As we sat for the interview, the former president’s press secretary presented us copies of a bound volume: 1,000 Accomplishments of President Donald J. Trump: Highlights of the First Term.
Imagine if McConnell actually followed through, what a difference this year would make.
“I tried to convince Mitch McConnell to get rid of the filibuster, to terminate it, so that we would get everything, and he was a knucklehead and he didn’t do it,”
Trump said he wished he had had partners in Congress like Meade Esposito, who was the head of the Dem Party machine in Brooklyn from the late 60s to the early 80s. Esposito, who was close to Trump and his late father, Fred Trump, was known for his patronage and commanded respect.
The party boss gained a fearsome reputation for his intimidation tactics and connections to organized crime. Amid an investigation of his work, Esposito retired in 1983; he was convicted of offering a gratuity and interstate travel charges in 1987 nytimes.com/1987/09/23/nyr…
"Are you talking about disinformation or are you talking about lies? There is a more beautiful word called disinformation”
dis·in·for·ma·tion
false info deliberately and often covertly spread (as by the planting of rumors) in order to influence public opinion or obscure the trut
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It is undeniably fitting that this account should turn on the cliché of the scarlet letter. For somehow Starr’s role as the nation’s parson always comes back around to sex.
but most notably was his 1998 pursuit of Bill Clinton over his sexual relationship with a White House intern, which was bookended by his recent impeachment foray, this time defending an adulterous President, who lies about so much more sin than that. texastribune.org/2020/01/17/ken…
DOJ complaint alleges that, before the 2020 general election the Oneida CBE failed to process approximately 2,400 timely-submitted voter registration apps completed through state DMV offices and failed to ensure justice.gov/usao-ndny/pr/j…
that voter reg applicants received timely notice of the disposition of their applications, in violation of Section 8 of the NVRA. The complaint also alleges that the State violated Section 302 of the Help America Vote Act by summarily rejecting nearly 1.8K provisional ballots
cast by Oneida County voters in the 2020 election w/o verifying the voters’ eligibility and without counting those provisional ballots cast by eligible voters.
The parties’ consent decree, which must still be approved by the court, provides that the Oneida CBE will dev and
More than a third of Black-owned land in the South is passed down informally, rather than through deeds and wills. It’s a custom that dates to the Jim Crow era, when Black people were excluded from the Southern legal system. washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/07…
Without formal deeds, families are cut off from federal loans and grants, including from FEMA, which requires that disaster survivors prove they own their property before they can get help rebuilding.
Nationally, FEMA denies requests for help from about 2 percent of applicants for disaster aid because of title issues. But in parts of the Deep South, FEMA has rejected up to a quarter of applicants because they can’t document ownership
The incident began when about 8 men fled into the woods from a traffic stop on Rte 128 in MA after 1a.m. They were "heavily armed" with handguns and rifles and "claiming to be from a group that does not recognize our laws,"
The men identified themselves as being part of a group known as Rise of the Moors. The group's website describes them as "Moorish Americans dedicated to educating new Moors and influencing our Elders."
Moorish sovereign cit mvmt is a collection of ind orgs and inds that emerged in the early '90s as an offshoot of the antigov sovereign cit mvmt which believes that ind cits hold sovereignty over, and are independent of, the authority of governments
The IRS says Roger Stone owes $2 million in unpaid taxes. And while the DOJ is taking Stone to court in a civil suit with no criminal charges, at the center of its case is a curious transaction: a $400,000 mortgage loan for a condo thedailybeast.com/inside-broke-r…
The gov’s complaint lays out a complicated scheme. It describes the condo purchase as an overt act of fraud, and claims a right to seize the property.
The lender was some guy who said he had been misled and likely wouldn’t have granted the loan if he had known the full picture
First, the private mortgage lender said he didn’t know at the time that he was lending money to Roger Stone. He also said he isn’t a Stone associate, disagrees with his politics, and claimed he likely would have rejected the deal had he been aware Stone was involved.
From March 2005 - June 2021 defrauded U.S. IRS, NYS Dept. of Taxation and Finance, NYC Dept. of Finance
Another company, Trump Payroll Corp also implicated
Paychecks for Trump, Eric, Junior and Ivanka will all be scrutinized as well as their cash bonuses and perks.
Weisselberg was the biggest beneficiary, as he received $1.76M in indirect employee compensation. He concealed the comp from tax preparers and intentionally omitted it from his tax returns, Federal, State and City.