#or if Kamala Harris sold real estate

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My crazy wife is back !!

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A tax proposal embraced by Vice President Kamala Harris that’s meant to target the wealthy is getting attention in an unlikely place for wonky policy debate: social media.

But many posts ignore the fact that the plan would only impact those whose net worth is more than $100 million, or less than 1% of taxpayers, and falsely suggest that all homeowners should fear a new massive tax bill. One TikTok user, for example, claimed that people will “lose their homes” and that “the IRS will bankrupt them.”

At issue is a proposal often referred to as a billionaire minimum tax. It would treat the increase in the value of assets – like real estate, stocks and private businesses – as taxable income each year, even if they are not sold. This is known as an unrealized capital gain.

One way to think of it is as a tax on a gain, or profit, that exists only on paper.

“It’s quite a transformational proposal,” said Mark Friedlich, vice president of government affairs at Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting.

On the campaign trail, Harris has said she supports a billionaire minimum tax. She hasn’t outlined the specifics, but the Biden-Harris administration’s most recent budget proposal lays out details.

A billionaire minimum tax is one of several proposals pushed by Democrats in recent years to tax the rich. Both President Joe Biden and Harris have consistently said that they want to make the “wealthiest Americans pay their fair share” and that the additional tax revenue raised could be used to pay for social spending programs, like helping families pay for child care or down-payment help for first-time homebuyers.

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This Man Helped Kamala Harris. Then He Mysteriously Died.

Kamala Harris' Dark Secret - the Mystery Of Her Mentor-Rival's Death

By Yoichi Shimatsu

This memoir/essay is about the root causes of the black diaspora from San Francisco initiated by Mayor Dianne Feinstein’s crew and her “hit woman” Kamala Harris, the city prosecutor then of “Indian origin”. Over two decades during the gay invasion of SF, a narrow-focus campaign waged an urban cleansing program to arrest and imprison black youth for the purpose of bankrupting their low-income families, who were then forced out of their homes in the Western Addition and Fillmore districts in a diaspora that led them to remote isolated villages to start over again in the barren, hot and inhospitable Mojave Desert region. I know because I’ve been a decade-long resident of SF and earlier lived in Palmdale near Edwards Air Base, and still keep track of the decline of that arid region. This isn’t abstract social theory, it’s a home-grown reality. And it's advance warning to the young black journalists and sorority sisters who have been denied the truth of their heroine presidential candidate, once again being hustled by the political manipulators and the PR hacks..

Before cheerleading and volunteering for candidate Kamala Harris, black journalists and sorority members need to become aware of her murky background as a relentless prosecutor and persecutor of low-income African American and Asian families forced out of their homes in San Francisco to make way for the influx of decadent white gays - all just to line the pockets of the Democrat cronies of Dianne Feinstein from appreciative Jewish-dominated real estate insiders. At the time, her ruthless operation to arrest vulnerable black youths exploited as runners by Cartel-linked thugs accounted for millions, indeed billions in campaign donations and monetary gifts to the politically correct “race neutral” city leaders, their flunky police chiefs and insider lawyers for the drug lords, including defense attorney Willie Brown, the suitor and then lover of Ms. Kamala - which on the streets rendered her nickname Kamel Toe. At the time, everyone assumed her ruthless quest to imprison black kids was possible because her high-tone mother was from the elitist caste in India. Her black father, then a science student, who was an immigrant student from Jamaica (the capital of the notoriously crazed and lethal dope-smuggling “:posse(s)”, was never mentioned in the local Hearst press. Buyer Beware! Because her avid supports are next to be sold out - for a price.

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The simple yet powerful way Tim Walz just exposed Donald Trump

John Stoehr

September 20, 2024 6:51AM ET

US Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz speaks at Temple University in Philadelphia on August 6, 2024. © Brendan Smialowski, AFP

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Tim Walz was in Michigan recently. In a stump speech, he noted differing views on the meaning of homeownership. He said that for “the real estate mogul, the venture capitalist, whatever,” a house is “just an asset to be traded and sold.” To everyone else, however, it’s “a place to gather around the kitchen table to talk with our kids about what happened at school.”

The message was simple but powerful.

Donald Trump (“the real estate mogul”) and JD Vance (“the venture capitalist, whatever”) stand together as normal men who care about and understand the normal struggles of normal Americans, but they are not normal, nor do they care about or understand normal people’s struggles.

They don’t even know the meaning of owning a house and what it takes to achieve that dream. To them, it’s not real. It’s an abstraction. It has no value beyond its market value. But “to us,” Walz said, it’s so much more.

“That’s what Kamala Harris wants for you,” he said.

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Leigh McGowan, a social media influencer who goes by “Politics Girl,” watched the speech. She saw how Walz uses simple words to capture a common experience to rally normal Americans toward the common good and against “the real estate mogul, the venture capitalist, whatever.”

Then McGowan did something useful.

She named Walz’s rhetoric.

“It feels like he cannot possibly be real,” McGowan said. “Here’s this man who is masculine without being weirdly alpha, who hunts, who shoots, who was a teacher, who is a veteran. He’s just a good dad and a great husband, and he believes in the nation. He’s not trying to be president, he doesn’t have bigger ambitions, and he’s happy to be second banana to a woman. It’s like you made him in a lab as the perfect candidate.

“He talks to us in common sense,” she said.

Trump’s uncommon languageIf Tim Walz talks in common sense, what does Trump talk in?

Well, it’s common in that grievance and hate are ubiquitous. Beyond that, however, Trump does not communicate using words everyone can understand to relate the joys and sorrows they have experienced.

Virtually every word he chooses says more about him than it does anyone else. So while you don’t have to know anything about Tim Walz to understand his speeches, you have to know a lot about Donald Trump to understand his. Indeed, to talk about his speeches requires a kind of specialized language. And if you don’t know the lingo, you’re lost.

After nearly a decade in the public eye, Trump’s presence has become commonplace. It took someone like Walz speaking in the language of common sense to jolt us out of the normalcy that is Trump. Walz helped us realize we don’t really understand what the man is talking about.

I would even say the impact of that jolt is why McGowan said Walz “feels like he cannot possibly be real.” But it’s not Walz who doesn’t feel real.

It’s Trump.

Thanks in part to Walz, it’s clearer now than ever that Trump’s speeches have gotten longer, windier and more rambling. They start out grounded in discernable reality but eventually, they become so abstract as to be meaningless. Here he is, explaining, well, I don’t really know.

I don't think I've ever said this before. So we do these rallies. They're massive rallies. Everybody loves, everybody stays till the end. By the way, you know, when she said that, well, your rallies people leave. Honestly, nobody does. And if I saw them leaving, I'd say, and ladies and gentlemen make America great again and I'd get the hell out, ok? Because I don't want people leaving. But I do have to say so I give these long sometimes very complex sentences and paragraphs but they all come together. I do it a lot. I do it with Raising Cain. That story. I do it with the story on the catapults on the aircraft carriers. I do it with a lot of different stories. When I mentioned Doctor Hannibal Lecter, I'm using that as an example of people that are coming in from Silence of the Lambs. I use it. They say it's terrible. So they say so I'll give this long complex area for instance that I talked about a lot of different territory. The bottomline I said the most important thing. We’re going to bring more plants to your state and this country to make automobiles. We’re going to be bigger than before. The fake news and there’s a lot of them back there. You know, for a town hall, there's a lot of people but the fake news likes to say, the fake news likes to say, oh, he was rambling. No, no, that's not rambling. That's genius. When you can connect the dots. Now, now, Sarah, if you couldn't connect the dots, you got a problem. But every dot was connected and many stories were told in that little paragraph.

A normal person’s common language

Trump may not sound like a rich man, but he’s still a rich man.

When he talks about normal things, it sounds weird.

He has never gone back-to-school shopping. He has never pumped his own gas. He’s never written a check for the electric bill. He does not know what it’s like to be sticker-shocked at the supermarket. He has no idea what it feels like to go from renting to owning. He sure-as-hell doesn’t know how it feels to be forced to choose between food and medical bills.

He does not even know the meaning of a $10 bill. He does not know what it can buy, because $10 to “the real estate mogul” isn’t money. It’s power.

Indeed, $10 means nothing, just as tariffs mean nothing. Tariffs aren’t real economic tools presidents use to address real economic problems. They are abstractions. As such, whether they work makes no difference to him. Whether they cause suffering doesn’t matter. Suffering is abstract, too.

To a normal person, the price of things is about as real as it gets.

To Trump, the price of things is as real as fairy dust.

So he can say, as he did this week, that he will lower “energy bills” by 50 percent. He can say, as he did in January, that the cost of gasoline has gone from under $2 a gallon to “5, 6, 7, 8 dollars.” He can say, as he did this week, that he will decrease the price of food by decreasing the food supply (via tariffs on imports). To a normal person, that makes no sense. To a rich man, sense is beside the point. Money isn’t money. It’s power.

In the end, you don’t have to know much about Tim Walz to understand his speeches, because Tim Walz is himself a normal person. He knows the meaning of a $10 bill. He knows the meaning of owning a home. He speaks in common sense, because his own experience is so common. When he says, “that’s what Kamala Harris wants for you,” it makes sense.

It feels real.

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8/28/23

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Jacobin:

Last week, the Harris-Walz campaign unveiled multiple economic policy proposals, including a plan for housing. Attention being paid to housing issues is both welcome and urgent. Home prices have increased by 47 percent since the beginning of 2020, rents jumped 30.4 percent nationwide between 2019 and 2023, and half of all US renters are now rent-burdened, meaning they spend more than 30 percent of their income on rent. Meanwhile, the number of unhoused people reached an all-time high of 653,100 in 2023, eviction filings in many cities far exceed pre-pandemic levels, and real estate investors bought 18 percent of all homes and 26 percent of all “low-priced” homes sold in the fourth quarter of 2023. The housing sector is in dire need of a sweeping overhaul. However, while recent polling has shown that voters strongly favor measures such as rent control and federally funded social housing over indirect incentive-based approaches to alleviate the various crises related to housing, the Harris-Walz proposal essentially doubles down on the existing paradigm: more public subsidies, more tax incentives, and more empty hopes that developers will solve things.

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Net Worth of Kamala Harris: Husband's Role Revealed

Kamala Harris, the Vice President of the United States, has a net worth estimated between $6 million and $15 million. Her primary sources of income include her salary as Vice President, which is $235,100 annually, book royalties, investments, and speaking fees. A significant portion of her wealth also comes from her husband, Douglas Emhoff, an intellectual property lawyer whose earnings substantially contribute to their family income.

Kamala and Doug's assets include several real estate properties valued between $8 million and $10 million. This includes a home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, valued at $5 million, and an apartment in San Francisco, which was sold for $860,000. Their investments also include mutual funds, retirement accounts, and stock holdings.

Kamala's financial journey began with her career in public service, where she served as District Attorney of San Francisco, Attorney General of California, and U.S. Senator before becoming Vice President. Throughout her career, she has released comprehensive tax returns, revealing the details of their income and assets.

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Hollywood Reporter, October 16

Cover: Bob Iger and Disney+ 

Page 8: Contents 

Page 10: Contents 

Page 17: The Report -- South Park, LeBron James, Hollywood and the new self-censorship mess 

Page 18: Shari Redstone explores plan to launch Fox News rival 

Page 20: NFL’s ratings comeback: What’s stoking the fire? 

Page 22: NBC News chief’s writing gigs add drama to Ronan Farrow flap, Americans divided over Matt Lauer fallout and NBC response 

Page 24: Box Office, Broadcast TV, Cable TV, Billboard Hot 100, Billboard 200 

Page 26: 7 Days of Deals -- Endangered? Hardly. Bob Weinstein attempts animation comeback, More streamers? No Problem for MIPCOM sellers, Rights Available! The Education of Brett Kavanaugh by Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly, The Divines by Ellie Eaton, Film -- Zoe Kravitz, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Samara Weaving, Billy Porter, Daveed Diggs 

Page 27: Cherry Jones, Elisabeth Moss, Felicity Jones and Shailene Woodley, Russell Crowe and Kevin Williamson, Len Wiseman, Colm McCarthy, Television -- Mandy Moore, Michael Bloom, Chuck Lorre, Sarah Silverman, Holly Hunter, Rob Gronkowski, Jenna Dewan, Digital -- Alfonso Cuaron, Patrick Moran, James Vanderbilt, Jason Sudeikis, Clive Owen, Kerry Washington, Hadley Robinson, Erik Oleson, Real Estate -- Lisa Henson sold to Michael Patrick King, Sebastian Maniscalco, Rep Sheet -- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Francis Ford Coppola, Pamela Adlon, Gwen Hollander 

Page 29: About Town -- Next Big Thing -- Da’Vine Joy Randolph 

Page 30: Wellness tips for sharks, THR Confidential -- which studio kept its priceless papers in a salt mine? 

Page 32: Yes, I Did Say That! -- Mindy Kaling, Ana Navarro-Cardenas, Noah Oppenheim, Elon Musk, Courtney Kube, Paula Abdul, Ted Sarandos, Jane Fonda 

Page 34: THR’s Power Business Managers Breakfast -- Lou Taylor and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Ashley Cullins and Andrew Meyer, Randy O’Connor and Harvey Gettleson and John Rigney, Shawn Holley, John A. Blakeman and Buwa Ijirigho, Steven Shapiro and Eric Fulton, Robin Greenhill and Michelle Benedict and Heather Kinder, Scott Stuber and Martha Henderson, Rob Seltzer and Steve Campeas, John McIlwee and Alex Grissom 

Page 35: Power of Style -- Jordan LaValle and Meg Chapman, Bozoma Saint John and Negar Ali Kline, Carolyn Manetti and Stephanie Gisondi-Little and Ann Cherkis, Dana Asher Levine and Mindy Weiss, Richard Weitz and Matthew Belloni and Alexandra von Bargen and Debbie Flynn and Andrew Weitz and Francesca Pittaluga, Tanya Gill and Caryn Capotosto, THR’s Women in Global Entertainment Lunch -- Marisa Guthrie and Dream Hampton and Brie Miranda Bryant

Page 36: Gala in the Garden -- Gloria Steinem and Rita Wilson and Judy Chicago and Ann Philbin, Jordan Peele and Ron Meyer, Song Kang-ho and Park So-dam and Bong Joon-ho, Elizabeth Chambers Hammer, Chris Martin and Beck, Katie McGrath and J.J. Abrams and Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman, amfAR Gala -- Hale Leon and Frankie Grande and Lea Michele, Christina Aguilera, Dan Bucatinsky and Gwyneth Paltrow and Don Ross, Alan Cumming, Jay Ellis and Tricia Helfer, Eva Longoria, Paris Jackson, Rumer Willis, Cheyenne Jackson 

Page 38: Rambling Reporter -- Adam Driver and Mark Hamill, Jared Leto upset over Joker film, tapes of Judy Garland’s last performances, Nicholas Britell, Power Dining -- Kamala Harris and Shangela, Michael Barker, Jon Feltheimer and John Burnham and Bryan Lourd, Andy Cohen and Bruce Bozzi and Simon Halls and John Mayer and Ricky Van Veen, Edgar Ramirez, Jennifer Stallone, Conan O’Brien, Robert Herjavec 

Page 40: Hitched, Hatched, Hired 

Page 42: The Business -- Aaron L. Gilbert 

Page 44: Tim Cook’s bumpy TV launch 

Page 48: Martin Scorsese isn’t wrong about Marvel (he isn’t right, either) 

Page 52: Authenticity is everything for a star’s beauty brand -- Lady Gaga, Ryan Seacrest, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rihanna, Millie Bobby Brown 

Page 54: Men’s Athleisure for office? Don’t laugh, Here come the electric hypercars, Power Shopping -- Sylvester Stallone, Jennifer Aniston, Diana Ross,  Katie Holmes, Hawk Koch, Max Greenfield, Jameela Jamil, Gwyneth Paltrow 

Page 56: One of the world’s largest penthouses ... in WeHo? 

Page 58: Cover Story -- Disney Over the Top -- Let the streaming wars begin 

Page 64: THR 100 -- the ranking of Hollywood’s most powerful execs, makers, stars and powerhouses 

Page 78: Miranda Kerr’s Malibu moment 

Page 82: WarnerMedia’s new war rooms 

Page 86: Inside the Katy Perry convent 

Page 90: Making art “flow” in Beverly Hills -- Sidney and Caroline Kimmel 

Page 93: Review -- Watchmen 

Page 94: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil 

Page 95: Social Climbers -- Actors -- Tyler Perry, Bette Midler, Comedians -- Bassem Youssef, Scripted TV -- Riverdale 

Page 97: Backlot -- Lina Wertmuller 

Page 98: Steve Coogan 

Page 100: Aldis Hodge 

Page 104: 90 Years of THR -- Michelle Pfeiffer’s first fairy tale was Ladyhawke

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Report: Sen. David Perdue Sold Home To Official Of Financial Industry Group That Lobbied His Committee

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Report: Sen. David Perdue Sold Home To Official Of Financial Industry Group That Lobbied His Committee

Topline

Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) reportedly sold his Washington, D.C., home off market in October 2019 to a board member of a financial industry group that lobbied the Senate last year and that is under the purview of the Senate Banking Committee, which Perdue sits on, raising questions about ethics violations.

Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) during the Senate’s Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs … [] hearing examining the quarterly CARES Act report to Congress on September 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, also known as the CARES Act, is a $2.2 trillion economic stimulus bill passed in response to the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. (Photo by Toni L. Sandys-Pool/Getty Images)

Key Facts

Hillary Sale, a board governor for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, a self-regulatory body for the securities brokerage industry, paid $1.79 million in a private purchase (the home was not listed for sale publicly), according to ProPublica.

An appraisal from Sale’s lender shows the townhouse was valued at $1.8 million; however, four D.C.-area real estate experts disagreed, telling ProPublica that the purchase price seemed high. 

A Perdue spokesperson claimed the home was sold at fair market value and that the lender appraisal confirmed that, however, Samer Kuraishi, who leads a real estate agency in D.C., asserted that appraisals are completed after a price is agreed upon and typically are “engineered to match the sales price.”

If the home was purchased above fair market value, then the difference would be considered a gift, and U.S. senators are required by law to publicly disclose gifts of significant value, which Perdue reportedly did not do in this case.

Earlier in 2019, FINRA lobbied on a bill out of the banking committee that would have required the group to establish a fund to compensate investors bilked by brokers.

A FINRA spokesman told ProPublica the organization did not lobby Perdue specifically.

Critical Quote: 

“Determining fair market value is always a gray area unless the sales are done in a competitive open market,” said Craig Holman of the watchdog group Public Citizen. “Since the purchase and sale of this property by Sen. Perdue was not done on the open market, it raises serious suspicions as to whether the sale was in fact at fair market value.”

Key Background:

The New York Times reported last month that the Justice Department had investigated Perdue for possible insider trading in his sale of more than $1 million worth of stock in Cardlytics, a financial-analysis firm. Cardlytics’ CEO reportedly sent an email to Perdue (who was a Cardlytics board member before being elected to the Senate) two days before the stock sale, warning of “upcoming changes.” DOJ prosecutors ultimately decided not to bring charges. 

Tangent:

Georgia’s two Senate seats will be decided by runoff races on January 5. If Democrat Jon Ossoff were to beat Perdue and Democrat Raphael Warnock defeats incumbent Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R), Democrats would control 50 of the Senate’s 100 seats, with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris serving as the tiebreaker.  

Big Number:

2,596. That’s the number of stock trades Perdue has made during his six years in office, according to Senate Stock Watcher, far more than any other U.S. senator. (In fact, according to the New York Times, that’s “roughly equal the combined trading volume of the next five most active traders in the Senate.”)

Further Reading:

Sen. David Perdue Sold His Home to a Finance Industry Official Whose Organization Was Lobbying the Senate (ProPublica) 

Sen. David Perdue Faces Renewed Scrutiny Over Stock Trades (Forbes)

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Michael Cohen Sings Like a Canary

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), Aug. 13, 2020.--Now that 55-year-old Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) has been picked as 77-year-old former Vice President and Democrat presumptive nominee Joe Biden’s running mate, the knives have come out on both sides of the aisle.  Suddenly, 74-year-old Donald Trump’s 53-year-old former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, now serving time in house-arrest as convicted felon, has instant credibility with Democrats hoping to score points  before the election.  Like former attorney, convicted felon Michael Avenatti, the media has no shame reporting on the foreword to Cohen’s memoir about his life working for Trump as his “fixer” or personal attorney.  Whether Cohen’s book every comes out or not, his foreword raises eyebrows in the anti-Trump press talking about “golden showers in a sex club in Las Vegas.”  Cohen talks about “catch and kill conspiracies to silence Trump’s clandestine lovers,” drawing more media interest.    

         Cohen blames Trump for all his problems, especially his criminal activity that got him convicted Aug. 21, 2018 on eight counts of campaign finance violations, tax fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, taxi medallion fraud, etc, sentenced Dec. 12, 2018 to three years prison.  After reporting May 6, 2019 to prison, Cohen served a little over a years, released July 9 to home arrest at his condo in the Upper Eastside of Manhattan.  Cohen has everything Democrats and press want, more dirt on Trump less than three months before the Nov. 3 election.  “In some ways, I knew him better than even his family did because I bore witness to the real man, in strip clubs, shady business meetings, and in unguarded moments when he revealed who here really was:  A cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man,” Cohen said, oozing revenge, not pulling any punches against his former boss.     

        Truth be told, Cohen was sentenced to three years not because of his dealings with Trump, or, as the media likes to say, campaign finance violations but because of income tax evasion, something unrelated to Trump.  Using Cohen to get the inside dirt on the real Donald Trump shows the media’s desperation for smut.  Cohen has less credibility that Avenatti, once a nightly pundit on CNN before his legal problems.  Cohen’s trying desperately to get some media attention after Trump’s 55-year-old niece Marry L. Trump released her tell-all book July 7, “Too Much and Never Enough:  How may family created the most dangerous man in the world.”  Mary sold a lot of books to the anti-Trump crowd, looking to defeat his reelection bid.  While not a convicted felon, Mary Trump misrepresents her credentials, marketing herself as a “psychologist” when she holds no state license to practice.    

         Cohen asks the public to believe him, not the 22-month, $40 million Special Counsel investigation that concluded March 23, 2019 that neither Trump nor anyone in his campaign conspired with Russia in the 2016 presidential election.  “Trump had cheated in the election with Russian connivance, as you will discover in these pages, because doing anything—and I mean anything—to ‘win” has always been his business model and way of life,” Cohen wrote.  Cohen’s wildly slanderous statements are really no different that his niece Mary or the entire industry fashioned at the New York Times and Washington Post to publish anonymously-sourced stories as long as they defame Trump.  Cohen’s perfect for both papers except for the fact that his felonies prevent him from getting published.  Cohen talked in his foreword about Trump’s attempted deals with Russian President Vladimir Putin.      

       Like Mary Trump, who joins the unethical psychiatric community led by Yale psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee calling Trump diagnostic names, Cohen insists he has firsthand information on his former boss.  “Trump had also continued to pursue a major real estate deal in Moscow during the campaign.  He attempted to insinuate himself into the world of President Vladimir Putin and his coterie of corrupt billionaire oligarchs.  I know because I personally ran that deal and kept Trump and his children closely informed f all updates,” Cohen said.  Whether or not Trump worked on a real estate deal in Moscow is certainly not illegal, even though the deal ended when he became president.  Cohen, like others, including 72-year-old former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, accused Trump of various types of nefarious activity, when their evidence was based on wild fabrication.     

        Desperate to get back in the Trump game, Cohen’s doing his utmost to peddle his rubbish to any TV, cable, radio, Hollywood producer or book agent willing to throw out their money.  No matter what Cohen’s past relationship with Trump, he’s a convicted felon eight times over, blaming Trump for his criminal conduct.  Cohen said he made a “Faustian bargain” in which his “sold his soul to the devil” and “foolishly frittered away his integrity” for the president, Cohen cleverly told the U.S. District Court before his sentence to federal prison.  Watching Cohen violate every legal ethical principle to rat out his former client is a nauseating sight to see, only one encouraged by the mainstream press and 24/7 anti-Trump cable news.  Cohen’s “foreword” shows utter desperation to get any attention from an unscrupulous anti-Trump industry looking to gain any advantage before the Nov. 3 election.

 About the Author 

 John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.

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Inside Democratic VP Pick Kamala Harris’ Mini Real Estate Empire

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U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris of California burst onto the national scene last year when she announced her run for the presidency. That didn’t pan out, but it did help the Democrat earn a spot at Joe Biden‘s side as the presumptive nominee for vice president. Who knows where she’ll go from there?

In honor of the first Black and South Asian woman to be on a major party’s presidential ticket, we decided to take a dive into—what else?—her real estate holdings.

Kamala Harris owns a home in a tony Los Angeles neighborhood

The California senator owns a home in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles and apartments in San Francisco and Washington, DC.

Her husband, entertainment lawyer Doug Emhoff, purchased the couple’s primary residence, in Los Angeles, for $2.7 million in 2012, according to the Wall Street Journal. He married Harris two years later.

The four-bedroom, five-bathroom home, built in 1948, encompasses about 3,500 square feet, according to realtor.com. It’s set on a third of an acre and has a pool. The property is now worth an estimated  $4,545,700, according to realtor.com.

The home is owned by a trust with both Harris and Emhoff’s initials.

The couple’s home was evacuated last year when the Getty fire moved dangerously close to the neighborhood. Their home was spared from the wildfire.

Harris has a luxury condo in Washington, DC

Kamala Harris owns a luxury condo in Washington, DC.

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Harris also owns a two-bedroom condo in the high-end Westlight complex in the West End of Washington, DC, according to the Journal, which reported that she paid roughly $1,775,000 for her 1,700-square-foot unit.

Homes in the 71-unit condo and apartment complex feature noise-reducing, floor-to-ceiling windows and bathrooms with teak floors. The complex itself offers a 24-hour front desk concierge, a dog washing station, and a heated rooftop pool and sundeck with panoramic views.

“It’s gorgeous,” says Washington, DC–based real estate agent Courtney Abrams, of TTR Sotheby’s International Realty, who sold another unit in the complex earlier this year. “It’s a full-service, complete luxury building. … It’s conveniently located near several metro stops, some of Washington’s best restaurants, near the Kennedy Center.”

Harris’ condo features a heated, rooftop pool.

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Harris also has a modest San Francisco condo

The California senator also owns a more modest, loft-style condo in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood. She bought the nearly 1,000-square-foot unit for $489,000 in 2004, the year she became the city’s district attorney, according to the Journal.

While nearly a half-million dollars may sound like a lot, San Francisco is one of the most expensive real estate markets in the nation, where a starter home can start at $1 million in some areas.

“It’s inexpensive, functional, and cool,” San Francisco real estate agent Nina Hatvany, of Compass, told the Journal.

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