The House Ways and Means Committee made a major move on Friday morning, releasing six years of President Donald Trump’s personal and business tax returns,…
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The House select committee investigating the January 6th Capitol attack released transcripts of interviews with Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, former White House deputy chief of staff Tony Ornato, and Robert Sinners, who worked on the Trump campaign’s Election Day operations in Georgia in 2020. Thomas told the committee that her text message expressing disgust with then-Vice President Mike Pence was not related to his refusal to stop the congressional certification of Joe Biden’s win, but rather to her frustration with him not talking up election fraud claims. Sinners told investigators his “intent was never to be aligned with team crazy” and Ornato said he couldn’t recall details from January 6, citing “the fog of war” during the US Capitol attack. The committee also released emails showing an aide for former President Donald Trump reaching out to Jared Kushner about trademarking phrases related to the 2020 election.
Two people have died in a rock slide at Yosemite National Park this week, with the identities of the victims yet to be released. The park, which welcomed 3.3 million visitors in 2021, has closed Big Oak Flat Road east of Foresta as a result of the incident, which is currently under investigation.
George Santos, the newly elected congressman from New York's 12th District, is facing multiple investigations into potential financial irregularities and questions about his background. The Federal Election Commission records show suspicious expenditures, and the Eastern District of New York and Nassau County District Attorney are probing his finances and inconsistencies in his résumé. Santos has admitted to fabricating and "embellishing" several claims about his background, and his campaign donors have expressed shock and betrayal. The outcome of these investigations remains to be seen.
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein has announced that there is not sufficient evidence to bring charges against former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and his wife, Debra Meadows, for voter fraud in the 2020 election. The investigation concluded that Meadows qualified for a residency exception under state law and cell phone records showed Debra Meadows was in and around Scaly Mountain in October 2020. Stein urged federal prosecutors to “hold accountable” those responsible for conspiring “to put our democracy at risk” and noted that election officials from both parties, as well as judges and Trump’s own attorney general, have concluded that there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election.
Southwest Airlines CEO Robert Jordan on Thursday apologized for the disruption and said the carrier was “extremely sorry” for the customer inconvenience. Jordan said Southwest’s…
President Joe Biden has issued six full pardons to individuals who have completed their sentences and become active in their communities since their release. These pardons include five people convicted of drug or alcohol offenses, and one woman convicted of murdering a husband she said abused her. The White House said Biden was a believer in second chances and that those he pardoned had “demonstrated a commitment to improving their communities and the lives of those around them.” This is the first of many pardons Biden has issued, including a wide-ranging pardon for all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession.
Donald Trump's federal tax returns from the past six years have been released, showing he paid very little in federal income taxes due to claiming huge losses that helped limit his tax bill. The documents, published by the House Ways and Means Committee, revealed Trump reported millions in negative income and paid only $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017. Trump had claimed huge net operating losses which greatly reduced or wiped out his annual income tax liability.