For Republicans (and some Democrats) who view Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as just being a social media celebrity, this New York Times column highlights that at yesterday's House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing with Michael Cohen, she was one of the few that actually elicited information for further investigation:
"[Ocasio-Cortez] asked whether Mr. Trump had tried to reduce his local taxes by undervaluing his assets. Mr. Cohen confirmed that the president had also done that. “You deflate the value of the asset and then you put in a request to the tax department for a deduction,” Mr. Cohen said, explaining the practice. These were the sort of questions, and answers, the committee was supposed to elicit. Somehow, only the newer members got the memo."
"[Ocasio-Cortez] asked whether Mr. Trump had tried to reduce his local taxes by undervaluing his assets. Mr. Cohen confirmed that the president had also done that. “You deflate the value of the asset and then you put in a request to the tax department for a deduction,” Mr. Cohen said, explaining the practice. These were the sort of questions, and answers, the committee was supposed to elicit. Somehow, only the newer members got the memo."
I must have been born with those.
When was toilet paper invented?? Before 1949, I think.
When was toilet paper invented?? Before 1949, I think.
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Ocasio-Cortez spent much of her time asking Cohen specifically about Trump’s taxes — including questions about whether Trump devalues his real-estate holdings to get local tax breaks. “Would it help for the committee to obtain federal and state tax returns from the president to address that discrepancy?” Ocasio-Cortez asked Cohen, seemingly paving the way for conversations about such requests.
Ocasio-Cortez spent much of her time asking Cohen specifically about Trump’s taxes — including questions about whether Trump devalues his real-estate holdings to get local tax breaks. “Would it help for the committee to obtain federal and state tax returns from the president to address that discrepancy?” Ocasio-Cortez asked Cohen, seemingly paving the way for conversations about such requests.
Then came the one-two punch of Pressley and Tlaib, who each put Cohen through harsh scrutiny before both honing in on his comments about Trump being racist. “Would you agree that someone could deny rental units to African-Americans, lead the birther movement, refer to the diaspora as ‘shithole countries,’ and refer to white supremacists as ‘fine people,’ have a black friend and still be racist?” Pressley asked Cohen, seemingly referring to Lynne Patton, the black employee of the Department of Housing and Urban Development whom Representative Mark Meadows, a Republican from North Carolina, pointed to earlier in the day as proof that Trump is not racist.
“Yes,” Cohen said.
Pressley replied, “I agree,” before yielding her time.
Pressley replied, “I agree,” before yielding her time.
Tlaib had the floor next, and told Cohen that “the people at home are frustrated” and want the “criminal schemes to stop.” She added that her residents don’t need a collusion case to know that Trump has abused his power. Echoing Pressley’s statements, Tlaib said, “Just because someone has a person of color, a black person working for them, does not mean they aren’t racist … The fact that someone would actually use a prop, a black woman, in this chamber, in this committee, is alone racist in itself.” Her comments led Meadows to demand her comments be striken from the record, and Meadows and Chairman Elijah Cummings later had a back-and-forth about race and friendship. But nevertheless, Tlaib stood strong that the behavior, if not the person, was racist.
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A newly discovered cache of internal documents reveals that the sugar industry downplayed the risks of sugar in the 1960s.
In the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the risks of sugar and highlighted the hazards of fat, according to a newly published article in JAMA Internal Medicine.
The article draws on internal documents to show that an industry group called the Sugar Research Foundation wanted to "refute" concerns about sugar's possible role in heart disease. The SRF then sponsored research by Harvard scientists that did just that. The result was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1967, with no disclosure of the sugar industry funding.
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