I'm still under the weather, so keeping it short today. Lawrence O'Donnell has been doing one must-watch show after another these days. So, watch, enjoy, and share: For months, Lawrence O'Donnell has been waiting for the Trump campaign to be asked one very simple question about his taxes. It finally happened and the Trump campaign manager was stunned.
Today on MSNBC, Tamron Hall grilled Donald Trump surrogate A.J. Delgado on Trump's taxes and immigration lies and flip-flops, or as the mainstream media calls them, "pivots." She also questioned her about Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi who decided not to open an investigation into Trump University after receiving a $25,000 Trump Foundation donation. Imagine that. Delgado even let it drop that Trump could legally release those pesky tax returns. Watch: Trump in 2014, while he was under audit at the time: "If I decide to run for office, I'll produce my tax returns, absolutely. And I would love to do [...]
You might recall the story that broke a week or so ago about whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld being awarded $104 million dollars by the IRS. This is directly related to the reason Mitt Romney won't release his 2009 tax returns. Let me explain... Bradley Birkenfeld was a private banker at UBS in Geneva, Switzerland, where many very wealthy Americans hid millions of US dollars as a way to avoid paying taxes. It was his job to lure those wealthy Americans to use his bank as a tax haven. In 2007, Birkenfeld decided to take advantage of a new whistleblower law [...]
Listen to this episode: {play}http://traffic.libsyn.com/radioornot/20120716_Nicole_Sandler_Show_-_Mitt_Manning__Matthews_in_the_Wayback_Machine.mp3 {/play} Podcast: Play in new window I'm a little under the weather (and Nicole Belle had to take a week off from our regular Monday morning Fools on the Hill segment), so we finished today's show with a trip in the Wayback Machine to November 9, 2007. It was a year away from the 2008 election. I was hosting the morning show at then-progressive talk 940 WINZ in Miami and, that morning, hosted my first and only interview with Chris Matthews. He was having so much fun that he stayed on for an extra [...]
