folks, for the appeal. yet another trump associate is heading to prison. broke. humiliated, and begging for money. also, the republican front-runner himself was on the witness stand today, for all of three minutes, as the defense rests in the e. jean carroll defamation case. plus, the horrifying post-roe consequences. nearly 65,000 pregnancies from rape in the 14 states with abortion bans. but we begin tonight in new york, where donald trump fresh off his new hampshire primary victory, making him the all but certain republican presidential nominee, addressed a much smaller crowd today. a nine-member federal jury in the second civil defamation trial brought by writer e. jean carroll. separate jury last year found trump liable for both sexually abusing carroll in the late 1990s and defaming her in recent years. yeah, let s just take a moment to remember that. the presumptive republican presidential nominee is someone who has been found liable for sexual abuse. he was mia du
classified documents that includes some labeled secret and top secret. the fda also took a handwritten note, binders of photos and other documents. that is, according to a property receipt from the search. all of this unfolds as it all unfolds, trump along with his loyal allies, continue to attack the fbi and other government officials. and this heated anti government rhetoric is already having consequences. political reports the federal judge who signed off on the search warrant has been hit with antisemitic attacks online, including threats to the synagogue where he worships. there is an attack on an fbi field office in cincinnati. an official motive list being investigated. but we know the suspects repeatedly posted online through truth social, the social network started by donald trump s media company. he called for violence against federal agents and told people to be, quote, ready for combat. this rhetoric about the fbi isn t just coming from the far right fringe on t
Every single president and every single Vice President has been audited by the irs every year of their time in office. And they all still routinely release their tax returns to the public every year so that excuse from trump and the Trump Campaign never made sense. Being under audit is excuse for not releasing your tax returns as a candidate or certainly as president. Also, the audit excuse never made sense for his past tax returns. Even if donald trump wanted to release nothing under current audit, well, what about years for which the audits are completed and closed . Any year of his taxes before, say, 2008, any year that was audited before then, those years presumably would be done being audited by now. Those would be closed. So why not release those earlier tax returns even if you dont want to release the current ones for which there isnt an excuse not to do anyway . Whether or not you are a supporter of donald trump in
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we are under audit, despite what people said, we are working that out, and i m always under audit, it seems. but i have been under audit for many years, because the numbers are big, i guess, when you have a name, you ordered it. numbers are big. with me now, david cay johnston, he is the editor in chief of dcreport.org, and the author of many books on trump, including the big cheat: how donald trump fleeced america and enriched himself and his family. david, thanks for being with us. i want to start with the fbi search at mar-a-lago. what do we know about trump s financial history, and business dealings, that is making all of this so concerning to you? well, donald doesn t know anything about nuclear power. he couldn t explain the difference between an atomic bomb and a hydrogen bomb, and he clearly doesn t know anything about intelligence. but the documents he has, foreign governments that are hostile to the united states would pay a lot of money to see these documents.
joyce vance, professor at the alabama school of law. she is an msnbc legal analyst and david k. johnston, founder of dcreport.org. let s begin before we delve into a point that pete williams raise you had. the flip of the justice department revising the decision from 2019 to say that there is now awe legal purpose. it doesn t have to be simply legislative purpose in terms of why the tax returns should be handed over to this committee. is that a common practice or could a krit uk say that is because there is a leadership change or a political change and the department of justice under trump. they want to protect him. now it s different. i would expect that there were some criticism of this move by olc, the office of legal counsel. in reality this one is fair and