Russian Mob ‘Made its Move’ on Trump After a String of Trump Bankruptcies: Documentary Filmmaker
A documentary filmmaker appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Thursday to talk about what he’s found while researching “Active Measures,”...
Category: Richest One Percent
For the conniving Donald Trump, ‘Made in America’ is not important with Trump-branded products
Donald Trump hosted an event at the White House yesterday in celebration of American-made products, and as is too often...
Entire Trump Family Named In Massive Charity Fraud Lawsuit
The entire Trump family has been named in a lawsuit regarding charitable fraud by New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood...
Study Finds That Average CEO-To-Worker Pay Gap Has Now Reached 339 to 1
The first comprehensive study of the massive pay gap between the US executive suite and average workers has found that...
Slumlord Sean Hannity Makes Money By Threatening To Evict Poor People
An analysis of Sean Hannity’s real estate holdings found that he used evictions and eviction threats against poor to generate...
Trump’s Billionaire Friend Carl Icahn Receives EPA Waiver Worth Tens of Millions
After reporting a net income of $234.4 million last year, billionaire investor Carl Icahn—a former regulatory adviser to President Donald...
GOP Spends Big Money Trying To Sell Corporate Tax Cuts, But Poll Shows Most Americans Aren’t Buying
As right-wing advocacy groups embark on yet another campaign to sell the American public on the GOP’s corporate-friendly tax law...
Death At Trump Tower Comes After Trump Fought Fire Safety Laws And Never Installed Sprinklers
President Donald Trump lobbied not to have sprinklers installed on the residential floors of his New York properties. After one...
Under Republican Tax Law — Richest One Percent Get Extra $33,000 Per Year — The Poor Get $40
In its first analysis of how the GOP tax plan will affect Americans’ personal income taxes alone, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center...
Jared Kushner Made Millions By Breaking New York Housing Laws
The Associated Press reported that Jared Kushner’s real estate business in New York City was partially built on illegally kicking...
Budget Deficit Projected To Go Up 31 Percent Due To Trump Tax Cuts For Billionaires
The United States Treasury Department said Monday that the federal budget deficit in February was significantly higher than a year...
Bernie Sanders: The corporate media ignores the rise of oligarchy. The rest of us shouldn’t.
The rapid rise of oligarchy and wealth and income inequality is the great moral, economic, and political issue of our...
Former Trump Adviser Suspiciously Sells Millions In Steel Stocks Just Before Tariffs Announced
In what could be yet another scandal brewing for the White House – this time one involving insider trading –...
Businesses Gave Over $500 Million To Jared Kushner’s Company After White House Meetings
Companies that met with Jared Kushner at the White House gave hundreds of millions of dollars to the Kushner family...
The Right-Wing Billionaires Bankrolling the Effort Destroy America’s Unions
The Economic Policy Institute released a report today detailing the network of conservative mega-donors supporting the Supreme Court case Janus...
U.S. Now The Second Largest Tax Haven
According to the 2018 Financial Secrecy Index, the US ranks as the second largest tax haven on earth, surpassing the...
Oxfam Calls Out Donald Trump for Making Wealth Inequality Worse
The world’s richest 1 percent raked in 82 percent of the wealth created last year, according to a new report...
Let’s Wrench Power Back From the Billionaires: Bernie Sanders
Here is where we are as a planet in 2018: after all of the wars, revolutions and international summits of...
Billionaire Koch Bros Launch $20 Million Propaganda Campaign To Get Americans To Support Tax Cuts For The Rich
The Koch Brothers, through their political action networks, have decided to spend $20 million on a new ad campaign designed...
Trump Told Friends ‘You All Just Got a Lot Richer’ From Tax Bill
President Donald Trump told friends at his lavish Mar-a-Lago club “you all just got a lot richer” after the passage...
Protesters Heckle Paul Ryan And Scream Liar As He Celebrates Cutting Taxes For The Rich
As Ryan claimed that he was giving hard working people their money back, protesters interrupted his remarks on the House...
Whiny Millionaires Beg Trump To Give Them Even More Tax Breaks
In spite of the fact that every analysis performed on the Republican tax cut package shows that the legislation is...
Trump Family To Save $1 Billion Under New Tax Plan, Middle Class Gets Shafted
According to a new analysis of the tax plan that passed the House this week, the entire Trump family will...
The Seven Republican Super-Donors Who Keep Money In Tax Havens
Seven Republican super-donors helped bankroll the conservative push for power in the 2016 election cycle, between them pumping more than...
Trump’s Exit From Anti-Corruption Pact Helps Big Oil Hide How Much It Pays In US Taxes
The Trump administration has pulled out of a global deal to combat corruption in the fossil fuel industry, a move...
Bernie Sanders Sounds The Alarm: Middle-Class Americans Will Foot The Bill For GOP Tax Scam
Bernie Sanders sounded the alarm about the GOP tax plan on Thursday, saying the massive tax cuts for wealthy Americans...
Bernie Sanders Warns of ‘International Oligarchy’ After Paradise Papers Leak
Bernie Sanders has warned that the world is rapidly becoming an “international oligarchy” controlled by a tiny number of billionaires,...
The GOP Tax Plan Tells Us That It Is The Rich Who Matter To Republicans
The United States is the richest country in the history of the world. Last year, the genius and muscle of...
Trump And His Cabinet Will Make $3.5 Billion From Their Tax Scheme
The tax plan being pushed by Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Washington is nothing more than a “get...
Republicans Are Refusing To Give Healthcare To Kids Until Billionaires Get Tax Cuts
Republicans are refusing to renew the CHIP program that provides health insurance to 9 million children until millionaires and billionaires...
Republicans To Pay For Massive Tax Cuts For The Rich By Cutting Social Security/Medicare
Republicans are going to unveil the details of a massive tax cut for the wealthy and corporations, but they aren’t...
Trump Jr. Cancelled Secret Service Protection So He Could Go Kill A Moose
Rumors swirled when it was announced that Donald Trump, Jr. would be relinquishing his Secret Service protection a few weeks...
Trump promised to put American workers first. He lied.
As Donald Trump celebrates Labor Day by proposing to slash taxes for CEOs such as himself, it may come as...
Trump Uses Massive Damage From Hurricanes To Call For Giving Himself A Tax Cut
The tax cuts and tax reform that are being discussed would overwhelmingly benefit Donald Trump. How big of a tax...
Bipartisan Bills Aim to Close Tax Loophole for Rich Sports Owners
In 1986, a tax reform bill included language that would allow bonds to be tax exempt if they were used...
Bernie Sanders: Thousands Of Americans Will Die Because Of ‘Barbaric’ Trumpcare Plan
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) slammed Senate Republicans’ bill to repeal Obamacare as a “barbaric” plan that means thousands will die...
Obama Blasts Republicans For Stealing People’s Heath Care In Order To Cut Taxes For Rich
In a lengthy post on his Facebook page, former President Obama called for Democrats and Republicans to work together to...
The Trump Family and Its Shadowy Ties to Russian Oligarchs and Organized Crime
The special counsel’s investigation of the White House has come more sharply into focus. Robert Mueller is examining whether President...
Wall Street Salary And Bonuses Show America’s Rich Are Getting Richer As Inequality Deepens
Wednesday’s big news on Wall Street wasn’t that for yet another year its average wage and bonuses put finance employees...
A Sick First Family: Trump Clan Used a So-Called “Charity” to Line Their Own Pockets
Eric Trump, Donald’s second-eldest son, is one of those who runs the Trump Organization. Until the end of last year,...
Bernie Sanders Unmasks Trump’s Budget Director as a Fraudster
Shortly after the Trump administration unveiled its controversial budget proposal for 2018, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) totally dismantled the plan...
Bernie Sanders Exposes The Dark Secret That Trump’s Budget Is Desperately Trying To Hide
During an interview with NBC News’s Andrea Mitchell, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called Trump’s budget an abomination and exposed the...
Rick Perry’s Early Days As Energy Secretary Have Been A Bonanza For Corporations And The Koch Brothers
Most people who know anything about Rick Perry know he’s a friend to the fossil fuel industry. For 14 years,...
Billionaire Koch Brothers Spent Heavily To Put A Climate Change Denier In Charge Of EPA
A new report shows that the Koch Brothers spent part of a $3.1 million fund to help get Scott Pruitt...
Warren Buffett Says Trumpcare Is A Big Giveaway To The Richest One Percent
For a guy who stands to keep over half-a-million dollars, Warren Buffett is not too pleased. In a Monday appearance...
Rupert Murdoch’s Corporate Legacy: Chronic Sexual Harassment and Rampant Lawbreaking
Bill O’Reilly may be gone at Fox News, but Rupert Murdoch’s festering Fox News mess isn’t going away anytime soon....
