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turbinetree's Journal'Stinking rich' Steve Mnuchin should be fined $25K a day until he hands over Trump's taxes: Dem lawm
Published 3 hours ago on June 11, 2019
By Brad Reed
A Democratic lawmaker told CNN’s Poppy Harlow on Tuesday that Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is going to have to hand over President Donald Trump’s federal tax returns or else face crushing fines.
During a CNN interview, Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) outlined steps that House Democrats can take to force Mnuchin’s hand and make him obey a clearly written law that says he shall furnish Trump’s taxes upon request.
“Secretary Mnuchin’s own internal lawyers found he had absolutely no discretion to refuse what is clearly stated in the law, and that is to turn over the tax returns once they have been requested by the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee,” Boyle said. “We have the ability to fine, I believe, upwards of $25,000 a day civilly. I think we should do that.”
Boyle was more hesitant when Harlow asked him if jailing Mnuchin was on the table, but he said that massive fines should be more than enough to send a message.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/stinking-rich-steve-mnuchin-should-be-fined-25k-a-day-until-he-hands-over-trumps-taxes-dem-lawmaker/
LOCK Mnuchin up.................................
GOP tax bill author admits it doesn't pay for itself -- contradicting key Republican talking point
Published 2 hours ago on June 11, 2019
By Matthew Chapman
At the Fiscal Summit on Tuesday, Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) admitted that the GOP tax cut bill does not pay for itself — and that we won’t even know how much the bill cost for up to a decade.
“We will know in year 8, 9 or 10 what revenues it brought in,” said Brady. He continued to fiercely defend the bill, saying, “I don’t think anything could have been worse for the deficit than to stick with the old economy and stick with the tax code that was so outdated,” even after admitting he didn’t really have any basis for claiming it was self-funding.
Brady, the former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, was a key architect of the bill, dubbed the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” which was hastily written and passed at the end of 2017 without a single Democratic vote.
During the debate, Republicans like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) insisted the bill would pay for itself by creating enough growth to broaden the tax base.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/watch-author-of-gop-tax-bill-admits-it-doesnt-pay-for-itself-contradicting-key-republican-talking-point/
White House reporter busts Trump: His Mexico deal 'appears to be a blank piece of paper'
Published 9 mins ago on June 11, 2019
By Eric W. Dolan
President Donald Trump on Tuesday claimed to have proof that he had cut a deal with Mexico to stem migration into the United States.
Appearing before reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, Trump pulled out a folded piece of paper and declared “that’s the agreement that everybody says I don’t have.”
“This is one page of a very long and very good agreement for both Mexico and the United States. Without the tariffs, we would have had nothing,” the president added.
But Brian Karem, the White House correspondent for Playboy, noted that Trump never unfolded the paper.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/white-house-reporter-busts-trump-his-mexico-deal-appears-to-be-a-blank-piece-of-paper/
When the media calls out this narcissistic asshole bluff he tries to hide.......................Playboy called his bluff.......................
Instead of bending to hacker ransom, Radiohead donates proceeds from stolen recordings to Extinction
Published 2 mins ago on June 11, 2019
By Common Dreams
In a show of what campaigners called “unprecedented support” for the global climate action movement, British rock band Radiohead turned a ransom demand by hackers into an opportunity to support the growing Extinction Rebellion movement.
After an unnamed hacker stole 18 previously-unreleased recordings from files owned by lead singer Thom Yorke, the band announced that it would not pay the $150,000 the hacker was demanding for ransom.
Instead of allowing the hacker to release the material, Radiohead released the recordings itself on the music platform Bandcamp, allowing listeners to buy the songs for £18 ($23), with all proceeds going to the global grassroots organization Extinction Rebellion.
“Instead of complaining—much—or ignoring it, we’re releasing all 18 hours on Bandcamp in aid of Extinction Rebellion,” Radiohead guitarist and composer Jonny Greenwood wrote on social media.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/instead-of-bending-to-hacker-ransom-radiohead-donates-proceeds-from-stolen-recordings-to-extinction-rebellion/
Radiohead gave Extinction Rebellion permission to use this video.........................
GOP congressman admits he hasn't read the Mueller report
"... When you have put the entire power of the United States Justice Department behind anything, you can achieve an agenda."
Josh Israel Jun 10, 2019, 10:35 am
Rep. Rob Woodall (R-GA) said Sunday that he has not read former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report because large investigations can find bad things and members of Congress should instead focus on legislation.
Woodall’s comments contradict his own previous statements on the matter, as well as his behavior more broadly over his eight-and-a-half years in Congress.
Woodall, who narrowly avoided defeat last November and subsequently announced he would not seek a fifth term in 2020, was asked on MSNBC about the Mueller report and its 10 documented examples involving President Donald Trump that may have constituted obstruction of justice.
The Georgia congressman dismissed the allegations, saying they were not his problem.
https://thinkprogress.org/georgia-congressman-rob-woodall-refuses-to-read-mueller-report-because-he-no-longer-trusts-investigations-7643e88d18cf/
I don't know asshole, whats your agenda?
Your leader at the justice department sorta has been defying a subpoena because of his Federalist Society agenda.......................you really are fucking asshole and one to talk about agenda.........................
GOP congressman admits he hasn't read the Mueller report
But your making over $174,000 dollars and have been fucking taxpayer's by not reading the report, think it is boring..................................
Missouri senator says it's a waste of time to study history because it was a long time ago
Sen. Josh Hawley says not to compare Trump's behavior to Nixon's because Watergate was more than 40 years ago.
Josh Israel Jun 10, 2019, 11:54 am
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), a fierce defender of President Donald Trump, is very upset that the House Judiciary Committee will hear testimony from a Watergate-era figure on Monday about presidential obstruction. His reasoning: Watergate happened a long time ago.
John Dean, who was White House counsel for President Richard Nixon in the 1970s, will testify before the panel as part of a hearing entitled “Lessons from the Mueller Report: Presidential Obstruction and Other Crimes.” In 1974, the same committee approved articles of impeachment against Nixon alleging obstruction of justice. (Nixon resigned before the full House of Representatives could vote on impeachment.)
In his final report on Russian interference, which was made public in April following a nearly two-year long investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller documented at least 10 instances involving President Donald Trump which may have constituted obstruction. Though he did not refer any indictments against the president, Mueller effectively handed the reins over to Congress to take the next step — widely accepted to be impeachment proceedings.
Rather than learning from history, however, Hawley, 39, thinks it would be better to simply ignore it.
https://thinkprogress.org/missouri-senator-josh-hawley-ignore-watergate-long-ago-75790bffb660/
I like history it really shows what your right wing fascist party has turned into............................a supporter of a wanna be despot....................and by the way it really shows that you put party before country, every fucking time..................
Supreme Court will hear a major attack on anti-discrimination law
This will end badly.
Ian Millhiser Jun 10, 2019, 9:51 am
The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would hear Comcast Corp. v. National Association of African American-Owned Media, which seeks to undercut one of the country’s oldest civil rights laws.
Given the court’s Republican majority, this case is likely to end badly for civil rights plaintiffs. Though it is an open question whether the court will make a surgical cut against a particular anti-discrimination law or go so far as to nuke a major prong of American anti-discrimination litigation.
Comcast involves a cable company that allegedly refused to carry a black-owned television studio’s networks in violation of a post-Civil War statute barring race discrimination in contracts.
Companies are rarely monoliths, and when a company takes an adverse action against a person of color (or another company owned by people of color) they often have a variety of reasons for doing so. Some executives, for example, may be driven by racist motives, while others may act for legitimate business reasons. For this reason, the law permits what are known as “mixed-motive” suits, which allow civil rights plaintiffs to prevail in some cases where they face discrimination for a combination of both legitimate and illegal reasons.
https://thinkprogress.org/supreme-court-attack-on-anti-discrimination-law-fd2ae80cee69/
Bring back the Fairness Doctrine...........................
Trump's migration demands could endanger lives in Mexico
Source: Think Progress
The National Guard troops Mexico proposed to send to the border don't exist just yet.
D. Parvaz Jun 7, 2019, 12:40 pm
Mexican and U.S. negotiators are working to find a way out of the escalating tariffs President Donald Trump has threatened over what he says is Mexico’s failure to stop Central American migrants from reaching the U.S. border.
But if they don’t reach a resolution by Monday, the first tranche of tariffs of 5% will hit all goods being imported to the United States from Mexico, increasing to as much as 25% by October. It is possible, though, for the president to delay the tariffs if he’s happy with how the talks are progressing.
There have been reports over the past 24 hours of what the Mexican government is offering as a possible concession to Trump’s demands, but the talks are ongoing and most of the details are still unknown.
But anonymous sources have told The Washington Post that Mexico has proposed sending 6,000 National Guard troops to its border with Guatemala.
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/trumps-migration-demands-could-endanger-lives-in-mexico-83180b3f2a38/
Guatemala, is damn near in the same temperate zone as some countries in the Middle East, and this country Guatemala, has not been getting any rain to grown crops and so in essence they are fleeing to eat.......................just like the people in the Middle East are fleeing the region besides the wars and that link...................climate is link to a lot of issues on this planet and the problem and it is only going to get worse......................
Trump Using Marine One As A Prop To Promote His Irish Golf Course
POLITICS 06/07/2019 11:47 am ET
Minutes after Trump left his course at Doonbeg, it posted video of his arrival there aboard a government helicopter and him getting ready to tee off in promotional material.
President Donald Trump’s for-profit golf course in Ireland on Friday started using video of his arrival aboard Marine One and of him getting ready to tee off in its promotional material.
Videos were posted on the Trump International Golf Links, Doonbeg, Twitter feed within minutes of his departure back to Washington. Trump played golf there at least Friday morning and possibly on Wednesday and Thursday, as well. The video of him on the first tee, with the Atlantic Ocean in the background, was also posted on the resort’s Facebook page.
The addition of Ireland to this week’s itinerary taking him to London and Normandy cost U.S. taxpayers at least $3.6 million beyond what the trip would have cost otherwise, according to a preliminary HuffPost analysis of the extra travel and security costs.
That would bring the total for Trump’s golf vacations during his first two and a half years in office to $105.8 million.
“At this point, it appears that Donald Trump views his presidency as just another way to support his business,” said Jordan Libowitz of the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government. “On an international trip at taxpayer expense, he stopped by to film a commercial for his Irish golf course, which is advertising the stop explicitly as one by the president of the United States. His own lawyers, in their ‘Conflict of Interest’ white paper, said this would not happen. But at this point, it’s clear all that matters to President Trump is what makes him money.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-doonbeg-video_n_5cfa7f93e4b0c7edd0b661a5
This pisses me off to know end.............................
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