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Trump is suffering 'death by a thousand lashes' as his crimes catch up to him: Mary Trump
Story by Tom Boggioni • Yesterday 5:42 AM
During an appearance on the Daily Beast's "New Abnormal" podcast, the niece of Donald Trump was asked what lies in store for her famous uncle as the new year begins, and she explained that he is being overwhelmed by his legal travails.
"2023 Will Finally Be the Year of Accountability for Donald Trump"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/2023-will-finally-be-the-year-of-accountability-for-donald-trump?ref=home
Speaking with hosts Andy Levy and Danielle Moodie, psychologist Mary Trump explained that there it is not certain that the former president will actually be indicted and convicted as the result of the multiple investigations, but that he will suffer continuous blows and humiliations as more evidence comes out against him.
Asked how he is taking the daily onslaught of Jan. 6 revelations and scrutiny into his tax avoidance from 2015 to 2020, Mary Trump claimed it is likely wearing him down.
“Although there is some sense of poetic justice that we seem to have reached, you could call it a tipping point—and I said this a long time ago—it’s going to be, and I mean this figuratively of course, death by a thousand lashes,” she stated before adding a cautionary note.
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As she pointed out, nothing that has come out so far has kept him from announcing a 2024 presidential run and still raking in cash.
"Even though it looks bad on paper and isn't really having much of an impact—well, I’m sure it’s having a lot of an impact on his mood—but it’s not having any impact on his ability to roam free in the world she told the hosts.
Pointing out that despite "fomenting an insurrection," and "spreading the big lie" and absconding with sensitive government documents and taking them to Mar-a-Lago she added, "He’s still not just running free, he’s still raising tens of millions of dollars every month,” she continued before adding, “And what is it he’s doing [with that money]? He’s running for president, for Christ sake.”
You can listen here.
2023 Will Finally Be the Year of Accountability for Donald Trump
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Countries across the world ring in the new year
Updated December 31, 2022 8:44 PM ET
Giulia Heyward
The year 2022 turned to 2023 in time zones across the world, starting in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Some of the first people who celebrated 2023 live in Kiribati, an island country in the Pacific Ocean, with a population of less than 122,000 people.
Australia, which is one of the first big countries to begin the year, started 2023 with a bang — 7,000 fireworks were launched from the Sydney Harbour Bridge and another 2,000 from the nearby Sydney Opera House, The Associated Press reported.
"Happy New Years, Australia, wishing you all the best for the year ahead," the country's prime minister, Anthony Albanese, tweeted.
Here's a look at how people are celebrating the new year in various countries.
Australia
Japan
Philippines
France
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https://www.npr.org/2022/12/31/1146482233/photos-new-years-celebrations-world
Countries across the world ring in the new year
Updated December 31, 2022 8:44 PM ET
Giulia Heyward
The year 2022 turned to 2023 in time zones across the world, starting in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Some of the first people who celebrated 2023 live in Kiribati, an island country in the Pacific Ocean, with a population of less than 122,000 people.
Australia, which is one of the first big countries to begin the year, started 2023 with a bang — 7,000 fireworks were launched from the Sydney Harbour Bridge and another 2,000 from the nearby Sydney Opera House, The Associated Press reported.
"Happy New Years, Australia, wishing you all the best for the year ahead," the country's prime minister, Anthony Albanese, tweeted.
Here's a look at how people are celebrating the new year in various countries.
Australia
Japan
Philippines
France
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https://www.npr.org/2022/12/31/1146482233/photos-new-years-celebrations-world
Yes. Trump, the LIAR, the CON MAN, the THIEF, his MAFIA connections .......never ends
Donald Trump's Mafia Connections:
Decades Later, Is He Still Linked to the Mob?
BY JEFF STEIN ON 01/10/19 AT 7:10 AM EST
Donald Trump, left, owner of the now-defunct USFL's New Jersey Generals, said his league’s $1.32 billion antitrust suit against the NFL will crack “one of the great monopolies in the is country.” At right is his attorney Roy Cohn.
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On a rainy day in the spring of 1976, FBI Special Agent Myron Fuller took the New York subway to Brooklyn to interview Donald Trump. The future tycoon, about 30, was just getting his real estate career off the ground, aided by secret payments from his father. Fuller found Trump working out of a temporary office in a double-wide trailer on a muddy construction site. "There were boards covering wet dirt, in lieu of cement walkways," Fuller recalls to Newsweek. He knocked on the door and went in. "His secretary sat there by the entrance, and Trump was a door away from there." Ushered in, he found Trump sitting behind his desk. The businessman did not get up to welcome the agent. "He never came around, and I do not recall him shaking my hand," Fuller says.
The FBI agent was carrying out an errand for the bureau's Miami office, to follow up on a tip that mobsters had asked Trump to front for them in a purchase of the Fontainebleau hotel. Once a beachside favorite of movie stars and the rich, the hotel was also a notorious hangout for Mafia kingpins like Sam Giancana, who famously met with CIA agents in the hotel's Boom Boom Room to plot the assassination of Fidel Castro. But in 1976, the Fontainebleau was teetering on bankruptcy, and the mobsters needed a straw man to buy it.
Fuller asked Trump a simple question. "Why would your name come up as a possible buyer for them?" The future president of the United States responded calmly that "he did not know." He had "heard about" some people wanting him to buy it, he told Fuller, but not much more. Fuller, with nothing else to go on, closed his notebook. Trump summoned his limo driver to take the agent back to the city.
More than 40 years later, Fuller, who gained fame for the FBI bribery sting dramatized in the movie American Hustle, chuckles ruefully about the encounter, reported here for the first time. "Seeing who he is now, learning more about him in the last two or three years, I do have some regrets that I didn't have a bell and whistle going off there and go further," he says.
And nothing further did connect Trump to the Fontainebleau's eventual sale to a mob front. Nor do public records show the budding real estate operator was ever indicted, much less convicted, in any of the big cases that brought down the five Mafia families who ruled New York. But Fuller's encounter offers a timely window into a history that explains how Trump learned to talk—and act—like a don, even in the hallowed precincts of the White House.
To be sure, Trump's upbringing in Queens, where the Mafia was ubiquitous, helped form his wiseguy persona. So did an apparent behavioral disorder that caused him to buy switchblades and start fights in school. But it's also evident that by the time he was 30, the future president was on the FBI's radar as someone the Mafia might turn to in a pinch. And by the time he was 70, with a business trajectory studded with mobsters, it should've come as no surprise that he was paying hush money to women, allegedly offering a secret hotel deal to Vladimir Putin, calling his longtime former lawyer Michael Cohen a "rat" or denouncing prosecutors for pressuring his associates to "flip."
This was the life he had chosen
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https://www.newsweek.com/2019/01/18/donald-trump-mafia-connections-decades-later-linked-mob-1285771.html
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Most will be rooting for Italy in its efforts to combat the Mafia and Nazis
"Italy’s ‘Miss Hitler’ Among 19 Investigated for Starting New Nazi Party in Italy" , November 30, 2019
For decades a ruthless mafia has ruled in southern Italy... , December 31, 2022
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But now the Italian state is fighting back. An historic investigation has put more than 300 people on trial for the crime of belonging to, or aiding, the 'Ndrangheta.
Prosecutors have already secured 70 convictions for crimes including money laundering, mafia involvement and extortion. Italians are calling it the "trial of the century". Hundreds more cases are waiting to be heard.
The IRS Really, Really Should Have Audited Trump
The failure to do so is outrageous and needs to be investigated.
By Noah Bookbinder
December 30, 2022, 9:11 AM ET
Six years after Donald Trump should have disclosed his tax returns to the public, they have finally been released. This took advocacy, congressional action, and litigation that went to the Supreme Court—all to obtain basic financial transparency from a president.
But the House Ways and Means Committee’s report on its investigation, released last week in conjunction with the committee’s vote to disclose Trump’s tax returns, revealed new information that may be as astonishing as anything in the returns themselves: The IRS did not even begin auditing Trump’s taxes until 2019, on the same day the committee began asking the agency about them. This is outrageous, and it must be investigated.
Getting Trump’s tax returns should not have been this hard. Every president elected since Richard Nixon—with the exception of Trump—has publicly disclosed his tax returns. Tax returns can tell the American people, and Congress, whether a president is following the law and behaving honestly. Crucially for Trump, who uniquely and inappropriately retained ownership of a massive international business while president, they can provide information about conflicts of interest that may have swayed his decision making.
David Frum: Trump’s reckoning with the rule of law
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/donald-trump-company-tax-evasion-fraud/672383/
Examining Trump’s tax returns and discovering all they can reveal about how his finances may have intersected with his presidency will take time. The committee released an analysis from the Joint Committee on Taxation stating that Trump had paid nothing, or close to it, in some years of his presidency. The income information included in that analysis also seems to support the assertion that Trump’s use of the presidency to steer business to himself from the government and those seeking to influence it may have reversed years of financial losses for Trump’s companies and led to hefty profits in 2018 and 2019, until COVID’s arrival in 2020 reversed his fortunes again. Now that the detailed returns are available, we’ll learn much more about those companies’ earnings, losses, and tax payments, and about Trump’s financial interests.
But the revelation about the IRS’s failure to perform the required audit of Trump’s taxes—that it did not happen at all for more than two years, and that, according to the committee, his 2017, 2018, and 2019 tax returns were not even selected for audit until after he left office—deserves yet more scrutiny. The IRS’s own regulations mandate that a president’s taxes must be audited every year. Not only that, but ongoing audits were the purported reason Trump gave for refusing to disclose his tax returns. Spokespeople for President Barack Obama confirmed that his taxes were subject to routine annual audits during his presidency, and a spokesperson for President Joe Biden said that his have been too. The Ways and Means Committee reported that, despite Trump’s complex finances, when review finally began in 2019, the audit was initially assigned to a single employee, and no audits of the years requested by the committee—2015 to 2020—have yet been completed.
The requirement to audit the president could not have simply evaded notice at the IRS. Trump’s taxes have been a major public issue since he initially refused to disclose them as a candidate in 2016. The IRS is drastically under-resourced, but insufficient resources are unlikely to be to blame, because they didn’t stop the agency from promptly reviewing the tax returns of the president immediately preceding Trump and the one immediately following him. That a unique resource crunch happened to coincide only with Trump’s presidency strains credulity.
So what happened here? It’s possible that the IRS was aware of all the controversy around Trump’s taxes and simply didn’t want any part of it. That’s inexcusable, but it’s not nefarious.
A more troubling explanation is possible—even likely: that Trump used the levers of government to shield himself from scrutiny.
There’s certainly no reason to think that he had qualms about abusing his power for his own benefit. Throughout his presidency, Trump manipulated and misused component after component of the federal government to protect himself and advance his personal and political interests.
David A. Graham: Trump has nothing else up his sleeve
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/trumps-tax-returns-show-he-has-no-more-tricks/616515/
He and his compliant attorney general Bill Barr misused the Justice Department to undercut investigations of Trump, target perceived enemies, and assist the president’s allies, including by dropping cases, opposing the sentencing recommendations of career prosecutors, and issuing pardons. The Department of the Interior produced videos lauding Trump and arranged for national-park land to be used for his political events. Trump fired or sidelined inspectors general whose investigations harmed him, and he sought to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Senior employees throughout the executive branch routinely praised Trump and attacked his political opponents in violation of the Hatch Act, which prohibits most government employees from using their position for politics; Trump ensured that the illegal practice was encouraged rather than punished. And, of course, Trump ultimately tried to use the Justice Department and other parts of government to keep himself in power after losing an election.
Was the IRS’s failure to audit Trump as required by law another instance of the former president’s misuse of the government to protect himself? It is already known that Trump frequently discussed arranging IRS audits of perceived enemies and that two of those enemies, former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, received highly unusual audits; an inspector-general investigation was unable to determine how that happened.
It is also known that Trump installed loyalists at the IRS. In 2018, he appointed Commissioner Charles Rettig, who had previously defended Trump’s refusal to disclose his tax returns and who makes hundreds of thousands of dollars from renting out units in a Trump-branded property. In 2019, Trump prioritized a longtime associate’s confirmation as the agency’s general counsel. These or other loyalists may have acted to protect Trump out of devotion to him, as so many others throughout the government did. IRS employees may also have acted out of fear, shirking their responsibilities to avoid Trump’s wrath.
The Senate Finance Committee must investigate the IRS’s failure. Its chair, Ron Wyden, has already expressed interest in doing so. The agency’s inspector general should investigate too. The public needs to know whether one more key government function was politicized, allowing a president to shield possible conflicts of interest and escape accountability. The American people need reassurances that transparency, oversight, and accountability will once again become matters of course rather than subjects of prolonged litigation.
Donald Trump attempted to hijack the United States government to keep himself in power, and American democracy almost didn’t survive. His tax returns may have been another part of that effort.
That merits investigation—not over another six years, but now.
Noah Bookbinder is the president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/trump-tax-returns-released-house-committee-irs-audit/672582/
Trump’s tax returns released after long fight with Congress
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JILL COLVIN
an hour ago
Democrats in Congress released six years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns on Friday, the culmination of a yearslong effort to learn more about the finances of a onetime business mogul who broke decades of political precedent when he refused to voluntarily release the information as he sought the White House.
https://apnews.com/article/be17fb95a8564a88996d1331ebaf763b
The returns, which include redactions of some personal sensitive information such as Social Security and bank account numbers, are from 2015 to 2020.
They span nearly 6,000 pages, including more than 2,700 pages of individual returns from Trump and his wife, Melania, and more than 3,000 pages in returns for Trump’s business entities.
Their release follows a party-line vote in the House Ways and Means Committee last week to make the returns public. Committee Democrats argued that transparency and the rule of law were at stake, while Republicans countered that the release would set a dangerous precedent undermining privacy protections.
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Trump did not release his returns when he ran for president, a major break in practice, and had waged a legal battle to keep them secret while he was in the White House. But the Supreme Court refused last month to keep the Treasury Department from turning them over to the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.
“The Democrats should have never done it, the Supreme Court should have never approved it, and it’s going to lead to horrible things for so many people,” Trump said in a statement Friday. “The radical, left Democrats have weaponized everything, but remember, that is a dangerous two-way street!”
He said the returns “once again show how proudly successful I have been and how I have been able to use depreciation and various other tax deductions as an incentive for creating thousands of jobs and magnificent structures and enterprises.”
The returns underscore how Trump used tax law to minimize his liability.
A report by Congress’ nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation released last week showed Trump paid $641,931 in federal income taxes in 2015, the year he began his campaign for president. He went on to pay $750 in 2016 and 2017, nearly $1 million in 2018, $133,445 in 2019 and nothing in 2020.
For 2020, the filings released Friday show, more than 150 of Trump’s business entities listed negative qualified business income, which the IRS defines as “the net amount of qualified items of income, gain, deduction and loss from any qualified trade or business.” In total for that tax year, combined with nearly $9 million in carryforward loss from previous years, Trump’s qualified losses amounted to more than $58 million for the final year of his term in office.
The release, just days before Trump’s fellow Republicans retake control of the House from the Democrats, provide the most detailed picture to date Trump’s finances, which have been shrouded in mystery and intrigue since his days as an up-and-coming Manhattan real estate developer in the 1980s.
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The disclosures, which focus on Trump’s time in office and include foreign tax credits and charitable contributions, come a month after Trump launched another campaign for the White House in 2024.
The tax returns show that Trump claimed foreign tax credits for taxes he paid on various business ventures around the world, including licensing arrangements for use of his name on development projects and his golf courses in Scotland and Ireland.
Trump, known for building skyscrapers and hosting a reality TV show before winning the White House, did give some limited details about his holdings and income on mandatory disclosure forms. He has promoted his wealth in the annual financial statements he provides to banks to secure loans and to financial magazines to justify his place on rankings of the world’s billionaires.
Trump’s longtime accounting firm has since disavowed the statements, and New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit alleging Trump and his Trump Organization inflated asset values on the statements as part of a yearslong fraud. Trump and his company have denied wrongdoing.
In October 2018, The New York Times published a Pulitzer Prize-winning series based on leaked tax records that showed that Trump received a modern-day equivalent of at least $413 million from his father’s real estate holdings, with much of that money coming from what the Times called “tax dodges” in the 1990s.
A second series in 2020 showed that Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018, as well as no income taxes at all in 10 of the past 15 years because he generally lost more money than he made.
In its report last week, the Ways and Means Committee indicated the Trump administration may have disregarded a post-Watergate requirement mandating audits of a president’s tax filings.
The IRS only began to audit Trump’s 2016 tax filings on April 3, 2019 — more than two years into his presidency — when the committee chairman, Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., asked the agency for information related to the tax returns.
By comparison, there were audits of President Joe Biden for the 2020 and 2021 tax years, said Andrew Bates, a White House spokesperson. A spokesperson for former President Barack Obama said Obama was audited in each of his eight years in office.
The Joint Committee on Taxation report last week raised multiple red flags about aspects of Trump’s tax filings, including his carryover losses, deductions tied to conservation and charitable donations, and loans to his children that could be taxable gifts.
The House passed a bill in response that would require audits of any president’s income tax filings. Republicans strongly opposed the legislation, raising concerns that a law requiring audits would infringe on taxpayer privacy and could lead to audits being weaponized for political gain.
The measure, approved mostly along party lines, has little chance of becoming law anytime soon with a new Republican-led House being sworn in in January. Rather, it is seen as a starting point for future efforts to bolster oversight of the presidency.
Republicans have argued that Democrats will regret the move once Republicans take power next week, and they warn that the committee’s new GOP chair will be under pressure to seek and make public the tax returns of other prominent people.
Rep. Don Beyer, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee and a Ways and Means Committee member, presided over the routine pro forma session in the House as the tax returns were released. Beyer, D-Va., said the release was delayed as committee staff worked to redact personal and identifying information, a promise Democrats made to Republicans during a closed meeting last week.
“We’ve been trying to be very careful to make sure that we weren’t ‘weaponizing’ the IRS returns,” he said.
The Joint Committee on Taxation report last week raised multiple red flags about aspects of Trump’s tax filings, including his carryover losses, deductions tied to conservation and charitable donations, and loans to his children that could be taxable gifts.
The House passed a bill in response that would require audits of any president’s income tax filings. Republicans strongly opposed the legislation, raising concerns that a law requiring audits would infringe on taxpayer privacy and could lead to audits being weaponized for political gain.
The measure, approved mostly along party lines, has little chance of becoming law anytime soon with a new Republican-led House being sworn in in January. Rather, it is seen as a starting point for future efforts to bolster oversight of the presidency.
Republicans have argued that Democrats will regret the move once Republicans take power next week, and they warn that the committee’s new GOP chair will be under pressure to seek and make public the tax returns of other prominent people.
Rep. Don Beyer, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee and a Ways and Means Committee member, presided over the routine pro forma session in the House as the tax returns were released. Beyer, D-Va., said the release was delayed as committee staff worked to redact personal and identifying information, a promise Democrats made to Republicans during a closed meeting last week.
“We’ve been trying to be very careful to make sure that we weren’t ‘weaponizing’ the IRS returns,” he said.
Every president and major-party candidate since Richard Nixon has voluntarily made at least summaries of their tax information available to the public. Trump bucked that trend as a candidate and as president, repeatedly asserting that his taxes were “under audit” and couldn’t be released.
Trump’s lawyers were repeatedly denied in their quest to keep his tax returns from the House committee. A three-judge federal appeals court panel in August upheld a lower-court ruling granting the committee access.
Trump’s lawyers also tried and failed to block the Manhattan district attorney’s office from getting Trump’s tax records as part of its investigation into his business practices, losing twice in the Supreme Court.
Trump’s longtime accountant, Donald Bender, testified at the Trump Organization’s recent Manhattan criminal trial that Trump reported losses on his tax returns every year for a decade, including nearly $700 million in 2009 and $200 million in 2010.
Bender, a partner at Mazars USA LLP who spent years preparing Trump’s personal tax returns, said Trump’s reported losses from 2009 to 2018 included net operating losses from some of the many businesses he owns through the Trump Organization.
The Trump Organization was convicted earlier this month on tax fraud charges for helping some executives dodge taxes on company-paid perks such as apartments and luxury cars.
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Associated Press writers Paul Wiseman and Farnoush Amiri in Washington and Meg Kinnard in Columbia, South Carolina, contributed to this report.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-federal-tax-returns-updates-290dd5b563d8d829ee8b89ab4471d2e2?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_01
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 2022: The Year in Review
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Editions of Jan. 6 report already on Amazon best seller list
today
NEW YORK (AP) — It took less than a day for the Jan. 6 report to go from public unveiling to the bestseller list on Amazon.com.
By late Friday, three editions of the Congressional probe of the 2021 siege of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump were in the top 30 on Amazon.
The editions include one with a foreword by MSNBC anchor Ari Melber, published by Harper Paperbacks;
A Celadon Books release with a foreword by New Yorker editor David Remnick
and an epilogue by Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat and member of the House Select Committee;
and a volume by the Hachette Book Group imprint Twelve, published in coordination with The New York Times.
The 814-page document, released late Thursday, is not copyrighted, can be published by anyone and is otherwise available for free on various government and media web sites. Previous government publications, from the Sept. 11 commission report to Robert Mueller’s probe into Trump’s ties to Russian officials when he ran for president in 2016, have been bestsellers. The Sept. 11 report was even a finalist in 2004 for the National Book Award.
As with other government releases, publishers have rushed to get their books out quickly to capitalize on public interest. All three bestselling editions will be out within the next two weeks, along with books from Random House and Melville House Books.
The Jan. 6 report culminates an 18-month investigation, which included more than 1,000 witness interviews and more than a million pages of source material.
The committee of seven Democrats and two Republicans blamed the insurrection on Trump, finding a “multi-part conspiracy” orchestrated by the president and his closest allies in an effort to overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden. Trump, a Republican, has already announced his candidacy for 2024.
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EVERYTHING that Lyin' Trump touches....turns to SHIT
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2022 National Geographic pictures of the year
By Tori Schneebaum
December 1, 2022 1:50pm Updated
With its Artemis I mission, NASA is kicking off an ambitious plan to return humans to the moon.
For the scheduled launch, this uncrewed trip's commander would be the "moonikin" Campos.
Six- month-old panda cubs snacking and playing as part of her long-term focus on giant panda conservation.
Ami Vitale/National Geographic
At sunset on April 27, Evan Green caught climber Thomas Moore walking
amid the tents pitched at Camp I framed by Everest (at left), Lhotse (center), and Nuptse (at right).
Evan Green
Five weeks into the journey of the National Geographic expedition ship Polar Sun,
photographer Renan Ozturk found himself exploring a bay off the coast of Greenland.
Renan Ozturk/National Geographic
Photographed at night with an infrared camera, a spotted hyena that scientists nicknamed Palazzo submissively grins and lays her ears back as Moulin Rouge, the clan's dominant female at the time, towers over her. Palazzo's cub peers out from between them.
Jen Guyton/National Geographic
Under a harvest moon on a hazy morning in Brazil's Emas National Park, a lowland tapir known to park staff as Preciosa ambles down a road.
Katie Orlinsky/National Geograph
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AP Photos: In 2022, sports brought every imaginable emotion
By The Associated Press
yesterday
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4 of 100 -- Participants recover at the finish line during the Women's Mass Start Free 10km event at the Tour de Ski
People run through the streets ahead of fighting bulls and steers during the first day of the running of the bulls at the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Thursday, July 7, 2022. Revelers from around the world flock to Pamplona every year for nine days of uninterrupted partying in Pamplona's famed running of the bulls festival which was suspended for the past two years because of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
in Val di Fiemme, Trento, Italy, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta)
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Don't forget LYIN' TRUMP'S L I E S
In four years, President Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims
The Fact Checker’s database of the false or misleading claims made by President Trump while in office.
Updated Jan. 20, 2021
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Jan. 6 report: Trump ‘lit that fire’ of Capitol insurrection
By MARY CLARE JALONICK, ERIC TUCKER, FARNOUSH AMIRI, JILL COLVIN, MICHAEL BALSAMO and NOMAAN MERCHANT
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee’s final report asserts that Donald Trump criminally engaged in a “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election and failed to act to stop his supporters from attacking the Capitol, concluding an extraordinary 18-month investigation into the former president and the violent insurrection two years ago.
Trump “lit that fire,” the committee’s chairman, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, writes.
The 814-page report released late Thursday comes after the panel interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses, held 10 hearings and obtained more than a million pages of documents.
The witnesses — ranging from many of Trump’s closest aides to law enforcement to some of the rioters themselves — detailed Trump’s “premeditated” actions in the weeks ahead of the attack and how his wide-ranging efforts to overturn his defeat directly influenced those who brutally pushed past the police and smashed through the windows and doors of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
More on the report
– READ: Final Report From the Jan. 6 Committee
https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-committee-final-report-text-461137946800?utm_source=apnews&utm_medium=relatedcontentmodule
– Jan. 6 takeaways: From Trump's lies to the 'unimaginable'
https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-committee-final-report-takeaways-56cf44f8809cc76632f91f5c7910ec81?utm_source=apnews&utm_medium=relatedcontentmodule
– Transcripts reveal link between Trump, Nevada fake electors
https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-committee-trump-nevada-election-transcripts-7aa0f2e582778b7beb0f5172c91d7fa9?utm_source=apnews&utm_medium=relatedcontentmodule
The central cause was “one man,” the report says: Trump.
The insurrection gravely threatened democracy and “put the lives of American lawmakers at risk,” the bipartisan nine-member panel concluded, offering a definitive account of a dark chapter in modern American history. It functions not only as a compendium of the most dramatic moments of testimony from months of hearings, but also as a document that is to be preserved as a warning for future generations.
In a series of recommendations, the seven Democrats and two Republicans on the committee suggest that Congress consider barring Trump from holding future office. The findings should be a “clarion call to all Americans: to vigilantly guard our Democracy and to give our vote only to those dutiful in their defense of our Constitution,” says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a foreword to the report.
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https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-committee-final-report-trump-bcfea6162fe9cfa0d120e86d069af0e4
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Stars and Stripes Forever
WWII American Rosie the Riveter Association hosts a birthday celebration
Chandra Fleming
Detroit Free Press
Updated 7:49 p.m. ET Oct. 20, 2022
Rosie the Riveters were known for being hardcore kick-butt tough stuff.
While the men typically fought in World War ll, Rosies were working hard in the factories creating parts for the battlefield.
It's that tough stuff that got Clara Doutly to age 101, and, on Thursday, fellow Rosies helped her celebrate that milestone
The Bomber Restaurant on East Michigan Avenue in Ypsilanti aka the hub for everything Rosie, hosted the event Thursday afternoon. Model airplanes sat high on the ceilings and hung from ceiling. War attire, maps and pictures sat on the walls, reminiscent of a vintage diner brimming with stories waiting to be told.
"I just want to thank God for letting me see another day," said Doutly.
It was the perfect location for Doutly's birthday celebration. The table was decorated with a red polka dot tablecloth, and red and white flowers sat on top. Guests wore polka dot-inspired fabrics and brought cards and gifts for the birthday lady.
Many spoke highly of Doutly and were just proud to be there celebrating her life.
Johanna McCoy, the owner of Bomber Restaurant, which is only 11 minutes away from Willow Run Airport,said that the Rosies love coming to the restaurant and she adores being able to host them.
"We call ourselves the modern-day Rosies," said McCoy. "With these guys, and how wonderful they are with my girls, we all just feel like family. We get invited to any of their functions, that they have off-property, and then we invite them to come here as often as they can."
The relationship between the Rosies and the restaurant began a couple of years ago.
"We started a Rosie Riveter day on Palm Sunday, probably four years before COVID started," said McCoy. "Then we would celebrate it every year and we get the Rosies to come in and they just love to be together."
McCoy, who has been the owner for 30 years, said that she enjoys treating the Rosies to a meal on the house when they come by.
"I just want to emphasize how important it is for us to celebrate these people while they're still here," she said. "We can learn so much from them and they've got their wits about them. They know and can tell us so much and I don't think we capitalize on it as much as we should. I'm just happy to have them here."
Friends turned into family
Doutly was all smiles for the celebration. She wore blue jeans, a blue sweater, and a red polka dot hat paired with a tier with "101" on it. Her long-term friend, caregiver Katie Moylan, said that Doutly is like a grandmother to her since she has no family and Doutly has no children.
The two met in 2014 through St. Patrick Senior Center in Detroit where Doutly is from and currently lives. Moylan often volunteered there and met Doutly. Moylan received an email through Ford Motor Co. about a competition regarding folks dressing up as Rosie the Riveter to break a Guinness World Record.
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"I printed off the email, took it down the following Saturday, went to Clara, and said, "Did you tell me you're a Rosie?' She said, 'I am,' so I said, 'Well, you don't really know me, but you want to do this?
"From there, we got our costumes together, and God put us together," said Moylan. "We've been together ever since, she has no children, and I have no parents. She still lives on her own, I care for her, I make sure bills are paid or laundry is done."
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https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/10/20/wwii-american-rosie-clara-doutly-celebrates-101st-birthday/69574913007/
Jan. 6 committee shines a powerful light on dark deeds
Dec. 21, 2022 at 9:44 am Updated Dec. 21, 2022 at 10:11 am
By David Horsey
Seattle Times cartoonist
Conservatives preach endlessly about their devotion to patriotism and freedom, but now that it has come down to defending our republic from a serious effort to overthrow democracy, far too many of them have sided with violent insurrectionists and a seditious ex-president.
We can be forever grateful to two principled conservatives, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney and Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, for defying their party and sacrificing their political careers so that they could take key roles in the House committee investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. These two Republicans and their Democratic colleagues on the committee have shown the country what true patriots look like.
On Monday, the committee issued a final report, which concluded that Donald Trump and his various henchmen plotted to overturn the fair results of the presidential election by promoting the Big Lie that the election was stolen and by bringing a horde of supporters to Washington, D.C., with the intent of stopping the electoral count that would make Joe Biden president.
The evidence detailing these crimes is voluminous and is strengthened by the fact that most of it comes from Republicans who worked closely with Trump in the White House or on his campaign.
Nevertheless, Republicans in Congress are already bad-mouthing the report and defending the indefensible con man in Mar-a-Lago. It is a safe bet to assume none of them actually watched any of the committee’s hearings and none will read the report. Fox News has already told them what to think and their rabidly pro-Trump constituents have drawn a line they cannot cross.
They can be called careerists. They can be called cowards. But they have no real claim to being called conservatives by the traditional definition.
The Jan. 6 committee has brought searing light into the darkness of Trump’s malefactions, yet many Republicans still choose to dwell in the odious gloom of the Big Lie.
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/jan-6-committee-shines-a-powerful-light-on-dark-deeds/