Trump even made a plucking motion.ĭuring the 2016 campaign, Trump was always boasting about his devotion to protecting classified information, to mock Hillary. On top of that, the attorney said, Trump later encouraged him to go through the documents that he did review and pluck out anything really bad. He collected fancy French wines and did a tasting on Johnny Carson’s show. The former president directed his valet, Waltine Nauta (named as a co-conspirator with Trump), to move about 64 boxes from a storage room to Trump’s residence and bring about 30 boxes back to the storage room - without informing the Trump attorney who was supposed to be reviewing the material. And it makes clear that there was a very deliberate effort by Trump to hold on to and conceal these documents that he was going to use for heaven knows what and show to God knows whom. WASHINGTON A man is running to run the government he tried to overthrow while he was running it, even as. This isn’t the work of some insider or Trump hater who’s out to get him. The indictment is based on information from Trump’s own lawyers, staffers, phone records and security cameras. “The unauthorized disclosure of these classified documents could put at risk the national security of the United States, foreign relations, the safety of the United States military and human sources and the continued viability of sensitive intelligence collection methods.” Given what this country has been through with Covid, given all the corrupt bankers who got off scot-free after the economic collapse, and given how hard it is to earn a buck, this new glimpse into inequities is genuinely disgusting.“The classified documents Trump stored in his boxes included information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries, United States nuclear programs, potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack,” the indictment said. Forgive me if I don’t want to celebrate Jeff Bezos’ midlife crisis rocket ride. WASHINGTON The man who tried to overthrow the government he was. Look, rolling around in gobs of dough and displays of obscene consumption is a tradition as American as apple pie. They’ll have to raise the corporate tax rate, which began to plunge during the Reagan years, to an equitable level and stop corporations from tax-shopping to find countries with the lowest rates. Republicans talk a good game about adopting the winning parts of Trumpism, but you can’t be populists if you shield the rich and stick it to everybody else.Įven if they make the rich pay their fair share, it likely won’t be enough to fund most of what President Biden needs to do. Maureen Dowd, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary and author of three New York Times best sellers, became an Op-Ed columnist in 1995. “The rich have money, the rich have power, the rich have lobbyists, and the rich do not pay their fair share of taxes,” he said in a peak-Bernie moment. In 2019, during a campaign debate, Sanders lamented the outrageous fact that three people own more wealth in America than the bottom half of society, and he railed against the “billionaire class whose greed and corruption has been at war with the working families in this country for 45 years.” The revelations may renew calls for the wealth tax that Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have long pushed. The Times story noted that ProPublica shed light on the fact that “the superrich earn virtually all their wealth from the constantly rising value of their assets, particularly in the stock market, and that the sales of those assets are taxed at a lower rate than ordinary income from a paycheck.” And while the value of those assets grows by the billion, untaxed, these rich folks can borrow against them, deducting the interest.
Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat and the chairman of the Finance Committee, said he was working on a bunch of proposals to force billionaires to pay their fair share, including some sort of minimum tax. “I believe dividends and capital gains should be taxed at a lower rate, but certainly not zero.” “My intention as the author of the 2017 tax reform was not that multibillionaires ought to pay no taxes,” he said. Senator Patrick Toomey, Republican of Pennsylvania, who was one of the architects of the law that cut taxes by more than a trillion dollars, defended tax rates for “high income people” at a town hall, but in an interview with The Times sounded a more critical note.
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