Day: April 3, 2019

What is Trump so desperate to hide?

House Ways and Means Committee chair Richard Neal (D-MA) formally requested six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service Wednesday, setting up a likely legal fight with the administration over the request. Trump is the first president in decades not to make his tax returns publicly available. The request could shed new light and answer longstanding questions about Trump’s finances. Neal also requested the returns for eight of Trump’s business entities in a move that could provide yet more detail on the president’s financial history. In making the request, Neal invoked an obscure Roaring Twenties-era provision that empowers the head of the ways and means committee – as well as two other congressional committees – to request the tax returns of any filer.

Like many all seeing bloggers, I can't wait for "Oh, well, of course everyone in the press knew that Trump's mental capacity was declining... we just didn't think it was…

Two months ago Virginia politics was rocked by a decades-old photograph in Gov. Ralph Northam's law school yearbook that depicted someone in blackface. That was followed by charges of sexual…

This special election for a PA state Senate seat has been largely ignored in the national media. I guess it doesn't fit the "Trump can win" narrative the press loves so much.

COLLIER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Democrat Pam Iovino has claimed victory over Republican D. Raja in the special election for a vacant state Senate seat in the 37th District in suburban Pittsburgh Tuesday night. Iovino held 53.7 percent of the vote as of 10:20 p.m., compared to 46.3 percent for Raja, with 94 percent of all precincts reporting. The 37th district includes several of Allegheny County's southern and western municipalities, as well as Peters Township in Washington County. Iovino will take over a seat that has largely been controlled by Republicans the past 50 years. It was vacated by Republican Guy Reschenthaler after he was elected to Congress. The district is politically divided: Democrats have a registration edge, even though President Donald Trump won it in 2016.