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Here's how Mary Trump helped the Manhattan DA track Uncle Donald's new patterns of tax fraud
February 26, 2021
In an interview with the Daily Beast's Molly Jong-Fast and Rick Wilson, Donald Trump's niece, Mary Trump, applauded Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. for getting his hands of her uncle's tax returns, while admitting she may be credited with giving prosecutors a helping hand making their case for fraud.
On Thursday, the DA was handed what was described as "millions of pages" of documents that prosecutors and forensic accounting specialists have likely begun poring over as they try and put together a case against the ex-president now residing at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
According to Mary, during the wide-ranging interview, while she has not seen Donald Trump's most recent taxes, she did have access-- as part of a lawsuit she has filed against her uncle which is still pending -- to her grandfather, Fred Trump's tax returns.
She suggested those forms will allow prosecutors to compare the numbers for the Trump Organization -- along with property valuations then and now -- and look for discrepancies.
"The taxes I gave them are old and from my grandfather's company. So I think [the newly released ones ] will be really helpful in establishing patterns where such patterns actually exist," she explained.
She went on to compare her uncle to mobster Al Capone who was finally taken down and convicted by the government for tax evasion in 1931.
"If he goes down because of his taxes, Al Capone-style, I'm all for it," she told the "New Abnormal" hosts. "And if it's bad enough, which it's going to be, I think his ability to stay out of jail decreases significantly."
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Embattled South Dakota DA was reading Joe Biden conspiracy theories on his phone when he killed pedestrian in his car
February 26, 2021
South Dakota's embattled attorney general Jason Ravnsborg admits to reading Joe Biden conspiracy theories on his phone moments before fatally striking a pedestrian with his car.
Detectives examined Ravnsborg's phone records and found that he logged into his Yahoo! email account at 10:20 p.m. on Sept. 12, and moments later was viewing an article on the Dakota Free Press website.
<p>A minute later Ravnsborg went to the Real Clear Politics website, and a minute after that -- moments before he struck and killed 55-year-old Joe Boever -- he was viewing an article about Biden on <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/news/483600-the-hills-review-of-john-solomons-columns-on-ukraine" target="_blank">disgraced</a> reporter John Solomon's Just The News website.</p><p>"It's an article about Joe Biden and something with China," an investigator says to Ravnsborg in video from the interview. "You were on that up to about, we're going to estimate, up to about a minute before the accident, you were on that. Do you remember any of these?"</p><p>Ravnsborg doesn't deny reading the article, which Media Matters researcher Timothy Johnson <a href="https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/riding-dragon-documentary-exposes-massive-biden-self-enrichment" target="_blank">pinpoints</a> as a Sept. 11 piece on alleged self-dealing by the Democratic presidential candidate and his son Hunter Biden.</p><p>"Well, I remember looking at it," Ravnsborg tells investigators, "but that's when I set my phone down prior to [the accident]."</p><p>Ravnsborg agrees that he waited a minute or two before calling 911 to report the accident, which he claimed at the time involved a deer and not another man, and phone records show an outgoing call from his phone at 10:24 p.m. -- which is almost the same time he was reading Biden conspiracies behind the wheel. </p><p>South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a fellow Republican, has called on Ravnsborg to step down and GOP state Rep. Will Mortenson has filed articles impeachment against the attorney general.</p><p>Ravnsborg faces three misdemeanor charges in Boever's death.</p><p><br/></p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">South Dakota AG Jason Ravnsborg was reading Joe Biden conspiracy theories at John Solomon's Just The News website while driving when he slammed into a man, killing him and hitting him so hard the man's face came through the windshield. (Ravnsborg claimed he thought he hit a deer) <a href="https://t.co/Lz9dWb7SBa">pic.twitter.com/Lz9dWb7SBa</a><br/>— Timothy Johnson (@timothywjohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/timothywjohnson/status/1365308804032835585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>"It's an article about Joe Biden and something with China," "You were on that up to about, we're going to estimate, up to about a minute before the accident, you were on that. Do you remember any of these?"</p><p>"Well, I remember looking at it, but that's when I set my phone down prior to [the accident],"</p><p>"We're looking at a minute, two minutes, before you call 911, so the concern being that we know that from the time of impact there was a time period that went by before you called 911. You had to realize what was going on</p><p>a minute or two between impact and calling 911</p><p><br/></p><p>South Dakota AG Jason Ravnsborg was reading Joe Biden conspiracy theories at John Solomon's Just The News website while driving when he slammed into a man, killing him and hitting him so hard the man's face came through the windshield.</p>
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A panelist at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday said the Trump supporters who rioted at the United States Capitol building to overturn President Joe Biden's 2020 election victory felt hopeless.
During a panel discussion on mob violence, former Republican Oklahoma State Rep. T. W. Shannon said that mobs often occur when people are desperate -- and he used the January 6th MAGA mob was an example.
<p>"You have to understand the mentality of the mob," he said. "There's one way you get to the mob. And I don't care if you're a mob on the left or a mob on the right, or you're a mob in some Middle Eastern country."</p><p>"The mob is established when there is a sense of hopelessness," Shannon continued. "And the left, what they do is control the narrative and tell everybody you're hopeless, whether you're a minority, whether you're a white male ... but the reality is this, mobs happen when people have a sense of hopelessness. That's why people were burning down cities around the country in the summer, because those Democrat mayors around the country offered no hope."</p><p>"The reason that people stormed the Capitol was because they felt hopeless because of a rigged election. That's where mobs happen," he added.</p><p>Shannon went on the blame the government for creating hopelessness.</p><p>In fact, the 2020 election was not rigged, and the Trump campaign lost 60 different court cases trying to overturn the results of the election.</p><p>Five people died during the Capitol riots, and Trump released a video during the insurrection telling the rioters that "you're very special" and "we love you."</p>
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