Lessons of History and Trying To Avoid the Same Mistakes

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While advising Trump on judges, Conway sold her business to a firm with ties to judicial activist Leonard Leo

The move adds to a growing picture of how groups associated with Leo helped advance the conservative legal agenda.

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What percentage of the posts on this thread are just the OP replying to himself?

 

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According to the committee's report, Powell repeated to Trump claims that she had trotted out during that press conference. This included the baseless assertion that there was "massive influence of communist money through Venezuela, Cuba, and likely China in the interference with our elections here in the United States."

Additionally, Powell thought the voting technology company Dominion Voting Systems was in league with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez (who has been dead since 2013), and that this had something to do with the election.

Two days later, on November 22, 2020, Trump's team purged Powell from their ranks.

"Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own. She is not a member of the Trump Legal Team. She is also not a lawyer for the President in his personal capacity," wrote Trump lawyers Giuliani and Jenna Ellis on November 22.

As for Powell's fate, in October 2021, the Daily Beast reported that she is now on Trump's "no-go list." The Daily Beast spoke to sources who said Powell has been put on a list of people to keep away from Trump, and that the former president will not take her calls.

In the meantime, Dominion Voting Systems is suing Powell, Giuliani, and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for defamation, alleging that the trio pushed a slew of baseless voter fraud claims that hurt its business. Dominion Voting Systems said in January that it is unlikely to settle the billion-dollar lawsuits given the "devastating harm" the three caused the company.

Representatives for Powell and a spokesman for Trump did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.

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Even Donald Trump laughed at Sidney Powell when she spouted baseless voter fraud claims: 'This does sound crazy, doesn't it?'

Sidney Powell claimed here was "massive influence of communist money through Venezuela, Cuba, and likely China in the interference with our elections here in the United States."

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28 Republicans Who Call Gay People 'Groomers' Just Voted Against a Bill Addressing Child Sex Abuse

For the past year, we’ve been subjected to an endless, escalating right-wing fearmongering campaign presenting LGBTQ adults as innate child sexual predators, or “groomers,” and any children in their vicinity as victims. People are literally throwing molotov cocktails into establishments that...

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2/ Agnew was taking bribes for years prior to that, when governor of Maryland. Nixon, the nation later discovered, was ALSO taking bribes. The milk lobby brought him a half million dollars in cash, as did Jimmy Hoffa to stop the DOJ from prosecuting him.

3/ When Congress learned about the Nixon/Agnew bribery scandals, they acted. In 1977, Congress passed a law *requiring* the IRS to *automatically* audit the tax returns of *every* president from that point going forward.


4/ The idea was that any future president taking bribes or putting the interests of somebody who was paying him - be it a company, an individual, or even a foreign government - ahead of the interests of America could be caught this way.


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5/ That IRS automatic audit program has been largely irrelevant because every president since 1977 has voluntarily disclosed their tax returns, although the IRS nonetheless audited every president from Jerry Ford to Barack Obama. Until Donald Trump.


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6/ He really *should* have been audited as the law requires, to determine if he was putting the interests of his own businesses or a foreign government ahead of those of America. After all, he had refused to share his tax returns with the American people.



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7/ But Trump managed to get his own IRS to not audit him as the law required! As a failsafe, that 1977 law says that one single committee in Congress - and only one - has the power to break the IRS seal of privacy and examine any president’s tax returns.




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8/ That’s the Ways and Means Committee. Congressman Richie Neal, Chairman of that Committee, submitted the routine request for Trump’s tax returns and was first stonewalled by Trump’s IRS commissioner. He then fought Trump through the courts for years.



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9/ Now that we finally have those returns, we know that the IRS itself had been corrupted by Trump. That requires legislative action to tighten IRS oversight, and will probably also require a criminal investigation of Trump and his IRS Commissioner.


10/ The final big question is whether Trump, like Nixon and Agnew, was behaving corruptly while in office. It’s probably going to take weeks or even months to figure that out: stay tuned.