The New York Times published part 2 of its explosive analysis of decades of President Donald Trump tax returns showcasing the lies that he told about his success as a businessman. The Times was able to point out that while Trump was telling viewers of his reality TV show The Apprentice that his businesses were thriving, he reported an $89.9 million net loss the year the show launched. The journalists say that by analyzing the President’s tax returns, they were “able to place a value on Mr. Trump’s celebrity. While the returns show that he earned some $197 million directly from The Apprentice over 16 years — roughly in line with what he has claimed — they also reveal that an additional $230 million flowed from the fame associated with it.” When asked to comment on the report White House spokesman, Judd Deere dismissed the report as “fake news,” and “yet another politically motivated hit piece full of inaccurate smears.” Mr. Deere did not make any effort to dispute any of the facts in the reporting. 

Republican Representative Kevin Brady, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee has now called for an investigation into the source of the tax returns rather than into the troubling patterns they reveal about the president. Going after a sacrosanct press freedom, Mr. Brady claimed both that the news was inaccurate and that the source of the leaked tax returns committed “a felony crime.” He failed to explain how the reporting was inaccurate if it was based on the real tax returns. One former Republican official, Tim Miller denounced what he saw as Trump’s “economic populism con,” by a man who paid nothing in taxes while at the same time as he, “billed the American people for millions upon millions of their hard-earned tax dollars.” A former Watergate federal prosecutor Nick Ackerman speculated on CNN that both Trump and his daughter Ivanka-who the New York Times reports implicate-could face prison.  Numerous former intelligence officials are now warning that the President’s debts and deals with foreign governments as revealed by the tax returns are a serious threat to national security. 

The British media outlet Channel 4 News, has just released an explosive investigation into how the Trump Presidential campaign in 2016 adopted as part of its strategy a database of millions of African American voters that were marked for “deterrence,” that is they were marked for social media targeting to deter them from voting in the election.  

In Kentucky, a grand juror who served in the case involving the police killing Breonna Taylor has come forward through their lawyer saying that the jury was never even given an option of indicting the police officers who shot her. Instead they were only asked to consider whether to indict the lone officer among the three involved whose bullets shot Taylor’s neighbors’ walls. The two other officers involved were Jon Mattingly and M...