Countdown Clock to Trumps impeachment " STARTS"
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The IRS has Trump's tax info.
It's not a big secret.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:This is not a "big secret": the IRS revenue lost is about $3.44 trillion and that is despite having tax info on everyone, including Trump. Tax-compliance rates are much higher than a calculation of risks of being caught would imply. We don’t pay our taxes just because we’re afraid of getting caught; we also feel a responsibility to contribute to the common good. Trump's made it very clear about his feelings of irresponsibility and that he won't be caught.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
The IRS has Trump's tax info.
It's not a big secret.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_evasion_in_the_United_States#Measure
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Maybe the IRS is working for Putin too.
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Quote:Actually, the IRS is working for the GOP, which has steadily reduced the number of tax auditors looking into, say, Trump's tax returns.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Maybe the IRS is working for Putin too.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Trump Budget Continues Multi-Year Assault on IRS Funding
www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/trump-budget-continues-multi-year
-assault-on-irs-funding-despite-mnuchins
2018 Funding Bill Falls Short for the IRS
www.cbpp.org/blog/2018-funding-bill-falls-short-for-the-irs
The 2018 government funding bill, which the House and Senate have now passed, doesn’t include enough Internal Revenue Service (IRS) funding. That’s particularly glaring as the IRS starts implementing a new tax law that creates massive new tax evasion opportunities.
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Russia's manipulation of Twitter was far vaster than believed
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/05/study-russia-cybersecurity-t
witter-1353543
Russia's infamous troll farm conducted a campaign on Twitter before the 2016 elections that was larger, more coordinated and more effective than previously known, research from cybersecurity firm Symantec out Wednesday concluded.
The Internet Research Agency campaign may not only have had more sway — reaching large numbers of real users — than previously thought, it also demonstrated ample patience and might have generated income for some of the phony accounts, Symantec found.
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Maybe everybody is working for Russia.
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Quote:"Maybe every Trump voter is a crook" would be a more likely hypothesis. I've got a great deal of data to prove that hypothesis with all the crooked Trump voters I have fired for stealing power tools, stealing diesel fuel, embezzlement. I recently spent $20,000 to nail a Trump voter who stole 1,500 gallons of fuel, all so that the Harris County prosecutor could make a deal with the crooked Trump voter for only 30 days suspended sentence, a fine, and restitution to me. It was worth it to convict that self-righteous Christian. The Christian Trump voter went on-and-on about how this was a momentary weakness, how sorrowful he felt, and that he had never done such a thing before. That was a lie, but the last time he did it I could prove it was him. It is the same dynamic with Trump -- he has been cheating on his taxes for decades, but it takes expensive detective work to prove even one instance.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Maybe everybody is working for Russia.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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The Articles of Impeachment Against Donald J. Trump: A Draft
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/05/opinion/impeachment-tru
mp-democrats-nixon-clinton.html
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I'm going to explain my "race to the finish" post, as it was somehwat obscure.
As has been made plain to me over and over by various pundits, impeachment isn't a LEGAL process, it's a POLITICAL one. It isn't necessary for House Democrats in this case) or House Republicans (in Bill's case) to find and develop evidence of an actual "crime"; all the Democrats need to do is round up enough votes for impeachment proceedings and take a vote.
So impeach, already! 
I think that the House (and Senate) Democratic leadership have no intention of impeaching, for a variety of possible reasons:
1) It's unpopular with Independents
2) It will probably be doomed to failure in the Senate
3) It might provoke the Trump administration to declassify and dump the dirt that they have on key Democrats
4) Even if, in their wildest dreams they succeed they would be facing Pence in 2020, which may be worse than facing Trump
They just want to keep the talk alive all the way up to the 2020 elections wihout actually going thru with it, so they can make political points for the foreseeable future.
However, their "base" - and most of their candidates - are pretty fired up about impeachment, and they may push the leadership farther than the leadership wants to go.
So impeach already!
From Trump's perspective, he may have a couple of options in mind:
1) He may need to rely on the Senate as a bulwark against impeachment proceedings. Now, much of the Senate might still consist of "old guard" Republicans who are either just as globalist as the Democrats (think Rockefeller and the Bushes) or just as big neocons (thnk McCain and Graham). I would need to do a "head count" and see if this is the case. But if this is true, then the Democratic rumblings for impeachment might be causing Trump to have to pander to the warhawks more than he would like, unable to move forward on key parts of his foreign policy, OR
2) He may not give a fuck because he knows that Barr has evidence of indictable crimes by the former high-ranking DOJ, intelligence, and Democratic officials, including Obama and Hillary.
3) However, since Barr is developing a LEGAL case (unlike impeachment, which is a politial process) it will take time to interview witnesses and collate the evidence, made worse by key people (Steele, Mueller) refusing to cooperate. (I noticed that Steele has agreed to cooperate with Inspector General Horowitz, but not with Prosecutor Dunham.) By the time the evidence is developed to the point of indictment, it may be too close to the election and the Democrats would howl that the indictments were meant to manipuate the election ... as I recall there's supposed to be a six-month "blackout" window before the election, which leaves Barr until roughly April 2020 to bring indictments against people. (I also noticed that Barr is completely ignoring anything Huber might have done, or might be doing. Apparently Huber was just a figurehead, meant to lull people into believing that "something" was being done.)
But I also wonder if that blackout period applies to impeachment as well. Can you beging impeachment proceedings within six months of an upcoming election? Or is this an uneven playing field?
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