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And he did encourage people in North Carolina to vote twice.

 

Didn't the FCC fine every CBS (?) affiliate in the Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction" deal? I would love for the FCC to issue hefty fines to every affiliate that carries Rush for the president's fuck-up. And did I read that Trump got two hours without interruption, so no commercials at that time, either? I'm not anti small-town/rural radio, but Rush and his ilk have been a cancer on our politics since the plug was pulled on the Fairness Doctrine in 1987. (My unscientific theory is that that right-wing talk radio is a big reason why farmers abandoned the Dems and turned more and more red over the last 30+ years. The same stations broadcasting their farm reports started broadcasting Rush. He entertained them at first and eventually made them hate everything.)

 

If all else fails, bark about Hillary's emails.

 

Never mind that the entire trump administration has used private email servers to conduct clandestine business with foreign governments. His whore wife uses one, how whore daughter uses one, the cucky Son in law. Jr uses one.

 

Trump is doing a rally from a White House balcony? He’s really leaning in to the Covita thing.

 

More crimes and misdemeanors.

Donald Trump is in far more legal peril than most people understand. Just as his surprising victory over Hillary Clinton has made us unduly optimistic about his prospects of pulling out another comeback over Joe Biden, his ability to escape the Mueller investigation and impeachment has created an aura of impunity. But Trump does not have a magic power that enables him to stymie any investigation. The probes he is facing down right now are serious.

How serious? This afternoon alone, the New York Times and Washington Post both have reported stories revealing two apparently new financial crimes by Trump. These are in addition to the already-known crimes.

The Times story, mining its acquisition of the president’s tax returns, focuses on a $21 million payment he received during the 2016 campaign. The funds came at a time when Trump was draining his savings to self-fund his campaign and seemed to be in need of money. The $21 million came from “Trump Las Vegas Sales and Marketing,” a firm co-owned by Trump and his friend and political support Phil Ruffin, and which had “had little previous income, no clear business purpose and no employees.”

The reporters do not have quite enough information from the tax returns to prove a crime. But the circumstances seem difficult to explain legally. “Unless the payments were for actual business expenses,” tax lawyer Daniel Shaviro tells the Times, “claiming a tax deduction for them would be illegal.” And if the money was used to fund Trump’s campaign, which seems likely based on the timing, it would also constitute an illegal campaign donation. Trevor Potter, former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, believes the payments show evidence of Trump accepting an illegal campaign donation.

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The Post account is even worse. It covers a conservation easement Trump claimed on his Seven Springs estate north of New York City. Trump’s purchase of the property has already been reported as a potentially fraudulent tax deduction. He wrote off its cost as a business expense, but has reportedly used it as a vacation home, and the Trump Organization’s own website describes it as “a retreat for the Trump family.”

The new revelation concerns another tax deduction involving the property. Trump claimed a $21 million tax break for leaving the woodland surrounding the mansion undeveloped. The way a conservation easement works is that a person gives up the right to build something in order to preserve its natural beauty, and then gets to treat the value of the forfeited building as a charitable donation, which comes off their taxes.

Conservation easements are rife with fraud, and this one appears especially shady. Trump told the IRS he surrendered the chance to build 24 mansions on the land. But the Post reports in detail that building anything on that property was impossible, due largely to objections by neighbors. Which is to say, he was paid by the government not to build mansions that he never could have built.

The Seven Springs tax deduction is already the subject of an investigation by New York State attorney general Letitia James.​

The Press Found Two More Apparent Trump Financial Crimes Today

 

A strategically placed jug of Clorox should do the trick.

 

Those who attend cannot complain about China if and when they get the Trumpist Flu. I noticed where the klan sent out hundreds of invites. I'm wondering if they are casting an unusually wide net because they want a full South Lawn.

 

Goin' great!

 

Resign. Right now.

I suspect AG Nessel will very quickly comb the state statutes to see if there's anything about public officials making statements in support of civil insurrection.

 

Anyone in radio or TV: Trump's appearance with Rush is not covered by equal time? Not that Biden would do it, of course.

 

Anybody who shows up to that event is an idiot. Their decision is on them.