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TheCatt wrote: Trump got lots of wealth from his dad, not (just) a $1million loan.

But The Times’s investigation, based on a vast trove of confidential tax returns and financial records, reveals that Mr. Trump received the equivalent today of at least $413 million from his father’s real estate empire, starting when he was a toddler and continuing to this day.

Much of this money came to Mr. Trump because he helped his parents dodge taxes. He and his siblings set up a sham corporation to disguise millions of dollars in gifts from their parents, records and interviews show. Records indicate that Mr. Trump helped his father take improper tax deductions worth millions more. He also helped formulate a strategy to undervalue his parents’ real estate holdings by hundreds of millions of dollars on tax returns, sharply reducing the tax bill when those properties were transferred to him and his siblings.

These maneuvers met with little resistance from the Internal Revenue Service, The Times found. The president’s parents, Fred and Mary Trump, transferred well over $1 billion in wealth to their children, which could have produced a tax bill of at least $550 million under the 55 percent tax rate then imposed on gifts and inheritances.

Trump had 2 brothers and 2 sisters?

Leisher wrote: Republicans ask for therapy notes and lie detector test results for Ford.

I'm guessing the Democrats will staunchly refuse.

Behind these doors is the area where the FBI report being held. This is as far as the press can go.

It's the Senate SCIF in the Capitol Visitors Center -- the secure area where senators will be able to read the report this morning in scheduled shifts. Judiciary Committee Republican staff got the first look at the FBI’s findings at 8 a.m.

Now, as of 9 a.m., Democrats took over the room.

It will rotate, every other hour, for the rest of the day.

Leisher wrote: That's not pro-R or anti-D, I just think the Supreme court should be conservative. They should be the brakes on the car that is the U.S.

The Justice Department on Thursday announced criminal charges against seven Russian intelligence officers, accusing them in a sprawling indictment of hacking, wire fraud, identity theft and money laundering as part of an effort to distract from Russia's state-sponsored doping program.

Three of the defendants were also charged in the hacking of US persons involved in the 2016 election, Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division John Demers said during a news conference, but the current indictment does not arise out of special counsel Robert Mueller's work.
According to the indictment, all seven defendants are members of the GRU, a Russian Federation intelligence agency within the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian military. They are accused of sophisticated cyberintrusions and the victims were anti-doping agencies and officials, sporting federations, and nearly 250 athletes.

Leisher wrote: I figure confirmation is guaranteed.

Vince wrote: Heh... turns out the "boof" and "devil's triangle" smoking guns of lying under oath were confirmed under penalty of perjury by other classmates.

GORDON wrote: everyone's still mentally ill. I'm hoping for riots in DC.

GORDON wrote: People want an authoritarian government now, making sure people say and think only the proper things.

Leisher wrote:

Look who got arrested protesting Kavanaugh. Watch the video. WTF?

TheCatt wrote:

Leisher wrote:

Look who got arrested protesting Kavanaugh. Watch the video. WTF?

To be fair, Emily is hot