you still believe this grift? he hasn't stepped foot in a church his entire life. he couldn't even tell two men his favourite bible verse. he's a fraud, in literally every way, and you bought it hook line and sinker.
I photographed a wedding last weekend. I knew the groom was a New Orleans Saints fan, from Louisiana, and after more than two covid postponements, I really just met him before the first week of the NFL season. He let me know that he was really looking forward to punching my boy Tom Brady in the face twice this year as the Saints and the Bucs are in the same division.
When I showed up, I told him he should really check out the latest episode of The Shop on HBO. Even though the King wasn't in this episode, Tommy's in rare form. I didn't bring up the Super Bowl as I really didn't have to.
The grooms older brother comes in about ten minutes later. and the groom tells him I'm a Pats fan, and my history with TB12, and that he should check out this show that I mentioned before.
It's on HBO I say. It's LeBron James show.
"Fuck LeBron James" he says. "Black Lives Matter? Nah Fuck that. We're ALL Republicans here. BLUE lives matter. I forgot how LIBERAL this fucking state is. Jesus."
I mean they HAD to invite him, but they actually paid me to come, so I had to walk a little tight rope.
"Yeah but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about the GOAT. Tom Brady." I looked over my glasses and said pretty fucking deadpan "Show some fucking respect." Crickets. LeBron wasn't even in the episode.
He had two kids under 4 years old that weren't listening to shit he had to say. Ring bearers. Whiny brats the both of them. He went straight to yelling and threatening. Literally 3 minutes later I said "Before you know it these two are gonna be getting outta high school and right into college." I looked over the glasses and said "Life goes by pretty goddamn fast, you gotta pay attention to what's important."
He says "I got two girls, too, ones 20 and ones 24."
I said "You really didn't think any of this through. did you?"
Miserable fucker.
Enjoy being 3-14 this year.
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you still believe this grift? he hasn't stepped foot in a church his entire life. he couldn't even tell two men his favourite bible verse. he's a fraud, in literally every way, and you bought it hook line and sinker.
I'm sure he has a bunch of frozen Trump steaks in the freezer...
I photographed a wedding last weekend. I knew the groom was a New Orleans Saints fan, from Louisiana, and after more than two covid postponements, I really just met him before the first week of the NFL season. He let me know that he was really looking forward to punching my boy Tom Brady in the face twice this year as the Saints and the Bucs are in the same division.
When I showed up, I told him he should really check out the latest episode of The Shop on HBO. Even though the King wasn't in this episode, Tommy's in rare form. I didn't bring up the Super Bowl as I really didn't have to.
The grooms older brother comes in about ten minutes later. and the groom tells him I'm a Pats fan, and my history with TB12, and that he should check out this show that I mentioned before.
It's on HBO I say. It's LeBron James show.
"Fuck LeBron James" he says. "Black Lives Matter? Nah Fuck that. We're ALL Republicans here. BLUE lives matter. I forgot how LIBERAL this fucking state is. Jesus."
I mean they HAD to invite him, but they actually paid me to come, so I had to walk a little tight rope.
"Yeah but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about the GOAT. Tom Brady." I looked over my glasses and said pretty fucking deadpan "Show some fucking respect." Crickets. LeBron wasn't even in the episode.
He had two kids under 4 years old that weren't listening to shit he had to say. Ring bearers. Whiny brats the both of them. He went straight to yelling and threatening. Literally 3 minutes later I said "Before you know it these two are gonna be getting outta high school and right into college." I looked over the glasses and said "Life goes by pretty goddamn fast, you gotta pay attention to what's important."
He says "I got two girls, too, ones 20 and ones 24."
I said "You really didn't think any of this through. did you?"
Kind of funny (ironic) you’re posting this on the same day arrests start on the trump business individuals. I can’t understand why you don’t see when you do these things it looks like you’re making fun of trump….not his remark.
Worst president ever! But his even a worse human I can’t believe you or anyone for that matter look up to him it’s laughable!
Definitely the worst president ever. But what's worse is the people who supported him then and still support him now. Clearly for some it's more important to "own the dems" then it is to do the right thing for America and ALL Americans.
You can bring up the damage that some of the did and make an argument that they're worse than Trump, I suppose.
To me, though, Trump is untouchable atop the list. I remember Reagan and I know he was all about helping the rich and flexing our international muscle. And I know that some of what he was doing helped us get to where we are. But nobody was less knowledgeable about American than Trump. Nobody cared about America less. Nobody was a self-centered. Nobody else had their eye on dictatorship (and the things that go with it in terms of the nepotism, villification of the media, etc.). Nobody else would burn the whole thing down out of spite or for his own reputation.
If we avoid one-party dictatorship, it will be in spite of his efforts.
I suppose if we're lucky, the argument will be able to be made that there were presidents that had a worse impact. But there's no way anyone was more unfit.
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You can bring up the damage that some of the did and make an argument that they're worse than Trump, I suppose.
To me, though, Trump is untouchable atop the list. I remember Reagan and I know he was all about helping the rich and flexing our international muscle. And I know that some of what he was doing helped us get to where we are. But nobody was less knowledgeable about American than Trump. Nobody cared about America less. Nobody was a self-centered. Nobody else had their eye on dictatorship (and the things that go with it in terms of the nepotism, villification of the media, etc.). Nobody else would burn the whole thing down out of spite or for his own reputation.
If we avoid one-party dictatorship, it will be in spite of his efforts.
I suppose if we're lucky, the argument will be able to be made that there were presidents that had a worse impact. But there's no way anyone was more unfit.
I have to agree completely! To me the scariest thing about this debacle is the following he has attained!, just last weekend I drove past a trump rally of about 100 people as if it was campaigning time..
Tax law experts see 'strong' case against Trump Org. CFO
By KEN SWEET, MICHAEL R. SISAK and ERIC TUCKER
2 Jul 2021
NEW YORK (AP) — Companies give perks to their employees all the time. Many top executives at Fortune 500 companies have access to a corporate jet for personal use, a company apartment, or an expense account for fancy meals. Even lower-level employees regularly get access to perks like tuition reimbursement or cash to join a gym.
But the extravagant perks prosecutors say the Trump Organization lavished onto its CFO Allen Weisselberg — apartments, cars, cash for holiday tips, tuition for his grandchildren to name a few — are well beyond the level of compensating a valued employee, some tax law experts said.
And the case against Weisselberg appears to be much stronger than was originally expected by those watching the progress of the Manhattan District Attorney's investigation of the Trump Organization, its employees and its namesake leader.
“This is an overwhelmingly strong case,” said Daniel Hemel, a law professor at the University of Chicago.
According to the indictment unsealed Thursday, Weisselberg cheated tax authorities by taking a hefty chunk of his annual compensation in fringe benefits. They say that over 15 years these off-the-books perks were worth nearly $1.8 million.
Weisselberg alone was accused of defrauding the federal government, state and city out of more than $900,000 in unpaid taxes and undeserved refunds. He is pleading not guilty.
“Mr. Weisselberg intends to plead not guilty and he will fight these charges in court,” Weisselberg’s lawyers, Mary Mulligan and Bryan Skarlatos, said in a statement.
Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump and his allies have tried to frame the indictment against Weisselberg and the Trump Organization as a “witch hunt” by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. and New York Attorney General Letitia James, both Democrats. They have said the perks involved were standard for successful American companies.
But the case against Weisselberg is not necessarily unusual. Some compared the indictment to a tax fraud case involving another real estate tycoon from 30 years ago: Leona Helmsley, the so-called “Queen of Mean” who tried to get her real estate empire to pay for a $3 million home renovation in the 1980s.
Trump himself called Helmsley a “disgrace to humanity” for fraudulently avoiding taxes all those years ago.
“The dollar figures and the charges are more serious than what we had thought over the last few days with the little information we had,” said Daniel R. Alonso, a former chief assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. "In particular, the tax loss alleged is $900,000. That is a fraud amount that is definitely in the jail range for typical cases of that magnitude.”
Melissa Jampol, who as a former assistant district attorney in Manhattan specialized in prosecuting white-collar crimes, said the indictment's allegations stretched far beyond the allegations of fringe benefit abuse that some had presumed would be the crux of the case.
“I think the major takeaway is that there’s a lot more going on here that’s alleged in the indictment than people were aware of previously,” said Jampol, an attorney at the law firm of Epstein Becker Green.
The indictment alleges that this wasn't just a matter of Weisselberg failing to report his pay properly. It says the Trump Organization, as a company, was complicit.
The company kept internal records that tracked employee compensation, and in those records, Weisselberg’s rent, the tuition payments for his grandchildren, his cars and other things were all listed as part of his compensation package. The company even reduced Weisselberg’s payroll checks to account for the indirect compensation he was getting in free rent, the indictment said.
But that compensation was recorded differently in the company’s general ledger and none of it was reported to tax authorities, according to prosecutors.
“There’s the set that was the formal ledger and there’s the set that was Weisselberg’s compensation calculations," Jampol said.
Smaller cases involving similar practices pop up not infrequently. A Queens-based plumbing contractor was sentenced to 20 months in prison just last month. Sergei Denko was found to have cashed $5 million in checks to fund an off-the-books payroll system, avoiding paying roughly $732,000 in employment taxes. Out on Long Island, a diner owner was convicted in September of avoiding $130,000 in employment taxes as well.
Thomas M. Cryan, Jr., a Washington tax lawyer, said prosecutions over fringe benefits issued to employees are rare, but an unusually large volume of perks and an intent to conceal them as income could tip a civil matter into a criminal case.
Often cases involving fringe benefit violations remain between the company and the Internal Revenue Service, and may just result in an audit or back taxes with a penalty being paid.
But some of the allegations against Weisselberg go well beyond the abuse of fringe benefits. Weisselberg’s son Barry — who managed a Trump-operated ice rink in Central Park — paid no reported rent while living in a Trump-owned apartment in 2018, and he was charged just $1,000 per month — far below typical Manhattan prices — while living in a Trump apartment from 2005 to 2012, the indictment said.
Allen Weisselberg himself, an intensely private man who lived for years in a modest home on Long Island, continued to claim residency there despite spending a majority of his time in a company-paid Manhattan apartment, prosecutors said. By doing so, Weisselberg concealed that he was a New York City resident, and he avoided paying the city's income tax.
Though some standalone tax offenses can be handled civilly or administratively, the allegations of other misconduct — including grand larceny — help explain why prosecutors would treat this scheme as deserving of criminal prosecution, Jampol said.
But that doesn’t mean the allegations, which will require proof of willfulness, will be easy to establish in court.
“That’s really going to be the burden that the DA’s office is going to have to prove is that there was a scheme here, and that it wasn’t just a series of mistakes or misunderstandings,” she added.
____
AP Justice Writer Eric Tucker reported from Washington.
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Historians just ranked the presidents. Trump wasn’t last.
when i say worst ever, personally, I'm talking the modern era. I personally don't know enough of american history to claim since Washington.
I'd agree with the Buchanan call. He was feckless. Not that anyone could have stopped the Civil War, but he actively exacerbated the situation with his handling of Dred Scott and Bleeding Kansas. While the latter started under Pierce, it was really Buchanan that split the Democratic party with his support of the capital favoring the slave states. Trump was terrible, but didn't cause the worst bloodshed in US history.
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I photographed a wedding last weekend. I knew the groom was a New Orleans Saints fan, from Louisiana, and after more than two covid postponements, I really just met him before the first week of the NFL season. He let me know that he was really looking forward to punching my boy Tom Brady in the face twice this year as the Saints and the Bucs are in the same division.
When I showed up, I told him he should really check out the latest episode of The Shop on HBO. Even though the King wasn't in this episode, Tommy's in rare form. I didn't bring up the Super Bowl as I really didn't have to.
The grooms older brother comes in about ten minutes later. and the groom tells him I'm a Pats fan, and my history with TB12, and that he should check out this show that I mentioned before.
It's on HBO I say. It's LeBron James show.
"Fuck LeBron James" he says. "Black Lives Matter? Nah Fuck that. We're ALL Republicans here. BLUE lives matter. I forgot how LIBERAL this fucking state is. Jesus."
I mean they HAD to invite him, but they actually paid me to come, so I had to walk a little tight rope.
"Yeah but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about the GOAT. Tom Brady." I looked over my glasses and said pretty fucking deadpan "Show some fucking respect." Crickets. LeBron wasn't even in the episode.
He had two kids under 4 years old that weren't listening to shit he had to say. Ring bearers. Whiny brats the both of them. He went straight to yelling and threatening. Literally 3 minutes later I said "Before you know it these two are gonna be getting outta high school and right into college." I looked over the glasses and said "Life goes by pretty goddamn fast, you gotta pay attention to what's important."
He says "I got two girls, too, ones 20 and ones 24."
I said "You really didn't think any of this through. did you?"
Miserable fucker.
Enjoy being 3-14 this year.
carryon
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He probably couldn’t come up with the down payment to hold his rally lol what a clown
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But what's worse is the people who supported him then and still support him now.
Clearly for some it's more important to "own the dems" then it is to do the right thing for America and ALL Americans.
So who ranked worse than Trump? According to the historians, presidents Franklin “Bleeding Kansas” Pierce, Andrew “First to Be Impeached” Johnson and James “Failed to Stop the Civil War” Buchanan, who came in last.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/06/30/presidential-rankings-2021-cspan-historians/
Historians just ranked the presidents. Trump wasn’t last.
To me, though, Trump is untouchable atop the list. I remember Reagan and I know he was all about helping the rich and flexing our international muscle. And I know that some of what he was doing helped us get to where we are. But nobody was less knowledgeable about American than Trump. Nobody cared about America less. Nobody was a self-centered. Nobody else had their eye on dictatorship (and the things that go with it in terms of the nepotism, villification of the media, etc.). Nobody else would burn the whole thing down out of spite or for his own reputation.
If we avoid one-party dictatorship, it will be in spite of his efforts.
I suppose if we're lucky, the argument will be able to be made that there were presidents that had a worse impact. But there's no way anyone was more unfit.
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He will always be the worst.
NEW YORK (AP) — Companies give perks to their employees all the time. Many top executives at Fortune 500 companies have access to a corporate jet for personal use, a company apartment, or an expense account for fancy meals. Even lower-level employees regularly get access to perks like tuition reimbursement or cash to join a gym.
But the extravagant perks prosecutors say the Trump Organization lavished onto its CFO Allen Weisselberg — apartments, cars, cash for holiday tips, tuition for his grandchildren to name a few — are well beyond the level of compensating a valued employee, some tax law experts said.
And the case against Weisselberg appears to be much stronger than was originally expected by those watching the progress of the Manhattan District Attorney's investigation of the Trump Organization, its employees and its namesake leader.
“This is an overwhelmingly strong case,” said Daniel Hemel, a law professor at the University of Chicago.
According to the indictment unsealed Thursday, Weisselberg cheated tax authorities by taking a hefty chunk of his annual compensation in fringe benefits. They say that over 15 years these off-the-books perks were worth nearly $1.8 million.
Weisselberg alone was accused of defrauding the federal government, state and city out of more than $900,000 in unpaid taxes and undeserved refunds. He is pleading not guilty.
“Mr. Weisselberg intends to plead not guilty and he will fight these charges in court,” Weisselberg’s lawyers, Mary Mulligan and Bryan Skarlatos, said in a statement.
Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump and his allies have tried to frame the indictment against Weisselberg and the Trump Organization as a “witch hunt” by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. and New York Attorney General Letitia James, both Democrats. They have said the perks involved were standard for successful American companies.
But the case against Weisselberg is not necessarily unusual. Some compared the indictment to a tax fraud case involving another real estate tycoon from 30 years ago: Leona Helmsley, the so-called “Queen of Mean” who tried to get her real estate empire to pay for a $3 million home renovation in the 1980s.
Trump himself called Helmsley a “disgrace to humanity” for fraudulently avoiding taxes all those years ago.
“The dollar figures and the charges are more serious than what we had thought over the last few days with the little information we had,” said Daniel R. Alonso, a former chief assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. "In particular, the tax loss alleged is $900,000. That is a fraud amount that is definitely in the jail range for typical cases of that magnitude.”
Melissa Jampol, who as a former assistant district attorney in Manhattan specialized in prosecuting white-collar crimes, said the indictment's allegations stretched far beyond the allegations of fringe benefit abuse that some had presumed would be the crux of the case.
“I think the major takeaway is that there’s a lot more going on here that’s alleged in the indictment than people were aware of previously,” said Jampol, an attorney at the law firm of Epstein Becker Green.
The indictment alleges that this wasn't just a matter of Weisselberg failing to report his pay properly. It says the Trump Organization, as a company, was complicit.
The company kept internal records that tracked employee compensation, and in those records, Weisselberg’s rent, the tuition payments for his grandchildren, his cars and other things were all listed as part of his compensation package. The company even reduced Weisselberg’s payroll checks to account for the indirect compensation he was getting in free rent, the indictment said.
But that compensation was recorded differently in the company’s general ledger and none of it was reported to tax authorities, according to prosecutors.
“There’s the set that was the formal ledger and there’s the set that was Weisselberg’s compensation calculations," Jampol said.
Smaller cases involving similar practices pop up not infrequently. A Queens-based plumbing contractor was sentenced to 20 months in prison just last month. Sergei Denko was found to have cashed $5 million in checks to fund an off-the-books payroll system, avoiding paying roughly $732,000 in employment taxes. Out on Long Island, a diner owner was convicted in September of avoiding $130,000 in employment taxes as well.
Thomas M. Cryan, Jr., a Washington tax lawyer, said prosecutions over fringe benefits issued to employees are rare, but an unusually large volume of perks and an intent to conceal them as income could tip a civil matter into a criminal case.
Often cases involving fringe benefit violations remain between the company and the Internal Revenue Service, and may just result in an audit or back taxes with a penalty being paid.
But some of the allegations against Weisselberg go well beyond the abuse of fringe benefits. Weisselberg’s son Barry — who managed a Trump-operated ice rink in Central Park — paid no reported rent while living in a Trump-owned apartment in 2018, and he was charged just $1,000 per month — far below typical Manhattan prices — while living in a Trump apartment from 2005 to 2012, the indictment said.
Allen Weisselberg himself, an intensely private man who lived for years in a modest home on Long Island, continued to claim residency there despite spending a majority of his time in a company-paid Manhattan apartment, prosecutors said. By doing so, Weisselberg concealed that he was a New York City resident, and he avoided paying the city's income tax.
Though some standalone tax offenses can be handled civilly or administratively, the allegations of other misconduct — including grand larceny — help explain why prosecutors would treat this scheme as deserving of criminal prosecution, Jampol said.
But that doesn’t mean the allegations, which will require proof of willfulness, will be easy to establish in court.
“That’s really going to be the burden that the DA’s office is going to have to prove is that there was a scheme here, and that it wasn’t just a series of mistakes or misunderstandings,” she added.
____
AP Justice Writer Eric Tucker reported from Washington.
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