Thereafter, we saw the miraculous improvement in Clinton family fortunes as simply a money scandal -- not for what it truly is: solid evidence that rich donors, lawyers, accountants and others in both political parties have captured the Department of Justice, the Internal Revenue Service and other regulatory bodies to protect themselves and to persecute their enemies.
Will the Trump Administration Finally Seize a Golden Opportunity to Punish Clinton Charity Fraudsters?
Four years ago, Donald Trump's campaign attacked Hillary Clinton for her brazen corruption, deriving personal and political gain from "The Clinton Foundation" in a brutal advertisement as well as on the stump.
The TV spot hits Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, on controversies related to her family’s foundation, stating that “staggering amounts of cash poured into the Clinton Foundation from criminals, dictators, countries that hate America” and that “Hillary cut deals for donors.”
Photo credit: Trump 2016 ad
At that time, we did not appreciate just how far outside strict laws a network of supposed charities had operated, starting Oct. 23, 1997 as Bill and Hillary Clinton flirted with disaster, dead broke with even more looming expenses to come fighting impeachment and a raft of scandals.
Thereafter, we saw the miraculous improvement in Clinton family fortunes as simply a money scandal -- not for what it truly is: solid evidence that rich donors, lawyers, accountants and others in both political parties have captured the Department of Justice, the Internal Revenue Service and other regulatory bodies to protect themselves and to persecute their enemies.
How else do you explain obvious ongoing frauds in which many deceived the public, claiming that the original Clinton charity, The William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation, and its successors, actually existed lawfully in all jurisdictions where they operated, when they manifestly did not?
How do you explain that James Comey and Robert Mueller "missed" these massive crimes when, in theory, the FBI investigated "The Clinton Foundation" as grand juries were empaneled from 2001 through 2005?
Then, during the Obama Administration, how do you explain that gross abuses perpetrated against conservative charities and their donors by Lois Lerner and others in the I.R.S. and by Justice Department officials were never punished, as they must be?
What all Americans have suffered for decades has a name: it is called an "abuse of discretion" and it is starkly illustrated in a recent memorandum opinion issued in the U.S. Tax Court.
New Developments in an Important Case
A large tree fell in the forest on Oct. 8, 2020, and those of us who expect all charities to organize and operate lawfully will, in time, be pleased once they appreciate the significance of this long-awaited development.
Against difficult odds, Larry Doyle and John Moynihan made crucial progress in U.S. Tax Court, fighting against the I.R.S. Commissioner in their quest to be compensated for bringing evidence in a whistleblower complaint against a group of related "charities." Perhaps you have followed their determined quest since 2017 to fight against charity crimes?
As is customary in these matters while they remain in contention, the specific identity of the target is kept confidential in publicly available versions of legal filings so we can only guess the entities which Doyle and Moynihan targeted in their complaint.
The Opinion, available here, explains on page 4 that Doyle and Moynihan:
"...submitted approximately 100 exhibits in excess of 6,000 pages compiled from their three plus year investigation. These exhibits and evidence lay out the clear framework of the wrongdoings committed by...[the target] and include the following: Application Letters; Determination Letters and Articles of Incorporation; Income Statements; Tax Returns (foreign and domestic); Consent Decrees; Memorandums of Understanding with foreign governments; Program Plans for entity in question; Partnerships; Audits, foreign and domestic; Contractual Agreements with Non-Governmental Organizations; Reviews of State Registration Forms; IG Reports of Entities, foreign and domestic; Internal Legal Reviews of Entity in Question; Reviews of E-mail Exvhanges Between Entity Executives and Government Officials; Donor Tax Returns; Regulatory Reviews, Actions, and Subsequent Legal Settlement with Entity Partner; Interviews with Whistleblower[s] and Current and Former Executives of Entity."
As the Opinion notes, information provided by Doyle and Moynihan met the legal requirement of being "specific credible information."
Based upon what I have examined in the public domain, this body of evidence sounds like it pertains to the various Clinton charities that have emerged beginning in 1997.
Here, I would note that the original Clinton "charity" was only authorized to perform work as a tax-exempt organization inside a small city park in Little Rock, Arkansas. I would also note that exemption was granted for an "organization," and that no Clinton charity was "organized" lawfully on or after Oct. 23, 1997.
With all this evidence and after so much time passed to consider it, what did the I.R.S. do?
First, they denied the Whistleblower complaint more than once. Then, the I.R.S. Commissioner moved to dismiss their case on appeal in the U.S. Tax Court.
As you will see, the Tax Court Judge denied the I.R.S. Commissioner's request for dismissal and cited elements within the I.R.S. for engaging in an "abuse of discretion." So now, the matter will continue until it is resolved.
I am not a lawyer (nor accountant) but I cannot reconcile behavior of the I.R.S. in this case with its aggressive and swift actions against much smaller charities.
The question now before voters in this pivotal 2020 election is: will the Trump Administration do all that it can to ensure justice prevails in this and related matters?
For, if President Trump trains his determination and his considerable power on this unresolved controversy, he can make decisive progress keeping one important, yet unmet promise, to "Drain the Deep State Swamp."
Uncontrolled, complex "charities" are perfect conduits for influence-peddling and for money-laundering. Those operating in the names of dynastic political families must all be brought to justice and pay heavy prices once they are found to have systematically broken federal, state, and foreign laws.
9 Warning Signs of Democrat Radicalization
The United Kingdom's Home Office has a national security webpage delineating the warning signs of "radicalization," and it provides a remarkably accurate description of the political left here in America.
(1) Becoming increasingly argumentative
When was the last time Democrats looked happy about anything? For them, we are in a perpetual state of danger and misery. Unconscious racism taints everything in America. Masculinity is toxic. Carbon dioxide emissions — the very gas we exhale with each breath — guarantee the planet's doom in five or ten or twenty years' time. Math is racist. Merit is racist. Working hard, owning a home, getting married, and having children are all threateningly normative. Virtue and vice are too judgmental. The representative image of the Democratic Party is no longer FDR or JFK; it is the indelible video clip of a young woman screaming at the sky on the day of President Trump's inauguration.
(2) Refusing to listen to differing points of view or engage with others who are different
"The science is settled," the left argues, so there is no reason to use the scientific method or cost-benefit analysis to determine whether tens of trillions of dollars in global spending is effective at fighting fluctuations in future planetary temperatures or merely effective at ceding expansive powers over every individual on Earth to international "authorities" and government bureaucrats. Refusing to embrace socialized medicine is just evidence of racism against Barack Obama. Refusing to elevate to the Oval Office a corrupt and congenital liar who used her position as secretary of state to enrich her own "charitable" foundation demonstrates how sexist most Americans are. Adhering to the Constitution as written and respecting our Founding Fathers and founding documents are proof that America is both "patriarchal" and "white supremacist." The left is no longer interested in debate — just pejorative labels.
(3) Becoming abusive to others who are different
"A basket of deplorables." "Uneducated racists, clinging to guns and Bibles." "The dogma lives loudly in you." "Racism is wired into the American mind." From the highest-ranking Democrats to the lowly foot soldiers looting and burning down small businesses throughout the country, violence and intimidation of Americans are now justified by labeling some Americans as unworthy of the protections of American law. If you threaten strangers and destroy property in the name of Black Lives Matter or Antifa, then local Democrat prosecutors will make sure you never answer for your crimes. If you exercise your Second Amendment right to protect the lives of your family and secure your property, those same Democrat prosecutors will threaten your liberty and future. If you riot in the name of "justice," then you are performing a public service. If you seek spiritual salvation by attending church or synagogue, then you are a public health threat. When Democrats are in office, there are two tiers of justice in America, one for protecting Democrats and one for harassing Republicans. Former attorney general Eric Holder aptly articulated this reality when he argued that the fight against Republicans is "not about principle" but about the "acquisition and use of power."
(4) Embracing conspiracy theories
When recently inaugurated President Trump tweeted that Obama had his "wires tapped" during the 2016 campaign, the mainstream media mocked and scorned him as a conspiracy theorist and loon. They then spent four years trying to prove to the American people that Trump had conspired with Russia to "hack" the 2016 election and steal legitimate victory from Hillary Clinton. "Russian collusion" has been a journalistic obsession, and it was all a lie. There is, however, considerable evidence that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama conspired with John Brennan at the CIA and James Comey at the FBI, along with numerous other high-ranking intelligence, law enforcement, and State Department personnel, to frame candidate and then president Trump as an agent of a hostile government. All the American institutions that demand public respect have peddled baseless conspiracies for four years, while those few Americans who have defended President Trump from attack have been denigrated as kooks and charlatans.
(5) Feeling persecuted
For Democrats, the most important person is the one who can claim highest victimhood. Being gay is always better than being straight. Being female is better than being male, but being transgender is better still. The shade of a person's skin color is always more important than the content of that person's character. Evidence of persecution is the noblest virtue for the left. Unless you or your family has been a victim of socialism or communism — then you do not exist at all.
(6) Distancing from old friends and changing appearance
When Antifa domestic terrorists dress from head to toe in black while throwing Molotov cocktails at police officers in upscale urban neighborhoods, can we all agree that the left has no interest in peace? When MSNBC commentator Chris Hayes insists that the "most humane way ... to deal" with Republicans after the election is a "truth and reconciliation commission" similar to communist regimes' use of re-education camps, and neo-socialist Bill Kristol responds by promising that no reconciliation is possible with Trump-supporters, is it time to recognize that former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo's fantasies of violent revolution and political assassination should be taken seriously? The Antifa and BLM riots this year have been the costliest in American history. Members of Bernie Sanders's campaign openly talk about guillotines in the town square, and Hollywood celebrities celebrate the Chinese coronavirus as "God's gift to the left." All of these threats come just three years after a single Democrat nearly succeeded in murdering an entire baseball field of Republican lawmakers. These are not our old Democrat friends.
(7) Converting to a new religion
Leftism is dogmatic. It demands fealty and does not tolerate dissent. If you place personal liberty and free markets ahead of "Mother Earth," then you are a climate change "denier." If you refuse to repent for the sins of past generations, kneel before BLM flags, and seek forgiveness for the color of your skin, then you are a "hater," a "supremacist," or "un-woke." The Democrats abandoned working people for grievance culture, and every grievance must be used to divide Americans for good. Mercy and forgiveness are gone; only hatred and intolerance are preached.
(8) Being secretive and reluctant to discuss activities
Will a President Biden pack the Supreme Court? Help kill the filibuster in the Senate? Continue to support Antifa and BLM rioting throughout the country? Confiscate lawfully owned firearms? Eliminate fracking and destroy high-paying coal and natural gas mining jobs? Sacrifice American manufacturing so that communist China may prosper? Remove America's embassy from Jerusalem, while strengthening Iran in the Middle East? Biden won't say. He's made only two promises this campaign: to raise taxes and to mandate the wearing of masks by executive decree. Every other policy is a secret.
(9) Sympathetic to extremist ideologies and groups
If Republican-allied anarchist groups around the country were causing billions of dollars in property damage, assassinating police officers and political opponents, threatening suburban homeowners, and setting forest fires across the Pacific Northwest, every newspaper and news show in the United States would be highlighting the civil insurrection threatening the country. Because all of this damage has been organized and committed by left-leaning groups, the news is actively censored both by traditional news corporations and the Silicon Valley tech lords regulating free speech today.
Democrats have become radicalized. They have become violent. And Facebook and Google and Twitter and CNN believe that it is in the best interest of the country to hide this truth from the American people.
Eric Trump
claims family 'lost a fortune' in pushback of pay-for-play report
ADAM KELSEY
Responding to a story that reported that hundreds of
corporations, special interest groups and foreign governments seeking benefits patronized
Trump Organization properties in recent years, the president's son argued
Sunday that the groups represent a small proportion of their business and that
his father has not benefited monetarily from his office.
"We've lost a fortune. My father lost a fortune running for
president. He doesn't care," Eric Trump, an executive vice president with
the Trump Organization, said on ABC's "This Week." "He wanted to
do what was right. The last thing I can tell you Donald Trump needs in the world is this
job."
The comments come a day after a New York Times
story reported
that President Trump "transplanted favor-seeking in Washington to his
family's hotels and resorts -- and earned millions as a gatekeeper to his own
administration." The article, citing the president's tax records, reports
that of the hundreds of individuals and entities seeking favor, "60
customers with interests at stake before the Trump administration brought his
family business nearly $12 million during the first two years of his
presidency."
"Almost all saw their interests advanced, in some fashion,
by Mr. Trump or his government," the news story continued.
ABC News has not viewed the president's taxes and cannot confirm
the Times' reporting.
On "This Week," Eric Trump echoed his father's
rhetoric calling the story "fake news." He also implied without
evidence that the report -- one of several in the past two weeks concerning the
president's finances -- was timed to hurt his reelection campaign.
NEW: "My father has lost a fortune," Eric Trump
tells @jonkarl when pressed on a NYT
report that Pres. Trump turned "his own hotels and resorts into the
Beltway's new back rooms, where public and private business mix and special
interests reign." https://t.co/fsCP2um0H5 pic.twitter.com/MtZLiszs2K
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) October 11, 2020
Pressed by ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan
Karl about the president's debt, which the Times reported as more than $400
million, Eric Trump characterized it as commonplace for someone with his level
of wealth in the real estate industry. He also misleadingly claimed that all of
the president's lenders are publicly known.
"It's in his financial disclosures," Eric Trump said,
referring to the annual reports the president is required to issue under
federal ethics regulations that do not list all of his creditors. President
Trump has not voluntarily released his tax returns, as other past
commanders-in-chief and candidates for the office have done. "You know
exactly who the money's owed to … my father is worth billions of dollars, and
on a proportion of his net worth, my father has very, very low leverage."
Related: Eric Trump says Biden 'didn't want to stand on the
stage with my father'
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"If you own buildings, if you own real estate, you carry
some debt. That's what developers do, that's what business owners do, they
carry some debt," he continued. "We have a phenomenal company, but
there's nothing new about that, and by the way, it's the same debt that he got
elected on."
.@jonkarl: "Don't the American people
have a right to know who (the president) is indebted to?"
"That's what developers do, that's what business owners do,
they carry some debt, "Eric Trump says but President Trump still won't
release his tax returns. https://t.co/fsCP2um0H5 pic.twitter.com/x3u8GcDpKy
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) October 11, 2020
In the interview, Eric Trump also responded to the president's
refusal to participate in a virtual debate this coming week, as planned by the
Commission on Presidential Debates following the president's COVID-19 diagnosis
and subsequent hospitalization. The debate was canceled as a result and it is
not immediately clear what format the next, and potentially final, scheduled
debate will take in two weeks.
"My father wants to stand on stage with his opponent.
That's how debates have been handled in America for the last 200 years, you've
stood there and you've debated somebody," Eric Trump said, despite the
fact that John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon debated on-camera from opposite
coasts, appearing on television in a split-screen in 1960.
"My father doesn't want to do it over a glorified
conference call," he continued.
Karl noted that several members of the Trump family, including
Eric and his siblings, defied protocol by watching the first debate maskless.
Second lady Karen Pence also appeared at this past week's vice presidential
debate without a mask.
"Given the concerns now, will you commit that the Trump
team will abide by those safety precautions that the commission put in place at
the next debate?" Karl asked.
"I'm happy to wear a mask," Eric Trump said, going on
to accuse Democratic nominee Joe Biden of backing out the debate -- another
mischaracterization. It was the commission that announced the plan to hold the
second event virtually, and the president who chose not to participate. The
Trump campaign said the president would also be willing to attend two more debates
if they were each postponed a week to allow for an in-person format, but the
Biden campaign rejected the idea.
"My father wants to stand on the stage with his
opponent," and "doesn't want to do it over a glorified conference
call," Eric Trump tells @jonkarl when asked if the Trump
campaign will decline to participate in Oct. 22 presidential debate if it's
virtual. https://t.co/R7EgB0oaON pic.twitter.com/s7Vl6T9MY6
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) October 11, 2020
On Saturday, the president's physician, Dr. Sean Conley, issued a memo stating that the president
"is no longer a transmission risk to others" and "the assortment
of advanced diagnostic tests obtained reveal there is no longer evidence of
actively replicating virus." It remains unclear whether Trump has tested
negative.
MORE: President
Trump no longer at risk of spreading virus, doctor says
The memo came hours after the president delivered an
address resembling
a campaign speech from the White House South Lawn. The administration called
the event a "peaceful protest for law and order," which Eric Trump
echoed on "This Week." The president heads to Florida Monday to restart official
in-person campaign
events with a rally in Sanford.
Eric Trump also noted on Sunday morning that attendees at
Saturday's outdoor White House event were temperature-checked and wore masks --
the latter measure, Karl noted, a less common sight at Trump campaign rallies
prior to the president's diagnosis.
MORE: Trump
delivers speech to supporters at White House in 1st in-person event since
diagnosis
As the president prepares to return to the campaign trail, Karl
challenged Eric Trump about his father's rhetoric following the vice
presidential debate in reference to Biden's running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris,
D-Calif.
"Vice President Pence, when he debated Kamala Harris, said
it was a privilege to be on the stage with her, recognized her history-making
pick as Biden's running mate. And then the next day your father said that she
was a monster," Karl said, referencing comments the president made on Fox
Business Thursday. "Why? How is Kamala Harris a monster? Why did he say
that?"
"Well, you know, there are a lot of stances that she takes
are just -- they're mind-boggling to me," Eric Trump responded.
"But political differences are one thing. A monster? You're
calling the Democratic vice presidential nominee a monster. Your father
did," Karl pressed.
"You know, you're also dealing with a person who is willing
to lie every single day," Eric Trump claimed, going on to misrepresent
Biden and Harris' position on law enforcement funding.
Eric Trump claims family 'lost a fortune' in pushback
of pay-for-play report originally appeared on abcnews.go.com
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