From:
david.j.worrell@gmail.com
In a series of Twitter posts, President Trump urged Attorney
General Jeff Sessions to end the special counsel investigation,
an extraordinary appeal to the nation’s top law enforcement official.
Mr. Sessions has recused himself from overseeing the special
counsel’s inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign.
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That's really all the information you need right there. :)
Trump calls on an attorney general who recused himself
to end an investigation that heavily involves his own staff.
That is a blatant attempt at "obstruction of justice".
Our president is an actual gangster.
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Trump’s Crony Capitalists Plot a New Heist
Treasury secretary Minn floats a plan to hand $100 billion
in capital gains tax savings to his moneyed friends.
It’s almost certainly illegal.
It seems that last year’s $1.5 trillion tax-cut package,
despite heavily favoring affluent investors and corporate titans
over workers of modest means, was insufficiently generous to the
wealthy to satisfy certain members of the Trump administration.
So now Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin offers an exciting plan
to award an additional $100 billion tax cut to the richest Americans.
Independent analyses say that a whopping 97 percent of the savings
from Mr. Mnuchin’s plan would go to the highest 10 percent of
income earners. (For the severely math challenged, that would leave
a paltry 3 percent to be divvied up by the remaining 90 percent of
the country.) Two-thirds of all savings would go to the top
0.1 percent of income earners.
So in rough dollar terms, the administration is looking to hand
$66 billion-plus to the ultrarich like — just to name a few —
Mr. Mnuchin, who did very, very well during his years at
Goldman Sachs (and already has a net worth estimated at
$252 million); Wilbur Ross, the loaded secretary of commerce
(estimated net worth: $506.5 million); Betsy DeVos, the even
richer secretary of education (about $1.1 billion); and,
of course, the extended Trump-Kushner clan.
Congress has never authorized the Treasury Department to
interpret tax law in the bizarre way the secretary is advocating.
And the last time such a possibility was floated, in 1992,
President George Bush’s Justice Department shot it down with
extreme prejudice.
The NY Times summed it up:
"Thus die the final vestiges of this president’s
pretty little narrative about being a populist hero."
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How blatant is that shit? :) White-collar gangsters giving
themselves payday after payday, when even a previous Republican
administration called what they're trying to do illegal.
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