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Donald Trump, in response to a question during a 2020 presidential debate with Joe Biden, insisted that he closed down his bank account in China before his first campaign. But six years’ worth of Trump’s tax records, released Friday, reveal that wasn’t true.
“[I] had an account open, and I closed it,” Trump said with some irritation to moderator Kristen Welker, NBC White House correspondent, in the final debate of the campaign in October 2020. “I closed it before I even ran for President, let alone became President.”
Rep.-elect Daniel Goldman (D-N.Y.), who served as the Democrats’ lead counsel in the first impeachment inquiry into Trump, noted that the former President had bank accounts in China until 2018, from 2015 to 2017, according to his tax records.
“Generally, you only have bank accounts in a foreign country if you are doing transactions in that country’s currency,” Goldman tweeted Friday. “What business was Trump doing in China while he was President?”
Trump, who had accounts in a number of countries and collected income from more than a dozen foreign nations while in office, paid more in taxes in 2020 to the Chinese government than he did in American federal income tax that year, his returns revealed.
Trump also lied a month earlier to then-Fox News commentator Chris Wallace, who pointedly asked him during the first presidential debate in 2020 if he’d paid only $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017, as The New York Times had reported (which Trump immediately blasted as “fake news”).
Trump angrily responded — twice — that he had paid “millions of dollars.” His returns revealed that indeed he had paid just $750 in federal income taxes in each of those years. Trump and his wife Melania paid no federal income tax in 2020, the last full year he was in office, according to the tax records.
In addition, Trump did not annually donate his $400,000 presidential salary to charity, as he has claimed. He declared no charitable contributions of any kind on his 2020 returns.
Among the early revelations emerging in Trump’s tax records, some of the most troubling involve his financial entanglements abroad while he was President, “highlighting a string of potential conflicts of interest,” Politico noted.
Trump had multiple bank accounts in a number of foreign countries, and collected millions of dollars in income from more than a dozen nations ― including Panama, the Philippines (whose onetime dictator, former President Rodrigo Duterte, he has praised) and the United Arab Emirates during the Trump administration.
While presidents routinely place assets in blind trusts while they’re in office, Trump’s eldest sons continued to openly operate the Trump Organization and forged deals around the world with nations affected by the Trump administration’s policies and expenditures.
Trump’s returns reveal hefty financial losses in the two years before he became President, some of which he carried forward to reduce tax bills.
Trump enjoyed an adjusted gross income of $15.8 million during his first three years in office. He paid $642,000 in federal income tax in 2015, $750 in 2016 and in 2017, just under $1 million in 2018, $133,000 in 2019 and nothing in 2020.
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The truth needs to be set forth plainly and simply, and so let’s get down to brass tacks here. What happened on August 8, 2022, was not tyranny. It was not political persecution. It was not a minor dust up over bureaucratic processes blown out of proportion. It was the criminal justice system operating just like it does with any other private citizen on any other given day ending in a "y."
Trump was the president and commander-in-chief up until noon on January 20, 2021. The moment Joe Biden took the Oath of Office, Trump became just another private citizen in his 70s who vacations in Florida during the winter months to avoid the bitter cold back in his native home in the Northeast. He was no longer shielded by any privileges or protections of the Office of the Presidency at the point beyond physical security protection. He is subject to the laws of the United States just like anyone else.
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Bradley P. Moss, a national security attorney, said that publication of the letter had backfired.
"Does @jsolomonReports realize how bad that letter is for Trump?" he asked.
"Trump not only had classified records at Mar-a-Lago, not only had TS/SCI classified records, he had Special Access Program classified information. Those are our most sensitive secrets. They were sitting in a damn basement."
University of Texas law professor Steve Vladeck described the release "as both a self-inflicted wound and further proof of how the government has been playing by the rules."
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Books I read in 2022
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
LaserWriter II by Tamara Shopsin
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (reread)
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle (reread)
The Moors by Jen Silverman
Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties by Jen Silverman
Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition by Paul Watson
Winter Love by Han Suyin
Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman
In the Eye of the Wild by Nastassja Martin, translated by Sophie R. Lewis
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
An Incomplete List of Names by Michael Torres
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas by Jennifer Raff
Orphic Paris by Henri Cole
The Roommate by Jen Silverman
The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston (reread)
Live Oak, with Moss by Walt Whitman (reread)
The Seaplane on Final Approach by Rebecca Rukeyser
Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas by Harley Rustad
Calamity in Kent by John Rowland
Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
H of H Playbook by Anne Carson
Personal Attention Roleplay by H. Felix Chau Bradley
Em by Kim Thúy
The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
Fen, Bog & Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx
Ajax Penumbra 1969 by Robin Sloan
Bog Bodies Uncovered: Solving Europe’s Ancient Mystery by Miranda Aldhouse-Green
Found Audio by N.J. Campbell
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Trump attorney Alina Habba unleashed a torrent of frustration directed at New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron during a break in Monday's testimony in Trump's $250 million civil fraud case. "'I'm not here to hear what he has to say,'" Habba quoted the judge as having said about Trump's meandering tangents. "Then why exactly am I being paid as an attorney?" she asked. "The answer is very clear," Habba added. "Because [NY Attorney General Letitia James] wants to stand right here like she did this morning and call my client a liar." Habba continued: "And if we don't stop corruption in courtrooms where attorneys are gagged, where attorneys are not allowed to say what they need to say to protect their clients' interests, it doesn't matter what your politics are. But I was told to sit down today. I was yelled at, and I've had a judge who is unhinged slamming a table... Let me be very clear, I don't tolerate that in my life. I'm not going to tolerate it here."Legal observers criticized the lawyer's complaints. "Spoken like a lawyer who: (1) doesn’t try cases and (2) doesn’t know how to act in front of a judge," quipped MSNBC legal analyst Katie Phang on X, formerly Twitter. Georgia State University Law professor Eric Segall mocked Habba's outrage over being told to sit down. "What a terrible look for this lawyer," he tweeted. Attorney Bradley Moss cited his own experience being chastized by judges to illustrate that Monday's exchange was not unusual. "Get over it," he wrote.I have had the current Attorney General and a current Supreme Court justice, at the time serving in their respective positions on the DC Circuit, chastise me in two different proceedings.Get over it. https://t.co/ov11OOnkIf— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) November 6, 2023
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Newsweek: Legal Analysts Slam Trump's Comments on Judge Chutkan: 'Trouble'
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Opinion: A tale of two men and their classified documents#Opinion #tale #men #classified #documents
Opinion: A tale of two men and their classified documents#Opinion #tale #men #classified #documents
Editor’s Note: Bradley P. Moss is a partner and national security attorney at the Washington, DC, Law Office of Mark S. Zaid, P.C. Follow him on Twitter at @BradMossEsq. The views expressed here are his own. Read more opinion at CNN.
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Trump seems to have fucked himself over again...
In response to the Hillary Clinton email scandal, Trump himself signed a law back in 2018 over the removal and retention of classified documents. That law increased the penalty for the unauthorized removal/retention of classified documents from one year to FIVE years, turning it into a felony offense.
He had 12 to 15 BOXES.
Imagine going to jail over a law you personally signed off on, enforced by a raid that was authorized by the same FBI director you chose, signed by a judge you appointed, and your own Secret Service agents let them in.
A bill which former President Donald Trump signed into law in 2018 could be used to punish him if he's found to have mishandled classified information after leaving office.
FBI agents on Monday raided Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida as part on an investigation into whether Trump wrongly kept hold of classified material after he left office.
Bradley P. Moss, a national-security attorney, told Insider that Trump could face five years in prison if he's found guilty under a national security bill which he signed as President.
The bill, which made changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was signed into law by Trump in January 2018.
It upgraded the seriousness of wrongly moving classified material, turning it from a misdemeanor into a felony — and increasing the maximum punishment from one year to five.
Moss noted that it was passed in the wake of Trump's relentless attacks during the 2016 presidential campaign on Hillary Clinton for allegedly mishandling classified information.
But now it is Trump who is under pressure.
"Trump certainly has legal exposure to Section 1924 given it was classified documents from his spaces in the White House that were removed to Mar-Lago," said Moss.
In a tweet Tuesday in the wake of the FBI raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, Jeff Yarbro, an attorney and Democratic State Senator in Tennessee, pointed out it was Trump who had signed the bill now looming over him.
The National Archives and Records Administration in February said that classified material was found among boxes of things that had been taken from the White House to Mar-a-Lago when he left office.
Legal analyst Glenn Kirchner at the time told MSNBC that the former President was facing a potential "five year felony" in a seeming reference to the law Trump had strengthened in 2018.
At the time, the classified-information measures attracted little attention, with the focus of news coverage being the renewal of sweeping surveillance powers in the bill.
According to an analysis by Moss and other analysts at the Just Security blog, it is one of a number of laws Trump might have violated if he's found to have mishandled classified material.
There are some doubts about whether the bill Trump signed into law could be used to prosecute him, said Moss, as it's unclear whether it applies to former Presidents.
Trump has vehemently denied any wrongdoing in relation, saying that he had fully cooperated with requests from the National Archives and characterizing the raid as a politically motivated.
His aide, Kash Patel, told Breitbart that Trump declassified the material before leaving office under the President's broad powers for deciding what should remain secret.
Moss said "efforts by Trump to declassify records before he left office" were another key issue that could impact whether the measures could be used to prosecute Trump.
Trump's office did not immediately reply to a request for comment from Insider.
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Trump could be locked up in violation of the bill he signed into law in 2018.
Trump could be locked up in violation of the bill he signed into law in 2018.
Trump could be facing five years in prison thanks to a bill he signed into law in 2018, attorney says.
In 2018, then-President Donald Trump signed a bill into law that could now be used to punish him if he’s found to have taken classified information from the White House at the end of his tenure, Business Insider reports.
Speaking to Insider, national-security attorney Bradley P. Moss said that…
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The 1/6 Committee Has Set A Clever Trap For Trump
The 1/6 Committee Has Set A Clever Trap For Trump
By subpoenaing Trump, the 1/6 Committee has given the former president the option of looking weak by not testifying or admitting to crimes and potentially perjuring himself.
Greg Sargent of The Washington Post spoke to legal experts who laid out Trump’s options, “National security lawyer Bradley P. Moss agrees that Trump would risk self-incrimination. “He can’t substantively admit to what went…
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Tweet from Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq)
Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) Tweeted:
World’s worst client continues confessing in the open https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1565114208609509382?s=20&t=KIkV3NkwgEblWXQaTf9DHA
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Trump signed law making mishandling of classified info a felony — now it may come back to haunt him
Trump signed law making mishandling of classified info a felony — now it may come back to haunt him
In 2018, then-President Donald Trump signed a bill into law that could now be used to punish him if he’s found to have taken classified information from the White House at the end of his tenure, Business Insider reports.
Speaking to Insider, national-security attorney Bradley P. Moss said that Trump could face five years in prison if he’s found guilty under the national security bill he…
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The federal judge presiding over Donald Trump's classified documents case on Friday temporarily paused a series of significant pre-trial deadlines pertaining to prosecutors' sharing of sensitive materials that the former president is entitled to while building his defense, The Messenger reports.U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon authorized a paperless order delaying the deadlines she'd previously set for October 2023 through May 2024, when the trial for Trump and his three co-defendants in the case is scheduled to start in Fort Pierce, Florida.Though Cannon's order doesn't address the May 20 start date for the trial itself, it does state that all of the scheduled deadlines connected to classified information are on hold "pending consideration and resolution" of a Trump motion proposing a new timeline that was filed last month.That Sept. 22 filing accused special counsel Jack Smith's team of making "unjust efforts...to foist rushed CIPA litigation on the Court, President Trump, and his co-defendants."A separate motion filed Wednesday night by Trump's legal team has, however, made the trial schedule a point of contention as the GOP frontrunner has requested a delay of at least six months in the start date of the trial until "in or after mid-November 2024," pushing it past Election Day.The motion cited ongoing legal litigation over the sensitive evidence alongside scheduling conflicts with Trump's other federal criminal case in Washington, D.C. — of which he filed a motion to dismiss late Thursday — regarding alleged election obstruction."The March 4, 2023 trial date in the District of Columbia, and the underlying schedule in that case, currently require President Trump and his lawyers to be in two places at once," Trump's attorneys wrote in the Wednesday filing.Some legal experts questioned Cannon's Friday order and suggested that it could pave the way for Trump to delay the trial date."Judge Cannon puts CIPA deadlines on hold until she rules on Trump’s pending motions," national security lawyer Bradley Moss wrote on X, formerly Twitter. "Now the real question becomes how long it takes her to make a ruling."Judge Cannon puts CIPA deadlines on hold until she rules on Trump’s pending motions.Now the real question becomes how long it takes her to make a ruling. https://t.co/ku0s8QqWgG— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) October 6, 2023"Not a good sign for those who want a trial in May. We haven’t even reached the point in CIPA where the court has truly difficult decisions to make," tweeted Brandon Van Grack, a former Justice Department official who served on special counsel Bob Mueller's team.Not a good sign for those who want a trial in May. We haven’t even reached the point in CIPA where the court has truly difficult decisions to make. https://t.co/pkzGgnQhAU— Brandon Van Grack (@BVanGrack) October 6, 2023Want a daily wrap-up of all the news and commentary Salon has to offer? Subscribe to our morning newsletter, Crash Course."Realistically, delays can sometimes be necessary to accommodate issues involving classified discovery, but this seems over much," former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance added. "This is a judge who is happy to see the case move slowly."Realistically, delays can sometimes be necessary to accommodate issues involving classified discovery, but this seems over much. This is a judge who is happy to see the case move slowly. https://t.co/HKbkMcbxN1— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) October 6, 2023"She is going to delay and delay. She has already been an embarrassment and it’s going to get much worse," predicted Georgia State Law professor Eric Segall.Trump was first federally indicted in June over his alleged illegal retention of national security documents after leaving office. The special counsel brought a superseding indictment against him in late July, adding charges related to alleged obstruction of government efforts to retrieve the materials and bringing the total number of counts against Trump in the case to 40. The former president has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
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best of 2020.
sorry abt the late post. might get back to Tumblr, who knows?
for now, here's what I thought was the best stuff from the worst year.
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movies.
Small Axe (Mangrove / Lovers Rock / Red, White & Blue / Alex Wheatley / Education) // dir. Steve McQueen
Da 5 Bloods // dir. Spike Lee
First Cow // dir. Kelly Reichardt
The Forty-Year-Old Version // dir. Radha Blank
Bacurau // dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles
David Byrne’s American Utopia // dir. Spike Lee
Soul // dir. Pete Docter, Kemp Powers
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm // dir. Jason Woliner
Time // dir. Garrett Bradley
Kajillionaire // dir. Miranda July
Boys State // dir. Jesse Moss & Amanda McBaine
The Vast of Night // dir. Andrew Patterson
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom // dir. George C. Wolfe
Tigertail // dir. Alan Yang
His House // dir. Remi Weekes
The Assistant // dir. Kitty Green
Possessor // dir. Brandon Cronenberg
Palm Springs // dir. Max Barbakow
The Trip to Greece // dir. Michael Winterbottom
She Dies Tomorrow // dir. Amy Seinmetz
albums.
Lianne La Havas // Lianne La Havas
Untitled (Black Is) // SAULT
RTJ4 // Run the Jewels
It Was Good Until It Wasn’t // Kehlani
SAWAYAMA // Rina Sawayama
Future Nostalgia // Dua Lipa
Women In Music, Pt. III // HAIM
R.Y.C. // Mura Masa
Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez // Gorillaz
Circles // Mac Miller
Ungodly Hour // Chloe x Halle
We Will Always Love You // The Avalanches
INDUSTRY GAMES [EP] // CHIKA
Alfredo // Freddie Gibbs x The Alchemist
2017-2019 // Against All Logic
A Written Testimony // Jay Electronica (& Jay Z)
color theory // Soccer Mommy
græ // Moses Sumney
how I’m feeling now // Charli XCX
Black Habits // D Smoke
What’s Your Pleasure? // Jessie Ware
Punisher // Phoebe Bridgers
Dinner Party [EP] // Kamasi Washington, Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper & 9th Wonder
The Slow Rush // Tame Impala
Chromatica // Lady Gaga
folklore // Taylor Swift
A Beautiful Revolution // Common
Fetch the Bolt Cutters // Fiona Apple
UNLOCKED [EP] // Denzel Curry x Kenny Beats
It Is What It Is // Thundercat
Limbo // Aminé
Shabrang // Sevdaliza
After Hours // The Weeknd
Shore // Fleet Foxes
We’re New Again // Makaya McCraven x Gil Scott-Heron
FOREVER // Starchild & the New Romantic
songs // Adrienne Lenker
Heaven to A Tortured Mind // Yves Tumor
Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane & Able [EP] // Black Thought
There’s Only Being Yourself // Radiant Children
songs.
“Bittersweet” // Lianne La Havas
“Ooh La La” // Run the Jewels f. Greg Nice & DJ Premier
“circle the drain” // Soccer Mommy
“Do It” // Chloe x Halle
“WAP” // Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion
“Wildfires” // SAULT
“Gospel For A New Century” // Yves Tumor
“Guilty Conscience” // 070 Shake
“CROWN” // CHIKA
“Bad Friend” // Rina Sawayama
“Freeze Tag” // Kamasi Washington, Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, 9th Wonder & Phoelix
“forever” // Charli XCX
“Toxic” // Kehlani
“BALD!” // JPEGMAFIA
“The Pink Phantom” // Gorillaz f. Elton John & 6LACK
“Garden Song” // Phoebe Bridgers
“Cut Me” // Moses Sumney
“Savage [Remix]” // Megan Thee Stallion f. Beyoncé
“Good Morning” // Black Thought f. Pusha T, Swiss Beatz & Killer Mike
“Time (You & I)” // Khruangbin
“Gasoline” // HAIM
“The Box” // Roddy Ricch
“Ghost of Soulja Slim” // Jay Electronica (& Jay Z)
“WAKING UP DOWN” // Yaeji
“hand crushed by mallet [Remix]” // 100 gecs f. Fall Out Boy, Craig Owens & Nicole Dollanganger
“Lost In Yesterday” // Tame Impala
“Don’t Start Now” // Dua Lipa
“Take Care In Your Dreaming” // The Avalanches f. Denzel Curry, Sampa the Great & Tricky
“anything” // Adrienne Lenker
“Comeback” // Carly Rae Jepsen f. Bleachers
“Dior” // Pop Smoke
“Laugh Now Cry Later” // Drake f. Lil Durk
“BLACK PARADE” // Beyoncé
“Deal Wiv It” // Mura Masa f. Slowthai
“Black Qualls” // Thundercat f. Steve Lacy, Steve Arrington & Childish Gambino
“SUGAR [Remix]” // BROCKHAMPTON f. Dua Lipa & Jon B
“Something to Rap About” // Freddie Gibbs f. Tyler, the Creator
“Spotlight” // Jessie Ware
“Better Than I Imagined” // Robert Grasper f. H.E.R. & Meshell Ndegeocello
“Delete Forever” // Grimes
“minding_my business” // Knxwledge f. Durand Bernarr & Rose Gold
“Tape” // Starchild & the New Romantic f. Toro y Moi
“Blinding Lights” // The Weeknd
“DIET_” // Denzel Curry x Kenny Beats
“Hit Different” // SZA f. Ty Dolla $ign
“Rain On Me” // Lady Gaga f. Ariana Grande
“The Gates” // Aesop Rock
“Lose Your Love” // Dirty Projectors
“Gaslighter” // The Chicks
“say the name” // clipping.
television.
I May Destroy You (HBO)
Industry (HBO)
The Queen's Gambit (Netflix)
The Mandalorian (Disney+)
Tales from the Loop (Amazon)
The Boys (Amazon)
High Fidelity (Hulu)
P-Valley (Starz)
Ozark (Netflix)
Tiger King (Netflix)
Nate (Netflix)
Fargo (FX)
Insecure (HBO)
Lovecraft Country (HBO)
Betty (HBO)
Devs (FX)
Big Mouth (Netflix)
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