Donald J. Trump's tax returns were made public. The White House was none too happy about the tax returns being released to the public.
Daily Beast contributor David Cay Johnston obtained Trump's tax returns. The first two pages of Trump's 2005 income tax returns, and published an analysis of those pages on his websites, DCReport.org. The Daily Beast couldn't independently verify these documents.
The documents show Trump and his wife Melania paying $5.3 million in regular federal income taxes -- a rate of less than 4%. However the Trump family paid an additional $31 millions in the so-called "alternative minimum tax," or AMT. Trump has previously called for the elimination of this tax.
Bang. Rachel Maddow made Donald Trump uneasy tonight.
Trump in 2005 paid $38 million in tax on an income of $150 million.
The fuhrer's tax returns were a subject of scrutiny since he announced his bid to destroy the country.
Trump became the first elected leader to refuse to release his income. He said that "people don't care about how much he made" and will "not release his tax returns."
Trump continues to assist that he's being audit by the IRS.
Rachel Maddow broke the news tonight and it's got the most annoying and factually challenged competitor over at Fox News steaming mad.
Sean "Softball" Hannity is so freaking mad over this. He was wrapped around this notion that the junk food media is out to get Trump. The softball has the audacity to label MSNBC and NBC News, "fake news." Really, this is coming from the most annoying agitator in the junk food media. A man who peddled an anti-Semitic on his show to go after Barack Obama.
The St. Louis County Prosecutor releases a longer version of Mike Brown being inside the liquor store.
The St. Louis County prosecutor released unedited footage of an encounter between Michael Brown and the Ferguson store clerks who accused him of stealing a pack of cigarellos.
In the documentary Strange Fruit, there was footage of Brown entering the store the previous night and purchased something as well as hand off a baggie to the clerks.
It disputes the encounter saying that Brown "strong armed" a clerk before he was the fatal encounter with then Ferguson officer Darren Wilson.
Robert McCulloch who became famous for handing the fate of Wilson to a grand jury argued that the video from the documentary is not correct.
"It's not as though it was hidden away somewhere," McCulloch said. The video which shows the first of two visits by Brown to the store that day.
The Huffington Post also notes that Jay Kanzler, the lawyer for the convenience store and the clerks also said that the need to release the video could explain the transaction.
What McCulloch failed to mention was the reason to why the video wasn't released during the grand jury decision to not charge Darren Wilson. How come this was left out from the jump?
A documentary unearths some intriguing information about the fatal shooting of Michael Brown.
In 2014, Mike Brown was killed by a Ferguson Police officer after a confrontation. He was shot with six bullets and the officer who killed him walked. It sparked nights of unrest and opened up a deep divide between Blacks and the police.
It also opened the flood gates of White extremism. The Drudge Report, Gateway Pundit, Fox News, Old Fart Rush Limbaugh, Bearing Arms, Breitbart, Sean "Softball" Hannity, Pervert Bill O'Reilly and Laura Ingraham were barking White extremism and pointing the finger of unrest at the feet of then President Barack Obama.
They claimed that the president, Al Sharpton and Black Lives Matter were responsible for the unrest and believed that Brown's failure to follow a police order led to his death. They accused the family of Brown of profiting off a tragedy.
The junk food media accused Brown of a "strong arm" robbery of a store clerk.
Well a filmmaker tore through the notion that Brown actually robbed a store. Matter of fact, it was left out of the junk food media coverage of the shooting.
Brown had been in the store during a late night run. He came into the store and swapped hands with the clerk.
It was the same convenience store included in a new documentary is raising new questions about what happened in the hours before the shooting on Aug. 9, 2014.
The footage shows Brown entering the store, Ferguson Market and Liquor, shortly after 1 am on the day he died. He approaches the counter, hands over an item that appears to be a small bag and takes a shopping sack filled with cigarillos. Brown is shown walking toward the door with the sack, then turning around and handing the cigarillos back across the counter before exiting.
The New York Times reports that Jason Pollock, a documentary filmmaker who acquired the new tape, says the footage challenges the police narrative that Brown committed a strong-armed robbery when he returned to the store around noon that day. Instead, Pollock believes that the new video shows Brown giving a small bag of marijuana to store employees and receiving cigarillos in return as part of a negotiated deal. Pollock said Brown left the cigarillos behind the counter for safekeeping.
"There was some type of exchange, for one thing, for another," Lesley McSpadden, Brown's mother, says in Pollock's documentary, "Stranger Fruit," which premiered Saturday at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, and examines the shooting from the family's perspective.
But Jay Kanzler, a lawyer for the convenience store and its employees, strongly disputes that version of events, and said the new footage is unrelated to Brown's later visit to the store.
"There was no transaction," Kanzler said. "There was no understanding. No agreement. Those folks didn't sell him cigarillos for pot. The reason he gave it back is he was walking out the door with unpaid merchandise and they wanted it back."
"They destroyed Michael's character with the tape, and they didn't show us what actually happened," said Pollock, who spent more than two years in Ferguson conducting research for his documentary, and who questions the decision to not charge Wilson. "So this shows their intention to make him look bad. And shows suppression of evidence."
The St. Louis County Police Department briefly mentioned Brown's early-morning visit to the store in a lengthy report on the case, which tipped Pollock off to the existence of an additional video.
Sgt. Shawn McGuire, a spokesman for the county police, said in an email on Saturday that footage of the earlier encounter had not been released because it was not relevant to the investigation.
He added later that he could not confirm the video's authenticity.
Spokesmen for the city of Ferguson and the St. Louis County prosecutor's office did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Saturday.
Brown's parents have filed a federal lawsuit against Wilson, the city of Ferguson and the former Ferguson police chief. A civil trial is scheduled to start next year.
White booger Steve King continues cringe lawmakers.
An Iowa lawmaker continues to push the buttons. A relatively unaccomplished lawmaker named Steve King continues to embarrass the state with his retarded actions. Just like Fuhrer Donald J. Trump, King embraces shameful ignorance.
He tweets a far right comic with an image of Dutch white nationalist Geert Wilders plugging a damn labeled "Western Civilization" to stop a flow of green ooze with stars and crescent moons -- a color and symbols widely associated with Islam.
Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies. https://t.co/4nxLipafWO
This lawmaker along with Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA), Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) are the "do nothing conservatives."
They are by far the least productive lawmakers in Congress. They have nothing to show other than their contempt for social change and compromise.
King said during the Republican National Convention in his opinion, White Christians contributed to the Western Civilization than any other "subgroup."
Wilders is a far right candidate trying to win a spot as Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
King has no regrets about what he says. He practically attacks Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, women and the president.
King had said some dumb shit about Barack Obama. He claimed that Obama was a "sleeper agent" who supports the Islamic State.
The reason for the accusation was the fact Obama will never say the phrase "Radical Islam."
It's unfortunate news tonight. Joni Sledge, a member of the four sister group Sister Sledge (also known as The Sledge Sisters) passed away today. She was found dead in her home in Phoenix.
No cause of death has been announced.
She was a part of the group that sung the No. 1 hit single, "We Are Family." She died on Friday and the news was confirmed today.
"Yesterday, numbness fell upon our family. Pray for us as we weep for the loss of our sister, mother, aunt, niece, and cousin Joni Sledge. We thank you for privacy as we hurt for her presence, but also for embracing her radiance and the sincerity with which she love life." - A spokesperson for the group read.
Joni was born in September 1956 in Philadelphia to a tap dancing father named Edwin Sledge and actress Florez Williams.
Formed in 1971, the group consist of Joni, Debbie, Kim and Kathy Sledge. Their album We Are Family became an instant success. It breakthrough album that went platinum. Their success also came with the singles "Greatest Dancer" and "Got to Love Somebody."
Kathy quit the group to focus on her solo career. Joni, Debbie and Kim kept the group going throughout the years until her death.
Joni is survived by her son, Thaddeus and the sisters.
Our late night thread is dedicated to Joni. We're going to have two videos on tap.
Trump favorite past time: Softball. The latest scandal plaguing Trump is the firing of a high profile U.S. Attorney. The junk food media believe that Sean "Softball" Hannity's rant inspired it.
The cannon firing of 46 federal attorneys who were considered appointees to then Barack Obama were sent their walking papers. And we can credit, Fuhrer Donald J. Trump's favorite sport on television for his decision.
U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of New York. Preet Bharara was fired out the cannon tonight. He was pretty damn pissed about this. The squinty eyed bigot said to Bharara, "Pack it up boy. You're out of here!"
Preet Bharara is none too happy about Trump breaking his word.
The New York Times reports that Bharara was among the 46 federal attorneys appointed by Obama to get fired out the cannon. They were told to immediately clean out their offices. The request took many in his office by surprise. Bharara was told by Trump to stay on.
Bharara was investigation corruption in New York. One of those cases involved the Fox News Channel. They are facing an investigation into payouts made by Rupert Murdoch to the women who accused then president of the network Roger Ailes of sexual harassment.
There were investigations into New York City mayor Bill de Blasio's campaign fundraising. The mayor and his aides were calling favors for political donations.
Just this week a very annoying presence in the junk food media called for a "purge" of Obama's holdovers. The "Deep State" kookspiracy is being peddled by this agitator.
Trump loves softball. He often goes to plenty of softball games. Take for example, Sean "Softball" Hannity, the most annoying conservative agitator in the junk food media. The softball is rammed up in the fuhrer's ass. The fuhrer loves to watch this annoyance on Fox News.
Many point to the softball's cozy relationship with Trump as a result of the cannon firing.
An Uber driver outsmarted a Wilmington, NC police officer. The officer was caught on camera telling the driver that it's against North Carolina law to record police. Unbeknownst to the officer, the driver was a lawyer and he "sonned" him.
Now the officer will face a disciplinary hearing. Jesse Bright, a lawyer who practices in criminal law was pulled over after the officer observed him coming from an area know to have drug activity.
Bright shared his February encounter with the junk food media. Bright began recording the officer on his cellphone. He was pulled over after picking up an Uber rider.
Bright and the passenger was asked to exit the vehicle and be submitted to a search. When the officer saw that bright was recording the encounter, the officer got in his face.
Officer: "Hey bud, turn that off, OK?"
Bright: "No, I'll keep recording, thank you. It's my right."
Officer: "Don't record me, You got me?"
Bright: "Look, you're a police officer on duty. I can record you."
Officer: "Be careful because there is a new law. Turn it off or I'll take you to jail."
Bright: "For recording you? What is the law?"
Officer: "Step out of the car."
Bright: "What are you arresting me for? I'm sitting here in my ar. I'm just recording in case anything happens. I'm surrounded by five officers."
Officer: "You're being a jerk."
Bright: "I'm scared right now. I'm not being a jerk. I'm recording in case anything happens."
Officer: "You better hope we don't find anything in your car."
Bright told the officer he doesn't consent to his car being searched. Bright refused to exit his vehicle and kept his door locked. The officer tried to pulled the door open. By that time, he called for a K9 unit and the officer and the K9 unit searched the vehicle. The officers didn't find nothing in the vehicle and Bright was free to continue on his way.
Well this encounter reached the police chief. Ralph Evangelous, the chief of the Wilmington Police was annoyed by the junk food media. He didn't expect to caught in a scandal involving his officers.
Matter of fact, I bet he told his officers to do what ever it takes to get the "bad guy."
He did a simple cop out.
"Taking photographs and videos of people that are in plain sight including the police is your legal right. As a matter of fact we invite citizens to do so when they believe it is necessary. We believe that public videos help to protect the police as well as our citizens and provide critical information during police and citizen interactions," said Evangelous.
The sheriff of New Hanover County also spoke on the matter.
"Sheriff Ed McMahon ... believe it is clear that officers were incorrect in stating that it was illegal to record the encounter," Lt. Jason August wrote. "Not only does the Sheriff agree that it is legal to record encounters, he invites citizens to do so."
Photography is not a crime.
We are allowed to film public servants. They are getting our taxpayer dollars to serve under the badge. You are protected under the Constitution for unlawful arrest, search and seizure of your property, or the right to a speedy trial.
I refuse to be bullied by the man (or woman) wearing the badge. I do not consent to searches of my vehicle. I do not speak about where I go or where I've been. I do not want to be "friends" with a cop who pulled me over. I am not going to self-incriminate myself into a cop's order.
I will not open my door to any police officer without a warrant.
Take extreme caution if the law shows up at your door for a 6am "NO KNOCK". Do not reach for anything. If they authorize lawful entry into your home during a "No KNOCK", you have a right to question the arrest or entry. If you are an owner of firearms, be extremely careful not to fire upon an arresting officer especially if they're saying they are saying "POLICE".
The U.S. Marshals, the FBI and the local police do acknowledge their presence.
If you are treated wrong by an officer, you have the right to ask for their supervisor. You have a right to say to an officer, "Am I free to go?" if you are cited and they want to authorize a search of your vehicle. You have a right to have a dash camera in your vehicle as long as it is not a distraction to your driving. You being issued a ticket isn't an admission of guilt, it's an acknowledgement of a traffic/misdemeanor offense that you can challenge in a public court. You have the right to contest a citation. If found guilty of a traffic offense, you will get points on your license. Your insurance company will be notified of the court decision. You may pay a higher deductible if you're found guilty of driving while intoxicated, reckless driving, fleeing the scene of an accident and willfully eluding a police officer (during a pullover or arrest).
