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Timeinc.net presents a very thorough article about Trump, his golf courses, his
love of golf, related political issues, lawsuits, Trump remarks, taxes, Muslims,
climate change, Middle East business interests, and much more
http://amp.timeinc.net/golf/tour-news/2017/08/01/president-donald-trump-relationship-golf-more-complicated-now?source=dam
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September 26: Among the
many names we might call Donald Trump, one label that seems less-than-apt is
“farmer.” ... This is a man more at home in gilded skyscrapers than weedy
fields, more
apt to indulge in crappy fast-food than farm-fresh produce. ... So how come
the
Wall Street Journal recently reported that the real estate mogul’s
local tax returns in New Jersey claim exemptions reserved for land devoted to
agriculture?
According to him, his golf clubs in Bedminster and Colts Neck, NJ, are both
partially “farmland” because they are home to various activities traditionally
associated with farming. ... The course in Bedminster, notably, is home to a
small herd of eight goats, which means that Trump has found a way to
simultaneously avoid taxes and keep his grass trimmed for free. The Bedminster
course also devotes 113 acres to hay production.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinegustafson/2016/09/26/one-thing-trumps-tax-returns-hide-his-herd-of-goats-yes-goats/#43d7ba40152a
October 29: The president has often bragged about
paying as little tax as possible while at the same time boasting of his great
wealth. That's raised concerns that the tax code may allow some of the very
richest Americans to pay very little.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/14/news/economy/trump-tax-returns/index.html
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[Trump has] fought the tax assessments of all 12 of his U.S.
golf courses except the one in Bedminster, New Jersey.
http://bipartisanreport.com/2017/02/11/congressman-invokes-unknown-1924-rule-to-expose-trumps-tax-returns-immediately/
April 14: Normally by the end of tax filing season, the sitting U.S.
president publicly releases his tax return for the prior year. ... There's no
expectation, however, that President Trump will do so.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/14/news/economy/trump-tax-returns/index.html
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April 27: House Democrats are planning to
force a vote Thursday on a bill that would require President Trump to release
information about his taxes and visitor logs, The
Washington Post reported.
Democrats will reportedly attempt procedural maneuvers to force a vote on a bill by Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) that would demand disclosures on Trump’s taxes, business dealings, ethics waivers in the administration and details about whom he is meeting with at the White House and at his private Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Democrats are hoping to force Republicans in competitive reelections to go on
the record defending Trump.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/330825-house-dems-plan-to-force-vote-on-bill-demanding-trump-taxes-visitor-logs
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May 12: In a letter released Friday,
President Trump's lawyers said a decade's worth of his tax returns show that he
doesn't owe money to Russian lenders and that he has received no income from
Russian sources, "with a few exceptions." ... The lawyers who wrote the letter
about his finances are with the firm Morgan Lewis & Bockius, which was named "Russia
Law Firm of the Year" for 2016 by Chambers & Partners, which ranks lawyers.
... the Trump administration has been caught up in an intensifying swirl of
questions about potential financial ties involving Russians, Trump, and his
associates. ... Without copies of Trump's tax returns, the claims by his
lawyers cannot be verified.
The exceptions include this: "In 2008, Trump Properties LLC sold an estate in Florida, that it had acquired in 2005 for approximately $41 million, to a Russian billionaire for $95 million."
That buyer was Dmitry Rybolovlev, who never moved into the 62,000-square-foot mansion before tearing it down.
Another exception was the $12.2 million made from holding the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow in 2013, according to the letter signed by attorneys Sheri A. Dillon and William F. Nelson.
The lawyers also noted that Trump very likely has received undisclosed payments
from Russians for hotel rooms, rounds of golf and Trump-licensed products, such
as wine, ties and mattresses.
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/12/528134634/trumps-lawyers-deny-he-has-russian-income-or-debt-with-a-few-exceptions
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January 22: The group Common Cause has
lodged complaints alleging that a reported hush payment for a porn star to stay
quiet about an alleged affair with Donald Trump in 2006, before he was elected
President, constitutes a campaign finance violation.
Common Cause said in its complaints that the
reported payment to Stephanie Clifford, better known as Stormy Daniels, was
an illegal in-kind campaign contribution.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/22/politics/common-cause-stormy-daniels/index.html
March 19: Joseph diGenova, who alleges FBI
plot to frame Trump, joins president's legal team
President Donald Trump has added a longtime Washington lawyer to his legal team
who has publicly promoted a conspiracy theory that officials
in the FBI and Justice Department are plotting to frame the president with a
"false crime" in the Russia investigation.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/joseph-digenova-who-alleges-fbi-plot-frame-trump-joins-president-n857966
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April 13: President Donald Trump's longtime
personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, facilitated a payment plan totaling $1.6 million
last year to a former Playboy model who says she became pregnant by Elliott
Broidy, a leading GOP fundraiser, a source tells CNN.
The payment was a personal injury settlement, and included a nondisclosure
contract, forbidding the woman from discussing the deal, according to the
source, who did not want to be named for fear of retribution. It is not known
what type of personal injury claim the woman made.
Keith Davidson, the former attorney for Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal,
represented the woman, making it the second known "hush money" deal Davidson
brokered with Cohen. Both Daniels and McDougal allege they had affairs with
Trump and that they were paid to be quiet about those encounters. Trump
has denied relationships with both Daniels and McDougal.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/13/politics/trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-settlement/
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April 19: Embattled attorney Michael Cohen
has dropped a pair of much-touted libel suits against BuzzFeed and the private
investigation firm Fusion GPS over publication of the so-called dossier
detailing alleged ties between President Donald Trump and Russia.
Cohen abandoned the suits late Wednesday as he continues to fight to recover
documents and electronic files seized from his home, office and hotel room last
week by federal authorities as part of what appears to be a broad criminal
investigation into his conduct.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/19/michael-cohen-drops-buzzfeed-fusion-lawsuit-537327
April 21: Trump defends Cohen after NYT
report ... In a series of tweets peppered with insults against the Times' White
House correspondent, Maggie Haberman, and her sourcing, Trump wrote that she and
the newspaper "are going out of their way to destroy Michael Cohen and his
relationship with me in the hope that he will 'flip.' They
use.......non-existent 'sources' and a drunk/drugged up loser who hates Michael,
a fine person with a wonderful family."
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"Michael is a businessman for his own account/lawyer who I have always liked &
respected," Trump continued. "Most people will flip if the Government lets them
out of trouble, even if........it means lying or making up stories. Sorry, I
don't see Michael doing that despite the horrible Witch Hunt and the dishonest
media!"
It is unclear who the President was describing as "a drunk/drugged up loser" who
hates Cohen.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/21/politics/trump-cohen-new-york-times/index.html
May 2:
Trump’s Legal Team Lacks Security Clearances Needed for Mueller Negotiations
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-02/trump-lawyers-said-to-lack-security-clearance-amid-mueller-talks
May 3: Rudy Giuliani, who joined President
Trump’s personal legal team last week, told Fox News on Thursday that the Trump
attorney Michael Cohen had arranged a payment to the adult-film actress Stormy
Daniels in order to prevent allegations of an affair from coming out in the
closing days of the 2016 election.
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The former New York City mayor’s explanation for the $130,000 payment to Daniels
suggests the deal likely ran afoul of campaign-finance laws.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/rudy-rudy-rudy/559577/
May 4: Rudy Giuliani, who last month joined
President Donald Trump’s legal team in the Russia probe, lacks a security
clearance and may find it hard to get one to see classified documents because of
his work with foreign clients ....
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-lawyers/security-clearance-for-russia-probe-may-be-hard-for-giuliani-legal-experts-idUSKBN1I6008
May 4: The top Democrat on the House Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform called for an investigation Friday into whether
President Donald Trump broke the law by failing to disclose on his financial
disclosure form his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen's $130,000 hush money payment
to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Rep. Elijah Cummings , in a letter to Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy, the chair of
the Oversight Committee, highlighted recent statements from Trump's new
attorney, Rudy Giuliani. Cummings said they were evidence that Trump had failed
to disclose the payment as a loan on his financial disclosure, a crime under
federal law.
http://www.businessinsider.com/rudy-giuliani-stormy-daniels-trump-comments-congress-investigation-2018-5
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May 5: Giuliani: Despite Stormy
Daniels Fumble, Trump Still ‘Loves Me’
Now he says that while the president reimbursed Michael Cohen for the payment,
he didn’t know what it was for.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/giuliani-tells-washington-post-trump-still-loves-me_us_5aed30abe4b0c4f19322bd59
May 5: How Long Will Rudy Giuliani Last as
Trump’s Lawyer?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-long-will-rudy-giuliani-last-as-trumps-lawyer
May 6: Rudy Giuliani on Fox News insists
Trump did not violate campaign finance laws
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rudy-giuliani-fox-news-jeanine-pirro-donald-trump-campaign-fiance-laws/
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May 9:
Money Flowed to Michael
Cohen. Where Did It Go?
The big question is whether any of the money tied to a Russian oligarch landed
in Trump's orbit.
Cohen’s shell company, Essential Consultants LLC,
received a total of $4.4 million in payments from a range of sources with an
interest in influencing Trump, including the pharma giant Novartis AG, Korea
Aerospace Industries Ltd. and AT&T Inc., seeking to pull off its merger with
Time Warner Inc.
In the best case scenario for Trump, Cohen has simply been selling a range of
corporate actors on the idea that he has unique access to the president. That
would make Cohen an unregistered lobbyist, which is a crime — but it would not
necessarily implicate Trump in any wrongdoing.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-05-09/russian-ties-to-cohen-shell-company-follow-the-money
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August 14: Trump Campaign Targets Omarosa
Manigault Newman Over Tell-All Book ["Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the
Trump White House"]
President Trump's campaign arm has filed a complaint with an arbitrator,
accusing former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman of violating a 2016
confidentiality agreement with her tell-all book and publicity tour.
In her book, Unhinged, and the accompanying tour, Manigault Newman has
been harshly critical of the president, calling Trump a racist and suggesting
that he suffers from dementia.
The president launched a volley of angry tweets in response, describing his
former aide as a "crazed, crying lowlife" and "that dog."
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/14/638551941/trump-campaign-targets-omarosa-manigault-newman-over-tell-all-book
August 15: The arbitration seeks to silence
Omarosa ... by enforcing a contract that Trump’s presidential campaign required
all staffers and volunteers to sign. Even if you wanted to volunteer to phone
bank from home, you
had to sign this
five-page agreement.
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It is possible that some of this might be enforceable in the private sector.
But Trump is no longer candidate Trump. Now he’s President Trump, and he’s not
in the private sector anymore. The First Amendment prevents a government
official from
enforcing non-disclosure agreements — and certainly non-disparagement
agreements — against government employees. Even ex-CIA agents can
write about their experiences so long as they do not reveal classified
information.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/08/15/candidate-trump-might-have-silenced-omarosa-but-president-cant-column/996085002/
August 16: Ron Reagan, the son of former
President Ronald Reagan, said that President Trump is "dragging" the presidency
"through the gutter" with his comments toward women.
Reagan was discussing Trump's recent tweet slamming former White House aide
Omarosa Manigault Newman as "a dog."
"Donald Trump does not appreciate or grasp the grandeur of the dignity of the
office that he holds," the former first son said
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/08/16/ron-reagan-blasts-trump-imbecile-omarosa-dog-tweet-dragging-presidency-gutter
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August 19: President Donald Trump’s lawyer
Rudy Giuliani on Sunday claimed “truth isn’t truth” when trying to explain why
the president should not testify for special counsel Robert Mueller for fear of
being trapped into a lie that could lead to a perjury charge.
“When you tell me that, you know, he should testify because he’s going to tell
the truth and he shouldn’t worry, well that’s so silly because it’s somebody’s
version of the truth. Not the truth,” Giuliani
told Chuck Todd on
NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday morning
“Truth is truth,” Todd responded.
“No, no, it isn’t truth,” Giuliani said. “Truth isn’t truth. The President of
the United States says, “I didn’t …”
A startled Todd answered: “Truth isn’t truth?”
Giuliani: “No, no, no.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/19/giuliani-truth-todd-trump-788161
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August 20: President Trump’s lawyer Rudolph
W. Giuliani on Monday sought to clarify his head-scratching assertion over the
weekend that “truth isn’t truth,” writing in a morning tweet that he was
referring to instances where two people make contradictory statements.
“My statement was not meant as a pontification on moral theology but one
referring to the situation where two people make precisely contradictory
statements, the classic ‘he said she said’ puzzle,” Giuliani said. “Sometimes
further inquiry can reveal the truth other times it doesn’t.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/giuliani-tries-to-explain-what-he-meant-by-truth-isnt-truth/2018/08/20/5936a3a4-a471-11e8-a656-943eefab5daf_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.cef741e58095
September 9: Trump says he won't enforce
hush-money deal with Stormy Daniels
If a court finds the issue resolved, it could kill efforts by Daniels' attorney
to try to compel Trump to give sworn testimony.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-says-he-won-t-enforce-hush-money-deal-stormy-n907821
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November 28: Supreme Court Appears Ready To
Make It Harder For States To Confiscate Property
At the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday, a majority of the justices seemed ready to
make it more difficult for states to confiscate cars, houses and other property
that is even tangentially used in the commission of a crime. It's a process
legally known as civil asset forfeiture.
That would be a victory for Tyson Timbs, whose $42,000 Land Rover was seized by
the state of Indiana after he was arrested for selling a small amount of heroin
to undercover cops for $400. A trial judge ruled that taking the SUV was a
grossly disproportionate punishment, on top of other fines and a year of house
detention.
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/28/671268444/supreme-court-appears-ready-to-make-it-harder-for-states-to-confiscate-property
November 29: FBI Raids Trump's Former
Chicago Tax Attorney Who Saved the President $14 Million in Property Taxes
http://fortune.com/2018/11/29/fbi-raids-trump-tax-attorney-chicago/
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January 13: Three
newly empowered Democratic House committee chairmen, alarmed by statements over
the weekend by President Trump about his former lawyer’s planned testimony
before Congress, cautioned on Sunday that any effort to discourage or influence
a witness’s testimony could be construed as a crime.
The warning, a stark and unusual message from some of Congress’s most
influential Democrats, underscores the increasing legal and political peril
facing Mr. Trump. Democrats are beginning their own investigations of him as the
special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, appears to move toward a conclusion in
his investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia and potential
obstruction of justice by Mr. Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/13/us/politics/trump-cohen-testimony.html
February 22: On
Tuesday, the New York Times published
the results of an extensive investigation into Trump's "two-year war on the
investigations encircling him." The paper found that there has been a
"sustained, more secretive assault by Mr. Trump on the machinery of federal law
enforcement" than has been previously publicly known ....
As part of his efforts to contain the ongoing legal crises he faces, Trump
reportedly tried to install a loyalist in New York's Southern District, US
attorney Geoffrey S. Berman, as the new person in charge of the investigations
into Trump's hush-money payments, like the one apparently made to Stormy Daniels
in 2016.
https://sfist.com/2019/02/22/sf-based-irs-agent-stormy-daniels/
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