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ExceedAndExcel
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It reads like something out of a comedy sketch. It could easily have come out of the mouth of Alec Baldwin on SNL. |
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Almost lost in the 100 scandals exposed today alone was this. Newly uncovered tax documents show Trump kept '2 sets of books' and may have committed financial fraud
Sonam Sheth
Newly uncovered tax documents from President Donald Trump contain several discrepancies that real-estate experts said could point to financial fraud, ProPublica reported on Wednesday. The documents obtained by ProPublica were part of records for four Trump properties in New York City: Trump International Hotel and Tower, 40 Wall Street, Trump Tower, and 1290 Avenue of the Americas. more... http://www.businessinsider.com.au/propublica-trump-tax-records-financial-fraud-2019-10?r=US&IR=T |
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Just by coincidence(?) Michael Cohen was on day release from prison on Monday to give evidence to a grand jury running in Manhattan into Trump's criminal activities. Same grand jury that was granted access to Trump's last 10 years of tax returns from his accounting firm Mazars. Trump is taking that judgement to either a full bench of the appeals court or to his SCOTUS, as he put it.
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Whale
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Dr E
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In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT!
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Shammy Davis
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Welcome back Shammy, a lot has happened since you were last here. Hope you are keeping up.
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So many developments again today. Everyone throwing everyone else under the bus, some jumping under by themselves and the rats are manning their life jackets getting ready to jump. Republicans are refusing to answer their phones as reporters are chasing them to get something....anything on the record. They can't get just 10 minutes without a new reversal or revelation/admission to get their lies straight.
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Today in the news NBC: Mulvaney admits Quid Pro Quo ABC: Mulvaney admits QPQ CNN: Mullvaney admits QPQ Everyone:Mulvaney says they did it but it was very cool. White House: Mulvaney is drunk Barr's DOJ: We dont know what he is talking about Fox News: Breakthrough in Hilllary's emails
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Tlazolteotl
Champion Joined: 02 Oct 2012 Location: Elephant Butte Status: Online Points: 31416 |
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Why is it that recent Republican presidents are all dummies? At least most of our Tory PMs have a certain rat cunning.
Nixon was an exception. He had loads of rat cunning |
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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
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Why are we following that trend?
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Tlazolteotl
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A curious fact about the Trump and his successor - they are both renowned bankruptcy experts.
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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
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Dr E
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Trump's successor? ... if you mean after the next election, that would be Trump.
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In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT!
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After these Syrian Kurd atrocities are fully exposed there is a better chance of him being in The Hague than the White House.
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Traitor Turtle Moscow Mitch has almost found a spine in this morning's WaPo. He is bagging Trump for overturning Obama's Syria strategy, but fails to mention Trump's name once and to cover his arse with Dear Leader, pots Obama 3 times. Mitch McConnell: Withdrawing from Syria is a grave mistakeOct. 19, 2019 at 7:04 a.m. GMT+11 Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, is majority leader of the U.S. Senate. Withdrawing U.S. forces from Syria is a grave strategic mistake. It will leave the American people and homeland less safe, embolden our enemies, and weaken important alliances. Sadly, the recently announced pullout risks repeating the Obama administration’s reckless withdrawal from Iraq, which facilitated the rise of the Islamic State in the first place. Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, I have worked with three presidential administrations to fight radical Islamist terrorism. I have distilled three principal lessons about combating this complex threat. Lesson No. 1 is that the threat is real and cannot be wished away. These fanatics threaten American interests and American lives. If permitted to regroup and establish havens, they will bring terror to our shores. more.. |
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Tlazolteotl
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Erdogan binned that letter and ignored it because he knows Trump is a joke.
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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
Simon Cameron |
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Even the Turkish Ambassador to the US is trolling him. Ambassador Namik Tan @NamikTan Former Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to the U.S. |
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maccamax
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Great to hear from you Shammy .... I was trying to be nice to Whale , GOD BLESS AMERICA |
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Yes, nice to see Shammy out of his bunker and breathing fresh air. Hope he doesn't read a newspaper while he is out, it could send him back underground bigly quick.
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Thoughts and prayers for our Hillary deranged.
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Republican Senator on MSNBC arguing that Trump hasn't done anything to warrant removal or even an impeachment process. Asked what he based it on he said he hasn't seen any evidence. Asked if he read the Mueller Report or any of the House transcripts from this week he said he hasn't, wont and doesn't need to.
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Excellent piece from the NYT Editorial Board on the dilemma and coming reckoning facing Republicans. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/opinion/trump-impeachment-republicans.html The Crisis of the Republican Party The G.O.P. will not be able to postpone a reckoning on Donald Trump’s presidency for much longer. The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. In the summer of 1950, outraged by Joseph McCarthy’s anti-Communist inquisition, Margaret Chase Smith, a Republican senator from Maine, stood to warn her party that its own behavior was threatening the integrity of the American republic. “I don’t want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the four horsemen of calumny — fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear,” she said. “I doubt if the Republican Party could — simply because I don’t believe the American people will uphold any political party that puts political exploitation above national interest. Surely, we Republicans aren’t that desperate for victory.” Senator Smith surely knew her “Declaration of Conscience” would not carry the day. Her appeal to the better angels of her party was not made in the expectation of an immediate change; sometimes the point is just to get people to look up. In the end, four more years passed before the bulk of the Republican Party looked up and turned on Senator McCarthy — four years of public show trials and thought policing that pushed the country so hard to the right that the effects lasted decades. The problem with politicians who abuse power isn’t that they don’t get results. It’s that the results come at a high cost to the Republic — and to the reputations of those who lack the courage or wisdom to resist. The Republican Party is again confronting a crisis of conscience, one that has been gathering force ever since Donald Trump captured the party’s nomination in 2016. Afraid of his political influence, and delighted with his largely conservative agenda, party leaders have compromised again and again, swallowing their criticisms and tacitly if not openly endorsing presidential behavior they would have excoriated in a Democrat. Compromise by compromise, Donald Trump has hammered away at what Republicans once saw as foundational virtues: decency, honesty, responsibility. He has asked them to substitute loyalty to him for their patriotism itself. Mr. Trump privately pressed Ukraine to serve his political interests by investigating a political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, as well as by looking into a long-debunked conspiracy theory about Democratic National Committee emails that were stolen by the Russians. Mr. Trump publicly made a similar request of China. His chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, said publicly on Thursday that the administration threatened to withhold military aid from Ukraine if it did not help “find” the D.N.C. servers. These attempts to enlist foreign interference in American electoral democracy are an assault not only on our system of government but also on the integrity of the Republican Party. Republicans need to emulate the moral clarity of Margaret Chase Smith and recognize that they have a particular responsibility to condemn the president’s behavior and to reject his tactics.Some have already done so. On Friday, John Kasich, the former Ohio governor, said that Mr. Mulvaney’s comments convinced him that the impeachment inquiry should move forward. Representative Justin Amash of Michigan had already called for impeachment, though he felt it necessary to leave the party as a consequence. There was a time when Republicans like Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa said that soliciting foreign election assistance would be improper. But most congressional Republicans have taken to avoiding such questions as the evidence against Mr. Trump has piled up. Mr. Trump still feels so well-protected by his party that he has just named his own golf resort as the site for the next Group of 7 summit in 2020, a brazen act of self-dealing. Yet Republicans will not be able to postpone a reckoning with Trumpism for much longer. The investigation by House Democrats appears likely to result in a vote for impeachment, despite efforts by the White House to obstruct the inquiry. That will force Senate Republicans to choose. Will they commit themselves and their party wholly to Mr. Trump, embracing even his most anti-democratic actions, or will they take the first step toward separating themselves from him and restoring confidence in the rule of law? Thus far in office, Mr. Trump has acted against the national interest by maintaining his financial interests in his company and using the presidential podium to promote it; obstructed legitimate investigations into his conduct by the special counsel, Robert Mueller, and Congress; attacked the free press; given encouragement to white nationalists; established a de facto religious test for immigrants; undermined foreign alliances and emboldened American rivals; demanded personal loyalty from subordinates sworn to do their duty to the Constitution; and sent his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, around the world to conduct what could most charitably be described as shadow foreign policy with Mr. Trump’s personal benefit as its lodestar. Some Republicans have clearly believed that they could control the president by staying close to him and talking him out of his worst ideas. Ask Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina — who has spent the last two years prostrating himself before Mr. Trump in the hope of achieving his political goals, including protecting the Kurds — how that worked out. Mr. Graham isn’t alone, of course; there is a long list of politicians who have debased themselves to please Mr. Trump, only to be abandoned by him like a sack of rotten fruit in the end. That’s the way of all autocrats; they eventually turn on everyone save perhaps their own relatives, because no one can live up to their demands for fealty.The Constitution’s framers envisioned America’s political leaders as bound by a devotion to country above all else. That’s why all elected officials take an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. By protecting Donald Trump at all costs from all consequences, the Republicans risk violating that sacred oath. Senator Smith’s question once again hangs over the Republican Party: Surely they are not so desperate for short-term victory as to tolerate this behavior? We’ll soon find out. |
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Carioca
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Excellent piece, sad part about it all is most voters knew his type before they voted.
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Most people knew he was nuts and a tv conman, but I think many who didn't know much about his mob past have been very surprised at the level of criminality and contempt for the constitution and while many mainstream conservatives have jumped off, some people are slow catching on. This last couple of weeks where he has had no control of the narrative(his strong point) he has been spiraling. You do get a feeling of Trump dysfunction fatigue setting in.
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maccamax
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hahahahaha... He's only the POTUS .
Someone liked him . |
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We were smarter here maxie. We knew who he was. Trump's bid for Sydney casino 30 years ago rejected due to 'mafia connections’
This article is more than 2 years old A bid by Donald Trump to build Sydney’s first casino was rejected 30 years ago after police expressed concerns about his links to the mafia. News Corp revealed on Wednesday morning minutes of the New South Wales cabinet that show police had warned the state government against approving a 1986-87 bid by a Trump consortium to build and operate a casino in Darling Harbour. Trump, in partnership with the Queensland construction company Kern, was one of four groups vying for the lucrative project. The NSW government dumped it from the process on 5 May 1987, along with two other bidders. more... Cabinet documents reveal police warned NSW government about approving a 1986-87 plan to build city’s first casino in Darling Harbour |
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Bye bye Bibi. Netanyahu fails again to form new Israeli government, opening door for political rivalBy Oren Liebermann and Andrew Carey, CNN Updated 2031 GMT (0431 HKT) October 21, 2019Jerusalem (CNN)For the second time this year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has failed to form a government, opening the door for his main rival Benny Gantz to do so. In a video statement, explaining why he was returning the formal right to form a ruling coalition
to President Reuven Rivlin, Netanyahu said Monday evening: "In the
course of recent weeks, I made every effort in order to bring Benny
Gantz to the negotiating table, every effort in order to establish a
wide national government, every effort to prevent additional elections.
Unfortunately, time after time he simply refused." Rivlin
intends to give the mandate to Blue and White Party leader Gantz,
according to a statement from his office, but only after parliamentary
factions have had the opportunity to inform him if they have updated
their position on their choice to form the next government. In a statement, Gantz signaled he was ready to pick up the mandate and attempt to get a breakthrough. "The time of spin is over, and it is now time for action. Blue and Wh... |
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Justin Trudeau has been returned for another 4 years.
Melania will be pleased.
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Whale
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Doc doesn't care , has the mafia infiltrated the falafel van trade ?
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Dr E
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Canada has it's first Black PM!
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In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT!
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