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A tough House committee nevertheless received Donald Trump’s tax returns — valued at six years — after a long legal war that ended up in the Supreme Court.
The U. S. Department of the Treasury The U. S. Department of Representatives showed CNN that it had submitted a request from the House Ways and Means Committee to produce the forms. The panel’s lawmakers will now have until January to act with the force of the committee chairman before Republicans take hold.
Meanwhile, complaints continue to pour in after the former president arranged a meeting at Mar-a-Lago with Kanye West, who has lately been involved in an anti-Semitic rampage, and his associate Nick Fuentes, one of America’s most infamous white supremacist activists.
On Tuesday, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell condemned the assembly, saying it would possibly have ruined Donald Trump’s chances in 2024.
“Anyone who meets other people who have that view, in my opinion, has very little chance of being elected president of the United States. “
The House Republican leader took a weaker stance: He condemned Fuentes but refused to convict Trump and falsely claimed that the former president had convicted the white supremacist “four times. “Trump did it once.
Roger Stone, Donald Trump’s longtime best friend and adviser, attacked Rep. Kat Cammack’s physical appearance on Telegram after the Florida Republican congresswoman appeared hesitant between approving Donald Trump or Gov. Ron DeSantis for his 2024 election.
Mr. Stone’s comments are not surprising, given his long history of questionable and discourteous comments about women, to mention his reputation as a “dirty thief. “
White nationalist Nick Fuentes questions a claim through Kanye West’s crusade manager, Milo Yiannopolous, that he will hurt Donald Trump politically by meeting with him at Mar-a-Lago.
The self-confessed racist denied the claim on Telegram on Wednesday, saying, “My goal is not to hurt Trump by attending dinner, this is fake news. I love Donald Trump. “
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The presence of the Holocaust denier at the dinner “to make life miserable for Trump,” Milo Yiannopolous said.
A tough House committee has received six years of tax returns from Donald Trump, the Treasury Department showed Wednesday.
This ends a six-year legal war that reached the Supreme Court and ended in favor of House Democrats, who have long struggled to investigate Democrats’ finances. Trump.
CNN broke the one for the first time. Eric Garcia has more:
The paths of the house
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy would love to be a speaker when the new House of Representatives convenes in January, but, so far, he has struggled to find votes to verify him in the first position in the chamber.
McCarthy, a Californian, has led the Republican caucus since 2019. He wants a majority of voting House members to back him in a House vote on Jan. 3, but there are signs he will likely struggle to do so. Number.
Abe Asher takes us inside the development that threatens the prestige quo of Republican leaders in the House:
Republican leader struggles to muster the votes he wants for president
With lawsuits, criminal cases and the typhoon of complaints after his white supremacist dinner last week, Donald Trump is obviously in a bad mood, and true to form, is his bespoke Truth Social platform for evacuating his spleen. On topics you consider prudent to communicate when you want to vent:
Mr. Trump’s reference to mail-in ballots in particular refers to Kari Lake’s defeat in the Arizona gubernatorial election, which he and she falsely accuse of voter embezzlement. There is little popular momentum in the effort to force Ms. Lake despite her defeat, and Trump is said to bother to make similar statements on behalf of his selected Senate nominee in the state, defeated right-wing extremist Blake Masters.
Republican candidate Herschel Walker has been answering reporters’ questions on the tarmac for nearly two months as Georgia’s Senate race is expected to conclude with a runoff next week.
Mr. Walker’s crusade is still plagued by scandal and misacceptance as true; The Daily Beast and other media outlets reported that, amid a flood of stories about secret young people and the pro-life candidate who allegedly funded an abortion, his own staff no longer accepts as true that Walker makes fair statements about his past.
He followed Sen. Raphael Warnock in a first poll last month and, through all credible indications, looks set to fall even more Democratic next week without the stimulating effect of other, more popular Republican candidates in the poll. Numerous polls showed Mr. Walker leading the first ballot circular in November; He was actually behind the Democrat by one percentage point when all the votes were counted.
Learn more about how this race spread in its final days:
Georgia Senate Race to End in December
A civil rights organization that sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for cheating two planes loaded with asylum seekers from South and Central America on charter flights to Martha’s Vineyard’s liberal Massachusetts network, added two top governors as defendants in its trial.
“The goal of this ploy is not to help immigrants find a better life in northern cities, but to use political fervor about immigration to raise the national profile of defendant DeSantis,” the attorneys wrote in the lawsuit.
Read more about the ongoing legal war over the political coup that has headaches for Democrats and turned Mr. DeSantis into a rising Republican star:
A civil rights organization that sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for tricking two planes of asylum seekers from South and Central America into boarding charter flights to Martha’s Vineyard’s liberal Massachusetts network has added two Sunshine State seniors as defendants in its trial.
Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker struggled to explain why former President Donald Trump isn’t campaigning for him during the final week of Georgia’s Senate runoff.
Fox News host Laura Ingraham asked why the former president would not meet with Mr. Walker, while former President Barack Obama will go on a crusade with Mr. Democrat’s Democratic opponent. Walker, Sen. Raphael Warnock, on Thursday.
The candidate’s is a bit awkward. See below:
“He did things for me,” Republican nominee says of Trump
The return of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a Trump best friend of some reputation, was not minced in connection with the former president’s dinner with exuberant anti-Semite Nick Fuentes and disgraced rapper Kanye West.
“I have condemned Kanye West’s anti-Semitic statements,” Mr. Netanyahu told journalist Bari Weiss. Right away, I thought it was fair and out of place. And I think that’s what I would say about President Trump’s resolution to dinner. with this user I locate and inappropriate. I think this is a mistake. I shouldn’t do that. “
Kevin McCarthy would possibly have a majority in the House of Representatives, but it’s so small that to win the vote for president, he may slightly lose the help of a single Republican convention member, and it turns out that some of his excessive top members are still preparing to sow hell.
The vote on the House as a whole will take place in early January. To win it, Mr. McCarthy wants a majority of the votes cast that day, which means he wants a majority of all members, provided that a sufficient number of them refuse to vote. participate.
Donald Trump and Kanye West met in the Oval Office in 2018
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