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June 9, 2021

Darcy: Fox News blamed Capitol police for January 6, not Trump's lie (CNN)

CNN's Oliver Darcy examined how much Fox News dedicated coverage to covering the Senate report on the January 6 Capitol insurrection and seemed to blame the police and not former President Donald Trump's election lie.

June 9, 2021

IRS documents show Bezos, Musk and Buffett pay almost no taxes (CNN)

Here's a good one. Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffett and Elon Musk all walk into the IRS. But none of them, in various years, seem to have paid federal income taxes.
Or how about this one: The rich get richer ... because they don't always pay their fair share into the community chest.
This is US tax law. And now we have a map of how the wealthiest people exploit it thanks to a bombshell report from ProPublica, the investigative journalism nonprofit, which claims to have obtained years of tax returns for the wealthiest people in the country from an anonymous source.



June 9, 2021

'Can't blame the rich': The real reason the wealthy pay less tax (CNN)

CNN's Richard Quest and Catherine Rampell say the US tax code essentially allows the super-rich to avoid paying taxes on their wealth and say it's up to Congress to make changes if we want to even the playing field.

June 8, 2021

Democrats finally fight back with BRILLIANT move - Brian Tyler Cohen

No Lie podcast episode 56: Democrats finally fight back with a major win in Texas, and Joe Biden actually called out some Democratic holdouts on the filibuster.

June 8, 2021

Biden DOJ To Defend Trump In Defamation Lawsuit From E. Jean Carroll - (MSNBC)

The Justice Department under President Joe Biden is moving to defend former President Donald Trump in a defamation lawsuit from E. Jean Carroll who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her. The DOJ argues that they must defend Trump because his statements were made while he was president.

June 8, 2021

Keilar presses Democrat: Why didn't 1/6 report include the word 'insurrection' (CNN)

CNN's Brianna Keilar asks Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), who chairs one of the committees behind a new Senate January 6 report, why the report on the security breaches during the Capitol riot did not call the event an insurrection.

June 8, 2021

Obama Criticizes Republicans For Embracing 2020 Falsehoods (CNN)

Former President Barack Obama says Republicans have been "cowed into accepting" a series of positions that "would be unrecognizable and unacceptable even five years ago or a decade ago," telling CNN's Anderson Cooper he is worried about the state of democracy in the US.

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