1ºBy the end of the day, Trump will release a statement saying some version of this -- I barely knew our CFO despite the fact that he worked at the company with my father before I took over and then worked me for many years; the financial dealings of the Trump Organization had nothing at all to do with me personally even though that had been my family's business for decades; I never even looked at what actual business my personal company was undertaking; everyone is out to get me .... So either Trump is, as some have suggested, a truly incompetent businessman who had zero knowledge of his own company, or he is, as others have suggested, lying through his teeth. At some point, the head of a business has to take responsibility for what takes place under their leadership, something Trump has never understood or accepted. This might be the biggest nail in the coffin of his potential political career going forward.
2ºAmericans are sick of the blatant political/situational hypocrisy, and double standards!
Remember The Clinton Foundation?
I’m sick of the IRS’s intentional, targeted attacks against Republicans, and Conservatives!
Democrats do this crap all the time, and they always get that, Get out of Jail Free Card!
The pair of whistleblowers were
brought before the House Oversight Committee in December of that year. During their testimony, Moynihan and Doyle said they carried out an extensive forensic investigation based on public records, tax filings, and private interviews with Clinton Foundation officials. The investigators said Clinton Foundation CFO Andrew Kessel admitted to them in a taped conversation that Bill Clinton used the foundation’s bank accounts for personal expenses.
Moynihan and Doyle also said they viewed foundation emails from 2002 discussing deals with the government of Mozambique. Moynihan said this was evidence that the Clinton Foundation was working on behalf of foreign governments even though the foundation’s stated mission in IRS filings at the time was to build Bill Clinton’s presidential library.
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3ºPresident Trump felt extremely good when he was elected U.S. President back in 2016 since he got an erection from it due to the pleasure of it. Currently President Trump has recently been indicted on money laundering and tax evasion and is under severe stress at the moment with an upset stomach and needs to sit on the commode relieving himself. Back in 2016 immediately after hearing the results that he won the general election he began to come and make a huge mess inside the White House at the Oval Office all over his desk and the chair he was sitting in and was very proud of what he accomplished. But right now he's ashamed of the trouble he's in and wants to escape the misery he's dealing with.
4º All you liberal fools believing Dems fairy tales. All they did was string you along. Breaking News: Trump lawyer: Manhattan DA won't charge former president. The DA will NOT charge Trump with anything. I thought they said Trump was a criminal. Lol. What the BS DA will do is push BS charges against some of the Trump executives for not paying taxes on fringe benefits. Thing is this is just more BS. It is a gray area with the IRS about those fringe benefits. So this is just MORE harassment. All you liberal fools believing Dems fairy tales. And they are STILL stringing you along. https://www.politico.com/...t-charge-496768
5ºI received from a website and I'm not a lawyer or expert on Taxes
Requirements for Tax Evasion
When determining if the act of failure to pay was intentional, a variety of factors are considered. Most commonly, a taxpayer’s financial situation will be examined in an effort to confirm if the nonpayment was the result of committing fraud or of the concealment of reportable income.
A failure to pay may be judged fraudulent in cases where a taxpayer made efforts to conceal assets by associating them with a person other than themselves. This can include reporting income under a false name and Social Security number (SSN), which can also constitute identity theft. A person may be judged as concealing income for failure to report work that did not follow traditional payment recording methods. This can include acceptance of a cash payment for goods or services rendered without reporting them properly to the IRS during a tax filing.
In most cases of corporate tax evasion listed on the IRS website, the tax liability was underrepresented. Many business owners undervalued the sums of their receipts to the agency, an act which was deemed to be the purposeful evasion of tax. These were documented to be sources of income, revenue, and profits that were not accurately reported.
Tax Evasion vs. Tax Avoidance
While tax evasion requires the use of illegal methods to avoid paying proper taxes, tax avoidance uses legal means to lower the obligations of a taxpayer. This can include efforts such as charitable giving to an approved entity or the investment of income into a tax deferred mechanism, such as an individual retirement account (IRA). In the case of an IRA, taxes on the invested funds are not paid until the funds, and any applicable interest payments, have been withdrawn.
6ºHistorians are already forming a consensus over where Donald Trump ranks among U.S. presidents and it’s not at the bottom of the list.
But, it’s pretty close.
The C-SPAN survey of historians placed Trump at 41st out of 44, behind only three 19th-century presidents: Franklin Pierce (1853-57), Andrew Johnson (1865-69) and James Buchanan (1857-61). Trump even finished behind William Henry Harrison, who died of pneumonia just 32 days into his presidency.
C-SPAN previously conducted the survey in 2000, 2009 and 2017, with Abraham Lincoln ranking first in all of them. George Washington has finished second and Franklin D. Roosevelt third in each of the last three surveys. In 2000, however, Roosevelt took second and Washington third. Theodore Roosevelt has finished fourth in each survey.
C-SPAN said 142 historians and “professional observers of the presidency” participated in the survey ― a 50 percent increase since 2017 ― “reflecting new diversity in race, gender, age and philosophy.”
Rather than simply rank each president, the historians were asked to rate each one in 10 different leadership characteristics. Those ratings were then used to form a score for each.
Ronald Reagan scored the highest of presidents from the past half-century at 8th, with Barack Obama in 9th place. Bill Clinton finished in 19th place, George H.W. Bush at 21st, Jimmy Carter at 26th, Gerald Ford at 28th, George W. Bush at 29th and Richard M. Nixon at 31st.
“This year, people compared which is worse: Watergate or the Trump impeachment?” presidential historian Douglas Brinkley of Rice University said in a news release. “The word ‘impeachment’ probably cost Nixon a few spots downward this year, and maybe Clinton, too.”
The biggest change over the years? Ulysses S. Grant, who has moved up to 20th after debuting at #33 in the 2000 survey.
“Grant is having his Hamilton moment,” Brinkley was quoted as saying.
7ºSo much for all the breathless reporting that Donald Trump would be criminally charged and wearing an orange jumpsuit,
peering behind steel bars. Reporters who relied on a notorious liar like Michael Cohen and his prediction of Trump's
imprisonment now look like the chumps that they are…
It was always a fool's errand to try to go after somebody like Trump for tax and real estate fraud because HE doesn't fill out
h
is taxes, he doesn't fill out loan applications. He relies on the expertise, the counsel and advice of a team of professionals
like lawyers and CPAs and tax accountants and real estate experts. It's exceedingly difficult for the government to prove the
i
ntent necessary for fraud if you are relying on the expertise of professionals.
So here we have years of an intrusive investigation of Donald Trump. And all you've got, to use Fischett’s term, is "pretty
small stuff." So the lesson is twofold. One, if you rely on a notorious con artist, crook and liar like Michael Cohen, you're a
fool. And if you rely on the media for truth and accuracy about Donald Trump, you're twice the fool.
~ Gregg Jarrett (former defense attorney, adjunct law professor, author and Fox News legal analyst when speaking to Sean
Hannity)
8ºWASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) - U.S. authorities have made more than 1 million arrests of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border so far in fiscal year 2021, according to preliminary figures shared with Reuters, a tally that underscores the immigration challenges facing President Joe Biden.
At the current pace, the total border arrests for the fiscal year, which ends on Sept. 30, would be the highest since 2000, when nearly 1.7 million migrants were apprehended by U.S. authorities.
Biden, a Democrat who took office five months ago, has reversed many of the hardline immigration policies put in place by his Republican predecessor, former President Donald Trump.
Republicans blame Biden's policies for the upsurge in illegal border crossings in recent months, but migration experts say poverty, violence and food insecurity are factors driving migrants to leave Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
U.S. Border Patrol made 172,000 migrant arrests at the southwestern border in May, on par with 20-year highs from March and April. Similar figures are expected in June.
The current demographics of migrants arriving at the border, including many from Central America and other countries, take longer to process than the mostly Mexican men who arrived at the border in 2000, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity.
Reporting by Ted Hesson, editing by Ross Colvin
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