memeorandum: Barbara Walters, trailblazing TV icon, dies at 93 (ABC News)

11:30 PM ET, December 30, 2022

Top Items:

Trump taxes show foreign income from more than a dozen countries — Donald Trump's tax returns show the former president received income from more than a dozen countries during his time in office, highlighting a string of potential conflicts of interest. — Trump's returns …

Discussion: Raw Story and PoliticusUSA

CNN:

Key takeaways from six years of Donald Trump's federal tax returns — Six years of Donald Trump's federal tax returns released on Friday show the former president paid very little in federal income taxes the first and last year of his presidency, claiming huge losses that helped limit his tax bill, among other revelations.

Los Angeles Times:

Trump's tax returns are out. Here's how he was able to pay so little — so often — Former President Trump's seven-year battle to keep the public from seeing his taxes ended in defeat Friday as a House committee released six years of returns documenting his aggressive efforts to minimize what he paid the IRS.

Discussion: New York Times, NBC Boston, Wall Street Journal, Leland's Newsletter, New Republic, National Review, Associated Press, Deadline, Mediaite, Roll Call, Bloomberg, Insider, Raw Story and Talking Points Memo

Washington Post:
House panel releases Trump tax returns in another setback for former president

Washington Post:
What we've learned from Trump's tax returns

Discussion: CBS News and The Gateway Pundit

New York Times:
Trump Tax Returns Released by House Democrats

Discussion: Associated Press, U.S. Representative Don Beyer, The Atlantic, CNN, Forbes, UPI, Insider, HuffPost, CBS News, Raw Story, RedState, Breitbart, The Daily Beast, IJR, New Republic, Politico and USA Today

Noah Bookbinder / The Atlantic:
The IRS Really, Really Should Have Audited Trump

Discussion: New Republic, Digby's Hullabaloo and Axios

Associated Press:
Trump's tax returns released after long fight with Congress

Jonathan Martin / Politico: The Looming GOP Crisis Over Ukraine

ABC News:

Barbara Walters, trailblazing TV icon, dies at 93 — The pioneering TV news broadcaster was the first female anchor in evening news. — Barbara Walters, the trailblazing television news broadcaster and longtime ABC News anchor and correspondent who shattered the glass ceiling and became …

Alessandra Stanley / New York Times:

Barbara Walters, a First Among TV Newswomen, Is Dead at 93 — She broke barriers for women as a co-host of the “Today” show, a network evening news anchor and a creator of “The View,” all while gaining her own kind of celebrity. — Barbara Walters, who broke barriers for women …

Discussion: Variety, The Forward, Page Six, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, ABC7 and The Post Millennial

Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:

Tucker Carlson's Defense of Andrew Tate Resurfaces After Influencer's Arrest in Sex Trafficking, Rape Case — Clips of Tucker Carlson defending Andrew Tate have resurfaced after the kickboxer turned controversial internet personality was detained in Romania on suspicion of human trafficking, rape, and organized crime.

Discussion: New York Post, The Sun, The Status Kuo, NPR, Toilet Read, Just The News, Reuters, The Hill, The Gateway Pundit and New York Daily News

Washington Post:

Andrew Tate, brother charged in Romania with human trafficking — Andrew Tate — the former kickboxing champion, internet personality and self-described misogynist — has been detained in Romania along with his brother, Tristan, and charged with human trafficking and forming an organized crime group.

Discussion: Bloomberg, New York Post, BizPac Review, Metro.co.uk, Mock Paper Scissors, CBS News, Deadline, Breitbart, ABC7, The Sun and UPI

New York Times:
Andrew Tate Is Detained in Romania in Human Trafficking Investigation

Discussion: UPI, Breitbart, The Sun, New York Daily News, Common Dreams, Rolling Stone, Althouse, mirror, The Verge and Semafor

Associated Press:
Divisive social media star Andrew Tate detained in Romania

CNN:

Trump wanted to trademark ‘Rigged Election!’ and other key findings from the Jan. 6 panel's latest release — The House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, on Friday released another wave of witness interview transcripts. — The new drop, which complements the panel's sweeping 845-page report …

Discussion: Insider, Axios, Raw Story, Mediaite, HuffPost, New York Times and The Hill

Eric Garcia / The Independent:
Don Jr admits he doesn't know where $240m Trump fundraised to fight election results went in Jan 6 transcripts

Discussion: Raw Story, Insider and The Hill

Sarah D. Wire / Los Angeles Times:
Jan. 6 committee is running out of time. Key documents may soon be locked away for decades

Discussion: CNN

Fox News:

Idaho murders: Suspect arrested in killings of 4 university students, law enforcement source says — Suspect Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, now in custody in connection to deaths of Moscow, Idaho college students — Idaho murders: Suspect in custody, source reveals

NBC News:

Idaho murders live updates: Suspect arrested in the killings of 4 college students — 28-year-old man arrested in connection with Idaho college killings — Police in Pennsylvania arrested a suspect Friday in the slayings of four University of Idaho students, law enforcement sources told NBC News.

Discussion: CNN, Associated Press, Fox News, NewsNation, PennLive, KTLA, RedState, Rolling Stone, The Western Journal, Conservative Brief, CBS News and New York Post

Gary D. Robertson / Associated Press:

AG: Meadows won't face voter fraud charges in North Carolina — Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff to President Donald Trump, won't face voter fraud charges related to his 2020 registration and absentee vote in North Carolina, the state's attorney general announced Friday.

Discussion: Washington Post, McClatchy Washington Bureau and Political Wire

Dianne Gallagher / CNN:

North Carolina officials will not charge Mark Meadows with voter fraud — The North Carolina Department of Justice announced Friday that there was “not sufficient evidence” to bring charges against against former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and his wife, Debra Meadows, over allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election.

Discussion: New York Times, NCDOJ, The Hill, Politico, New York Post, Raw Story and Insider

John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times:

Millennials are shattering the oldest rule in politics — Western conservatives are at risk from generations of voters who are no longer moving to the right as they age — “If you are not a liberal at 25, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at 35 you have no brain.”

Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mediaite

New York Times:

A Charity Tied to the Supreme Court Offers Donors Access to the Justices — The Supreme Court Historical Society has raised more than $23 million in the last two decades, much of it from lawyers, corporations and special interests. — In some years, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. does the honors.

Discussion: Al Jazeera

Josh Gerstein / Politico:
How Justice Kagan lost her battle as a consensus builder

Discussion: Raw Story

Dan Primack / Axios:

Fidelity slashes Twitter value by 56% — Fidelity slashed its carrying value of Twitter by 56% during the first month of Elon Musk's ownership, according to a new disclosure. — Driving the news: Fidelity was among the group of outside investors that helped Musk finance his $44 billion takeover …

Discussion: TechCrunch and Political Wire, more at Techmeme »

Katherine Doyle / Washington Examiner:

Harris ‘gamesmanship’ torments staff, stems from ‘deep, deep insecurity’: Book — Vice President Kamala Harris's “gamesmanship” against her staff has led to a long-standing pattern of dysfunction, prompting questions about her capabilities under pressure, a new book reports.

Discussion: New York Post, The Daily Caller and IJR

Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
White House aides recall in new book Biden's fury over border: ‘You could hear the president cursing’

Discussion: Townhall, Washington Examiner, Twitchy, The Lid and New York Post

The White House:

Clemency Recipient List — Today, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is granting full pardons to six individuals. — Gary Parks Davis - Yuma, Arizona — Gary Parks Davis is a 66-year-old man who pleaded guilty to use of a communication facility (a telephone) to facilitate an unlawful cocaine transaction at age 22.

Discussion: New York Times, UPI, Metro.co.uk, NPR, USA Today, KRON4 and IJR

CNN:
Biden issues end-of-year pardons to six individuals

Discussion: MSNBC, Associated Press, Al Jazeera, CBS News, One America News Network, The Guardian, New York Post, Washington Post, Florida Politics, Fox News, The Hill, Washington Times, Wall Street Journal, The Post Millennial and ABC News

scottishdailyexpress:

Anger as EU project sees Police Scotland rebrand paedophiles as ‘Minor-Attracted People’ — The term - described as ‘deeply disturbing’ and ‘baloney’ - was included in the Chief Constable's year-end report as part of an EU project to tackle child abuse and exploitation

Discussion: Telegraph, Holly's Substack and Washington Examiner