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Former Trump Lawyer Investigated For $20 Million Tax/Bank Fraud

The New York Times is reporting that Donald Trump's former personal attorney and 'fixer,' Michael Cohen, is being investigated for possible tax and bank fraud to the tune of $20 million in loans related to the taxi business he and his family own.
Former Trump lawyer, Michael Cohen

The New York Times is reporting that Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and ‘fixer,’ Michael Cohen, is being investigated for possible tax and bank fraud to the tune of $20 million in loans related to the taxi business he and his family own.

Investigators are also examining whether Mr. Cohen violated campaign finance or other laws by helping to arrange financial deals to secure the silence of women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump. The inquiry has entered the final stage and prosecutors are considering filing charges by the end of August, two of the people said.

Any criminal charges against Mr. Cohen would deal a significant blow to the president. Mr. Cohen, 52, worked for the president’s company, the Trump Organization, for more than a decade. He was one of Mr. Trump’s most loyal and visible aides and called himself the president’s personal lawyer after Mr. Trump took office.

Trump keeps calling the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller a “witch hunt.”

If that were true, Mueller sure has found a considerable number of witches to indict.

Trump is also angry that Mueller is filing indictments that don’t seem related to “Russian interference,” but the Special Counsel was charged with investigating not only the election interference but any crimes that might arise from the investigation.

Does it make any sense that the police, while investigating a robbery, should ignore a dead body they trip over in the course of the investigation?

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Trump, Of All People, Denounces “Censorship” In Morning Twitter Rant

Donald Trump, who earlier this week took away former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance as punishment for speaking out against him, took to Twitter this morning to denounce (of all things) "censorship."
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Donald Trump, who earlier this week took away former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance as punishment for speaking out against him, took to Twitter this morning to denounce (of all things) “censorship.”

Claiming “social media is totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices,” the Trumpster lamented that “Too many voices are being destroyed, some good & some bad.”

This probably has more to do with nutjob/InfoWars host Alex Jones being shut out of practically all social media for his continued baseless rantings.

Remember, Jones is the guy who claimed the Sandy Hook shooting was faked. He publicly called out to Trump to save him from being cut off of social media.

This looks like his request has been answered.

Note: Trump appears to have tweeted these missives right after Fox & Friends discussed the issue – more proof that Trump has never had an original thought in his life.

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Donald Trump: It’s “Sad” They Caught My Tax-Cheating Former Campaign Chairman

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A presidential pardon for Paul Manafort is on its way, trust me.

Donald Trump yelled at the press this morning on the White House lawn, telling them he was going to New York and New Jersey for “work, all work.”

He gets very defensive about his golf games, doesn’t he?

Along the way he predicted the 2018 midterms would be very good for Republicans, and he claimed he’s received great support for revoking John Brennan’s security clearance, ending up with this about his former campaign chair:

“I think the whole Manafort trial is very sad. If you look at what’s going on, it’s a very sad day for our country.He worked for me for a very short period of time, but you know what? He happens to be a very good person. And I think it’s very sad what they’ve done to Paul Manafort.”

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Trump Blames “Local Politicians” For The Cancellation Of His $92 Million Military Parade

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This morning’s Twitter rant from Donald Trump went after “local politicians” in Washington, D.C. who Trump blamed for the astronomical price tag on his ego-stroke of a military parade.

When the cost of putting on the parade (that only Trump wants) jumped from $12 million to $92 million, the Pentagon cancelled (“postponed”) the ceremonial waste of money.

“The local politicians who run Washington, D.C. (poorly) know a windfall when they see it. When asked to give us a price for holding a great celebratory military parade, they wanted a number so ridiculously high that I cancelled it. Never let someone hold you up!,” wrote the Trumpster.

“I will instead attend the big parade already scheduled at Andrews Air Force Base on a different date, & go to the Paris parade, celebrating the end of the War, on November 11th. Maybe we will do something next year in D.C. when the cost comes WAY DOWN. Now we can buy some more jet fighters!” he added.

To be clear, I’m all for supporting and honoring our military. But instead of Trump getting off on his own little ego trip, how about we spend the $92 million on helping homeless and unemployed vets?

The mayor of Washington, D.C. clapped back at the prez saying she was the one who brought “the realities of parades” to the reality star in the White House.

#Boom

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Pentagon Cancels Trump’s Military Parade After Price Tag Jumps To $92 Million

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Donald Trump was so impressed by the Bastille Day celebration in France last year, he decided he wanted to throw a similar parade utilizing the U.S. military.

A big to-do marching down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.

Usually such expressions of military might are rare and occur after the end of a major conflict. The last such parade happened in 1991 after the conclusion of the Persian Gulf War.

But Trump wanted his parade even though he’s touted cost-savings in the military lately. Most recently he cancelled military exercises with South Korea saying they were a waste. Those military games would have cost about $14 million.

Early estimates put the price tag for the military parade at around $12 million.

But today, a Pentagon official leaked an updated estimate that showed the parade would cost upwards of $92 million – almost 8 times the original estimate.

And so, this evening The Washington Post is reporting that the parade is now cancelled or postponed with the intention to “explore opportunities in 2019.”

Don’t you think $92 million would be better used helping our veterans in more concrete ways than marching soldiers down the street just to stroke Trump’s ego?

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Trump Rants As Hundreds Of Newspapers Denounce His Attacks On Free Press

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Thanks to a campaign initiated by The Boston Globe, over 350 newspapers across the country issued op-ed pieces in a coordinated defense of the media from Donald Trump’s calls of “fake news.”

The Trumpster, in predictable fashion took to Twitter to rant: “THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA IS THE OPPOSITION PARTY. It is very bad for our Great Country….BUT WE ARE WINNING!”

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White House Can’t ‘Guarantee’ Trump Has Never Used N-Word

 During a White House press briefing today, Donald Trump’s press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters she can’t “guarantee” Trump has never used the N-word when asked about former White House aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman’s allegations about Trump using the racial slur.

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Recording Appears To Show Aides Sought To “Spin” Trump’s Alleged N-Word Recording

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I’m not sure what’s more damning – that there seems to be more evidence that a tape exists with Donald Trump using the N-word, or that his supplicants publicly denied a conversation took place (that you can now hear with your own ears) where they discuss how to ‘spin’ the incident.

Listen below.

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Trump Allegedly Called Junior A “F*ck-Up” For Revealing Trump Tower Russian Meeting

Don Trump Jr. (L) and Donald Trump(R)

According to the New York Daily News, Donald Trump was uber-angry at his junior namesake for releasing emails about his Trump Tower meeting with a Russian government attorney.

President Trump blasted his firstborn son as a “f–kup” after learning he had released emails about a controversial Trump Tower meeting attended by a Kremlin-connected lawyer who had promised dirt on Hillary Clinton, according to Omarosa Manigault Newman’s forthcoming book.

Manigault Newman, who was unceremoniously fired from the White House last December, says the President erupted in anger after she met with him last July and told him she was “sorry to hear” Donald Trump Jr. had posted screengrabs on Twitter of his email exchanges with British publicist Rob Goldstone.

“He is such a f–kup,” Trump said of his son, according to Manigault Newman’s tell-all book, a copy of which was obtained by the Daily News. “He screwed up again, but this time, he’s screwing us all, big-time!” A White House spokeswoman did not immediately return a request for comment. A spokesman for Trump Jr. did not immediately respond either.

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Trump Rants At “Nasty,” “Mean” & “Vicious” Omarosa

Just hours after former White House aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman appeared on television playing recorded conversations with the president, Donald Trump lashed out at the woman who he has repeatedly hired over and over since the beginning on his reality TV show, The Apprentice.

Referring to Omarosa as “nasty” and “mean” (then why did he hire her so often?), Trump tweeted that she was “hated” in the White House for being “vicious.”