SOROS STOOGE DAVID BROCK
Posted on 03/16/2017 11:59:10 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Hillary Clinton ally David Brock has again offered money for information on President Donald Trump.
Brock, a Democratic operative who founded the progressive group American Bridge, said Tuesday night he is offering a $5 million reward to anyone who can provide him Trump's "complete, legally obtained tax returns."
The two tweets were in response to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow's report that same night on Trump's 2005 tax returns, which revealed that the president earned $153 million and paid $36.5 million in income taxes that year.
Brock echoed many Trump critics who were disappointed Maddow's report did not reveal any damaging information about Trump, writing that he was left with "more questions than answers."
David Brock ✔ @davidbrockdc Maddow just opened the floodgates. Last year, I offered a $5m reward for anyone w Trump tax returns. Offer stands for new information. 9:25 PM - 14 Mar 2017 1,590 1,590 Retweets 2,679 2,679 likes
David Brock ✔ @davidbrockdc More questions than answers tonight. I'm offering a $5m reward to anyone with Trump's complete, legally obtained tax returns. 9:46 PM - 14 Mar 2017 5,621 5,621 Retweets 8,028 8,028 likes
Last year, Brock posted a plea on the website of Correct the Record, a super PAC he operates, asking for damaging audio or video of Trump yet to be released. Brock made the request during the 2016 presidential campaign and offered an unspecified amount of money.
Correct the Record's website claimed that, in order to make educated decisions about the candidates, voters needed to see "video or audio in the form of prior television or radio interviews or more candid video from events a candidate may have attended."
"TrumpLeaks is an effort to uncover unreported video or audio of Donald Trump so voters can have access to the Donald Trump who existed before running for president and before his recent affinity for teleprompters," Correct the Record said. "TrumpLeaks can provide some compensation to those who have usable, undoctored video or audio that has been legally obtained or is legally accessible."
Brock has continued his campaign assault since Trump was elected president. In January, he pitched his plans to use Shareblue, a media platform he owns, to take down Trump through impeachment at a private retreat for Democratic donors.
SOROS STOOGE DAVID BROCK
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When you have a moment please check out The Citizen’s Audit to see what David Brock is doing!
http://www.thecitizensaudit.com
Isn’t Trump the only person who can provide “complete, legally obtained tax returns”? It’s probably a safe and meaningless offer but will get lots of liberals fired up.
We could come up with fake tax returns for Trump, and claim that they’re the originals.
It worked for Obama with his fake birth certificates, so, since liberals are so easily duped, the scheme could work.
Yep I wondered that too. How is someone going to have legally obtained copies of the tax returns???
It seems that offering money for anyone’s tax returns should be illegal. He’s offering money for something that will most likely require someone to commit an illegal act.
LOL! The only person that collect that reward is President Trump.
David Brock’s Super PAC Has Made Over $1 Million in Rent Payments to a Company That Might Not Exist
How hard can it be to make those up and sell them to him?
Its like trading in broken guns for cash.
Correction
“Its like trading in fake or toy guns for cash.”
Solicitation of a felony is a felony.
Paging Jeff Sessions.
Money Laundering
It’s a crime called bribery.
I’d like to see President Trump collect that $5M . . . and donate it to the NRA. Hand over another return that shows him paying the rates we do, perhaps even donating far more to charity than liberals do.
Brock...I’ll send you MY tax returns for only $1 million...
Brock was formerly the domestic partner of William Grey; their relationship ended in a bitter, three-year-long legal battle in which “Brock and Grey traded angry accusations, ... replete with charges of blackmail, theft and financial malfeasance” related to a Rehoboth Beach, Delaware house that the two once shared. Grey filed a lawsuit against Brock in January 2011, and Brock countersued Grey in March 2011.[56] The dispute was settled at the end of 2011 on confidential terms.
The returns will not be legally obtained without consent from Donald Trump so if this psycho homosexual ever lays hands on them I can just about guarantee that he’s being trolled.
Media Matters boss paid former partner $850G ‘blackmail’ settlement
By Jana Winter February 27, 2012
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/27/media-matters-boss-paid-former-partner-850g-blackmail-settlement.html
Media Matters chief David Brock paid a former domestic partner $850,000 after being threatened with damaging information involving the organization’s donors and the IRS – a deal that Brock later characterized as a blackmail payment, according to legal documents obtained by FoxNews.com.
In an acrimonious lawsuit settled at the end of last year, Brock accused William Grey of making repeated threats to expose him to the “scorn or ridicule of his employees, donors and the press in demanding money and property.” Brock claimed in legal papers that he sold a Rehoboth Beach, Del., home he once shared with Grey in order to meet Grey’s demands, which he called “blackmail” in the lawsuit.
Brock, 49, heads the non-profit Media Matters for America, which bills itself as a watchdog of the conservative media but has recently come under fire for allegedly coordinating with Democrats in what could be a violation of its tax-exempt status.
Brock’s bitter legal battle with Grey, who is described in a Sept. 14, 2010, police report obtained by FoxNews.com as his domestic partner of more than 10 years, began after Brock began dating Washington, D.C., restaurant impresario James Alefantis about five years ago. For the next three years, Brock and Grey traded angry accusations, which were documented in the police report and were the foundation of a pitched legal battle replete with charges of blackmail, theft and financial malfeasance.
Read the police report detailing the lawsuit
Alefantis was also named as a defendant in Grey’s lawsuit.
In his response to Brock’s lawsuit, Grey “denies that he committed any “acts of blackmail.””
Grey threatened to go public about Brock and Media Matters’ finances after he accused Brock in a civil suit filed in Washington of taking $170,000 in possessions, including an $8,000 Louis Vuitton suit bag, paintings, a rug, a chandelier, a painted bust of a Roman soldier and a pair of carved wooden chairs upholstered with purple fabric. Those possessions were displayed in the Washington townhouse where the couple entertained liberal movers and shakers in happier times.
Brock took Grey’s threats seriously and called police in 2010. In the police report, filed by Metropolitan Police as a stalking incident, Brock accused Grey, also 49, of attempting to blackmail him with a series of emails threatening to “release specific derogatory information about [Brock] and his organization to the press and donors that would be embarrassing to him and cause harm to the organization …”
Some of those emails came out as the lawsuit, filed by Grey on Jan. 28, 2011, wound its way through Superior Court of the District of Columbia last year.
Read the complete lawsuit filed by William Grey
“Please finish this today so I don’t have to waste my time emailing anyone – Biden, Coulter, Carlson, Huffington, Drudge, Ingraham,” Grey wrote in a 2008 email.
Nearly two years later, Grey accused Brock of “financial malfeasance” and threatened to undermine Brock’s fundraising efforts.
“Next step is I contact all your donors and the IRS,” Grey wrote in an email dated May 19, 2010. “This is going to stink for you if you do not resolve this now.”
Brock said in court papers that he paid Grey “under duress.”
On March 8, 2011, Brock filed his own suit against Grey for more than $4 million, demanding Grey return the $850,000, plus pay millions more in punitive damages. The two settled two months ago under terms that remain confidential.
Read the complete counterclaim filed by David Brock
Paying off Grey may not have been easy for Brock, even with his salary of nearly $300,000 at Media Matters. Records show Brock had pulled massive amounts of equity from the six-bedroom Rehoboth Beach house as its value skyrocketed during the real estate bubble.
Sussex County property records show he took out a $273,000 mortgage to buy the pale yellow colonial and carriage house for $606,666 in 1995. As the converted inn, built in 1793, continued to rise in value, Brock refinanced his loan on at least two occasions. Records show he had a $1.44 million mortgage on the property, as well as two more loans against the home totaling just over $500,000.
Brock received $1,587,500 for the home on May 25, 2010, in a sale to McLean, Va.-based Vardell Realty Investments. It could not be determined how much Brock still owed on the $1.44 million mortgage, or how much he netted from the sale, if any.
Records indicate that Brock had paid off the two smaller loans at the time of the sale.
Within a year of selling the house, Brock apparently had second thoughts about paying off Grey. In the civil suit, Brock accused Grey of three counts of blackmail, citing a statute that defines blackmail as threatening “to expose a secret or publicize a fact, whether true or false, tending to subject any person to hatred, contempt, or ridicule, to impair the reputation of any person.”
He countersued to get his $850,000 back, plus $500,000 for each of three counts of alleged blackmail, and another $2 million in compensatory damages based in part on what Brock’s lawyers called abuse of the judicial system and legal fees.
Grey, who relocated to Massachusetts, declined to comment when contacted by FoxNews.com. Brock and Alefantis remain in Washington, where Brock has released a new book attacking Fox News. He is also under scrutiny from several members of Congress amid reports Media Matters for America is in possible violation of IRS laws governing nonprofits.
The Rehoboth Beach home was torn down months after Brock sold it, amid much community opposition, so the buyer could divide the parcel and build two homes. It remains a vacant lot.
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