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Trump pick to head IRS raises red flags with sketchy ties, disappearing debt

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Rachel Maddow reports on concerns by Senate Democrats that Donald Trump’s pick to lead the IRS, Billy Long, has questionable ties to people involved in a tax credit scheme. Maddow additionally shares reporting by The Lever that Long’s recent campaign debt from a failed Senate bid appears to have been paid off in part by companies in the tax industry or involved in “tax-related legal battles.”

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Lawrence: When Donald Trump says ‘if you want to know the truth,’ he lies

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MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell details how “no one believes any of Donald Trump’s deadlines” for his war in Iran because “Donald Trump has lied repeatedly every single time he has asked when his war will end and Iran has not lied once about when the war will end.”

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What a DOJ under Blanche COULD mean for Trump’s election claims

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“The question for all of us, and the one that is looming, is, who is Todd Blanche? Who is he going to be? Is he going to follow in the footsteps of Bill Barr, where there was a line that Bill Barr would not cross?”

MS NOW Legal Analyst Andrew Weissmann shares his take on Trump’s recent election claims and what those claims could look like with a DOJ under Todd Blanche, Trump’s nominee for AG.

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Jeffries on Trump going to the Knicks game: ‘Always has to bring the MAGA circus into town’

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“It also is not clear to me that Donald Trump is a big Knicks fan.”

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries criticized President Trump’s planned appearance at Game 3 of the NBA Finals, saying Trump is “injecting himself” into the event and bringing “the MAGA circus into town.”

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BREAKING: Sand wins IA Dem. gubernatorial nomination, Turek wins IA Dem. Senate primary

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BREAKING: Josh Turek is projected to win the Iowa Democratic primary to replace retiring Sen. Joni Ernst and Rob Sand wins the Iowa Democratic gubernatorial nomination. MS NOW’s Rachel Maddow reports.

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‘Sucks for democracy’: Jim VandeHei on GOP election fraud claims

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President Donald Trump and GOP leaders including House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-L.A., and Sen. Ron Johnson, R-W.I., are spreading false claims of election fraud in the Los Angeles mayoral race after Democrat Nithya Raman overtook the Trump-endorsed ex-reality star Spencer Pratt. “This is the stuff you see in a broken country,” Axios co-founder and CEO Jim VandeHei tells Morning Joe, adding that false election fraud claims “weaken the soul of the country.”

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