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Jon Skinner
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"I don't believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance". - Thomas Carlisle -
California, USA Katılım Ekim 2016
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@AlterNet They all think they are going to get pardons as Trump has weaponized pardons too.
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Legel expert warns Trump aides: Nixon walked — but 30 accomplices went to jail alternet.org/trump-justice-…
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@NBCNews What about the forgotten “board of peace” $1.8 billion scam also stolen from the American people?
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Sen. Dick Durbin urges the DOJ to reconsider its openness to providing money from the Trump administration’s new $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund to Jan. 6 rioters who attacked police defending the Capitol. nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
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@JoyceWhiteVance Wow… there actually MAYBE, just MAYBE a line for GOP Congress to draw when the Orange Turd through his complicit AG Personal atty. decides just to rob the treasury.
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2/ Continued: "The Supreme Court has already given Trump immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts, but paying taxes, personal business transactions, and a whole host of other activities fall outside of the scope of that protection."
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1/ I wrote about Trump's slush fund: "The optics of this are so bad that it’s hard to believe Trump would expose himself to their consequences unless he really needed this deal. The protection it offers must be essential in some way we are as yet unaware of." Now, we're learning about the reasons. joycevance.substack.com/p/almost-as-go…
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I said on @MSNOW just now:
What *is* the Trump slush fund?
It's not an appropriation: Congress did not vote.
It's not a settlement: There was no valid litigation because (as the judge said) Trump was suing himself.
On what basis is this money leaving the Treasury?
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@SenWhitehouse @urbanite518 Blanche and any DOJ enablers will be facing jail time for their complicity.
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Who else signed the crooked Trump Family Tax Amnesty? Only Trump’s stooge Blanche? Representing who? Who represented Trumps in the amnesty scam? Inquiring minds want to know.
wsj.com/politics/polic…
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@kylegriffin1 @CathyJoeGPT There is no “settlement” as there was no case. This was just stealing taxpayer money. He shouldn’t be impeached, he should be arrested.
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BREAKING: Sen. Ed Markey calls for Trump's impeachment.
Ed Markey@SenMarkey
Trump’s “weaponization fund” and ban on future IRS audits is his latest impeachable offense: using the machinery of government and billions in taxpayer dollars to reward allies, pay off insurrectionists, and shield himself, his family, and associates from accountability. This is exactly the kind of corruption and abuse of public trust the Framers feared most. Impeach now.
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The tax immunity that Trump's administration just corruptly handed Trump "frees the president from a potential adverse ruling that could have cost him more than $100 million, according to an analysis of his tax returns in 2020." trib.al/EAMeLox
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“In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world’s richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes. He achieved the feat again in 2011. In 2018, Tesla founder Elon Musk, the second-richest person in the world, also paid no federal income taxes.
Michael Bloomberg managed to do the same in recent years. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn did it twice. George Soros paid no federal income tax three years in a row.
ProPublica has obtained a vast trove of Internal Revenue Service data on the tax returns of thousands of the nation’s wealthiest people, covering more than 15 years. The data provides an unprecedented look inside the financial lives of America’s titans, including Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg. It shows not just their income and taxes, but also their investments, stock trades, gambling winnings and even the results of audits.”
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Let’s try a higher multiple.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Bezos on CNBC: "You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens. I promise you."
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Jeff Bezos on NYC:
"If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, your packages would take six weeks to arrive, and we'd have to charge you a $100 delivery fee."
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Jon Skinner retweetledi
Effective tax rate paid by Jeff Bezos from 2014 to 2018: 0.98%
Effective 2025 federal tax rate paid by Amazon: 1.4%
Typical tax rate paid by the average American: 14.5%
Just thought I should point that out.
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@mike_hamm @SaraEisen Exactly . From Bezos and the rest of the Epstein class things are going great!! Eff everyone else…
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@SaraEisen Trump's signature initiatives--tariffs, deportations, Iran war, politicizing the DOJ, dismantling our institutions--have all been egregiously harmful.
But Trump has been good to Bezos regarding AI and its other business interests
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“I think he is a more mature, disciplined version of himself in the first term” Jeff Bezos on President Trump right now. “Trump has a lot of good ideas and has gotten a lot right and you have to give credit where credit is due”
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Trump ignored warnings from defense experts — and is now in way over his head alternet.org/trump-iran-rob…
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@KenRoth He was getting “audited” back in 2016 as to why he couldn’t disclose them… what kind of audit lasts 11 years?
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Total corruption: Trump's Justice Department has granted Trump, his family and businesses immunity from ongoing inquiries into their taxes, a potentially lucrative arrangement that could shield the president from significant financial liability. trib.al/i1TZhMc
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@newrepublic @robfardon This is the face that will pay for Trump’s crimes. These people never learn.
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The acting attorney general appears to be lying under oath to Congress. trib.al/JV1hdss
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"It's sort of like the Grand Canyon in terms of the scope and size and the majesty of it."
Andrew Egger says Trump’s $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund is so absurdly corrupt that even the DOJ’s own cheat sheet is enough to make your eyes pop out.
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