Trump News Today: Former President Responds to Release of Tax Returns as Jan. 6 Ginny Thomas Transcript Drops

Although Donald Trump’s tax returns have been an issue since he emerged as the presumptive Republican nominee in 2015, the issue was still in the spotlight as he ran for re-election in 2020.

On September 29 of that year, he faced Joe Biden in the first debate at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Moderator Chris Wallace, then of Fox News, now CNN, specifically asked the then-president about his federal income taxes.

“I know you pay a lot of other taxes, but I’m asking you the specific question of whether you paid $750 in federal income taxes for each of those two years [2016 and 2017]?” asked Wallace.

“I paid millions of dollars in taxes, millions of dollars in income taxes,” Mr. Trump responded, going on to say he paid $38 million one year and $27 million another.

Pressed further when Mr Biden called on him to release his taxes, the then-president again said he had paid millions of dollars in 2016 and 2017.

As we now know from the release of the tax returns, he did pay $750 in federal income taxes for each of those years.

Watch the exchange below via @Acyn. The actual amounts of federal income tax paid by Mr. Trump for each year of the newly released returns are listed at the end of the clip.

In his testimony, Eric Hershman described “screaming” and “yelling” in the White House at meetings after the election.

“They’re yelling at us that we’ve given up, that we’re not going to go ahead and fight this the way they’ve suggested,” he says of supporters of fighting the election outcome at all costs.

Mr. Tario, who is currently on trial for seditious conspiracy related to his group’s alleged role in the worst attack on the Capitol since 1814, attended a tour of the executive mansion on December 12, 2020, the same the day he vandalized a Black Lives Matter sign by setting it on fire after stealing it from a black church.

Andrew Feinberg knows the details.

In an interview with the House committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol, the transcript of which was released on Friday, Ms Thomas said she was “not very deep” in her knowledge of specific allegations of voter fraud during lobbying effort, but instead “based what I believed on people I trusted and news I trusted.”

Richard Hall reports on The Independent.

Eric Hershman told the committee Jan. 6 that he stepped in when Jeffrey Clark, assistant attorney general for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, made an eleventh-hour move to become attorney general after the election.

“I didn’t think Jeff Clarke was qualified to be attorney general,” Mr. Hershman said, adding that he had cross-examined him before the president about what his strategy was.

“Well done, shit… you just admitted your first step or action you would take as attorney general would commit a crime,” he told the committee he said at the time.

Trump adviser Eric Hershman told the committee on Jan. 6 that Florida Rep. Matt Goetz had approached the administration for a “broad pardon” to “cover everything.”

Eric Hershman, a former senior adviser to Donald Trump, described the scene at the White House on January 6, 2021.

Here is former President Donald Trump’s statement following the release of his tax returns by the House Ways and Means Committee.

According to Jason Miller, President Donald Trump was confused as to why people thought he would try to stay in office beyond January 20, 2021.

And I remember the president saying, ‘I mean, do these guys really think I’m not going to leave on the 20th?’ , that you’re leaving.” And he says, “That’s just crazy talk. Why stay here after the 20th or after noon on the 20th? That’s crazy.” And I’m like, “That’s why we need to get it straight.”