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Trump’s taxes show why he *really* ran for president

Thanks to last week’s bombshell reporting from The New York Times, we know that President Trump paid $750 in taxes in 2016 -- and no taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years. CNN’s Chris Cillizza sheds some light on why Trump’s financial straits influenced his decision to run for president.

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Trump’s taxes show why he *really* ran for president

Thanks to last week’s bombshell reporting from The New York Times, we know that President Trump paid $750 in taxes in 2016 -- and no taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years. CNN’s Chris Cillizza sheds some light on why Trump’s financial straits influenced his decision to run for president.

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'haven't you ever heard of a carryover?'

Speaking of private Citizen Trump,

Veselnitskaya’s Trump Tower Coverup Linked to Secret Russian Chemical Weapons Program
A company newly sanctioned by the U.S. over Alexei Navalny’s poisoning attack is tied to the money-laundering network that Natalia Veselnitskaya tried to cover up at the infamous 2016 Trump Tower meeting, according to financial records obtained by The Daily Beast.

Now we know why Vladimir Putin was so desperate to play down the international corruption probes that began when Sergei Magnitsky uncovered a $230 million fraud on the Russian people. For the first time, that dark-money network can be linked to the murderous chemical-weapons program run by Russia’s notorious intelligence services.

After exposing the massive theft of state money, Magnitsky ended up dead in a Russian prison cell. Legislation in his name has been enacted all over the world by governments seeking to clamp down on corruption, including the U.S.’s Magnitsky Act. Despite the interventions of Veselnitskaya—a Russian lawyer who was sent to the U.S. to persuade the Trump campaign to overturn the law—investigations tracing that stolen money continue to expose an international web of bank accounts linked to alleged wrongdoing.

This month, the Biden administration said it was sanctioning a German chemicals company called Riol-Chemie because of its “activities in support of Russia’s weapons of mass destruction programs.”

It was part of the administration’s response to the attempted murder of Putin nemesis Navalny. The anti-corruption campaigner narrowly survived a chemical-weapon attack after a plane carrying him on a long flight home to Moscow was diverted and he was able to receive emergency medical care—first in a Siberian hospital, and then in Germany, where he was airlifted for further treatment.

They were talking about adoptions, right.

Trump Facing Indictment?: Money, Criminal Probes Engulf 45

Citizen Trump faces growing legal pressure in New York and Georgia. In this digital exclusive, MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber reports on 29 lawsuits Trump faces and why protections he once had as President no longer exist. Melber analyzes Michael Cohen’s role in the Manhattan District Attorney’s probe and why investigators are asking about The Trump Organization’s CFO Allen Weisselberg. Melber also reports on Georgia’s criminal probe and the prosecutor tapping the lawyer who put John Gotti behind bars.

How many potential witnesses and informants are volunteering information about Trump? They must have fucked over or just pissed off thousands of people and some of them must be phoning in stuff. If they got Weisslberg's sons by the balls they might crack Donald's bag licking bean counter. He will make it easy to convict Trump of more crimes than can be counted, the don't need the Weasel, but he makes the case easier and once he cracks, he will crack wide open.
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NBC News Exclusive: Allen Weisselberg's Former Daughter-In-Law Speaks Out

NBC News' Tom Winter has an exclusive interview with Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg's former daughter-in-law.

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Stinky is a incompetent asshole.

Donald Trump Is Drowning in Criminal Investigations and Legally Screwed | Vanity Fair

DONALD TRUMP IS DROWNING IN CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS AND LEGALLY SCREWED
He’s also facing 29 lawsuits though it’s the investigations that could land him in prison he’s probably most worried about.

For much of his adult life, Donald Trump was known for going after his enemies with frivolous lawsuits, so much so that by the time he ran for president in 2016, he and his businesses had been involved in at least 3,500 legal actions. According to a 2016 report, Trump had no qualms about responding to “even small disputes with overwhelming legal force” and didn’t “hesitate to deploy his wealth and legal firepower against adversaries with limited resources,” sometimes refusing “to pay real estate brokers, lawyers, and other vendors.” In other words, he was a consummate bully who used his money and power to screw over little people, and never worried about the tables being turned, as he would simply countersue, like his family business did in the 1970s when the Justice Department accused it of discriminatory housing practices. But as the old saying goes, “karma is a bitch and she relishes the idea of a litigious a-hole living out his last days in prison."

Tim O’Brien: Trump ‘Binged On Debt Like It’s A Buffet Meal’

Bloomberg Opinion senior columnist Tim O’Brien analyzes the pressure on Trump’s businesses, his history of overpromising, and how the insurrection has impacted his brand.

It is fitting I think.
Mar-a-Lago partially closed due to COVID-19 outbreak: report
Sources confirmed to The Associated Press that Mar-a-Lago has been closed until further notice in a cautionary move that follows positive COVID-19 tests. Several workers have reportedly been quarantined.

Cohen Assesses Prosecutors Have Enough To Charge Trump With Or Without Weisselberg

Michael Cohen, former personal attorney for Donald Trump, author of "Disloyal" and host of the Mea Culpa podcast, discusses his eighth visit with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and what the millions of pages of Trump Organization financial documents are showing them.

The got Fat Donny's taxes, documents, his mouth piece in the bag and now they are going for his bean counter, squeeze the weasel till he squeals! I think all of Donald's attention is on this and Georgia where he might face criminal indictments sooner. He will have little time for politics and will soon be screaming and dancing as the indictments fall like a hard rain. He will have his base and GOP politicians dancing and freaking out on the courthouse steps before it's over.
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Neal Katyal: Prosecutors Are Trying To Flip Trump's Money Guy

MSNBC Legal Analyst Neal Katyal reacts to the latest news in the investigation New York officials are doing into Trump and his family business.

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Cohen Assesses Prosecutors Have Enough To Charge Trump With Or Without Weisselberg

Michael Cohen, former personal attorney for Donald Trump, author of "Disloyal" and host of the Mea Culpa podcast, discusses his eighth visit with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and what the millions of pages of Trump Organization financial documents are showing them.

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I recall an earlier post where it was said after Cohen's sixth visit with prosecutors, the repeated visits meant legal action against Trmp was certain.

I guess two MORE visits by Cohen means legal action is more certainyer.

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I recall an earlier post where it was said after Cohen's sixth visit with prosecutors, the repeated visits meant legal action against Trmp was certain.

I guess two MORE visits by Cohen means legal action is more certainyer.

NY prosecutors interview Cohen an 8th time in Trump inquiry

New York prosecutors have met for an eighth time with former Donald Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen as part of a criminal investigation of the former president's finances

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Each visit is getting more specific, in the last one he was looking over documents. I think in his TV interviews he's trying to scare the shit out of Trump, terrorize him if you will. This case is showing all the signs of going to court, but they might be going for racketeering too. The election cases in Georgia are cut and dried, but they appear to be going for conspiracy there too, so it's a toss up who gets him first. Meanwhile except for statute of limitations considerations, the feds just sit back and let the states make their case for them and collect a mountain of evidence. Donald will also have federal charges, I can't see them passing on insurrection etc, just on principal alone.

News ratings, traffic plummet post-Trump
Former President Trump's exit from the White House coincided with a slump in ratings for cable news channels and digital news sites, according to a Washington Post analysis.

Data from media tracking firm ComScore as well as the Nielsen company indicated drops in traffic across websites for the Post, which lost roughly one-fourth of its monthly web traffic, as well as The New York Times, which lost roughly 17 percent of its traffic over January and February.

The ratings drop followed a prediction from CNN President Jeff Zucker, who in 2019 told Vanity Fair that "anytime you break away from the Trump story and cover other events in this era, the audience goes away."

"[A]t the end of the day, all they want to do is talk about Trump," he added at the time.

Of course. You get people wanting to see how he is saving the country, people seeing how he is destroying the country, Biden in power, you can go a couple of days not checking in and not miss anything.

Trump hotels dropped as preferred partner by luxury travel agency
The luxury travel agency Virtuoso will no longer list Trump Organization properties on its website, a spokesperson for the company said.

A Virtuoso spokeswoman confirmed in a statement reported by multiple outlets that Trump hotels were no longer a preferred partner of the company, and as of last week the properties were no longer listed on its website.

“As of March 8, 2021, Trump Hotels are no longer part of the Virtuoso network,” Misty Ewing Belles, head of Virtuoso's public relations department, said in a statement to Zenger News, which first reported the move.

“Virtuoso considers many variables when reviewing both existing and new network participation. Out of respect for all involved parties, and as a general policy, we do not share comments regarding our non-renewal and exit decisions,” she added.

Karma sometimes takes a while.

Trump frustrated with pace of super PAC
Trump advisers first shared the plans in late February for a super PAC as part of a post-presidency political operation. Trump told allies at the time that he'd chosen his onetime campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to run the organization, but roughly one month later, the 45th president has started lashing out about the lack of movement on the project, sources said.

The sources, one of whom heard the comments from Trump directly, said the former president is agitated that there has been little tangible or visible progress on establishing the super PAC and ramping up activity in the month since the idea for the new super PAC was first made public.

“He’s lashing out that nothing’s happening. He viewed this super PAC as something that’s supposed to have his back, and it’s nowhere to be found,” one source said.

Meeting between Trump, Ohio Senate candidates turns tense: report
Trump was holding the fundraiser to benefit Max Miller, a candidate he’s supporting in an upcoming Ohio House race in the hopes of ousting a sitting Republican who backed his impeachment.

But he reportedly took the opportunity to convene a group of candidates looking to fill the seat that will be left vacant by Sen. Rob Portman (R), who is not seeking reelection in 2022.

Before the dinner kicked off, according to Politico, Trump met in a backroom with former state Treasurer Josh Mandel; former state GOP Chair Jane Timken; tech executive Bernie Moreno; and investment banker Mike Gibbons to discuss the Senate race.

Mandel and Timken have already announced their bids for the seat, while Moreno and Gibbons are expected to jump in soon. The meeting, which reportedly lasted 15 minutes, was described to Politico by one source as being like the “Hunger Games".

According to sources cited by Politico, the huddle covered everything from the candidates’ support of Trump and opposition to his impeachment, previous endorsements and donations, and early polling in the race.

Sources told Politico that Mandel and Timken seemed to be trying to one up each other in the meeting. The Hill has reached out to representatives for both candidates.

Trump Investigation Documents Came From Messy Divorce Case (businessinsider.com)

Jennifer Weisselberg said she gave investigators probing Trump's finances '7 boxes of documents' she got in her divorce from the Trump Org CFO's son

• Jennifer Weisselberg says she gave prosecutors looking into Trump "seven boxes" of documents.
• The Trump Organization documents came from a divorce case with the company's CFO's son.
• The Manhattan DA's office got a fuller picture of Trump Org finances after a subpoena in February.

Prosecutors learned details about the Trump Organization's finances after a key employee tried to withhold them in his divorce case, that employee's ex-wife told Insider.

The move backfired. The judge in the divorce case forced him to sit for a deposition and hand over the documents as part of a subpoena, according to Jennifer Weisselberg.

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i would complain but we need all the moisture we can get. snow now = campfires in the summer.

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Man I really hope the fires and fire bans stay down this year. Going to do some spring camping to try and get ahead of it.

Trump Charges Coming?: Money Probe Hunts For Tax Experts | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC

There are new legal developments in probes against Donald Trump in New York, Georgia and Washington D.C. Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. hired a defense lawyer for a new riot lawsuit. In this digital exclusive, MSNBC's Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber reports on that, the New York DA's hunt for witnesses and a unique Georgia law prosecutors might use against Rudy Giuliani.