Trump is the most corrupt US president in history

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Ah yeah, I see they did later issue a clarification about that. That's alright then, nothing suspicious at all about agreeing to never investigate the evidence they should already have.
I’m not sure which part of “fruit of a poisonous tree” needs explaining. If the IRS was antagonistic specifically against the aggrieved parties and they have reason to believe the agency engaged in untoward activities with the express intent to find hooks were there weren’t any to begin with, they might not want those biased investigations to continue. Think of it as entering a domicile in the absence of a warrant. It kind of doesn’t matter what you’ve found, it gets thrown out because the search was illegal in the first place. It falls under the 4th’s exclusionary rule. Similar principle, just applied to taxation.
 
I’m not sure which part of “fruit of a poisonous tree” needs explaining. If the IRS was antagonistic specifically against the aggrieved parties and they have reason to believe the agency engaged in untoward activities with the express intent to find hooks were there weren’t any to begin with, they might not want those biased investigations to continue. Think of it as entering a domicile in the absence of a warrant. It kind of doesn’t matter what you’ve found, it gets thrown out because the search was illegal in the first place. It falls under the 4th’s exclusionary rule. Similar principle, just applied to taxation.
Already said this, but the exclusionary rule and "fruit of the poisonous tree" are specific for unlawfully obtained evidence.

IRS tax filings are not the same as police illegally kicking down someone’s door. The IRS already lawfully possessed the tax returns because Trump’s companies voluntarily provided that information to the government in the first place.

So unless you’re now saying the IRS illegally obtained the tax data itself, the comparison fails immediately. Again, at most most, they could argue certain investigative steps from the leak were tainted. But that wouldn't mean all prior filings suddenly becomes invalid forever. Abuse of power, plain and simple.
 
*Attempted assassination during the White House Correspondents' Dinner.*

"We need the ballroom, for safety and security!"

In other news.....

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Trump builds, or taxpayers?
I'll jump in before someone else says 'Not illegal. Not corruption. He's the president, and therefore can do whatever he wants.'

But yes, very wasteful. Very tasteless. Very tone-deaf. And very VERY VERRRRRRRRRRRY (On-brand) stupid.

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Just a nice breakdown of the long list of corruption that Trump has been involved in within just his 2nd administration.



The main overarching corrupt actions can go into these categories:
1. Crypto and personal enrichment
2. The Pardon economy
3. Stock trading and market manipulation
4. Regulatory regulation and retaliation
5. Emoluments and foreign deals
6. Government contracts and pay-to-play

For everything he does, there is always a plan to enrich himself, his family, or his doners. The deplorables will still weakly attempt whatabout-ism (Buh buh buh, Pelosiiii!!!), but they can STFU. They are empty husks too weak to be able to admit that they've been scammed and will continue to be scammed by the greatest con-artist in history.

There is no defense.
 
More corruption: the US DOJ is actively trying to get names and details on x and reddit of people criticising ICE.

Where are the freedom of speech paladins, actually blackguards, now?
Better question: where they ever interested in freedo of speech to begin with? Rightwing media has been narrating, peddling and covertly subverting any other agenda since at least 9/11, and the whole 'woke' /cancel culture criticism is hard to see it as anything but an excuse for racism. So no, I'm not surprised they're not minding deep big brother surveillance.

Not that it's maintainable. Just one of two days ago i read an official trying to muster support for that world cup thing by saying that a deep id surveillance that checks your past social media posts is about as likely to happen as being hit by a meteor.
... As if incompetent surveillance is somehow an excuse
 
Already said this, but the exclusionary rule and "fruit of the poisonous tree" are specific for unlawfully obtained evidence.

IRS tax filings are not the same as police illegally kicking down someone’s door. The IRS already lawfully possessed the tax returns because Trump’s companies voluntarily provided that information to the government in the first place.

So unless you’re now saying the IRS illegally obtained the tax data itself, the comparison fails immediately. Again, at most most, they could argue certain investigative steps from the leak were tainted. But that wouldn't mean all prior filings suddenly becomes invalid forever. Abuse of power, plain and simple.
It'd be a neat loophole, wouldn't it? If I don't want my tax returns to be investigated, all I need to do is bait someone into leaking them and that magically grants me immunity because...other people can also see the evidence?

Does everyone else who had their returns leaked also gain immunity?
 
It'd be a neat loophole, wouldn't it? If I don't want my tax returns to be investigated, all I need to do is bait someone into leaking them and that magically grants me immunity because...other people can also see the evidence?
Right? Really not hard to motivate someone to do that to a corrupt rich person who has literally stolen from charities. It's a moronic premise on its face, and that's why Foxi has ignored it after being corrected twice about how the rule really works. I'm sure he saw some mouthpiece for Trump say "fruit of the poisonous tree", and Foxi just parroted it without looking into what it really is. Typical for a cultist.

Does everyone else who had their returns leaked also gain immunity?
No, only Trump in this situation because special pleading is a thing here for sycophants. I'm sure Elon and Bezos would also LOVE to use that loophole since their data was released as well.
 
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Megyn Kelly and Shawn Ryan openly saying that Trump is more corrupt than they could have ever imagined.



The rats are fleeing. The only one's left don't realize the ship is sinking.
 
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crkpyj41m15o

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Well then. I guess the J6ers continue to get nothing, what a shame.

Although they are refusing to put it in writing, curiously. Maybe they think not doing so will make it a smaller story in the media, or maybe it's just standard lying.
But I surely do not believe that the Attorney General claiming, all of a sudden, that he doesn't see the point of putting things in writing. The original announcement got some, with plenty of all-caps for attention. Oh well
 

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