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🚨BANNON: Trump for Speaker #Speakerofthehousevote #Speakerofthehouse https://t.co/hBP57jfO1y pic.twitter.com/xm5f54JXmr— Grace Chong 🇺🇸 (@gc22gc) January 5, 2023

WASHINGTON — Before Donald Trump became president and after, his exceedingly complex and voluminous tax returns came under regular scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service. The number of agents assigned to the audit team: one. After Trump left office, the IRS said it was beefing up the audit team, to three. The tax agency itself acknowledged that it was still overwhelmed by the complexity of Trump’s finances and the resistance mounted by the former president and his sophisticated army of accountants and lawyers, which included a former IRS chief counsel and raised questions early last year about why even three...

The amount of income, deductions and taxes paid by or refunded to former President Donald Trump while serving in the White House was detailed in a new report released Tuesday night. The report reveals that Trump on his federal tax returns declared negative income in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2020, and that he paid a total of $1,500 in income taxes for the years 2016 and 2017. On their 2020 income tax returns, Trump and his wife Melania paid no federal income taxes and claimed a refund of $5.47 million, according to the report by the staff of the Joint...

Law professor Tim Canova wrote an op-ed recently about a case before the US Supreme Court, which is yet to get much notice. Canova wrote that a ruling in this case by the high court could have a major impact- even going as far as overturning the national 2020 election. “The case of Brunson v. Adams, not even reported in the mainstream media, was filed pro se by ordinary American citizens,” Canova wrote. Here is Canova’s cred according to his bio: Canova is a Professor of Law and Public Finance at NSU Shepard Broad College of Law, with broad experience...

The relentless attacks on Elon Musk since he purchased Twitter should be familiar to most Americans. It’s exactly what Democrats and their media and corporate allies did to demonize Donald Trump. The McCarthyite formula is simple: Claim you are defending high-minded principles (Democracy! The rule of law! Civil discourse!) to justify efforts to delegitimize someone you’ve identified as a political opponent. Democrats denied Trump’s presidency from day one; Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden themselves declared for years that he had stolen the 2016 election. In the name of election integrity, Democrats turned a bogus conspiracy theory cooked up by Clinton’s...

Although most liberals are hailing Attorney General Merrick Garland for appointing Jack Smith as Special Counsel to investigate Donald Trump, The Nation's Elie Mystal is furious. On MSNBC's The Beat with Ari Melber on Friday, Mystal raged that Trump should have faced a special counsel and been put on trial long before he could announce another run for president.Mystal believes that a special counsel investigation will result in yet more delay so they can't have the Trump trial and conviction that he so desperately desires prior to the next election. He raged against Garland's "self-serving, pearl-clutching press conference."

Now that Merrick Garland appointed Special Counsel Jack Smith to investigate President Trump for the Mar-a-Lago documents and his role in the events of January 6, shouldn't the Republican led Congress KEEP the January 6 Committee?Of course, the Mar-a-Lago documents are a JOKE since the Washington Post just admitted that there are no very sensitive documents and they even claimed Trump kept them for reasons of ego but nothing nefarious.As far as President Trump's role in January 6, it seems there is a bit of double jeopardy here since wasn't he already tried for his during his Second Impeachment trial...

President Trump responded to the latest special counsel investigation by the Joe Biden regime. AG Merrick Garland announced on Friday he was opening another special investigation of President Donald Trump three days after he announced his run for president. Advertisement - story continues below Tonight President Trump responded to the junk investigation at Mar-a-Lago. The video was from GETTR Live. FOX News refused to air it. President Trump told his Mar-a-Lago guests, ' “We cannot let them get away with it… Why is there not a special counsel for them? I’ve done nothing wrong. They’ve been involved in criminal activity…....

A week after the midterm elections, The Washington Post reported something that didn't please their Trump-hating subscribers. It turns out leftists were wrong to imply Donald Trump took classified documents to Mar-a-Lago to sell to our enemies. The story by Devlin Barrett and Josh Dawsey was headlined, "Investigators see ego, not money, as Trump’s motive on classified papers."

There is nothing funnier than watching leftist Punchinellos beclown themselves over the latest “We’ve got Trump NOW!” hijinks. Remember when the FBI raided Trump’s home supposedly looking for “nuclear secrets” a few months back? Guess how that turned out? I’ll let the quislings at the Washinton Post spell it out:Federal agents and prosecutors have come to believe former president Donald Trump’s motive for allegedly taking and keeping classified documents was largely his ego and a desire to hold on to the materials as trophies or mementos, according to people familiar with the matter.In other words, Trump was keeping souvenirs, as...

“I ran twice. I WON twice. I did much better the second time. And now, in order to make our country successful and safe and glorious, I will very, very, very probably do it again.” – President Donald J. Trump, November 2022.President Trump officially declared during a special announcement at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday night that he is running to retake the White House in 2024. A massive crowd erupted in thunderous cheers and applause, celebrating Trump’s inevitable return to the Oval Office.Refusing to back down from his goal to Make America Great Again, President Trump is sending an unmistakable message...

The GOP establishment is already trying to ding The Donald for its own underwhelming strategies and messaging. Do not buy it.A flurry of phone calls and texts at 2am taught me that some long-standing MAGA stalwarts are now preparing to ditch Donald Trump because they didn’t get the flood of feel good results last night. This attitude is incorrect, and sober analysis proves it. The “OMG RED WAVE!!!” brigade are now the most vociferously disappointed. They set expectations so high – all the while carrying water for a Republican National Committee and party leadership led by the deeply unpopular Kevin...

Amid reports former President Donald Trump had to be talked out of making his 2024 presidential campaign declaration Saturday night in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Trump teased a potential announcement Monday night in Ohio. "I ran twice, I won twice, and I did much better the second time than I did the first, getting millions and millions more votes in 2020 that we got in 2016 – and likewise getting more votes than any sitting president in the history of our country by far," Trump told his Save America rally in Miami, Florida, on Sunday night, which aired live on Newsmax. "And,...

President Donald Trump has responded after the Democrats’ Jan. 6 Committee officially issued a subpoena for him to testify before Congress. Trump has reportedly said that he will accept the subpoena and is happy to testify, provided he can do it on live TV. According to reports, Trump will agree to testify but doesn’t want the Democrats and their allies in the media to selectively edit his video testimony to make him look bad. NYT correspondent Michael Schmidt said: “Since it became public that the House select committee planned to subpoena Trump for his testimony, the former president has been...

It was all a setup. From Ray Epps – to opening the magnetic doors from the inside – to the dozens of fed operatives in the crowd – to Ginger Gun – to firing flash bombs and gas canisters on unsuspecting grandmas and seniors – to the mass arrests of hundreds of innocent Trump supporters who were waved into the US Capitol. Now we have the proof that it was all a setup and the entire thing was filmed by a pre-staged camera crew. On Thursday CNN released never-before-seen footage of Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell inside the US Capitol...

New footage from January 6, 2021, shows a candid moment where House Speaker Nancy Pelosi threatened to physically strike then-President Trump, should he have joined those protesting at the Capitol. In the video, which was publicly shared Thursday, Pelosi admits the actions could have resulted in her going to prison — a consequence she said she would "be happy" to accept. "I hope he comes, I’m going to punch him out," Pelosi tells her Chief of Staff Terri McCullough, who discourages her boss from making the comments. "I’ve been waiting for this, for trespassing on the Capitol grounds. I’m going...

The January 6 Committee with Liz Cheney will reconvene today in Washington DC. .... Snip.... Politico reported: Donald Trump’s bid to subvert the 2020 election didn’t end on Jan. 6, 2021, or even when he left office. Since then he’s gone to even further lengths to delegitimize his defeat. That ongoing effort will be a centerpiece of the Jan. 6 select committee’s next — and perhaps final — televised pitch to Americans on Thursday. “Tune in for our discussion of Trump’s clear and present danger presented to democracy and freedom in America by a movement that he’s galvanized,” panel member...

Update: The January 6 Committee on Thursday unanimously voted to subpoena Trump.

The January 6 Committee on Thursday plans to vote on whether to subpoena Trump. Americans DO NOT care about the January 6 panel. NBC reported: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol plans to vote to subpoena former President Donald Trump, sources familiar with the committee’s plans told NBC News Thursday. Members of the panel, which held what was expected to be its final hearing before the midterm elections Thursday, had previously said that they were still considering seeking an interview with Trump or former Vice President Mike Pence. Members of the committee focused the hearing...

JUST IN - Jan 6th Committee plans to vote to subpoena former President Donald Trump during today’s hearing - NBC News sources