President-elect Donald Trump has started a quarrel with Panama over the fees it's charging American ships to use the Panama Canal, while the Trump Organization is fighting a court case over taxes in the central American country.
In a filing to the U.S. district court in New York, private equity manager Orestes Fintiklis and his company, Ithaca Capital Partners, alleged that the Trump businesses failed to pay 12.5% taxes on the millions of dollars they earned from managing the Panama City hotel. They also alleged that the Trump units failed to correctly report the number of people the hotel employed so that he could avoid Panamanian social security payments.
The issue is important because Trump is potentially pushing the U.S towards conflict with Panama after accusing the country of financial wrongdoing.
Ana Navarro Flores, a prominent Nicaraguan-American political strategist and commentator, suggested on X on Sunday that Trump is threatening to invade Panama because he still owes millions of dollars of taxes in the country.
"Now we know what the sudden threats against Panama and ownership of the Panama Canal are all about," she wrote, while linking to a 2019 ProPublica article about the hotel tax controversy.
Pee Wee German is sporting a woody right now.
24 hours tops, the MAGAs are going apeshit with pride over Trump causing the Isreal-Hamas ceasefire. Even tho it happened a day before he was sworn in. According to MAGAts all credit should be given to him because of the threat he made to them about having a treaty in place before he's in office. Apparently, Biden did absolutely nothing here lol. So the great Orange Goof is getting all the credit already even before he's in office.
I suspect anything bad that happens tho will magically get deflected onto Biden.
MAGAs are also already praising him for saying all military who were discharged for not taking COVID shots. Will get reinstated and full back pay. I don't think it's as easy as him saying it and POOF. But the MAGAs are acting like it's in place and the people are already getting their backpay. And call me crazy but isn't giving all those people almost 4 years worth of salary going to I dunno, maybe make inflation worse?
I can't say I've ever been to the Whitehouse website, but that shit is an ad for Trump. It's like a preview for a terrible movie that's coming soon. Which isn't far off except it won't be a terrible movie it'll be real life terrible.
And he pardons the insurrectionists. But how broad is it?
And he pardons the insurrectionists. But how broad is it?
Looks like all of them for everything so far.
So bailing on the deal he made in his first term? That’s going to end well.Trump plans to abrogate the free trade agreement and impose 25% tariffs for non-economic reasons on Canada and Mexico starting Feb 1. That sound you hear is automotive execs in the US jumping out of the nearest available window.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lg7nbcuz4r2e
Why would any country sign a deal with us?
Looks like all of them for everything so far.
Technically it's 1500 out of 1580+ so ideally the most egregious offenders are still in prison.
Lol how anyone can defend this blanket pardon. Truly repugnant
Thin Blue Line crowd I'm sure going to complain about this any minute now.
I'm sure Greenman will tell us any minute how bad this set of pardons is...Lol how anyone can defend this blanket pardon. Truly repugnant
No he’ll do exactly what they always do; ignore it and pretend it didn’t happen. You won’t see him pop into this thread again until the dust is settled and we are on to a new topic.I'm sure Greenman will tell us any minute how bad this set of pardons is...
Gonna bump into posse comitatus restrictions? Knowing King Donnie, that won't matter.So far, most of his domestic orders are mostly petty shit that sounds good to the petty people who voted for him. His attacks on LGBT+ people mostly abolish policies that don't actually exist anyway.
He's making all SES positions hire/fire at will. They already were so no real change there.
He's ordering the military to seal the border. That's going to be a pricey endeavor and erode military readiness. Eventually, Congress will grow tired of it.
I hear this "next four years" a lot.You guys are so fucked. And by you I mean all of us. What a fucking disaster the next four years is going to be.