For decades, Donald Trump and his family have allegedly avoided paying both state and federal taxes through a series out accounting tricks and outright fraud, the New York Times reported Tuesday. And it now appears that the penalties for that fraud could be fines so large that Trump and his children would be left without […]
On Monday evening, Donald Trump announced his nominee to serve on the Supreme Court as the replacement for retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. Trump showered Judge Brett Kavanaugh with praise and claimed he was the most qualified candidate for the job. But it now appears that questions about Kavanaugh’s personal finances may wind up sinking his […]
Now that House Speaker Paul Ryan and his GOP minions have managed to pass a giant tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, they’re halfway to realizing Ryan’s Ayn Randian dream of eliminating the social safety net that includes Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. On CNN Tuesday morning, two political analysts — David Drucker and A.B. […]
Knowing what we do about the attorneys already hired by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, we can begin to speculate on the charges he will seek to prove against President Trump and other members of the Trump campaign. So far, there have been reports that Mueller is making a case against Trump for obstruction of justice related to […]
Despite his repeated assurances that he would not profit from being president, a new report from The Washington Post suggests those promises are, like nearly everything Donald Trump says, a lie. As recently as March of this year, during a trip Trump and his wife Melania made to the president’s exclusive Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, […]
According to Donald Trump and other Republicans, the Keystone XL pipeline is absolutely necessary if the United States plans to become energy independent. But a Nebraska farmer completely wrecked that argument in an interview with Fox News. Art Tanderup is a farmer who lives outside of Neligh, Nebraska, and would be directly affected by the […]
Over the course of the 2016 election, Donald Trump often had trouble raising money to fund his campaign, and now he’s having that same problem of stirring up funds to pay staffers on his transition team. Trump has dispatched Kellyanne Conway to Buffalo, New York, where she will speak at a $5,000 a person gathering in […]
During the 2016 race for the White House, Donald Trump repeatedly accused former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of using the Clinton Foundation as a way of enriching herself by providing favors to those who would make large donations. Trump said it was the perfect example of “pay-for-play.” But now it appears Trump and his […]
Some Republicans are getting very nervous about Donald Trump’s refusal to place his extensive business holdings in a blind trust, and they’re warning that refusal–along with questions about the Trump Foundation–could have catastrophic consequences for the President-elect and the GOP. Wednesday on CNN, GOP strategist Ana Navarro said lots of Republicans who have embraced Trump […]
Even though Donald Trump brags that he never ever settles lawsuits which are filed against him, it now appears that he is about to settle the class action fraud lawsuit brought against him in the Trump University matter, according to a report from CNBC. Sources close to the case told a reporter that Trump would […]