on a debate stage, and why people love him, is he is who he is," said O'Rourke, the former Texas congressman who faced Biden twice during his presidential run. "He's not pulling any tricks and trying to do 'gotcha' stuff or trying to be cute. He’s just himself."
"It is very hard to get under his skin,” O’Rourke said. "The guy is just naturally optimistic and aspirational. Sometimes these attacks were warranted, sometimes they were downright petty. But they just rolled off him."
Sawyer Hackett, who studied Biden's past debates and adopted his cadences while playing the vice president in primary debate prep sessions for Julián Castro, said Biden's style connected with people who don't follow politics closely.
"Biden — more so than anybody on that stage — is able to, in one minute or less, give the top-line punchline and then pivot back to his record on that issue, talk about what the Obama-Biden administration did on it," Hackett said. "And he uses every single question in a debate to reinforce narratives about his own life."
His durability frustrated some rival campaigns, whose candidates earned more acclaim for their debate performances than Biden ... "but no one on that stage was able to knock Joe Biden out with a debate performance."
Biden allies are interested in seeing him draw a character contrast with Trump rather than attempting to eviscerate him, arguing that the way to win over what few undecided voters remain is to come across as an experienced and stable alternative to the president.
"I hope I don't get baited into getting into a brawl with this guy," Biden said during a virtual fundraiser earlier this month.
But Biden is, after all "a scrappy guy from Scranton," as Van Hollen put it, and a temper is sometimes hiding just beneath, under his famous aviator sunglasses.
After one of Biden's first outings in a presidential debate, during his 1988 White House run, Washington Post television critic Tom Shales wrote that Biden came across as "terrifying" and "as someone whose fuse is always lit."
... Biden held nothing back against Ryan, Mitt Romney’s running mate.
"With all due respect, that's a bunch of malarkey. Not a single thing he said is accurate," Biden declared at one point, laughing.
Biden’s "antics," as Ryan called them in his 2014 memoir, "The Way Forward," were controversial at the time. Republicans complained that Biden was rude and domineering for interrupting his much younger opponent 82 times.
Still, Biden laced his attacks with laughter, smiles and back pats, calling Ryan "my friend" 13 times — "I love my friend here" — so the two seemed to have enough of a rapport that Ryan helpfully offered a translation when the moderator asked what Biden meant when he called Ryan's comments, "a bunch of stuff."
"It's Irish," Ryan quipped with a laugh of their shared heritage. "It is," Biden responded.
Biden is a creature of a bygone clubby Senate who has always treated debate partners, from Michael Dukakis 1988 to Sen. Bernie Sanders in 2020, as a worthy opponent deserving respect.
It's impossible to imagine Biden calling Trump, a man he clearly does not respect and has barely met, "my friend" and meaning it.
But the challenge of debating the president should not be underestimated, many said.
"Trump is an almost impossible target," said Ari Rabin-Havt, Sanders' former chief of staff and deputy campaign manager. "Debating Trump is like boxing like one of those squishy dolls. It's just going to lie at you and remold itself constantly."
Biden himself seems confident. Mostly.
"I think I know how to handle bullies," Biden said at a fundraiser. "We'll find out."
Hillary Clinton was right about everything. Every-f**king-thing.
Donnie Dumbass seems to be a lot more successful at playing a "billionaire" on television, than in actually being one. His properties have become bazaars for collecting money directly from lobbyists, foreign officials and others seeking face time, access or favor; the records for the first time put precise dollar figures on those transactions.
At the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla., a flood of new members starting in 2015 allowed him to pocket an additional $5 million a year from the business. At his Doral golf resort near Miami, the roofing materials manufacturer GAF spent at least $1.5 million in 2018 even as its industry was lobbying the Trump administration to roll back “egregious” federal regulations. In 2017, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association paid at least $397,602 to the Washington hotel, where the group held at least one event during its four-day World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians.
The Times was also able to take the fullest measure to date of the president’s income from overseas, where he holds ultimate sway over American diplomacy. When he took office, Mr. Trump said he would pursue no new foreign deals as president. Even so, in his first two years in the White House, his revenue from abroad totaled $73 million. And while much of that money was from his golf properties in Scotland and Ireland, some came from licensing deals in countries with authoritarian-leaning leaders or thorny geopolitics — for example, $3 million from the Philippines, $2.3 million from India and $1 million from Turkey.
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. In 2017, the president’s $750 contribution to the operations of the U.S. government was dwarfed by the $15,598 he or his companies paid in Panama, the $145,400 in India and the $156,824 in the Philippines.
Mr. Trump has an established track record of stiffing his lenders. But the tax returns reveal that he has failed to pay back far more money than previously known: a total of $287 million since 2010.
The I.R.S. considers forgiven debt to be income, but Mr. Trump was able to avoid taxes on much of that money by reducing his ability to declare future business losses. For the rest, he took advantage of a provision of the Great Recession bailout that allowed income from canceled debt to be completely deferred for five years, then spread out evenly over the next five. He declared the first $28.2 million in 2014.
Once again, his business losses mostly absolved his tax responsibilities. He paid no federal income taxes for 2014.
. . .the reason he paid no income tax in these years was because of a change in the tax law signed by President Barack Obama wich then generated a $72.9 million refund.
Oh, and the best part? The NYT confirmed that the IRS and the president are, in fact, still arguing about the nature of this refund and that he’s been telling the truth when he says his return is still under audit:
Thanks, Obama! From the NYT:
"But to turn that long arc of failure into a giant refund check, he relied on some deft accounting footwork and an unwitting gift from an unlikely source — Mr. Obama.
Business losses can work like a tax-avoidance coupon: A dollar lost on one business reduces a dollar of taxable income from elsewhere. The types and amounts of income that can be used in a given year vary, depending on an owner’s tax status. But some losses can be saved for later use, or even used to request a refund on taxes paid in a prior year.
Until 2009, those coupons could be used to wipe away taxes going back only two years. But that November, the window was more than doubled by a little-noticed provision in a bill Mr. Obama signed as part of the Great Recession recovery effort. Now business owners could request full refunds of taxes paid in the prior four years, and 50 percent of those from the year before that."
So, which clown in the Obama administration wrote him the $72.9 million check in the first place?
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/09/27/the-nyt-confirms-president-trump-was-telling-the-truth-about-being-under-audit/
Hey rat you really are a joke of a human being......like the rest of trumps life which he learned from daddy was cheating on his tax returns!!!!! As rich as he claimed to be.....paying 750 bucks in taxes should even be insulting to a dumb fuck like you!!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!! No wonder why he hid them from the public....his losses even for you are beyond his ability to run a company!!!!!!!!
Funny.......trump again wins the mind of the simpleton rat, who defends his actions no matter what...That my friends is the definition of a cultist whose mind has been taken over by stupidity !!!!!! Facts in the R alternate universe are the words of trump, nothing else!!!!!
Another fucked up trump employee....locked up because of mental problems......BWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAA
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Trumps first 100 days
Follow President Donald Trump as he shapes America’s future
Trump ex-campaign boss hospitalized amid threat to harm self
The Associated Press
JONATHAN LEMIRE AND TERRY SPENCER
Sep 28th 2020 4:49AM
Brad Parscale
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale has been hospitalized after he threatened to harm himself, according to Florida police and campaign officials.
Police officers talked Parscale out of his Fort Lauderdale home after his wife called police to say that he had multiple firearms and was threatening to hurt himself when he was hospitalized Sunday under the state’s Baker Act. That act allows anyone deemed to be a threat to themselves or others to be detained for 72 hours for psychiatric evaluation.
“Brad Parscale is a member of our family and we love him,” said Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh. “We are ready to support him and his family in any way possible.”
Parscale was demoted from the campaign manager's post in July but remained part of the campaign, helping run its digital operation.
Another sad story....the only witness that heard the cops announce themselves seems to have a credibility problem....seems the 11 others who heard nothing were overridden by this single witness who changed his story.......but the slurpers will defend the cops.....
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sole-witness-heard-cops-announce-215316031.html
well BWAA, i for one am relieved to learn that Trump
1) was under IRS audit after all.
and
2) followed the letter of the law.
the release of his tax info served its purpose. it provided shallow thinking dumb fucks like you with yet another reason to be upset with Trump, when your gripe is really with US tax law.
2) followed the letter of the law.
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Yep and he got to deduct 70k for haircuts you dumb fuck....!!!!! Your stupidity is boundless !!!!!! He gets away while you pay more taxes than he does.....are you really this mentally disabled to think that is a good thing?????? LOLOLOLOLO
How many millions did he legally deduct because his business skills are worse than yours?????? And we pay for his lavish life style and golf courses and jets while you peddle dog shit in upstate NY!!!!! God you need help!!!
Yes rat, the returns showed what an awful business man he is as he is personally liable for 400 million of loans that come due in 3 years.....wonder how much the banks will lose on his next bankruptcy ??????? BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Yep the scammer in chief ripping the country off at every turn in his empire......the fuck deserves to be in jail!!!!! And rat will take another load and swallow it with joy!!!!!!
The New York Times has obtained tax-return data for President Trump and his companies that covers more than two decades. Mr. Trump has long refused to release this information, making him the first president in decades to hide basic details about his finances. His refusal has made his tax returns among the most sought-after documents in recent memory.
Among the key findings of The Times’s investigation:
Mr. Trump paid no federal income taxes in 11 of 18 years that The Times examined. In 2017, after he became president, his tax bill was only $750.
He has reduced his tax bill with questionable measures, including a $72.9 million tax refund that is the subject of an audit by the Internal Revenue Service.
Many of his signature businesses, including his golf courses, report losing large amounts of money — losses that have helped him to lower his taxes.
The financial pressure on him is increasing as hundreds of millions of dollars in loans he personally guaranteed are soon coming due.
Even while declaring losses, he has managed to enjoy a lavish lifestyle by taking tax deductions on what most people would consider personal expenses, including residences, aircraft and $70,000 in hairstyling for television.
Ivanka Trump, while working as an employee of the Trump Organization, appears to have received “consulting fees” that also helped reduce the family’s tax bill.
As president, he has received more money from foreign sources and U.S. interest groups than previously known. The records do not reveal any previously unreported connections to Russia.
so...
for all that bluster and innuendo, the NY Times essentially confirmed that Trump is a law-abiding citizen, and that he has no hidden debts to Russia.
Trump Derangement Syndrome at the NY Times. LOL. it's a beautiful thing.
and i would hope that Trump would at least send a thank you note to 0linsky for the $72.9 MILLION tax refund. after all, it would be the polite thing to do.
LOL.
And trump should send you a note thanking you for being the stupid fuck supporter he counts on....Olinksy had nothing to do with the tax refund asshole.....according to you....he followed the law and lists millions of dollars to deserve such a refund.....I believe trump said he couldn't believe the IRS could be so fucking stupid to give him the money.....He sure has added a lot to this country by losing and ripping off the taxpayer at every junction!!!! And you still swallow......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Typical R talking point, blame Obama!!!!!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOL
for all that bluster and innuendo, the NY Times essentially confirmed that Trump is a law-abiding citizen,
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!! and confirmed his great business skills are losing buckets of money and most likely cheats on his taxes....Yep rat we need more assholes like him!!!!!!
Trump’s tax returns suggest he has only ever been successful as a showman, not at running actual businesses.”
Trump’s tax returns suggest he has only ever been successful as a showman, not at running actual businesses.”
FANTASTIC MORNING !!!
See we have another "bombshell" Quite a heap of discarded "bombshells" that have been discarded by the dems. Guess we shall see more in this predictable desperation...
Undercover Huber
@JohnWHuber
Bombshell NYT story on Trump tax returns shows that he received a $3.5 million wire transfer from a corrupt Russian tied to Vladimir Putin. Oh wait, no, that was Hunter Biden, and the NYT didn't even report it
And I guess the NYT is going to explain how Biden got so filthy rich on a "public servants" salary.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Any NYT reporting on the confirmed newly released FBI documents/texts regarding OBAMAGATE yet ???
I see 92 SAT racist roger is up and about this morning.
With that score you need the instruction manual to even figure out the snooze button
But boy was he proud.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Benny
@bennyjohnson
Joe Biden refuses to answer a question of whether or not he will pack the Supreme Court because he says his answer would be “a big issue”
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1310258548035727369
Rachel Bovard
@rachelbovard
The man is running for president and doesn't want to give his position on important questions because they might become "big issues"? Give me a break. This is the entire point of a campaign.
Those type of responses are actually disqualifying.
Fake NY Times?
NO
Fake Donald Trump!
Anonymous JAMES'S FUCKING DADDY said...
Benny
@bennyjohnson
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Maybe trump will answer why he lost so much money on his endeavors......LOLOLOLOL!!!! Golf courses, jets and haircuts seem to be a major player in his shitty life!!!!!
One prominent idea for a fix would be to add four seats to the Senate by securing statehood for Washington DC, whose 700,000 residents are effectively disenfranchised, and for Puerto Rico whose 3m people are US citizens yet cannot vote in presidential elections.
No taxation without representation.
d a $3.5 million wire transfer from a corrupt Russian tied to Vladimir Putin. Oh wait, no, that was Hunter Biden, and the NYT didn't even report it
Because that is fake news you dumb fuck.....The recently published Johnson report proved the R's have nothing but rumors.....BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
WASHINGTON — The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has grown increasingly concerned that President Donald Trump, pushed by a new member of his coronavirus task force, is sharing incorrect information about the pandemic with the public.
Dr. Robert Redfield, who leads the CDC, suggested in a conversation with a colleague Friday that Dr. Scott Atlas is arming Trump with misleading data about a range of issues, including questioning the efficacy of masks, whether young people are susceptible to the virus and the potential benefits of herd immunity.
"Everything he says is false," Redfield said during a phone call made in public on a commercial airline and overheard by NBC News.
Redfield acknowledged after the flight from Atlanta to Washington, D.C., that he was speaking about Atlas, a neuroradiologist with no background in infectious diseases or public health. Atlas was brought on to the White House task force in August.
Federal income taxes paid in 2017 (jointly with spouse):
Joe Biden - $3,742,974
Kamala Harris - $516,469
Bernie Sanders - $343,882
Elizabeth Warren - $268,484
Donald Trump - $750
Clearly Roger knows nothing about corporate tax accounting. It's ignorant dupes like him the NY Times is hoping to fool eith this.
The average blue collar guy who is struggling to pay his taxes is not going to be happy with the President who paid several times than the President who is supposedly a good man
Funny the NYT claims they got Trumps tax returns and there is no mention of Russia.
But we also found out recently that
Brennan axed out any reference to Russia wanting Hillary to win in the intelligence assessment, overruling subordinates.
Hunter Biden received 3.5 million from the Moscow mayor for doing who knows what, but spending a lot on drugs and sex workers.
And Hillary employed a dirty Russian who had been under investigation for his activities against America as the principle sub source of the fake Russian dossier which she also paid for.
Looks like the Mueller "team" really dropped the ball.
Except when wiping phones to cover their tracks...
Somehow the NYT was to busy to report on all the news fit to print
ROFLMFAO !!!
He's Al Capone, and you don't care
But we also found out recently that
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!! The only thing you found was trumps dick stuck up your ass!!!!!!!!! This October surprise is going to remain in the news for days.......Good.....trump can't BS his way out of it!!!!!! Wallace will make donnie squirm!!!!
Catherine Herridge
@CBS_Herridge
#Flynn: CONTEXT: The 9/24 filing @SidneyPowell1 shows how Strzok, Page text messages are “unfiltered” road map for Durham investigators as well as FBI's messaging system called LYNC. On Jan 5, 2017 FBI employee asks "What's the word on how O's briefing went?" to which another FBI employee replied,
"Don't know but people here are scrambling for info..it's a mad house.” These data points can be triangulated with witness interviews + emails -- former NSA Susan Rice documented same Jan 5 meeting two weeks after the fact in “Note to File" Jan 20, 2017
https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1310397868105256960
FYI after that meeting the FBI changed the Flynn investigation status from closed to open...
Who could "O" possibly be ? Guess someone needs to ask the agent.
Couldn't possibly be Obama because he said he never got involved.
OBAMAGATE
Teachers paid $7,239
Firefighters paid $5,283
Nurses paid $10,216
Donald Trump paid $750 https://t.co/5YE1cbYsBN
WTF daddy.......despersatly trying to change the subject which BTW.....is a loser!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! The better question is how did trump lose so much money and who does he owe 400 million to !!!!! Just might be a conflict of interest or someone has the goods on trump the fraud!!!!!!!
The corporate tax laws need to be changed
WOW, Bidens campaign had an ad out yesterday based on data from the NYT "bombshell" reporting.
The collusion between the NYT and Biden campaign couldn't be more evident.
The next month is going to be crazy.
We're still getting campaign ads from both Trump and Biden here in NY. We NEVER get them. But we are this year.
Matt Walsh
@MattWalshBlog
Trump has had financial records leaked to the press, secretly recorded conversations leaked to the press, and many officials who worked inside the White House have written tell all books. And yet through all of that, no crime or actual serious scandal has been uncovered.
Clean as a whistle
Now do Biden and Hunter, curious if he listed the 3.5 million Russian payment on his income taxes... Or how Biden afforded all his expensive real estate holdings on such a low income before he got out of office...
Among the key findings of The Times’s investigation:
Mr. Trump paid no federal income taxes in 11 of 18 years that The Times examined. In 2017, after he became president, his tax bill was only $750.
He has reduced his tax bill with questionable measures, including a $72.9 million tax refund that is the subject of an audit by the Internal Revenue Service.
Many of his signature businesses, including his golf courses, report losing large amounts of money — losses that have helped him to lower his taxes.
The financial pressure on him is increasing as hundreds of millions of dollars in loans he personally guaranteed are soon coming due.
Even while declaring losses, he has managed to enjoy a lavish lifestyle by taking tax deductions on what most people would consider personal expenses, including residences, aircraft and $70,000 in hairstyling for television.
Ivanka Trump, while working as an employee of the Trump Organization, appears to have received “consulting fees” that also helped reduce the family’s tax bill.
As president, he has received more money from foreign sources and U.S. interest groups than previously known. The records do not reveal any previously unreported connections to Russia.
It is important to remember that the returns are not an unvarnished look at Mr. Trump’s business activity. They are instead his own portrayal of his companies, compiled for the I.R.S. But they do offer the most detailed picture yet available.
Roger Amick said...
The corporate tax laws need to be changed
The ones Biden helped write and passed ?
ed.
Clean as a whistle
Now do Biden and Hunter, curious if he listed the 3.5 million Russian payment on his income taxes..
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Another conspiracy bullshit lie being pushed by assholes on twitter and dumb fuck daddy!!!!!!!! God help you!!!!
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/043/86f/ad29fab493b409d83511a26409091fe3c5-24-donald-trump-al-capone.rsocial.w1200.jpg&imgrefurl=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/08/nras-dana-loesch-compares-trump-to-al-capone.html&tbnid=isGvT_nXIWX8PM&vet=1&docid=GsDpe_7RAmEOCM&w=1200&h=630&hl=en-US&source=sh/x/im
I love this "new" tax story.
The Three water carries women of CHT believe it completely.
"92 SAT" Roger
KansasDemocrat said...
"92 SAT" Roger
Is that a football jersey Roger proudly wears ????
Lying F'n Says
The collusion between the NYT and Biden campaign couldn't be more evident.
NO, the collusion between the Biden campaign and the simple TRUTH couldn't be more evident.
The collusion between the Trump team and falsehood also cannot be more evident.
"FAKE NEWS?" Does that mean, Mr. President, that you submitted fake tax returns?
_________
REAL EXPERTS:
Experts See Surge In Coronavirus Cases
The number of reported coronavirus cases shot up by at least 10 percent in 21 U.S. states over the past week—and experts are now forecasting that a “huge surge” is expected to take off in the next month, CNN reports.
____________
REAL, GENUINE EXPERT ROBERT REDFIELD
vs
FALSE, FAKE TRUMP TOADY "EXPERT" ADVISER SCOTT ATLAS
Redfield Says Trump Adviser Is Pushing False Info
CDC Director Robert Redfield has grown increasingly concerned that President Trump, pushed by a new member of his coronavirus task force, Dr. Scott Atlas, is sharing incorrect information about the pandemic with the public, NBC News reports.
Said Redfield: “Everything he says is false.”
"THE Trump Tax Story Could Finally Move the Polls"
--Taegan Goddard
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Among the key findings of The Times’s investigation:
no laws were broken by Trump.
as in zero, nada, NONE.
yet the SAT 92 score alky is flailing around in all of his masturbatory glory.
LOL.
you really got him this time alky!!!
LOL.
He owes over $421 million dollars to an undisclosed entity.
Russia Russian Russia?
This remains the Cold Hearted Truth:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/2020_elections_electoral_college_map_no_toss_ups.html
Apparently teachers are allowed to deduct a max of $250 if they pay for school classroom supplies. And Trump deducts $70,000 for hair cuts?Anyone leaving Fifth Avenue?
Trump Surging With Hispanic and Black Voters In Critical States
A new Center for American Greatness survey finds President Trump leading Joe Biden in battleground Nevada.
By Chris Buskirk • September 26, 2020
Joe Biden has a problem. Actually, he has a few problems. Recent polling shows that Donald Trump is running much stronger with Hispanics and black voters than he did in 2016. Those are demographic groups that Biden needs to win big if he has any hope of winning the election. If Trump’s strength with these voters continues, it will doom Biden and lead to a second Trump term.
In Florida, an NBC/Marist poll conducted earlier this month showed President Trump with 50 percent of the Hispanic vote to Biden’s 46 percent. In 2016, Clinton won 62 percent of Hispanics compared to 35 percent for Trump. Trump is also outperforming 2016 with black Floridians. The same poll shows him with 11 percent support compared to 8 percent in the last election. If those numbers hold, Florida is simply unwinnable for Biden.
Polling in other states tells a similar story. A poll of 750 likely voters conducted for the Center for American Greatness in Nevada by Pulse Opinion shows Biden leading Trump by just a single point (49 percent to 48 percent). As in Florida, Trump is running strong with Hispanics, getting 47 percent support to Biden’s 49 percent.
For comparison, Trump got 29 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2016 to Hillary Clinton’s 60 percent. The poll also shows Trump with 41 percent of the black vote. Interestingly, he also ran stronger among bin Nevada in 2016 than he did nationally, so this is a continuation of that trend.
The Nevada survey also shows Trump with a slightly higher favorability rating compared to Biden (48 percent versus 46 percent) which undercuts the narrative that this is a race between a likable Biden and an unlikable Trump. This despite the constant drubbing Trump takes from elite media and the concomitant puffing of Biden.
Voters already have a fixed opinion of Donald Trump. But it turns out that they have one of Biden, too—and it’s not especially positive.
But it’s the loss of support among groups that historically have backed Democrats in a big way that must be a cause for concern among Democrats. If the trends seen in these polls apply in places like Arizona and North Carolina then the Biden campaign has a very narrow path to victory while Trump’s options increase.
continues:
https://amgreatness.com/2020/09/26/trump-surging-with-hispanic-and-black-voters-in-critical-states/#.X3Cr2VKnI3M.twitter
thebradfordfile™
@thebradfordfile
Trump is such a genius, the New York Times is writing "bombshells" about him following the law.
ROFLMFAO !!!
so...
there's political hay to be made from a report that illustrates quite clearly that Trump was 100% in compliance with current IRS tax law.
scandalous.
what's really going on here is democrats, as they are always wont to do, prey upon the stupidest among us in a lame attempt to gin up outrage among those who scored roughly 92 on their SAT.
huh.
meanwhile, Amy Coney Barrett is well on her way to becoming confirmed, while Slow Joe Biden keeps "a lid on it" while receiving his B-12 shots and adderall tablets.
me think maggie at the NY Times shot her wad just a little too early.
(CNN) - Tom Ridge, the former Department of Homeland Security secretary during the George W. Bush administration, endorsed Joe Biden in an op-ed published Sunday in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
LOL Frantic "American Greatness" propaganda.
Want more clarity?
here,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5p80ulfvXk
Trump is such a genius, the New York Times is writing "bombshells" about him following the law.
ROFLMFAO !!!
the walls are closing in!!!
beginning of the end!!!
He owes over $421 million dollars to an undisclosed entity.
Russia Russian Russia?
thebradfordfile™
@thebradfordfile
They said Trump was a secret agent of Vladimir Putin. Now all they've got is "he has a good tax guy."
But Hunter (and his dad) on the other hand...
Tom Ridge?
"THE" Tom Ridge???
fuck.
that's it.
it's over.
Slow Joe received the coveted and sought after Tom Ridge endorsement.
it's over.
'sniff'
'sob'
THIS STILL HAS NOT CHANGED:
353 ELECTORAL VOTES FOR BIDEN
185 ELECTORAL VOTES FOR TRUMP
RealClearPolitics No Toss Ups ELECTORAL VOTE MAP
thebradfordfile™
@thebradfordfile
This is incredible.
The Biden family took millions from some of the most corrupt foreign entities and scumbags on earth while Joe was VP. So naturally, the press is trying to create a "scandal" on Trump's **legal** use of our tax laws. We live in a clown world.
And 92 SAT roger is saying "Russia Russian Russia?"
ROFLMFAO !!!
Why is Trump under such an extended audit by the IRS over the possibility that he fraudulently claimed tax returns?
Jeff Carlson
@themarketswork
The Trump Tax Returns illustrate three primary things:
1) No unreported connections to Russia
2) MSM Journos & DNC Hacks do NOT understand how running a business and managing assets works tax-wise. Or any-wise.
3) Unlike Biden, President Trump didn't profit from his office.
---
4) How in the tank for Biden the media is
It won't change the minds of the truthers but there's evidence that the president has been paying far less in income tax than many of the blue-collar workers who voted for him won't vote for him again.
Blogger James said...
THIS STILL HAS NOT CHANGED:
353 ELECTORAL VOTES FOR BIDEN
185 ELECTORAL VOTES FOR TRUMP
UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE!
since the NY Times tax story release we are now calling it -
538 ELECTORAL VOTES FOR BIDEN
0.0 ELECTORAL VOTES FOR TRUMP
THIS BOMBSHELL IS THE BEGINNING OF THE END AND THE WALLS ARE DEFINITELY CLOSING IN THIS TIME!!!
Trump's taxes show he's a national security threat.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trumps-taxes-show-hes-national-093724888.html?
Trump called the central claim the NYT makes – that he only paid $750.00 in federal income taxes – “fake news” in a press conference on Sunday evening.
A lawyer for the President said: “Over the past decade, President Trump has paid tens of millions of dollars in personal taxes to the federal government, including paying millions in personal taxes since announcing his candidacy in 2015.”
The New York Times failed to include the details of the returns in its reporting, admitting in its own article: “The Times declined to provide the records, in order to protect its sources.”
https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/nyts-10000-word-trump-tax-expose-reveals-no-russian-links-no-illegality-and-admits-left-will-be-unfulfilled-by-the-report/
A phone call to an anonymous source was not returned by Harry Reid by Monday morning. But four other anonymous sources have confirmed this reporting
Roger Amick said...
It won't change the minds of the truthers but there's evidence that the president has been paying far less in income tax than many of the blue-collar workers who voted for him won't vote for him again.
why should law abiding compliance with the IRS tax code change any minds, mr. 92 SAT's?
what you're admitting is that you have been reduced to ginning up phony outrage with the democrat base over following the fucking law.
my God. you're actually resorting to insulting the "intellect" of your base.
LOL.
Jeff Carlson
@themarketswork
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! They also prove he is a shitty businessman, a liar, and a cheat!!!!!!!!!
Super PAC Jumps Into South Carolina Senate Race
“The main super PAC supporting the election of Democrats to the Senate is preparing to invest millions in South Carolina — a fresh signal that Democrats see the race against Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) as winnable,”
the Washington Post reports.
“Senate Majority PAC will launch a new, $6.5 million ad campaign in South Carolina on Monday, marking the first time that the super PAC has gone on the air this cycle in the traditional GOP stronghold. The effort to bolster Democrat Jaime Harrison’s prospects includes $5 million in television ads and a $1.5 million digital campaign.”
*** A REAL BOMBSHELL !!! ***
Trump War Room
@TrumpWarRoom
WATCH: Jonathan Karl says Obama-Biden’s North Korea policy was a “complete and total failure.”
“They had tried to prevent North Korea from getting nuclear weapons, it failed entirely. They developed a rather extensive nuclear program…That’s what Donald Trump inherited.”
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1310374669707603970
ANOTHER Novel Peace Prize ???
GREATEST PEACE PRESIDENT EVER !!!
* Nobel
Vince Coglianese
@VinceCoglianese
Ok, just read through the Times’ Trump tax returns report.
I think this might be Geraldo opening Al Capone’s vault.
Next...
Incoming !!!
and... HAVE YOU SEEN THE POLLS !!!
ROFLMFAO !!!
Biden Nabs Two Media Endorsements
Although it’s not much of a surprise, the Washington Post endorsed Joe Biden for president:
In contrast to Trump’s narcissism, Biden is deeply empathetic; you can’t imagine him dismissing wounded or fallen soldiers as “losers.” To Trump’s cynicism, Biden brings faith — religious faith, yes, but also faith in American values and potential.
In place of Trump’s belittling and demonizing of opponents and allies alike, Biden offers a deep commitment to finding common ground in service to making government work for the greatest number. He has demonstrated that commitment in reaching across the aisle to Republicans, and also — most recently — in bringing unity to the Democratic Party without compromising his own fundamental convictions.
The New Yorker did too:
It would be a relief simply to have a President who doesn’t abuse the office as a colossal grift.
HAVE YOU SEEN THE POLLS !!!
If not, go take a look:
RealClearPolitics.com
Biden is ahead in
FL, PA, MI, WI, NC, AZ, OH, NH, NV
Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
Lol at this offhand detail in the Times piece: "Nor do [tax records] reveal any previously unreported connections to Russia."
You mean the left and NYT has been lying to us for years ???
And Adan Schiff and the lying democrats ???
And the lying POS "pastor" james ???
ROFLMFAO at the scum !!!
Joel Pollak
@joelpollak
New York Times says Trump paid no taxes in some years, because of huge losses. They found nothing on Russia and no Michael Cohen. They confirmed he has been under audit a long time. And nothing illegal, apparently -- except the IRS leak.
https://breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/27/new-york-times-we-have-trumps-tax-returns/
Only illegal activity was with the IRS hmmm
Still ANOTHER deep stater
HAVE YOU SEEN THE POLLS !!!
If not, go take a look:
RealClearPolitics.com
Biden is ahead in
FL, PA, MI, WI, NC, AZ, OH, NH, NV
That's why
THIS STILL HAS NOT CHANGED!!!:
353 ELECTORAL VOTES FOR BIDEN
185 ELECTORAL VOTES FOR TRUMP
Lyndsey Graham
Trump is a sociopath. A sadist. A con artist. A racist. A misogynist. A sexist in general
Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the billionaire widow of Yury Luzhkov, the former mayor of Moscow a known associate of Vladimir Putin.
Where are our fearless “journalists” now that there’s a real Russia connection?
I'm sure the NYT "journalists" have got their shovels out to "cover" this.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Too much good stuff today...
When the New York times reports on the President, it will be interesting in the polls!
Troll
Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
Who leaked Trump’s tax returns to The New York Times?
26 U.S. Code § 7213 makes it illegal to disclose unauthorized information, including tax returns
If true—there should be felony charges leveled.
RT if DOJ should immediately investigate the Times and their sources!
You need to remember the dems support felons and want to defund the police.
And they continue to burn things down.
A third federal judge on Sunday ordered the U.S. Postal Service to halt changes that have delayed mail delivery nationwide, handing the latest judicial rebuke to unilateral service cuts that critics allege would suppress mail-in voting in November’s elections.
U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of Washington, D.C., sided with the states of New York, Hawaii and New Jersey and the cities of New York and San Francisco. They alleged that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy disrupted operations without first submitting changes to the Postal Regulatory Commission, and told Congress he had no intention of returning removed collection boxes or high-speed sorting equipment.
The opinion was the latest by a court to conclude that Postal Service changes were likely to risk the timely delivery of election mail and hinder state responses to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
“It is clearly in the public interest to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, to ensure safe alternatives to in-person voting, and to require that the USPS comply with the law,” Sullivan wrote in a 39-page opinion.
Ten days earlier, a judge in Washington state entered a nationwide injunction against changes that he called “a politically motivated attack on the efficiency of the Postal Service” and that were likely to irreparably harm the ability 14 suing states to administer the election.
Stanley A. Bastian, chief judge of the Eastern District of Washington, blocked DeJoy’s limits on delivery trips, decommissioning any mailboxes and sorting machines or reducing processing facilities and retail hours.
On Sept. 21, Manhattan federal judge Victor Marrero entered a similar injunction, ordering the Postal Service to prioritize election mail and preapprove overtime requests for the two weeks surrounding Election Day.
“The right to vote is too vital a value in our democracy to be left in a state of suspense in the minds of voters weeks before a presidential election,” Marrerro wrote in a lawsuit brought by in several individuals and candidates.
In a House hearing last month, DeJoy rejected accusations that he was impeding the election. He testified that many policy changes were underway before he took office June 15 and were needed to increase efficiency.
Roger Amick said...
When the New York times reports on the President, it will be interesting in the polls!
That 92 SAT is showing again !
And it looks like it has declined over the years.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Nevertheless, talks Friday were nearing a settlement between the Postal Service and 19 states and D.C. over handling of mailed ballots and the suspension of the postmaster general’s cost-cutting backlogs.
The Postal Service has retreated from the biggest changes. In court filings before Sunday’s opinion, the Justice Department said the agency had directed managers not to reduce overtime, cut retail hours, further close processing facilities or remove collection boxes and sorting equipment.
The service also has said it will continue to apply first-class mail delivery standards to election mail regardless of the paid class and to dedicate additional process, transportation and delivery and collection trips for two weeks surrounding Election Day to accelerate the delivery of ballots.
Sullivan is overseeing related lawsuits brought in federal court in Washington by the NAACP, national and Colorado-based voter registration groups and individual voters. He is also presiding over a case brought by the Postal Service’s police union to undo an Aug. 25 decision limiting their jurisdiction to crimes on postal property.
Sullivan found that the service has removed 711 high-speed sorting machines around the country this year, a nearly 15 percent reduction in capacity, or about 30 million pieces of paper mail per hour.
Postal Service records indicate that on-time delivery of First-Class Mail began to decline in June, falling from roughly 90 to 94 percent to 82 percent in early August.
By August, the agency had removed at least 52 machines in New York state, 27 machines in New Jersey, seven in San Francisco and four machines in Hawaii, the plaintiffs alleged.
In Hawaii, sorting capacity fell by a third, from 300,000 pieces of mail an hour to 200,000, while three towns in western New York — Bowmansville, Depew and Lancaster — that usually receive about 80,000 pieces of mail a day got none on July 11, they claimed.
Similar disruptions occurred in New York and New Jersey in July and August, the suit argued.
In filing the suit Aug. 25, New York State Attorney General Letitia James told reporters, “These changes are a thinly veiled attempt to advance the president’s own political agenda.”
LORI HENDRY
@Lrihendry
Obama spied on Trump
Hillary deleted 33K emails
Comey leaked classified information
MCCabe lied to the FBI
Obama, DOJ, FBI and Democrats launched a coup against the president of United States
Yet, Democrats are worried about Trump tax returns?
thebradfordfile™
@thebradfordfile
How the hell did Joe Biden acquire enough wealth to owe $3.7 million in taxes in 2017?
THAT is the real scandal.
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