Back in the day, Donald Trump's niece alleges, he stole hundreds of millions of dollars from his father's estate, screwing his other family members and the IRS (you and me).

He then went on a massive spending binge, pouring that money into airlines, steaks, vodka, Trump-branded games, casinos, a fake university, etc. Virtually all of them failed, and he experienced multiple bankruptcies.

Just at the time Donald was most wiped out and maybe even facing the possibility of homelessness, NBC rescued him with the Apprentice program. That paid him a few hundred million dollars more, which he used, along with massive loans, to buy some more hotels, including the one in Washington, DC.

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-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "The President's Taxes: Long-concealed Records Show Trump's Chronic Losses And Years Of Tax Avoidance" by Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and Mike McIntire.

Article: "18 Revelations From a Trove of Trump Tax Records" by David Leonhardt.

Article: "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood.

Article: "Mary Trump Sues President and Family, Claiming Fraud of Millions" by Alan Feuer.

Article: "President Donald J. Trump Plays Golf on Sunday" ( September 20, 2020).

Article: "Jared Kushner's Real-estate Firm Sought Money Directly From Qatar Government Weeks Before Blockade" by Clayton Swisher, Ryan Grim.

Article: "Mueller's top prosecutor connects the Trump tax revelations to Russia" by Tim O'Donnell.

Article: "Trump's tax returns exposed him as a 'populist fraud' who suckered the 'rubes': ex-RNC official" by Tom Boggioni.

Article: "$70,000 on hairstyling - Donald Trump's taxes in numbers" by Martin Belam.

Article: "Why a private section of the border wall is allegedly failing" by Sharyn Alfonsi.

Article: "Pelosi says Democrats will 'use every arrow in our quiver' to block Trump's Supreme Court nominee" by John Parkinson.

Article: "Schumer invokes "two-hour rule" to block Senate committee hearings" by Grace Segers, Alan He.

Article: "Senate Dems ready tactics to muck up Supreme Court confirmation" by Andrew Desiderio.

Article: "Ex-Trump campaign chief Brad Parscale hospitalized after threatening to harm himself" by ABC News.

Article: "Police Took 10 Guns From Brad Parscale's Home—And His Wife's Face Was Bruised" by Lisette Voytko.

Article: "Looks like there's an answer to the $4B question on Trump's finances: Smells like mortgage fraud" by monster.

Article: "Lindsey Graham: We need a ninth Supreme Court justice, because "the courts will decide" the election" by Roger Sollenberger.

Article: "'Everything He Says Is False': CDC Director Robert Redfield Overheard Expressing Alarm About New Covid-19 Task Force Member" by Ken Meyer.

Article: "Trump names Amy Coney Barrett as his 3rd Supreme Court pick" by Hunter Walker.

Article: "Who Is Amy Coney Barrett?" by Christine Niles.

Article: "Sale of Trump's D.C. hotel lease on hold as commercial real estate industry reels" by Jonathan O'Connell and David A. Fahrenthold.

Article: "Trump bypasses Congress to push through arms sales to Saudis, UAE" by Dan De Luce.

Article: "In Turkey Versus Kurds Dispute, Trump Chooses The Side Where He Has A Condo Complex" by S.V. Date.

Article: "Shattered And Weary, Refugees Fleeing Conflict in Syria Seek Safety In Iraq" by Laila Ali.

Article: "Trump suggested naming his daughter Ivanka as his running mate in 2016, according to new book by Rick Gates" by Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger.

Article: "My wife has cancer..." by Binkybrain.

Article: "The story behind Amy Coney Barrett's little-known Catholic group People of Praise" by Michelle Boorstein and Julie Zauzmer.

Article: "Of Course, Amy Coney Barrett Worked On Bush v. Gore" by Kathryn Rubino.

Case: "Plessy v. Ferguson", 1896 (separate but equal).

Article: "By 2040, two-thirds of Americans will be represented by 30 percent of the Senate" by Philip Bump.

Tweet: "Pope Francis: Tax evasion is part of a "structure of sin." He also quoted this article: "It has become evident that those who do not pay taxes do not only commit a felony but also a crime: if there are not enough hospital beds and artificial respirators, it is also their fault."" by James Martin, SJ.

Article: "Trump's commerce secretary oversaw Russia deal while at Bank of Cyprus" by Stephanie Kirchgaessner.

Article: "COVID Bites: Cracked Teeth Another Coronavirus Scourge" by Alan Mozes.

Case: "Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. AutoZone, Inc., No. 15-3201 (7th Cir. 2017)".

Article: "Progressive Rep. Ro Khanna introduces Supreme Court term limits bill" by Kathryn Krawczyk.

Article: "What Amy Coney Barrett actually said about election-year Supreme Court vacancies" by Aaron Blake.

Hour Two: "...this is who he is and always has been. A lying, cheating felon. Lock him up!"
- Tony Schwartz Former Trump ghostwriter - The Art of the Deal / Author of the new audible audio book, Dealing with the Devil: My Mother, Trump and Me

Article: "Trump Wrote Off Ivanka Payments As 'Consulting Fees' On His Taxes: New York Times" by Marina Fang.

Article: "How Donald Trump and two siblings cut off medical care for their nephew's severely disabled son - dismissing it as 'expensive babysitting' - in move that lies behind family rift with niece planning tell-all book" by Daniel Bates.

Case: "Bush v. Gore", 2000. "The counting of votes that are of questionable legality does in my view threaten irreparable harm to petitioner Bush"

Article: "Trump's Supreme Court Pick Has A Problem With The Constitution" by Terry H. Schwadron.

Article: "Roe v. Wade" by History Channel.

Case: "Planned Parenthood v. Casey", 1992.

Article: "Biden Campaign Responds to Trump's Drug Test Demands: President 'Pissed Away' Chance to Save Lives" by Virginia Chamlee.

Article: "Trump Campaign Staffer Who Once Targeted Black Voters With 'Dark Posts' Is Hospitalized Over Suicide Concerns" by NewsOne.

Article: "Cambridge Analytica" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Revealed: Trump campaign strategy to deter millions of Black Americans from voting in 2016" by Channel 4 News Investigations Team.

Video: Revealed: Trump campaign strategy to deter millions of Black Americans from voting in 2016.

Tweet: "The Cambridge Analytica saga breaks wide open again. The proof is finally being revealed. We always knew the truth was right there in the data." by David Carroll.

Article: "In 1790, the first Congress, which was packed with framers, required all ship owners to provide medical insurance for seamen; in 1798, Congress also required seamen to buy hospital insurance for themselves. In 1792, Congress enacted a law mandating that all able-bodied citizens obtain a firearm." by C. Eugene Emery Jr.

Bible: "Numbers 5:11-22: The Test for an Unfaithful Wife".

Article: "Elaine Pagels".

Book: "The Five Gospels: What Did Jesus Really Say? The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus" by Robert W. Funk.

Article: "Electoral College" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Election That Could Break America" by Barton Gellman.

Article: "Orrin Hatch once said there was "no question" Merrick Garland could be confirmed to the Supreme Court." by Alex Shephard.

Article: "Mark Burnett Says He's Powerless to Release Apprentice Outtakes of Donald Trump" by Alexia Fernandez.

Hour Three: Obamacare, SCOTUS and the Case for Medicare For All
- Dr. Sam Metz, Retired Anesthesiologist / Member-PNHP & Mad As Hell Doctors

Article: "“Single payer provides better care to more people for less money”" by Joan Esposito.

Article: "New revelations in leaked Trump campaign documents show Brad Parscale lied to Congress" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "Trump's expected Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett has been a vocal opponent of Obamacare. If confirmed, she could sway the court to strike down the act." by Sarah Al-Arshani.

Article: "Joe Lieberman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Did Lieberman Just Kill the Public Option?" by Timothy Noah.

Article: "Why Vermont's single-payer effort failed and what Democrats can learn from it" by Amy Goldstein.

Fix Our Senate
- Eli Zupnick, Comms Director - Fix Our Senate

Article: "John Quincy Adams" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Filibuster" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964" by Wikipedia.

Event: Wednesday, 30 September 2020 From 20:00-21:00 EDT: "The Fight to Fix Our Broken Senate w/ Sens. Merkley and Warren".

Book: Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction by David Enrich.

Article: "Trump readies thousands of attorneys for election fight" by Anita Kumar.

Article: "Trump spent the last year quietly building a legal juggernaut to challenge election results: report" by Alex Henderson.

Article: "Attorney General Bill Barr Directly Implicated in Discarded Ballot Chaos Amplified by Trump and White House" by Jerry Lambe.

Article: "The 9 Discarded Ballots Were Tossed Because Republicans Won Their Lawsuit Requiring Them to Not Be Counted: Report" by David Badash.

Article: "Appellate court halts Wisconsin ballot-counting extension" by Todd Richmond.

Article: "Newaygo County Clerk Says 6,000 Absentee Ballots are Invalid After Finding Error" by Quinton Zuk.

Article: "Three Of Trump's Mar-a-lago Buddies Are Secretly Running The V.A." by Bess Levin.

Article: "Saudi Arabia Owns the 45th Floor of Trump Tower, and It Shows" by William Rivers Pitt.

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