A bombshell report that Donald Trump was under audit after suspicions he defrauded the IRS of more than $100 million in a double-dipping scheme had social meltdown on meltdown Saturday. The New York Times claimed Trump wrote off his Chicago Tower as “worthless” in a 2008 tax return, reporting losses of up to $651 and taking tax benefits associated with the loss. In 2010, the report states, Trump moved the company that owned the tower into a new partnership — which was still controlled by him — and made another claim. “Because he controlled both companies, it was like moving coins from one pock...
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Donald Trump on Saturday hit back at claims he was considering his primary foe Nikki Haley as his running mate. The former president responded to a report Saturday that she would be in the running for the vice president slot — on the condition that she could work to free him if he's imprisoned and would help pay his legal debts. The claims reportedly came from insiders in his campaign. But later Saturday, he posted on his Truth Social platform, "Nikki Haley is not under consideration for the V.P. slot, but I wish her well!" Haley is seen by many as a big problem for Trump because a large porti...
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An expert in New York law says Donald Trump’s legal team is “dreading” putting key witness Michael Cohen on the stand — and they’re making some “dicey” moves to prepare for it. Janos Marton, who unsuccessfully ran for Manhattan district attorney, says part of the reason the defense called its latest witness was to delay Cohen’s appearance. Prosecutors did not want what they fear could be a disastrous cross-examination to be the last thing jurors saw before having a weekend to mull it, he said. "Overall, the ho-hum end to the testimony this week was probably to avoid the possibility of watching...
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Former President Donald Trump could owe the IRS more than $100 million after claiming dubious tax breaks on his skyscraper in Chicago, a bombshell New York Times report revealed Saturday. The Chicago Tower — Trump’s most recent major construction project and completed in 2009 — has been a huge money loser since building began. But the IRS is accusing Trump of writing off his losses twice — effectively double dipping on the tax benefits gained from the tower’s financial losses. The Times reported that Trump’s tax return in 2008 claimed the building was “worthless” because the debt was too great...
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A law firm that recently took over representation of Donald Trump’s campaign in a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit is embroiled in a new scandal. A top partner in the firm Schulman Bhattacharya, LLC, has been charged by the Department of Justice with using forged documents to gain access to $12.5 million of assets in Somalia. Jeremy Schulman was charged in late 2020 and the case is still proceeding, the Daily Beast reported. Schulman’s firm took over Trump’s discrimination case on Wednesday, replacing a previous law firm which asked to stop representing the former president because of an “irre...
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Wealthy MAGA donors are funneling millions of dollars to the campaign of a Democrat who’s running against former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, a report revealed Saturday. Dunn, who was beaten by rioters on Jan. 6, 2017, is outspoken about the insurrection, giving testimony on Capitol Hill and regularly appearing on MSNBC. He’s running against state Sen. Sarah Elfreth, among others, for the Democratic nomination to represent Maryland’s third district in Congress. The state’s primary is on Tuesday. But his opponent has received a multi-million dollar flood of donations from a surprisin...
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A tightrope walk by Donald Trump’s lawyers let the jury hear damaging evidence because they were afraid it would seem their client had “something to hide” — and that’s seriously dented their case, an expert said. In a Saturday report Paul Golden, a partner at the New York law firm Coffey Modica, said the “balancing act” performed by attorney Susan Necheles gave the jury damaging evidence — and may have blown any hope of an appeal. It even left Judge Juan Merchan bemused. “I don’t understand,” he said. Trump is standing trial on 34 charges of business fraud involving hush money payments alleged...
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Donald Trump’s campaign is considering offering the role of vice president to his most long-standing campaign rival, Axios reported Saturday. Nikki Haley is under “active consideration” for the position, according to unnamed insiders in the former president’s camp. Axios said Trump’s decision hinges on whether Trump believes Haley — whom he called "Birdbrain" throughout the fight to become the GOP's presidential nominee — can help him avoid a prison sentence and cover millions of dollars in debt racked up by legal bills if he loses the election. Haley, however, has publicly stated she won’t en...
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Donald Trump's election campaign has been hit with a sex discrimination lawsuit involving fresh accusations that his lawyers violated federal law by attempting to hide settlement payments to women accusers. The Federal Election Commission must investigate whether the campaign illegally attempted to hide settlement payments by routing them through third parties, according to a complaint filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). The allegations of wrongdoing, first reported by The Daily Beast, stem from former Trump campaign employee AJ Delgado who gave a sworn declar...
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“Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed…” – Jesus (Luke 12:15) “My whole life I’ve been greedy, greedy, greedy. I’ve grabbed all the money I could get. I’m so greedy.” – Donald Trump The Washington Post revealed yesterday that Donald Trump told a group of fossil fuel executives that if they’d give him a billion-dollar bribe, he’d use it to become president and then eliminate all of President Biden’s environmental regulations and prevent any new ones from coming into law. The industry barons had been grumbling that they’d already spent more than $400 million lobbying the Biden a...
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