David Cay Johnston, who has chronicled Donald Trump’s financial chicanery for decades, has sifted through the Jan. 6 Committee reports and found evidence of at least 26 instances of tax fraud over the six years he was running for and served as president.
If I were a Russian oligarch, I’d be looking for ways to kill Vladimir Putin before I fell out of a window like so many of my compadres.
I have never flown Southwest — I have a thing about knowing what seat I’m going to be in — and after the clusterfuck they’ve made of travel this holiday it looks like I never will. The bomb cyclone is long gone, but the budget airline is still cancelling thousands of flights a day, and Congress is starting to ask questions.
Democrats are calling for New York con man/congressman-elect George Santos, who has taken being a lying Republican sack of shit to new levels, to resign. He intends to do no such thing, but Josh Marshall, in a subscribers-only piece, explains that if he’s broken any laws he might be unseated. Most likely areas of lawbreaking: Entering a sham marriage to obtain citizenship (he’s gay); fleeing criminal prosecution in Brazil, where he’s still a wanted man; and campaign finance violations concerning the six-figure “loan” he made to himself, drawing on funds with no visible source.
The floor’s yours.