memeorandum: Biden camp clapback: Trump's best debate case ‘made in urine’ (Marc Caputo/Politico)

6:30 AM ET, September 28, 2020

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LONG-CONCEALED RECORDS SHOW TRUMP'S CHRONIC LOSSES AND YEARS OF TAX AVOIDANCE — The Times obtained Donald Trump's tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due.

David Leonhardt / New York Times:

18 Revelations From a Trove of Trump Tax Records — Times reporters have obtained decades of tax information the president has hidden from public view. Here are some of the key findings. — The New York Times has obtained tax-return data for President Trump and his companies that covers more than two decades.

Discussion: The Hill, The Ohio Star, The Week, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Gateway Pundit, POLITICUSUSA, Axios, Raw Story, Mother Jones, Balloon Juice, The Guardian and Mediaite

Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:

Ivanka Trump Could Be Going Down Thanks To Her Dad's Tax Fraud — Donald Trump's tax returns show that he paid his daughter Ivanka as a consultant, even though she is a member of the company which is against IRS rules. — Via The New York Times: … Fake consulting deals with members …

Discussion: The Week, Breitbart, The Hill and Reuters

New York Times:

Charting an Empire: A Timeline of Trump's Finances — THE PRESIDENT'S TAXES — Tax records provide a detailed history of President Trump's business career, revealing huge losses, looming financial threats and a large, contested refund from the I.R.S. — President Trump's tax returns portray …

Discussion: The Week, Raw Story and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Washington Post:

Trump avoided paying taxes for years, largely because his business empire reported losing more money than it made, report says — President Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and the same amount in 2017, and paid no taxes at all in several previous years …

Discussion: MercoPress, Raw Story, The Guardian and The Independent

Dean Baquet / New York Times:
An Editor's Note on the Trump Tax Investigation

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Jennifer Starks / AOL.com:
NY Times: Trump paid $750 in U.S. income taxes in 2016, 2017

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Brett Clarkson / Sun-Sentinel:

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale hospitalized after he was armed and threatening to harm himself, Fort Lauderdale police say — FORT LAUDERDALE — A tense situation unfolded at a home owned by Brad Parscale, the former campaign manager for President Donald Trump's reelection campaign …

Discussion: CNN, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, The Daily Caller, Fox News, NBC 6 South Florida, Mediaite, Breitbart, The Week, The Ohio Star, Axios, Political Wire, CBS Miami and New York Post

Michelle Solomon / WPLG-TV:

Former Trump campaign manager, Brad Parscale, armed, barricades self in Fort Lauderdale home, police called — FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Former campaign manager for Donald Trump, Brad Parscale, who was replaced by the President less than four month until November's vote was reportedly armed …

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New York Times:

Brad Parscale, Ex-Campaign Manager for Trump, Is Hospitalized in Florida — The Fort Lauderdale police said that Mr. Parscale's wife called the authorities to their home because he was armed and threatening to hurt himself. — MIAMI — President Trump's former campaign manager, Brad Parscale …

Discussion: Bloomberg

Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:

Former Trump campaign manager taken to hospital after report of suicide threat, police say — A former campaign manager of President Trump's was taken to a hospital on Sunday after authorities received a call that he was threatening suicide at his Florida home, the Fort Lauderdale Police Department said in a statement.

Discussion: Reuters, WTOP, ABC News and Deadline

Brooke Seipel / The Hill: Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale hospitalized after threatening self-harm: report

Marc Caputo / Politico:

Biden camp clapback: Trump's best debate case ‘made in urine’ — The 2020 campaign for the White House has reached the bizarre stage where the president wants his opponent drug tested before they debate — and his rival's campaign responds with a potty joke.

Discussion: NBC News, Axios, New York Times, Bloomberg, Real Clear Politics, The Daily Beast, Raw Story and The Guardian

Washington Post:
With five weeks left, Trump plays defense in states he won in 2016

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Danielle Wallace / Fox News:
Trump calls for Biden to take a drug test before upcoming presidential debate

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Andrew Solender / Forbes:

Polls Show Lindsey Graham In Deep Trouble Amid Supreme Court Battle — New polls released Sunday show Sen. Lindsey Graham's reelection bid deeply threatened by Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison as the former gears up for what promises to be a brutal partisan battle over the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett.

Discussion: The Bulwark, Fox News and Raw Story

Hayley Miller / HuffPost:
Top Democrat: We Can ‘Slow’ Barrett's Confirmation Process But 'Can't Stop' It

Discussion: Vox, Talking Points Memo, New York Times, IJR and ABC News

Erika Bachiochi / Politico:
Amy Coney Barrett: A New Feminist Icon

Discussion: Townhall, The Daily Beast, Reason, Wall Street Journal and Mirror of Justice

Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Republicans clear the way for a rapid confirmation, while Democrats make their case to voters.

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USA Today: Amy Coney Barrett was our professor. She'll serve America as well as she served her students.

Mike Allen / Axios:
Democrats feel boxed in on strategy for Barrett confirmation fight

Discussion: Townhall, ABC News, Breitbart, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Twitchy

Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Thank God and Chuck Schumer for Amy Coney Barrett: The four Democratic overreaches that got us here

Discussion: NBC News, The Hill, Politico, The Daily Signal and Slate

Ben Smith / New York Times:

Trump Wants to Discredit the Election. This Nerd Could Stop Him. — Fox News, the president's favored network, will face enormous pressure to call the election for Mr. Trump. The outcome rests on a little-known 65-year-old wonk who will declare the winner.

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Project Veritas:

Ilhan Omar Connected Cash-For-Ballots Voter Fraud Scheme Corrupts Elections: 'There Here Are All Absentee Ballots...Look...My Car Is Full..." ‘Money Is The King Of Everything’ — Ballot Harvester Liban Mohamed: “Money is Everything. Money is the King in this World. If You Got No Money, You Should Not Be Here, Period.

Discussion: The National Pulse, Townhall, The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart and Power Line

Miranda Devine / New York Post:

Project Veritas uncovers ‘ballot harvesting fraud’ in Minnesota — A ballot-harvesting racket in Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's Minneapolis district — where paid workers illegally gather absentee ballots from elderly Somali immigrants — has been busted by undercover news organization Project Veritas.

Politico:

Pelosi begins mustering Democrats for possible House decision on presidency — Speaker Nancy Pelosi has begun mobilizing Democrats for the possibility that neither Joe Biden nor President Donald Trump will win an outright Electoral College victory, a once-in-a-century phenomenon that would send …

Discussion: The Bulwark, Bloomberg, The Week, Breitbart, OpsLens, The Hill and Florida Politics

Sharyn Alfonsi / CBS News:

Why a private section of the border wall is allegedly failing — 60 Minutes reports on the construction firm that earned billions of dollars in government contracts after working with a conservative fundraising campaign accused of fraud to build sections of the border wall on private land that engineers say will likely fail.

David Bauder / Associated Press:

Nearly a year after sudden exit, Shepard Smith returns to TV — NEW YORK (AP) — Two weeks shy of a year after abruptly quitting Fox News Channel with a declaration that “truth will always matter,” Shepard Smith returns to television this week at his unexpected new home.