Trump’s Latest Stunt EXPOSES his SORDID CONNECTIONS

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas rips the lid off the fact that all of Donald Trump’s major campaign visits have involved his promotions of other felons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcPHqyjCBMg

Trump Faces Felony Charges Because He Hid Other Crimes, Prosecutors Say - The New York Times

What crimes do prosecutors believe Trump was trying to conceal?

Prosecutors have suggested three possible crimes since filing the charges against Mr. Trump last year: a federal campaign finance violation, tax fraud and a state election-law crime. But since the start of the trial, they have largely focused on the state election-law crime: conspiracy to promote or prevent election...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/nyregion/trump-charges-felonies.html

Rightwing legal activist accused of misusing $73m from nonprofit groups

Michelle Kuppersmith, executive director of Campaign for Accountability, said it is asking for the tax exempt status of the groups to be revoked. The IRS does not approve of "using nonprofits as basically laundromats to wash money through in a tax exempt way and then out the other end to two private entities", she added. 

"We're hopeful that the IRS and/or the DC AG [attorney general] will take up this complaint and use the evidence that we're presenting, which is very carefully thought out and laid out in legal language with all of the relevant statutes that we believe are being violated, along with a lot of the background to provide the evidence as to why."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/06/leonard-leo-watchdog-complaint-investigation

Trump Organization Pays $1.6 Million Fine for Tax Fraud Conviction

Former President Donald Trump's family company—notorious for stiffing contractors and dodging bills—has paid the $1.6 million fine it received for its tax fraud conviction in December.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-organization-pays-dollar16-million-fine-for-tax-fraud-conviction

Trump Org. fined $1.6 million for criminal tax fraud - POLITICO

Former President Donald Trump was not personally charged in the scheme and defense attorneys said he was not aware of it...

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/13/trump-org-fined-1-6-million-for-criminal-tax-fraud-00077877

The Trump Organization Goes on Trial Tomorrow for “Sweeping and Audacious” Tax Fraud – Mother Jones

The legal peril facing Trump and his company keeps growing...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/10/trump-organization-court-tax-fraud-trial/

Trump Organization to face criminal tax fraud charges in New York court on Monday

Former CFO is expected to testify about off-the-books compensation scheme to evade paying payroll taxes…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/23/trump-org-tax-fraud-charges-cfo-new-york

This Week in High Treason (Opening Arguments podcast OA623)

There’s still SO much to talk about in the Mar-a-Lago Treason Trove! Lots of updates on that, plus the Weiselberg plea, Trump passports, and more! We also squeeze in a wildcard on Alex Jones’s loser lawyers.

Interview: 

https://openargs.com/oa623-this-week-in-high-treason/

Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg pleads guilty in tax-fraud case - The Washington Post

"For years, Mr. Weisselberg broke the law to line his own pockets and fund a lavish lifestyle," New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), who also is investigating Trump and his business practices, said in a statement. "Today, that misconduct ends. Let this guilty plea send a loud and clear message: we will crack down on anyone who steals from the public for personal gain because no one is above the law."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/18/weisselberg-trump-guilty-plea/

Allen Weisselberg, longtime Trump Organization loyalist, pleads guilty to tax fraud

The guilty plea adds to a whirlwind of legal problems now surrounding the former president…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/18/allen-weisselberg-trump-organization-pleads-guilty-tax-fraud

Leader of campaign to fund Trump border wall to plead guilty to conspiracy, tax charges | Reuters

Prosecutors said Kolfage told prospective donors he would "not take a penny" as he raised more than $25 million, yet took more than $350,000 and spent money on a boat, a luxury SUV, a golf cart, jewelry and cosmetic surgery, among other expenses...

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/leader-campaign-fund-trumps-border-wall-plead-guilty-2022-04-06/

New York attorney general alleges Trump firm misled banks and tax officials

…Both investigations are at least partly related to allegations made in news reports and by Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen that Trump had a history of misrepresenting the value of assets…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/19/new-york-attorney-general-alleges-donald-trump-firm-misled-banks-tax-officials

Trump now claims ignorance of tax fraud, after claiming he was a top tax expert - The Washington Post

"I know more about taxes than any human being that God ever created," Trump said in March 2016.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/06/how-trumps-claims-being-king-tax-code-could-come-back-haunt-him/

GOP groups quiet as donor accused of running biggest tax fraud scheme ever

..."Congressional Republicans spent the last four years gutting IRS enforcement and cutting taxes for billionaires while being bankrolled by the biggest tax cheat in American history," Max Steele, an American Bridge spokesman, told CNBC. "While they should return or donate the money, we know they won't. After all, how can a party blindly loyal to Donald Trump afford to oppose billionaires committing tax fraud?"...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/05/gop-groups-quiet-as-donor-accused-of-running-biggest-tax-fraud-scheme-ever.html

Ivanka Trump: How DARE You Investigate My Father for Tax Fraud, Which He Definitely Didn’t Use Me to Commit | Vanity Fair

The first daughter is extremely testy about the possibility her father is going to be criminally prosecuted. 
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/11/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-tax-fraud

The legal reckoning awaiting Donald Trump if he loses the election - CNNPolitics

... "You believe that he committed -- you could charge the President of the United States with obstruction of justice after he left office?" Buck asked. Mueller answered: "Yes." ... 

...The most serious legal threat facing Trump is the Manhattan district attorney's broad criminal investigation into the financial workings of the Trump Organization. Prosecutors have suggested in court filings that the investigation could examine whether the President and his company engaged in bank fraud, insurance fraud, criminal tax fraud and falsification of business records...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/17/politics/trump-election-legal-reckoning/index.html

Trump’s foreign IOUs (Pod Save the World podcast)

Trump’s taxes reveal foreign income and liabilities, why Armenia and Azerbaijan are at war, the White House’s efforts to bribe Sudan, politically-charged corruption charges in Pakistan, Europe’s Covid spike, the US threatens to close its embassy in Baghdad, new sanctions on Iran and Cuba, Bibi Netanyahu’s dirty laundry, why Yelp reviews are dangerous in Thailand and the story of a heroic rat. Then Ben’s interview with Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and author of the new novel Homeland Elegies, about what it means to be an American, and how global attitudes about the United States are affected by its foreign policy. 

Interview: 

https://www.spreaker.com/user/9513168/trump-s-foreign-ious

President Trump, Tax Fraud?

The president’s taxes are bad....
https://youtu.be/28yrkIzVXys

Here are five felonies Trump committed — if Cohen is telling the truth - The Washington Post

Attention, drivers. There’s a multi-car pileup on the information superhighway. On Wednesday, the cable news networks were trying to cover both the North Korea summit and Michael Cohen’s explosive testimony. It was hardly possible to devote any attention to the growing hostilities between two nuclear-armed states, India and Pakistan. Other major stories — the Venezuela crisis, the negotiations with the Taliban, the House vote to override President Trump’s emergency declaration — were left on the side of the road...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/27/here-are-five-felonies-trump-committed-if-cohen-is-telling-truth/

As we shudder toward Putin-style kleptocracy, the nation's elites dismiss Trump's crimes - Daily Kos

Last week the New York Times released a full and detailed report outlining crimes committed by a man now elevated to the United States presidency. It explained how Donald Trump's father orchestrated various schemes to evade taxes, thus building his fortune further; it explained how Donald Trump, in particular, assisted those crimes and crafted new ones. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1802782