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brandymac27

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You know he's going to veto it because it included a ban on shell companies, something he and his family have been using for years, and doesn't want that to go away.  It's all about him.  He couldn't care less about the defense budget otherwise.  After all the military to him are just "suckers and losers."

 

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Included in this year’s measure is a provision that would “require millions of business entities to reveal their owners to the federal government in an attempt to deter the use of anonymous shell companies by criminals evading anti-money laundering rules,” a hard-fought victory for what one transparency advocate called one of the most “remarkable coalitions of odd bedfellows that Washington, D.C., has ever seen.”

 

— The Corporate Transparency Act has won support from both sides of the aisle — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Sen. Mark Warner worked on it, our Zach Warmbrodt reported — as well as wide range of corners from the Chamber of Commerce and states’ secretaries of state, which previously opposed the measure, to human rights groups, national security and law enforcement groups, anti-corruption groups, labor unions and the powerful Banking Policy Institute and National Association of Realtors. Critics have pointed to shell companies as a means for the ultra-rich to hide their wealth and evade taxes, and for drug traffickers, terrorists and foreign adversaries to operate freely.

 

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There's this:

 

Jared Kushner approved the creation of a shell company that spent almost half of the Trump campaign's $1.26 billion war chest, source says

 

and this:

 

What Trump's disclosure of his 500 LLCs can and can't tell us

 

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More than half of the LLCs that Trump reported to the Federal Election Commission were also registered in Delaware, which doesn't require LLCs to publish any financial information or disclose the owner's identity, as The Guardian reported in 2016. Registering an LLC in Delaware isn't itself unusual; many Fortune 500 companies do so.

 

A 2015 report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a non-profit, non-partisan, tax policy think tank, said Delaware’s tax code made it “a magnet for people looking to create anonymous shell companies, which individuals and corporations can use to evade an inestimable amount in federal and foreign taxes.”

 

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Bunch of numbnuts MAGAs storming a legislature in Oregon

 

 

lol @ MAGAs...

 

Police tear gas unarmed BLM protesters who were simply standing there: "AWESOME! GET THEM! **** BLM! BLUE LIVES MATTER! SUPPORT THE POLICE!!!"

 

Police tear gas armed Trump supporters who literally stormed a state legislature building: "ERMAHGERD! **** THE POLICE! FASCISTS! TYRRANY! ****ING PIGS!!!"

 

 

ADD: I will, however, give them a couple of style points for having some people carrying literal pitchforks

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The Pardon-palooza festival has kicked off. If I heard correctly, that jackass congressman Duncan Hunter who used Wounded Warrior money to finance multiple personal vacations is on the list? He was scheduled to report to prison in January. Now he won't spend a day in jail.

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What is Trump hiding or fearing, post 1/20?   He's doing everything to overturn the election but why?   Does he really think he will be convicted? Especially, with 74 million maga nuts who voted for him.  It's going to be impossible to find a jury that will convict him.   Will his master Vlad; release the dirt he has on him?   Will Vlad decide he's no longer useful  and poison Trump?   There's something that Donald is fearing; post 1/20.

 

I can see him, having a complete mental breakdown next year.

 

 

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10 hours ago, Rdskns2000 said:

What is Trump hiding or fearing, post 1/20?   He's doing everything to overturn the election but why?   Does he really think he will be convicted? Especially, with 74 million maga nuts who voted for him.  It's going to be impossible to find a jury that will convict him.   Will his master Vlad; release the dirt he has on him?   Will Vlad decide he's no longer useful  and poison Trump?   There's something that Donald is fearing; post 1/20.

 

I can see him, having a complete mental breakdown next year.

 

 

 

Personally, I think it's more about his pathology than it is about his legal troubles. He knows he can gum up the legal/court system for years with appeals and legal maneuvers. But he psychologically cannot deal with being a "loser", especially on such a monumentally large stage. So he's doing everything possible to convince himself that he actually won. I don't think he really cares about whether it's likely to actually work and overturn the election (as we all know he's completely uninterested in the job itself). The important bit is that, at the end of the day, in his own mind he's still the winner.

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38 minutes ago, mistertim said:

 

Personally, I think it's more about his pathology than it is about his legal troubles. He knows he can gum up the legal/court system for years with appeals and legal maneuvers. But he psychologically cannot deal with being a "loser", especially on such a monumentally large stage. So he's doing everything possible to convince himself that he actually won. I don't think he really cares about whether it's likely to actually work and overturn the election (as we all know he's completely uninterested in the job itself). The important bit is that, at the end of the day, in his own mind he's still the winner.

 

Theme song for Trump's 2024 run:

 

 

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The Dumbest Moments of the Trump Presidency

 

For five years, we kept a Google Doc of the most deeply idiotic episodes of this monumentally stupid era. Now it’s time to share our work with the world.
 

“His idiot doctor”
Dec. 14, 2015: In December 2015, amid questions about what CNN described as Trump’s “self-avowed lack of an exercise routine and his indulging diet,” his campaign releases a statement from a doctor that purports to establish his physical bona fides. Despite Trump’s previous promise to release “a full medical report,” Dr. Harold Bornstein simply attests in a short letter that Trump’s lab work is “astonishingly excellent,” that his “physical strength” is “extraordinary,” and that Bornstein believes, “unequivocally,” that the candidate would be “the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.” Bornstein, who looks like his picture goes next to the entry for “quack doctor” in the Big Book of Sitcom Character Tropes, later tells CNN that Trump dictated the letter. —BML

 

“George Papadopoulos listing a Model U.N. thing he may not even have actually done on his résumé”
March 21, 2016: With its candidate taking heat for having almost no familiarity with any subject related to the job of governing the United States, the Trump campaign releases a list of its alleged “foreign policy advisers,” including an individual named George Papadopoulos, to the Washington Post. The Post immediately notices that the top item in the “Honors and Awards” section of Papadopoulos’ LinkedIn page is a claim to have participated in a 2012 Model United Nations event in Geneva, i.e., a conference for college students. In 2017, after Papadopoulos is convicted of lying to federal agents investigating the Trump campaign’s connections to Russia, the Post follows up and finds out that the organizers of the Geneva event have no record of Papadopoulos’ participation. —BML

 

“The British airplane sexual assault witness guy”
Oct. 14, 2016: Shortly after the publication of the Access Hollywood tape, the New York Times reports that a woman named Jessica Leeds says Trump groped her on an airplane in approximately 1980. The Trump campaign subsequently arranges for the New York Post to interview a British man named Anthony Gilberthorpe, who would have been about 18 at the time of the alleged assault. Gilberthorpe—who, in the years after this flight, said he went “trawling” the streets of Blackpool to hire underage boys for sex acts with Tory politicians—says he remembers being seated across the aisle from Trump and Leeds and that he recognizes Leeds in the news because he has a “photographic memory.” He claims to recall specifically that Trump did not do anything inappropriate to Leeds and says moreover that she was flirting with Trump and told fellow passengers, when Trump went to the bathroom, that she “wanted to marry him.” —BML

 

“Michigan Man of the Year”
Nov. 7, 2016: At a speech in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Trump says that he was once named “Michigan Man of the Year,” a claim he goes on to repeat numerous times throughout his presidency. In 2019, CNN’s Daniel Dale reports that Trump may be referring to an invitation he received to give a speech in Michigan at something called the “Oakland County Lincoln Day Dinner” in 2013. No award was presented at the dinner. —BML

 

“Former professional golfer Bernhard Langer voter fraud”
Jan. 25, 2017: During a meeting with lawmakers, the newly inaugurated president says that German professional golfer Bernhard Langer was prevented from voting in 2016 because there was a long line of suspicious Latin American individuals ahead of him. Follow-up reporting reveals that Langer is not an American citizen and did not attempt to vote in the election at all; according to Langer, he heard a similar story from a friend and relayed it to someone who then told it to “a person with ties to the White House,” which would mean that Trump had been told the (obviously false) anecdote fifth-hand.  —BML

 

“Frederick Douglass getting recognized”
Feb. 1, 2017: At remarks celebrating Black History Month, Trump ad-libs that “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more, I notice.” The remark, and its present tense phrasing regarding a figure who died in 1895, has never been explained. —HG

 

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