Trump Super-PAC Funneling Money To Rudy Giuliani's Law Firm

Make America Number 1, the pro-Trump super-PAC controlled by hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, has paid law firms associated with Rudy Giuliani $563,003 in 2015 and 2016.

The PAC, originally called Keep the Promise 1, supported Ted Cruz before shifting to Donald Trump after he secured the Republican nomination this spring. It began paying Bracewell & Giuliani for legal and compliance services in June of 2015, making $336,495 in payments until February 14, 2016. It stopped using Bracewell a couple of weeks after Giuliani left the firm in January.

In May, on the 12th, the PAC retained Giuliani’s new firm, Greenberg & Traurig, initially paying $99,470 for legal and compliance services. In June, the PAC changed its name and aligned itself squarely with Trump. On its website, the group described itself as “supporting conservative principles, upholding the rule of law, and opposing ethically challenged candidates… It’s (sic) first special project entitled, ‘Defeat Crooked Hillary’, will shed light on what the Clinton’s (sic) want to keep in the dark.”

While his firm has been on the PAC payroll, Giuliani has been fanning the flames of every Clinton controversy. But he has made it clear that he thinks the Clinton Foundation issues are the worst, saying on Fox this week: “This was the one I always thought was clearer.” Invoking his history as a federal prosecutor, Giuliani said he could make a case against the Clintons on the foundation “in two months.” The foundation has long been a fixation of the Mercers as well. They fund the Bannon-led non-profit Government Accountability Institute whose president, Peter Schweizer, author of “Clinton Cash,” an innuendo-strewn book about the foundation that apparently became fodder for a probe initiated by FBI agents from the New York office earlier this year. Rebekah Mercer serves on the Institute’s board and co-produced, with David Bossie, the longtime head of Citizens United, a documentary based on the book that was released just before the Democratic National Convention. Cont.

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Complaint Filed After Republican Held Door To Polling Station Closed To Prevent Voting

Story out of Pine Bluff, Arkansas:

A Pine Bluff resident and the Jefferson County clerk have filed suit against a county election commissioner Stu Soffer who also works as a poll watcher, alleging voter intimidation and a conflict of interest.

"Mr. Soffer stood in the doorway of the early-voting location and told voters to shut up and go home," Burks said. "This is deeply troubling to the voters of Jefferson County and also to the election administrators whose job it is to administer the elections free of fear and intimidation."

The action comes as Democratic parties in four states -- Pennsylvania, Ohio, Arizona and Nevada -- filed a lawsuit against presidential candidate Donald Trump and the Republican parties, saying Trump's supporters and campaign officials have threatened members of minority groups to keep them from voting. Judges in some of those cases have or will start hearings this week.

Republican Party of Arkansas Chairman Doyle Webb said in a statement that the party's attorney will file a response to the complaint. Cont.

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FBI Insider Leaked Information To Rudy Giuliani

Looks like Comey and this prick are going to be sharing a jail cell.

Rudy Giuliani said Friday that he knew the FBI planned to review more emails tied to Hillary Clinton before a public announcement about the investigation last week, confirming that the agency leaked information to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

The former New York City mayor and Trump surrogate has recently dropped a series of hints that he knew in advance that the FBI planned to look at emails potentially connected to Clinton’s private server. The agency discovered the messages while investigating former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) for allegedly sexting with a minor. (Weiner’s estranged wife, Huma Abedin, is a top aide to Clinton.)

Giuliani has bragged about his close ties to the FBI for months, mentioning in interviews that “outraged FBI agents” have told him they’re frustrated by how the Clinton investigation was handled. And two days before FBI Director James Comey announced that the agency was reviewing the newly uncovered emails, Giuliani teased that Trump’s campaign had “a couple of surprises left.”

All of this has led to suspicion that someone in the FBI is leaking information to Giuliani and the Trump campaign. The Daily Beast’s Wayne Barrett explored those suspicions on Thursday, detailing how Giuliani’s ties to the agency date back to his days as a U.S. attorney in the 1980s.

Giuliani confirmed that notion Friday during an appearance on “Fox & Friends.”

“I did nothing to get it out, I had no role in it,” he said. “Did I hear about it? You’re darn right I heard about it, and I can’t even repeat the language that I heard from the former FBI agents.” Cont.

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Twitter Takes Down Neo-Nazi Account Trying To Trick Black Voters To Vote At Home

Robert McNees, a physics professor at Loyola University, was curiously scanning through the popular alt-right account @TheRickyVaughn when he came across a number of tweets apparently designed to spread misinformation about voting among African-American and Spanish-speaking citizens. The tweets told voters they could “avoid the line” and “vote from home” via text (which, to be clear, they can’t). They were photoshopped to look as if they’d been created by the Clinton campaign, down to the small-print “Paid for by Hillary for President 2016” disclaimer at the bottom.

McNees told BuzzFeed News he reported the tweet — a clear attempt to impersonate a campaign and disenfranchise voters.

The photoshopped campaign ads may violate FEC laws. They also appear to be in direct violation of Twitter’s policies, which state in part that “Twitter accounts portraying another person in a confusing or deceptive manner may be permanently suspended.” The tweets could also be in violation of Twitter’s spam rules.

After BuzzFeed News emailed Twitter for comment, @TheRickyVaughn’s offending tweets appear to have been taken down. Later, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey responded to BuzzFeed News via Twitter:

@cwarzel not sure how this slipped past us, but now it's fixed — 🚶🏽jack (@jack) Cont.

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"The Polls Are Rigged" - Woman Caught Voting Twice For Trump

Story out of Des Moines, Iowa:

A Des Moines woman has been charged with Election Misconduct, a Class D felony, after allegedly voting twice for GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. Terri Rote says she was afraid her first ballot for Trump would be changed to a vote for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

"I wasn't planning on doing it twice, it was spur of the moment," says Rote. "The polls are rigged."

But Polk County Attorney John Sarcone says voter fraud in Iowa is very rare, which is evidence that Iowa’s election system is secure.

Rote was released from jail on Friday on a $5,000 bond. If convicted, she faces up to five years in prison. Cont.

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Woman Arrested After Tampering With Election Ballots To Help Get Her Preferred Mayoral Candidate Elected

Story out of Miami-Dade County, Florida

A 74-year-old woman tasked with opening envelopes sent by Miami-Dade County voters with their completed mail ballots was arrested Friday after co-workers caught her illegally marking ballots, resulting in an unknown — but small — number of fraudulent votes being cast for mayoral candidate Raquel Regalado.

Investigators linked Gladys Coego, a temporary worker for the county elections department, to two fraudulent votes, but they suspect from witness testimony that she submitted several more.

Coego, of Westchester, turned herself in to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Friday morning. She was charged with two felony counts of marking another person’s ballot. Coego was released after posting a $10,000 bond.

Coego’s job was to remove mail ballots from envelopes, count the number of pages and check for any tears or stains before someone else introduced them into an optical scanner to tabulate the votes. Miami-Dade started tallying mail ballots Monday, as allowed by Florida law.

According to Coego’s arrest affidavit, she sat by herself behind a back table in a room with about 80 other workers. Another temp worker, identified as “S. Tremmel,” saw her illicitly mark three ballots Tuesday, pulling a black pen out of her purse each time. She “would hide the pen in her purse whenever a supervisor or other employee came near,” Tremmel told investigators.

 Regalado, a Republican, is running for the nonpartisan mayor’s post against incumbent Carlos Gimenez, who is also a Republican. As strong mayor, Gimenez appointed Elections Supervisor Christina White and is ultimately in charge of her department. Cont.

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Trump Surrogate Roger Stone Faces Treason Complaint After Admitting Ties To WikiLeaks, Russia

A Democratic political group has filed a complaint with the FBI against Trump surrogate Roger Stone, alleging he is connected to the hack of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s email.

The group alleges that Stone, of sartorial splendor and ill repute, had advanced knowledge of the hack, which was likely perpetrated by cyber actors near to the Russian government. The Democratic Coalition Against Trump, the group which filed the complaint, calls for Stone’s prosecution for cyber-terrorism and treason.

The group points to comments Stone made in August, which predicted that Podesta’s emails would be compromised.

Stone acknowledged he has had contact with WikiLeaks outlaw Julian Assange, but stressed they have taken place through an intermediary and did not concern the details and particulars of pending disclosures. Cont.

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Retired Four-Star General Guilty Of Leaking Classified Information

The former vice chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff pled guilty in federal court Monday, admitting he lied to the FBI when questioned about whether he provided two journalists with top secret information in 2012.

Retired four-star Gen. James Cartwright sat quietly with his attorney, former White House Counsel Gregory Craig, as Assistant US Attorney Leo J. Wise described the facts underlying the single charge of making false statements to federal investigators.

After his retirement, Cartwright again signed a "Classified Information Non-Disclosure Agreement," which included warnings "that unauthorized disclosure ... by me could cause damage or irreparable injury to the United States or could be used to advantage by a foreign nation," according to the government's court filing detailing the charge against him.

In 2012, investigators showed Cartwright classified information, including top-secret information, in a book by David Sanger, a national security correspondent for The New York Times, but Cartwright denied providing the material to Sanger, the government said. The government did not reveal the title of Sanger's book. He has written two books on US foreign policy, the second of which was published in 2012 and titled, "Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power."

While the charge of making false statements to federal investigators carries a five-year maximum sentence, Cartwright's plea agreement states that he should face no more than six months in prison. Cont. (Video/Autoplay)

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Husband Beats His Wife To An Inch Of Her Life, Is Set Free After Corrupt Justice System Says She Didn't "Consent" To Being Filmed

Story out of Vancouver, Washington:

A bloodied wife’s screams recorded by her husband’s cell phone as he beat her should not have been used to convict him, an appeals court ruled Tuesday, because she didn’t give her consent to being recorded.

John Garrett Smith of Vancouver, Washington, was found guilty of assault and attempted murder last year after beating his wife Sheryl to a bloody pulp and leaving her for dead. The conviction hinged on a key piece of evidence: a voicemail recording of Smith, who goes by his middle name, Garrett, telling Sheryl, “I will kill you.”

Nugent, the prosecutor on the case, is now in private practice and declined to comment on the case other than to say she disagrees with the appeals court’s decision.

The lurid crime became fodder for a Vancouver community already livid over alleged corruption in the city’s criminal justice system. This steadfast group of Smith’s supporters took to the internet to argue for his innocence—and his wife’s guilt. Cont.

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Trump Lied So Much In The 1990s His Bankruptcy Lawyers Had To Talk To Him In Pairs

Donald Trump’s own bankruptcy lawyers testified that they had a policy of not meeting with the real estate mogul alone because he had a “problem” of constantly lying.

On Tuesday, Buzzfeed published thousands of pages of court filings from three of Trump’s bankruptcies in the 1990s. Twitter user @nycsouthpaw highlighted several pages from the Trump Plaza depositions, which reveal the extraordinary steps Trump’s lawyers took to deal with his tenuous relationship with the truth.

In depo for Trump Plaza bankruptcy case, Trump's own lawyer testifies they often met with him in pairs because Trump lies so much. pic.twitter.com/TdEkdf4ZiB

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 6, 2016

Cont.

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'The Gig Is Up' - "Bombshell" New York Times Report Reveals The Depth Of Trump's Corruption

Donald Trump responded on Sunday morning to a New York Times report that he may not have paid federal income tax for 18 years, tweeting: “I know our complex tax laws better than anyone who has ever run for president and am the only one who can fix them.”

The Clinton campaign called the report about the Republican nominee’s taxes a “bombshell”, and called for him to release his full tax returns. Bernie Sanders, once Hillary Clinton’s opponent for the Democratic nomination and now a supporter of her campaign, said the report was evidence of “a corrupt political system in this country”.

Trump did not deny the report, which was based on documents from his 1995 tax return, mailed to the newspaper by an anonymous source.

Susanne Craig, the reporter to whom the documents were sent, told CNN on Sunday morning the Trump camp had “threatened to sue the paper, saying tax returns are confidential, and we made a decision last night to go forward.”

Asked if the Times was “sitting on more documents”, Craig said: “We’re doing a lot of reporting around this. So we’re going to keep on going.” Asked if the paper knew who had sent the documents, she offered no comment.

The Times report did not accuse Trump of any illegal practice, but citing analysis by tax experts, suggested that by registering a loss of $916m, the businessman could have canceled out equivalent taxable income until 2013.

Speaking in support of Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders told ABC: “If everyone in this country was a "genius" like Mr Trump and did not pay taxes, we would not have a country.”

“This is exactly why so many millions of Americans are frustrated,” he added to CNN. “They are angry, they are disgusted at what they see as a corrupt political system in this country. You have middle class people working longer hours for low wages, they pay their taxes. They support their schools, they support their infrastructure, they support the military, but the billionaires, no, they don’t have to do that because they have their friends on Capitol Hill. They pay zero in taxes. So Trump goes around and says, ‘Hey, I’m worth billions, I’m a successful business man, but I don’t pay any taxes, but you, you who earn 15 bucks an hour, you pay the taxes. That’s why people are angry and want real change in this country.”

Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, said the report was a “bombshell” which “reveals the colossal nature of Donald Trump’s past business failures and just how long he may have avoided paying any federal income taxes whatsoever.”

”Now that the gig is up,” Mook added, “why doesn’t he go ahead and release his returns to show us all how ‘smart’ he really is?” Cont.

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Trump's Company Violated US Embargo Against Cuba (Because Of He Course Did)

The embargo was ridiculous to begin with but that stink fish has not found a US law or (or 13-year-old) he doesn't want to violate.

A company controlled by Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, secretly conducted business in Communist Cuba during Fidel Castro’s presidency despite strict American trade bans that made such undertakings illegal, according to interviews with former Trump executives, internal company records and court filings.

Documents show that the Trump company spent a minimum of $68,000 for its 1998 foray into Cuba at a time when the corporate expenditure of even a penny in the Caribbean country was prohibited without U.S. government approval. But the company did not spend the money directly. Instead, with Trump’s knowledge, executives funneled the cash for the Cuba trip through an American consulting firm called Seven Arrows Investment and Development Corp. Once the business consultants traveled to the island and incurred the expenses for the venture, Seven Arrows instructed senior officers with Trump’s company—then called Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts—how to make it appear legal by linking it after the fact to a charitable effort. (POS)

The payment by Trump Hotels came just before the New York business mogul launched his first bid for the White House, seeking the nomination of the Reform Party. On his first day of the campaign, he traveled to Miami, where he spoke to a group of Cuban-Americans, a critical voting bloc in the swing state. Trump vowed to maintain the embargo and never spend his or his companies’ money in Cuba until Fidel Castro was removed from power.

He did not disclose that, seven months earlier, Trump Hotels already had reimbursed its consultants for the money they spent on their secret business trip to Havana. Cont.

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Student Fights Back After Being Suspended For Uncovering School's Plumbing Problem

Story out of Westland, Michigan:

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, one picture almost cost one high school student a mark on her high school record.

Hazel Juco says when she saw discolored water coming from the sink, it upset her.

“I always hope that someone will see it and want to help us. Because our school obviously doesn’t have money.”

A short time later, she got called down to the office at John Glenn high in the Wayne Westland school district.

“They told me I was being suspended for three days oss for taking a picture. Its inappropriate use of electronics in the restroom. And everyone in my school, every girl takes selfies in the bathroom and makes it their profile pictures on like twitter or Facebook and whatever and no one has gotten in trouble.”

Dozens of students protested by tweeting bathroom pictures they took without getting in trouble. I called Wayne Westland superintendent Dr. Michele Harmala. She looked right into it and says she found out high school administrators made mistakes. They didn’t report the water issue to maintenance. So she did.

Dr. Michele Harmala, the superintendent said, “So I reached out to them. They sent a plumber out right away. We do have a piece of the pipe that leaks out to the faucet that was corroding and needed to be replaced.”

[Kim] Russel [Reporter] [Told Juco], “She said she is going to take the oss of[f] your record.”

Juco said, “I’m so happy about that.” Cont. (Video)

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“You Think You Can Do Whatever You Want Just Because You’re In A Chair?" - Watch Montreal Police Bully, Harass Man In Wheelchair

                  


Story out of Montreal, Quebec:

A video showing Montreal police allegedly harassing a man in a wheelchair as he crossed the street is making the rounds of social media.

The video was posted on Facebook by user Kate Albisi, who explained she and a colleague were out for a coffee break around 11:30 a.m. when they noticed the man, who appeared to be in his 50s, attempt to cross the street at the corner of McGill College and Sherbrooke Street.

“As he neared the middle of the road, the light changed, forcing him to either continue crossing or go back,” she explained.

A Montreal police officer, whom Albisi identifies as “Officer L’Heureux” reportedly confronted him for being in the middle of the intersection.

“[He] began (aggressively) pushing him,” she wrote.

“L’Heureux’s colleague stepped in and pushed the man’s chair onto the sidewalk,” Albisi elaborated.

“Once on the sidewalk, L’Heureux said to the man in the wheelchair: “You think you can do whatever you want just because you’re in a chair? Yeah? I’m going to give you a f—ing ticket. You asked for it.”

The man reportedly did not have a piece of ID on him, prompting the officer to search the man’s bag “without permission and removed a prescription medication bottle to get his name.”

Montreal police said they are aware of the video, but that there are “two sides to every story.” Cont. (Video)

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Ballot Stuffing Caught On Various Security Cameras Show Election Fraud In Russia

                  

Complaints of election violations were increasing on Sunday as Russians voted for a new lower-house of parliament.

News website Kavpolit.com published videos which purportedly show people dropping multiple sheets of paper into ballot boxes in various polling stations of Russia’s southern Dagestan province.

A spokesman for Kavpolit told the Associated Press in phone interview that journalists working for the website filmed the video, which they said showed violations.

The voting for the 450 seats in the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, was not expected to substantially change the distribution of power, in which the pro-Kremlin United Russia party holds an absolute majority.

But the perceived honesty of the election could be a critical factor in whether protests arise following the voting. Cont.

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Wikileaks Hides €2 Billion Transfer From Syria To Russia

Assange would dispute this but he's busy sucking on Putin's Дик.

A trove of hacked emails published by WikiLeaks in 2012 excludes records of a €2 billion transaction between the Syrian regime and a government-owned Russian bank, according to leaked U.S. court documents obtained by the Daily Dot.

WikiLeaks has become an ever-prominent force in the 2016 presidential election through its publishing of tens of thousands of emails, voicemails, and documents stolen from the Democratic National Committee by hackers that U.S. authorities and cybersecurity experts believe are linked to the Russian government. The transparency organization, which boasts of a commitment to use “cryptography to protect human rights” against repressive regimes, has faced criticism from supporters of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and praise from Republican opponent Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The court records, placed under seal by a Manhattan federal court and obtained by the Daily Dot through an anonymous source, show in detail how a group of hacktivists breached the Syrian government’s networks on the eve of the country’s civil war and extracted emails about major bank transactions the Syrian regime was hurriedly making amid a host of economic sanctions. In the spring of 2012, most of the emails found their way into a WikiLeaks database.

But one set of emails in particular didn’t make it into the cache of documents published by WikiLeaks in July 2012 as “The Syria Files,” despite the fact that the hackers themselves were ecstatic at their discovery. The correspondence, which WikiLeaks has denied withholding, describes “more than” €2 billion ($2.4 billion, at current exchange rates) moving from the Central Bank of Syria to Russia’s VTB Bank. Cont.

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Polling Clerk Fired After Telling Florida Independent Voter She Can't Vote

I'm sorry we're not accepting Independent or Democrat votes this year, says Mr. Puti... I mean Smith. Story out of Polk County, Florida:

A Polk County Polling Clerk has been fired after an issue at the polls Tuesday morning.

According to Supervisor of Elections Community Services Director P.J. Leiva, A voter went to Precinct 216, located on South Lakeside Avenue, looking to vote Independent.

The voter was told she couldn’t vote because she was independent, and they didn’t have the correct ballots. After an argument, and a search, the voter was given the correct ballot and she was able to vote.

The worker, who we’re told has been employed for a number of years, was fired shortly after an incident. Cont.

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Trump's Campaign Chairman Had To 'Go Away'

                  


Poor Tessio, I mean Manafort.

Donald Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigned on Friday in the wake of campaign shake-up and revelations about his work in Ukraine.

In a statement issued as he arrived in Louisiana to tour the flood-ravaged state, Trump said Manafort offered his resignation Friday morning. The billionaire called Manafort "a true professional."

Manafort's resignation comes a day after The Associated Press reported that confidential emails from Manafort's firm contradicted his claims that he had never lobbied on behalf of Ukrainian political figures in the U.S.

Emails between Manafort's deputy, Rick Gates, also a top Trump adviser, and the lobbying firm Mercury LLC showed that Manafort's firm directly orchestrated a covert Washington lobbying operation on behalf of Ukraine's then-ruling political party.

The effort included not just legislative outreach but also attempts to sway American public opinion and gather political intelligence on competing lobbying efforts in the U.S.

Ukrainian anti-corruption investigators released copies of handwritten ledgers detailing possible cash payments from Ukrainian political figures to Manafort totaling more than $12 million. Details of the payments described in the ledger were first reported by The New York Times. Manafort denies receiving those payments. Cont.

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Breitbart Editor Hoards $100,000 In Charitable Donations For Scholarships For White Men

The guy is not too Brightbart.

Months after he was supposed to give away more than $100,000 for college scholarships, Milo Yiannopoulos says all of the money is still sitting in his bank account.

The Breitbart editor and professional political agitator (recently banned from Twitter for harassment) came under fire this week as allegations surfaced that his charity, which would provide college scholarships exclusively to white men, has so far done no charity work with the money.

Yiannopoulos told The Daily Beast on Thursday that his lawyers are drafting paperwork that would establish it as a legal charity, but experts say that the way in which the “Yiannopoulos Privilege Grant” accepted donations was unethical and possibly illegal.

Yiannopoulos promised in January to create a college scholarship fund for “white men who wish to pursue their post-secondary education” that would be awarded in “early summer 2016.” The fund has raised somewhere between $100,000 and $250,000 to date, Yiannopoulos told The Daily Beast via email.

But the Yiannopoulos Privilege Grant has not filed any paperwork to become a charity in the United States. When asked if an application for tax-exempt status had been sent by his lawyers to the Internal Revenue Service, Yiannopoulos said, “I’ll check.”

Outside of this independent project, Yiannopoulos has strong ties to grassroots efforts for the Donald Trump campaign both on and off the web. Near the RNC, he hosted a “Citizens for Trump” rally at Cleveland’s Settlers park. The conservative columnist is even a moderator on the largest online Donald Trump community, Reddit’s r/The_Donald. He also faced a high court order in the U.K. for unpaid wages to workers for his startup blog “The Kernel” in 2013. Cont.

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Note - The Reddit Q&A for Trump banned 2,200 accounts during the event. One of the hardest hitting questions asked during the whopping 12 question AMA was, "Are you getting tired of winning?"

Fugetaboutit - Chris Christie Helps Take Care Of Trump's Casino Debt

All that and no VP nod. Christie man, Christie smash, Christie eat.

By the time Chris Christie became governor of New Jersey, the state’s auditors and lawyers had been battling for several years to collect long-overdue taxes owed by the casinos founded by his friend Donald J. Trump.

The total, with interest, had grown to almost $30 million. The state had doggedly pursued the matter through two of the casinos’ bankruptcy cases and even accused the company led by Mr. Trump of filing false reports with state casino regulators about the amount of taxes it had paid.

But the year after Governor Christie, a Republican, took office, the tone of the litigation shifted. The state entertained settlement offers. And in December 2011, after six years in court, the state agreed to accept just $5 million, roughly 17 cents on the dollar of what auditors said the casinos owed.

Tax authorities sometimes settle for lesser amounts to avoid the costs and risks of further litigation, legal experts said, but the steep discount granted to the Trump casinos and the relationship between the two men raise inevitable questions about special treatment. Cont.

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