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herd mentality tbh
Clinton's Top 5 Lies Of The Night
https://gop.com/clintons-top-5-lies-of-the-night/
herd mentality tbh
Big League Trouble: Trump Faces New Questions About His Charity Finances
ByTIERNEY SNEEDPublishedSEPTEMBER 27, 2016, 5:51 PM EDT
It’s not just where the money went from the Donald Trump Foundation that’s drawing scrutiny to GOP nominee. It’s also how the money came in.
A new Washington Post report this week presented cases where Trump directed third parties to pay monies owed to him or his businesses directly to the Donald J. Trump Foundation--monies that arguably should have been taxed as income to Trump.
The Trump campaign has said that the payments were all aboveboard and proper, and slammed the Post's reporter for trafficking in speculation about possible but not proven legal problems. All of this comes against the backdrop of Trump refusing to release his tax returns, a stance unprecedented among modern major party presidential nominees. Without those tax returns, the exact handling of the payments and any associated taxes remains murky.
But tax experts interviewed by TPM said the new revelations by the Post include a number of red flags. At best, the practice could be described as sloppy and driven by an extreme ignorance of the law, the experts said. At worst, it fits into a pattern of using the charity as a personal piggy bank. On their own, such allegations could be dealt with a minor slap on the wrist, but coupled with the Post’s previously surfaced examples of Trump using foundation money for his own benefit they fuel major concerns about how Trump’s charity has operated.
Seth Perlman of Perlman and Perlman, a New York City firm that specializes in nonprofit law, said that accusations that Trump was illegally directing fees to his charity are tough to prove and not totally unheard of in the non-profit world.
"It becomes really troubling, however, if he was diverting or pushing fees to a nonprofit and using those fees to benefit himself. That becomes a much more serious problem," Perlman said.
One former IRS regulator told TPM that, taken all together, the financial dealings surrounding the foundation would have forced him to “give some serious thought” to recommending a criminal investigation into the foundation’s practices.
“Once you see a pattern of that kind of egregious nature, you start to think if whether there’s an appropriate criminal referral there,” said Philip Hackney, a Louisiana State University Law Center professor who previously served in the IRS’ Office of the Chief Counsel as a senior technician reviewer for exempt organizations.
Monday's Washington Post story on third-party contributions to the Trump Foundation points to two specific cases where payments to Trump for goods and services went to the charity. In the first case, Comedy Central made a $400,000 donation in exchange for his appearance on a 2011 roast. In the second, contributions amounting to nearly $1.9 million came into the charity over time from a New York man named Richard Ebers, who two unnamed sources told the Post bought goods and services from Trump or his businesses.
“Is this is a one-off or is this something he encouraged?” asked Gordon Fischer, a lawyer in Iowa who specializes in charitable giving. “Assignment of income – that you could just give income you receive to your foundation and not pay tax on it – that’s sort of taxes 101, or at least 201. It’s a pretty basic thing.”
The major issue is that the payments identified by the Post should have been taxed as income, and the campaign has waffled in explaining exactly how Trump handled the transactions and whether they were reported as income.
First, campaign advisor Boris Epshteyn denied Trump ever directed the third party payments to his charity. Then, he said Trump did in fact follow “all applicable rules and regulations” in handling the payments. Along the way, Epshteyn cited an obscure 1942 court case where the person in question was not required to pay taxes on charitable donations made in lieu of his income. But the cir stances were far different than those surrounding Trump.
Separately, Lynne Patton, an assistant to Trump’s son Eric, who is an officer for the Eric Trump Foundation, explained at a campaign event in Iowa last week that Trump will give speeches for organizations and then ask them to cut a check for his charity, rather than to him personally. The campaign disputed her characterization to the Post and finally said that taxes were paid on the Comedy Central payment. The campaign refused to elaborate on how Ebers’ contributions were handled, the Post said. As long as Trump refuses to release his personal tax returns, none of what the campaign says can be independently confirmed.
Trump himself, meanwhile, has brushed off the whole affair by saying his lawyers handle the charity issues.
“I’d really like to know who those lawyers are, because they either gave him really bad advice or he didn’t listen to them,” said Lloyd Meyer, a Notre Dame Law School professor who teaches courses on not-for-profit organizations.
According to numerous tax lawyers interviewed by TPM, the way such transactions typically would be handled – if someone being paid for a good or service said they’d prefer the money go to their charity – is that the income would first be paid and reported to the person who provided the service, and then he or she could separately cut the check for their foundation.
“The proper way to do it is, Comedy Center cuts a check to Trump and then Trump runs the check to the foundation,” said Jim Fishman, a professor at The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University in New York, who teaches courses on nonprofit law.
This was just the scenario that Epshteyn outlined Tuesday on MSNBC regarding the Comedy Central while rebutting the Post’s report.
“Comedy Central paid Trump productions. Trump Productions paid income tax and donated the money to the foundation,” he said.
But the foundation’s tax return for that year shows the contribution coming directly from Comedy Central. There could be some explanation for why it was reported that way that involved Trump still paying taxes on it, but without further do entation put forward by the campaign, there's no way of knowing for sure, the experts said.
The IRS, if it chose to examine the discrepancies, could simply look at Trump's personal tax returns to answer the essential question of whether the income was properly reported and taxed. From there, it would be a simple matter of correcting the report and paying back what was owed -- and perhaps some additional civil penalties.
Taken with other allegations surrounding his charity, however, particularly the cases of “self-dealing,” where Trump used foundation money for his personal benefit, a closer look may be more appropriate.
“This is not as a clear violation as the self dealing, but it does make you wonder about how the foundation is being run,” Ellen Aprill, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles said.
Still, a criminal case would be tough to pursue, the experts said, as it requires proof of intent -- that Trump knew he was violating the law -- and ignorance is a permissible defense to tax allegations like these.
“No prosecutor would go after him for this, because it’s just too hard to prove,” Meyer said, unless there was some smoking gun, like an email, that showed Trump knew he was breaking the law.
“The pattern we are starting to see is that, he is not just pushing the envelope, he is going outside of what the law allows,” Meyer said. “He is being very aggressive in what he is doing. Maybe aggressive out of ignorance?”
A claim of ignorance also undermines the central arguments Trump has made for his candidacy: that he is an extremely successful businessman who knows how to surround himself with all the best people.
“He's a guy who is supposedly a billionaire but has run that foundation like a thousand-aire,” Fishman said.
many people are saying trump used cocaine prior to the debate
FOX News Channel Achieves Milestone by Delivering Its Most Watched Quarter Ever in Total Day Viewership
FNC Ranks #1 in Basic Cable in Q3 Primetime and Total Day Viewers
‘The O’Reilly Factor’ Tops Q3 Total Viewers; ‘The Kelly File’ Tops Q3 24-54 Demo
‘Hannity’ Leads Cable News 25-54 Demo in September While ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ Takes Number One in Total Viewers
http://www.businesswire.com/news/hom...vering-Watched
many people are stupid
who you rootin for, ducks?
weird, since "many people" are trump's #1 source for his "facts" and claims
...really?
i love it! duck is possessed! he's on fire! ducks is all in!
I thought Mr. Trump wasn't that great last night during the debate at least on most issues, but I went to Drudge and WOW, he did amazing!!! We love Drudge!
Hillary trumped Trump: 6 conservative talking heads who say Donald bombed
Not even their hate for Hillary can compel these conservatives to say Trump won the debate
1. Hugh Hewitt: The conservative radio talk show host who frequently hammers the mainstream media for its so-called “liberal bias,” told MSNBC that Trump “blew” the last hour of the debate.
“I think Donald Trump won the first — I clocked it at 29 minutes when birtherism came up,” Hewitt said. “He blew that badly, terribly, and it turned the debate around. She then delivered a knockout blow on speaking to our strategic allies.”
2. John Podhoretz: The conservative columnist for the New York Post wrote a scathing review of Trump’s performance, calling it a “slap in the face to his supporters,” who “should be furious with him.”
Podhoretz said Trump’s “vanity and laziness” were on full display as Clinton “methodically and carefully” attacked the GOP nominee. “Even when he could have taken her down, he was so incompetent he didn’t go for it,” Podhoretz wrote.
“By performing this incompetently, by refusing to prepare properly for this exchange, by not learning enough to put meat on the bones of his populist case against Clinton, he displayed nothing but contempt for the people who have brought him this far — and for the American people who are going to make this momentous decision on Nov.
8,” Podhoretz concluded.
3. Steve Deace: Steve Deace began his slow, painful separation with the Republican Party when Trump became their nominee, but that didn’t stop the conservative Iowa talk radio host from tearing into the GOP candidate’s “total disaster” of a performance.
Deace took to Facebook to lament Trump’s lack of “depth” on major policy issues and his incoherent badgering when the questions got tough. “As I warned for months, Trump simply couldn’t carry a credible conversation with the nation by himself for 90 minutes, minus a full stage of others vying for air time,” Deace wrote.
4. Bill Kristol: Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, who served as a foreign policy adviser for Sen. John McCain, tore into Trump’s debate performance with a piece bitingly led, “Trump Choked.”
“I’m not positive Hillary actually won the debate,” Kristol write. “But I’m sure Trump lost it. He choked.”
5. Ben Shapiro: Conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro was seriously unimpressed with Trump’s debate performance, at one point likening it to “sharting.”
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Worst moment: Trump rambling and getting petulant about Hannity and Iraq, then complimenting his own temperament to crowd's laughter.
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6. Greg Gutfeld: Fox News host Greg Gutfeld live-tweeted his thoughts on the debate, calling it “the most disturbing 90 minutes since The Evil Dead” and goading Trump supporters to admit the candidate’s failure.
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Trump may not have fully pooped himself, but there was some sharting.
11:12 PM - 26 Sep 2016
http://www.salon.com/2016/09/27/hill...donald-bombed/
Trashy Trash supporter news
Kayleigh McEnany smears Trump-exposing Miss Universe Alicia Machado by comparing her to a terrorist
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/kayl...e+Raw+Story%29
Wall Street Climbs In Wake Of First Presidential Face-off
Consumer and technology stocks, including Amazon, led gains on Wall Street on Tuesday, while a perceived win by Democrat Hillary Clinton in Monday’s first presidential debate gave broader support to equities.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/wall-street-climbs-wake-first-presidential-face-off/
Trump denies saying not paying taxes 'makes me smart' an hour after he said it
During the first presidential debate, during a discussion about Donald Trump's refusal to release his tax returns, Hillary Clinton noted that he's "paid nothing in federal taxes" in recent years. "That makes me smart," Trump bragged.
Dana Bash (CNN): “My question for you is, first of all, it sounds like you admitted that you hadn't paid federal taxes and that that was smart. Is that what you meant to say?
Trump: “No, I didn't say that at all.”
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/0...28Daily+Kos%29
Arizona newspaper endorses Dem for president for first time
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...for-first-time
Trash tools trashing the fat pig Miss Universe
“The fact that his surrogates are on TV trashing another woman like this is just kind of appalling, and says everything you need to know about how the Trump campaign is operating right now.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/cmon-this-is-so-beneath-you-cnn-guest-shames-scottie-nell-hughes-for-trashing-alicia-machado/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
Trash's org is garbage from top to bottom.
Trashing a beauty queen is important to Trash? What's that have to do with being President or America? WTF cares?
goddam, Trash and his people keep going lower and lower
I have no doubt that Trash, the child rapist and serial adulterer, will bring up Bill and Monica to "hit Hillary harder next debate".
Trump Bots and Laker Bots.
Who are the more brainwashed?
Dont break the mirror duckman.
Here's America's Asshole again, also an adulterer and stupid Trash supporter, farting noxiously in Repug reachout to women.
Giuliani: Clinton 'too stupid to be president'
Rudy Giuliani blasted Hillary Clinton as "too stupid to be president" because she stayed with her husband after the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
"She didn't just stand by him -- she attacked Monica Lewinsky, and after being married to Bill Clinton for 20 years, if you didn't know the moment Monica Lewinsky said Bill Clinton violated her and was telling the truth -- then you're too stupid to be president,"
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/27/politics/rudy-giuliani-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-monica-lewinsky/index.html
Flashback: Trash voices reservations about invasion of Iraq
Trash comments in January, 2003 interview with Neil Cavuto
http://video.foxnews.com/v/514354871...#sp=show-clips
Clinton campaign in ‘panic mode’ over Florida black voters
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/0...#ixzz4LYugbdYm
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so black voters are STUPID ENOUGH to punish Clinton(s) by voting for a law-and-order, stop-and-frisk racist?
Meet the Convicted Cocaine Trafficker Donald Trump Called a 'Credit to the Community'
In October 1985, Joseph Weichselbaum, the general manager of the helicopter service that shuttled VIPs to and from Trump’s Atlantic City casinos, was named in an 18-count indictment accusing him of being a marijuana and cocaine trafficker.
Convicted of grand larceny and embezzlement in the ‘70s, Weichselbaum, prosecutors stated, “was a felon even before becoming a drug dealer.”
(According to Spy magazine, Weichselbaum’s firm also maintained, stored, and flew Trump’s personal helicopter, Ivana.)
The 1985 indictment alleged that Weichselbaum ran his narcotics operation from Miami, where he would buy kilos of cocaine from two Colombian brothers, Francisco and Walter Ramirez, which he would then sell to smaller dealers in the parking lot of a car dealership owned by his younger brother. The customers would then distribute the drugs in Ohio, Kentucky, and North Carolina, prosecutors alleged. In court filings obtained by the Smoking Gun, Weichselbaum’s lawyer argued that his client had gotten into drug trafficking as a result of his “addiction to cocaine, compounded by an extremely stressful marriage.”
For all his flaws, Weichselbaum was forthright enough to tell the Trump Organization about the criminal charges filed against him in federal court in Ohio immediately following his arrest, giving the developer the opportunity to cut ties with the alleged narcotics trafficker.
(New Jersey casino owners were required to distance themselves from criminal elements, and ran the risk of losing their gambling license if they did not.) However, according to investigative reporter Wayne Barrett, regulators with the state’s Division of Gaming Enforcement failed to press the issue.
Two months after the 1985 indictment was unsealed, Trump began renting a two-bedroom coop unit in Trump Plaza in Manhattan directly to Weichselbaum.
He also wrote a pre-sentencing letter—first disclosed in Barrett’s 1992 biography, Trump: The Deals and the Downfall—vouching for the coke-addled drug dealer in 1986, calling him “conscientious, forthright, and diligent” and “a credit to the community.”
Weichselbaum was sentenced to three years in prison and served just 18 months before receiving early release, while the others charged in the same indictment got as many as 20 years.
After Weichselbaum was released, he moved into Trump Tower with his girlfriend, who had just bought two adjoining apartments there for $2.4 million.
http://theslot.jezebel.com/meet-the-...+%28Gizmodo%29
Trash, pal-ling around with Gangsters and employing, endorsing a cocaine dealer/convicted felon.
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