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William769

(58,647 posts)
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 12:19 AM Yesterday

'Literally a federal crime': Expert tears into new Trump threat

President Donald Trump’s latest threat against his political opposition was doused with the reality that he could be violating federal law for publicly airing his retaliatory request, according to American Immigration Council senior fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick.

Trump on Thursday openly floated the possibility of the IRS changing the tax status of organizations that disagree with his administration’s MAGA policies, including immigration and environmental rights organizations.

He then called out a Washington D.C.-based watchdog group by name while taking questions from reporters in the Oval Office Thursday afternoon.

“I have a group name CREW, ever hear of it? It’s supposed to be a charitable organization, the only charity they had is going after Donald Trump. So we’re looking into that, we’re looking into a lot of things.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/literally-a-federal-crime-expert-tears-into-new-trump-threat/ar-AA1D8ElN?ocid=msedgntp&pc=ENTPHB&cvid=4578f19643cd4b3bacdc6cfa384c677e&ei=56

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'Literally a federal crime': Expert tears into new Trump threat (Original Post) William769 Yesterday OP
Fucker... But we knew he was going to weaponize everything he could FirstLight Yesterday #1
We'll soon have the answer. William769 Yesterday #2
this is a really good article NJCher Yesterday #3

FirstLight

(14,935 posts)
1. Fucker... But we knew he was going to weaponize everything he could
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 12:25 AM
Yesterday

All bets are off and everything is fair game in his world how is this not already known. Yeah it's against the law, and who's going to stop him? We keep asking that question.

NJCher

(39,752 posts)
3. this is a really good article
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 01:51 AM
Yesterday

and explains how illegal what he's threatening to do is.

I'm confident the courts will stop him. He is just now finding out how he screwed himself over by pulling this Abregas Garcia atrocity.

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