45th President of the United States, Donald Trump. (Vol 6)
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p1stonhead said:
Its what his base wants to hear. He doesn't give a sh*t what he says, as long as they cheer his name. Just amazes me he has the audacity to claim NYT, CNN, MSNBC are fake news.
The number of companies paying zero tax doubled under trump, with his first year of tax reform...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/us/politics/dem...
For decades, profitable companies have been able to avoid corporate taxes. But the list of those paying zero roughly doubled last year as a result of provisions in President Trump’s 2017 tax bill that expanded corporate tax breaks and reduced the tax rate on corporate income.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/us/politics/dem...
For decades, profitable companies have been able to avoid corporate taxes. But the list of those paying zero roughly doubled last year as a result of provisions in President Trump’s 2017 tax bill that expanded corporate tax breaks and reduced the tax rate on corporate income.
Byker28i said:
The number of companies paying zero tax doubled under trump, with his first year of tax reform...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/us/politics/dem...
For decades, profitable companies have been able to avoid corporate taxes. But the list of those paying zero roughly doubled last year as a result of provisions in President Trump’s 2017 tax bill that expanded corporate tax breaks and reduced the tax rate on corporate income.
Another vote winner.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/us/politics/dem...
For decades, profitable companies have been able to avoid corporate taxes. But the list of those paying zero roughly doubled last year as a result of provisions in President Trump’s 2017 tax bill that expanded corporate tax breaks and reduced the tax rate on corporate income.
More attempt at obstruction? trump, his three eldest children and the Trump Org. have filed a federal lawsuit against Deutsche Bank and Capital One, in a bid to prevent the banks from responding to congressional subpoenas.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/us/politics/tru...
Court documents show that Deutsche Bank was preparing to hand over reams of information about trump's finances by May 6. Here's the gist of what was subpoenaed, per Trump legal filing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/us/politics/tru...
Court documents show that Deutsche Bank was preparing to hand over reams of information about trump's finances by May 6. Here's the gist of what was subpoenaed, per Trump legal filing.
Edited by Byker28i on Tuesday 30th April 06:18
silentbrown said:
The Wall Street Journal reports Rosenstein has submitted his resignation letter, which apparently includes this line: "I am grateful to you for the opportunity to serve; for the courtesy and humor you often display in our personal conversations."One could make a reasonable assumption that if a person was upset by the Lynch-Clinton tarmac meeting in 2016, that same person would at least want to know more about these "personal conversations" Rosenstein says he's been having with the president.
Rosensteins resignation letter, signing off with a trump slogan
Edited by Byker28i on Tuesday 30th April 06:22
How is Wohl not in jail yet?
Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman appear to be behind a campaign to get young gay men to accuse Mayor Pete of sexually assaulting them.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/far-right-smear-merc...
Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman appear to be behind a campaign to get young gay men to accuse Mayor Pete of sexually assaulting them.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/far-right-smear-merc...
So many questions now about Rosenstein and Barr. Remember the Mueller report said that Donald Trump Jr. committed a crime, he violated the computer fraud and abuse act. It appears that he wasn't charged only because of prosecutorial discretion, one of the sections that had redactions.
silentbrown said:
His resignation letter is quite “positive” towards Trump even though Trump has basically been using him as a punchbag for the last 2 years (if you take what’s reported in the media at face value).Countdown said:
silentbrown said:
His resignation letter is quite “positive” towards Trump even though Trump has basically been using him as a punchbag for the last 2 years (if you take what’s reported in the media at face value).With him retiring, I'd expect him to be summoned and questioned by the House committees into just how much pressure they put on Mueller, was the Mueller report changed or was it as Mueller wrote?
Byker28i said:
More attempt at obstruction? trump, his three eldest children and the Trump Org. have filed a federal lawsuit against Deutsche Bank and Capital One, in a bid to prevent the banks from responding to congressional subpoenas.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/us/politics/tru...
Court documents show that Deutsche Bank was preparing to hand over reams of information about trump's finances by May 6. Here's the gist of what was subpoenaed, per Trump legal filing.
Do you think there's any chance of congress getting the documents before 2020?https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/us/politics/tru...
Court documents show that Deutsche Bank was preparing to hand over reams of information about trump's finances by May 6. Here's the gist of what was subpoenaed, per Trump legal filing.
Edited by Byker28i on Tuesday 30th April 06:18
I suspect there may be quite a few skeletons in this particular cupboard so am quite intrigued to know what's in it.
Byker28i said:
Countdown said:
silentbrown said:
His resignation letter is quite “positive” towards Trump even though Trump has basically been using him as a punchbag for the last 2 years (if you take what’s reported in the media at face value).With him retiring, I'd expect him to be summoned and questioned by the House committees into just how much pressure they put on Mueller, was the Mueller report changed or was it as Mueller wrote?
Not long ago, didn't Rosenstein say he was not retiring or 'going anywhere soon' and this was seemingly to ensure that the Mueller probe continued and couldn't be derailed? That certainly seemed to be the case at the time and from memory was looked upon as a good thing??
That now may well have been a complete misread of the affair and Rosenstein is now one of the baddies?? A Trumpette if you will?
Or are we all a little determined to read everything the way we want to as several posters have mentioned and explained beforehand on this thread?
Adam Schiff: "There is very strong evidence that Erik Prince willingly misled the committee and made false statements to the committee and later today we'll be making a criminal referral to the Justice Department."
House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told the Washington Post on Tuesday that his committee will make a criminal referral for informal Trump campaign adviser Erik Prince to the Justice Department.
The big picture: "The evidence strongly suggests that he misled our committee," Schiff told the Post's Robert Costa. During the 2016 campaign, Prince — the founder of private military company Blackwater and the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos — met with Donald Trump Jr., United Arab Emirates emissary George Nader and Israeli social media manipulation specialist Joel Zamel at Trump Tower. Earlier this month, Schiff said on "Meet the Press" that Prince did not tell the committee about the meeting during his testimony, despite claiming to Al Jazeera's Mehdi Hasan that he had done so.
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Schiff said that whether or not the Justice Department will choose to prosecute Prince remains unclear. The evidence that shows Prince misled the committee may have come in his proffer sessions with special counsel Robert Mueller, which may protect him from charges.
https://www.axios.com/erik-prince-schiff-criminal-...
Schiff added that the committee may bring former Trump adviser Steve Bannon in for further questioning, as he "refused to answer almost all of our questions."
"When we asked whether he was asserting some privilege, he merely said he was not answering questions because the White House told him not to," Schiff said. "The communications between Mr. Prince and Mr. Bannon has apparently fled their devices," he added.
"When we pressed to hold him in contempt, the GOP members of our committee would not go forward."
House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told the Washington Post on Tuesday that his committee will make a criminal referral for informal Trump campaign adviser Erik Prince to the Justice Department.
The big picture: "The evidence strongly suggests that he misled our committee," Schiff told the Post's Robert Costa. During the 2016 campaign, Prince — the founder of private military company Blackwater and the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos — met with Donald Trump Jr., United Arab Emirates emissary George Nader and Israeli social media manipulation specialist Joel Zamel at Trump Tower. Earlier this month, Schiff said on "Meet the Press" that Prince did not tell the committee about the meeting during his testimony, despite claiming to Al Jazeera's Mehdi Hasan that he had done so.
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Schiff said that whether or not the Justice Department will choose to prosecute Prince remains unclear. The evidence that shows Prince misled the committee may have come in his proffer sessions with special counsel Robert Mueller, which may protect him from charges.
https://www.axios.com/erik-prince-schiff-criminal-...
Schiff added that the committee may bring former Trump adviser Steve Bannon in for further questioning, as he "refused to answer almost all of our questions."
"When we asked whether he was asserting some privilege, he merely said he was not answering questions because the White House told him not to," Schiff said. "The communications between Mr. Prince and Mr. Bannon has apparently fled their devices," he added.
"When we pressed to hold him in contempt, the GOP members of our committee would not go forward."
Byker28i said:
Rosenstein was though to be protecting Mueller, but his comments last week and his resignation letter have created questions. Seems strange.
Someone - I think it might have been Comey - recently remarked that Rosenstein is a great survivor, and has carved out his decades-long career in the DOJ in part by knowing which side his bread's buttered on, or words to that effect. With Barr's accession to AG I imagine he had zero intention of doing anything to jeopardise his pension (cf McCabe) and has duly played along like a good boy. See also his part in the Comey firing. Mueller complained to Barr that he had misrepresented his report, in both a letter and a phone call
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-secu...
Mueller expressed his concerns in a letter to A.G. Barr after the attorney general publicized Mueller's principal conclusions. The letter was followed by a phone call during which Mueller pressed Barr to release executive summaries of his report. Mueller wrote complained to Barr that his four-page memo "did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance" of Mueller's work,
Mueller to Barr: "There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Dept. appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations."
"Justice Department officials said Tuesday they were taken aback by the tone of Mueller's letter, and it came as a surprise to them that he had such concerns. Until they received the letter, they believed Mueller was in agreement with them."
A day after Mueller's letter was sent, Barr and Mueller spoke by phone for about 15 minutes. In that call, Mueller said he was concerned that news coverage of the obstruction investigation was misguided and creating public misunderstandings about the office's work.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-secu...
Mueller expressed his concerns in a letter to A.G. Barr after the attorney general publicized Mueller's principal conclusions. The letter was followed by a phone call during which Mueller pressed Barr to release executive summaries of his report. Mueller wrote complained to Barr that his four-page memo "did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance" of Mueller's work,
Mueller to Barr: "There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Dept. appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations."
"Justice Department officials said Tuesday they were taken aback by the tone of Mueller's letter, and it came as a surprise to them that he had such concerns. Until they received the letter, they believed Mueller was in agreement with them."
A day after Mueller's letter was sent, Barr and Mueller spoke by phone for about 15 minutes. In that call, Mueller said he was concerned that news coverage of the obstruction investigation was misguided and creating public misunderstandings about the office's work.
Barr lied to the house. 9th April he said:
CRIST: Reports have emerged recently, general, that members of the Special Counsel's team are frustrated at some level with the limited information included in your March 24th letter ... Do you know what they are referencing with that?
BARR: No, I don't.
10 April
VAN HOLLEN: Did Bob Mueller support your conclusion?
BARR: I don't know whether Bob Mueller supported my conclusion.
Chris Van Hollen
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@ChrisVanHollen
On April 20th, I asked Barr, “Did Bob Mueller support your conclusion?” His answer was, “I don’t know whether Mueller supported my conclusion.”
We now know Mueller stated his concerns on March 27th, and that Barr totally misled me, the Congress, and the public. He must resign.
https://twitter.com/ChrisVanHollen/status/11234117...
CRIST: Reports have emerged recently, general, that members of the Special Counsel's team are frustrated at some level with the limited information included in your March 24th letter ... Do you know what they are referencing with that?
BARR: No, I don't.
10 April
VAN HOLLEN: Did Bob Mueller support your conclusion?
BARR: I don't know whether Bob Mueller supported my conclusion.
Chris Van Hollen
Verified account
@ChrisVanHollen
On April 20th, I asked Barr, “Did Bob Mueller support your conclusion?” His answer was, “I don’t know whether Mueller supported my conclusion.”
We now know Mueller stated his concerns on March 27th, and that Barr totally misled me, the Congress, and the public. He must resign.
https://twitter.com/ChrisVanHollen/status/11234117...
Edited by Byker28i on Wednesday 1st May 06:25
Interesting this is all coming out now just before Barr is called to testify.
Nadler statement: "The Special Counsel's concerns reflect our own. The Attorney General should not have taken it upon himself to describe the Special Counsel's findings in a light more favorable to the President. It was only a matter of time before the facts caught up to him.
Attorney General Barr also should not have withheld this letter from Congress for as long as he has. I have demanded a copy from the Department of Justice. I have asked that it be delivered no later than 10:00 tomorrow morning.
The Department of Justice has ... been reluctant to confirm a date for Special Counsel Mueller to testify. Given this evening's reports, I will press the Department to schedule that hearing without delay."
Nadler statement: "The Special Counsel's concerns reflect our own. The Attorney General should not have taken it upon himself to describe the Special Counsel's findings in a light more favorable to the President. It was only a matter of time before the facts caught up to him.
Attorney General Barr also should not have withheld this letter from Congress for as long as he has. I have demanded a copy from the Department of Justice. I have asked that it be delivered no later than 10:00 tomorrow morning.
The Department of Justice has ... been reluctant to confirm a date for Special Counsel Mueller to testify. Given this evening's reports, I will press the Department to schedule that hearing without delay."
There's now a letter urging the Dept. of Justice Inspector General and Director of the DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility to investigate Barr's conduct while handling Mueller's investigation and report.
https://www.hirono.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2019.0...
https://www.hirono.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2019.0...
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