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New: Why Cornel West Is Broke
Newly uncovered divorce filings reveal allegations of a “secret life” & help explain why the presidential candidate, who has earned millions of dollars over the years, has hardly anything left
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@denham_jemima
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Summons for
@realDonaldTrump
in his official and individual capacities was signed today by the clerk of court in DC and MD attorneys general's emoluments lawsuit.
@GOPLeader
Reminder: Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R–CA) has spent more than $245,000 at Trump properties since
@realDonaldTrump
was elected.
Before Trump was elected: $743.93.
Via
@1100penn
NEW: In her lawsuit v. 2016 Trump campaign, A.J. Delgado just filed an unredacted text exchange she says is with Jenna Ellis in which Ellis apparently states that the Trump campaign settled multiple discrimination or sexual harassment claims against "Boris."
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen will testify Tuesday before a 12-member Senate committee.
11 of those senators have accepted campaign contributions from
@Facebook
.
The Secret Service has paid Trump's 2024 campaign $817,000.
The agency owes it an additional $361,000.
The campaign has, in turn, paid one of Trump’s companies $4.2 million.
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@Forbes
Update: Ferry Point is the latest Trump golf course that appears to be using the presidential seal on tee markers.
Federal law prohibits displaying the presidential seal in a manner that may convey the impression of government sponsorship or approval.
@GOPLeader
Fact: Kevin McCarthy's spending at Trump’s properties increased 32,000 percent after
@realDonaldTrump
was elected.
@GOPleader
's campaign and committees have spent more than $245,000 at the president's businesses,
Via
@1100Penn
Six years later, State Dept. is wondering if I am still interested in a response to my FOIA request re: possible US gov't spending at the Trump Hotel DC.
(Yes, I am.)
At Ferry Point, he's made about $500K per year, after paying expenses. That number's likely to shrink next year, tho: until now, Trump hasn't had to pay NYC a *dime* to operate a course on public land. Next yr, tho, a fee of several hundred thousand kicks in.
NEW: A Trump political committee bought $131,000 worth of books.
Four days later, Jared Kushner’s hit the
@nytimesbooks
Best Seller list.
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NEW: This weekend at Mar-a-Lago, President Trump and Vice President Pence posed for a photo with a Brazilian government official who, according to a local media report, has since developed coronavirus-like symptoms.
via
@1100penn
A Facebook whistleblower is about to testify before a Senate subcommittee on protecting kids online.
11 of the panel's 12 members have accepted political contributions from
@Facebook
.
1/
NEW: Convict Donald Trump is trying to distance himself from New Jersey liquor licenses to keep booze flowing at his golf clubs.
But ownership documents show that, via a trust, he's the sole beneficial owner of all three clubs.
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A Florida GOP group fights against vaccine mandates and for election integrity.
It just told the FEC it might miss a campaign-filing deadline because its bookkeeper died from Covid-19.
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Power tripping in the swamp: How Trump’s DC hotel swallowed Washington
The MAGA social scene is a movable feast, but its dark heart resides within the Old Post Office Building, where the Trump Org operates under a mercenary charter
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@VanityFair
UPDATE: "Trump Hosted All These People In His Mar-A-Lago Office Where He’d Stashed Government Secrets"
Now includes Eduardo Bolsonaro (h/t and big thank you to
@the_peetape
)
@bradheath
@USATODAY
Rep. Jackie Speier (D–CA) told
@NewDay
she thinks President Trump’s real estate dealings violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which governs U.S. businesses’ dealings with foreign investors. 5/
"I have thought for a very long time that the President, as a real estate developer, had violated what's called the Foreign Corrupt Practices act," says Rep.
@JackieSpeier
.
Speier says she's focusing on 3 Trump hotel projects: Toronto, Soho and Panama
Trump's Save America PAC just reported its first payment to L.D. Murrel, PA: $115,000 for legal consulting.
Murrel is the attorney for Carlos de Oliveira, a Trump staffer and Mar-a-Lago property manager.
UPDATE: Zampolli said as a longtime family friend, he was a guest of the Trumps and the Commonwealth of Dominica did not pay Mar-a-Lago for him to attend. Which means that the US president's business gave a ticket valued at $1,000 to a foreign ambassador.
Just in--
Today NY AG Letitia James filed a motion for a preliminary injunction "seeking several measures to stop Mr. Trump and the Trump Organization’s ongoing fraudulent scheme and ensure funds are available to satisfy any disgorgement award..."
1/
Trump's nonprofit Inaugural committee paid the Trump Hotel DC $175,000 (!) per day for event space—that could violate tax laws prohibiting self-dealing. 2/
by
@ilyamarritz
of
@wnyc
and
@JustinElliott
of
@ProPublica
Updated--
Just got off the phone with Don Hankey, chair of the firm that provided Trump with the $175 million bond.
He explained how the deal came about and what Trump used for collateral.
BREAKING: "Trump Posts $175 Million Bond In New York Civil Fraud Lawsuit"
A company backed by Don Hankey, the California billionaire who made his fortune on high-interest car loans, comes to Trump’s rescue.
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@bradheath
@USATODAY
@NewDay
.
@SenWarren
wrote to three Mar-a-Lago members who've been hugely influential in VA decisions to verify the men were not VA employees or contractors, discover if they ever received the VA’s ethics training, & find out what companies they’ve invested in. 6/
@1100Penn
@realDonaldTrump
"No new foreign deals will be made whatsoever during the duration of President Trump’s presidency."
– Trump Org attorney Sherri Dillon, Jan. 11, 2017
Lost between Nevada & India, yet still important—
💰RNC has spent > $2 million at Doral since
@realDonaldTrump
's election. Before his nomination: $0.
💰RNC has spent > $640K at Trump Hotel DC
💰33 GOP Senators have supported Trump Hotel DC
via
@1100penn
“Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!”
Crazy that the Trump Hotel knew to jack up its lowest rate for 1/6 to $8,000, but law enforcement was caught off guard.
@tedcruz
UPDATE
Per campaign finance atty, "to do this legally, the Cruz campaign would have had to buy the books directly from the publisher—not Books-a-Million—and have any royalties Cruz would have earned on the sale given to charity."
"Since he took office, Trump has appointed at least eight people who identified themselves as current or former members of [Mar-a-Lago] to senior posts in his administration." 4/
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@bradheath
for
@USATODAY
In Feb. 2017, Don Jr. and Eric traveled to the Trump Hotel Vancouver for its grand opening.
US taxpayers spent at least $20,000 at the Trump Hotel for Secret Service agent's rooms.
Receipts via
@CREWcrew
#FOIAfriday
NEW: The company that owns
@realdonaldtrump
’s Vancouver hotel has filed for bankruptcy.
The hotel has been closed since April b/c of covid.
Owner now says it’s unclear if it will ever reopen.
@GOPLeader
@RepFredUpton
@RepTomEmmer
Even before this photo was taken at the Trump Hotel D.C., Kevin McCarthy's (R–CA) campaigns and committees have spent more than $245,000 at Trump properties.
A great night with the president indeed.
via
@1100penn
16 men and women from Costa Rica and other Latin American countries (!)...said they were employed at Trump Bedminster. All said they worked without legal status — and their managers knew.
by
@partlowj
,
@NickMiroff
,
@Fahrenthold
for
@washingtonpost
Trump's inauguration planner got a discount at the Trump Hotel D,C yet was told to submit her receipts to Reince Preibus (for reimbursement?!) 7/
by
@emilyjanefox
for
@VanityFair
"The Manhattan district attorney can enforce a subpoena seeking President Trump’s personal and corporate tax returns, a federal appeals panel ruled on Wednesday."
@BenWeiserNYT
,
@WRashbaum
for
@nytimes
@1100Penn
Trump campaign and hotel benefited financially from a business-owner who enjoyed special access to a senator with oversight over part of the company’s market.
via
@1100Penn
Per new filing, Secret Service has now paid the Trump campaign $947,000 for air travel.
(Trump campaign, in turn, pays a Trump company for use of his plane.)
The Secret Service has paid Trump's 2024 campaign $817,000.
The agency owes it an additional $361,000.
The campaign has, in turn, paid one of Trump’s companies $4.2 million.
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@Forbes
@tedcruz
The Cruz campaign's latest filing—showing more than $150,000 spent on books at Books-a-Million in the months after his own book was published—does *not* appear to show any offsetting charitable donations.
The break became clearer last week.
On Tues, the attorneys rep'ing just Ivanka withdrew.
Three days later, a new lawyer told the court he was taking over as Ivanka’s counsel and the attorneys she shared with her brothers were no longer doing so.
5/
A judge cited Maine Gov. LePage's (R) stay at the Trump Hotel DC when deciding the DC and MD AGs' emoluments lawsuit against
@realDonaldTrump
can go forward.
LePage called the judge an "absolute imbecile."
G7 to Doral is hardly today's only news about
@realDonaldTrump
profiting from his presidency:
An evening of prayer for the Kurds is scheduled for Trump Hotel DC.
Trump will profit from people praying for a remedy to a crisis he instigated.
via
@1100Penn
A U.S. Army regiment held its annual ball last night at the Trump Hotel DC— so soldiers were potentially sending money up the chain of command. And pics of them in dress uniform in front of the hotel's logo made it to social media.
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@1100Penn
Don Jr. and Eric Trump quickly lawyered up. A month later, Ivanka hired the same attorneys.
But she also hired two other attorneys independently of her brothers.
3/
Trump Hotel DC received an estimated $3.75 million from foreign governments, according to a House committee on Friday.
The committee didn't name the countries though.
Thankfully, there are photos.
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@atrupar
Since Chinese officials first reported what's now known as the COVID-19,
@realdonaldtrump
visited four different Trump businesses a total of at least 20 times.
via
@1100penn
“The video remained on the president’s Twitter page for more than three hours because White House officials couldn’t reach him to ask him to delete it, the two officials said. The president was at his golf club in Virginia and had put his phone down”
Trump Hosted All These People In His Mar-A-Lago Office Where He’d Stashed Government Secrets
Here are just some of the 30 people
@Forbes
spotted there
1/
Last month, a sign of a split in the siblings’ defense emerged.
An attorney repr'ing just Ivanka asked the judge to delay the trial. The letter claimed, "The complaint affirmatively alleges that other individuals were responsible for those tasks.”
4/
Guilfoyle: Paying off loans for people they want to have some bizarre basket weaving degree and they want all of us to subsidize their laziness and their inability to even try to contribute to society
@nytimesbooks
@Forbes
8/23--Jared Kushner's memoir is released
9/7--Trump's Save America JFC pays Books-A-Million $131,000 for books
9/11--Jared's book makes its first appearance on the NYT best-seller list
NEW:
@PayPal
is still processing payments for the Michael T. Flynn Legal Defense Fund.
Flynn is a major Qanon promoter and has advocated for overturning the election.