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President Donald Trump says "someone should look into who paid" for the rallies around the country Saturday that urged him to release his tax returns. Trump tweeted Sunday: "I did what was an almost an impossible thing to do for a Republican-easily won the Electoral College! Now Tax Returns are brought up again?" Trump was the first major-party nominee in more than 40 years not to release his returns and he reneged on a campaign commitment to release them.
Around 200 people were on the scene when fights broke out at the Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park and are blocking several streets in the city's center, Berkeley police said . "No one would release them while the audit is going on", he said.
Thousands of sign-waving, chanting protesters marched through streets across America demanding that President Donald Trump release his tax returns so the public can examine his business ties and determine whether he has links to foreign powers. The tax day protests in more than a dozen cities Saturday were largely peaceful, though occasionally demonstrators and some pro-Trump groups taunted each other in face-to-face exchanges.
Demonstrators hold signs at the during a Tax Day protest in Florence, Ala. Members of Indivisible NW Alabama gathered to voice their request that President Donald Trump release his tax returns.
Thousands of chanting, sign-carrying protesters took to the streets in cities across the nation Saturday, demanding that President Donald Trump release his tax returns, so Americans can scrutinize his business ties and potential conflicts of interest. Violent clashes were the exception during the largely peaceful demonstrations, but in Berkeley, California, police arrested 13 people and confiscated knives and makeshift weapons after fistfights broke out between factions that support and oppose Trump.
APRIL 15: People participate in a Tax Day protest on April 15, 2017 in New York City. Activists in cities across the nation are marching today to call on President Donald Trump to release his tax returns.
Actress and producer Justine Bateman says Americans need "financial statement proof" that President Donald Trump is not beholden to any business interests or country other than the U.S. She addressed several thousand people Saturday at a Tax Day rally in downtown Los Angeles to demand that Trump release his tax returns. Trump was the first major-party nominee in four decades to not release his tax returns, saying it was because he was under audit.
Thousands of Americans turned out in cities across the country Saturday - April 15, the traditional deadline for filing federal tax returns, even though this year's deadline is actually Tuesday, April 18 - calling on President Trump to do something every president has done going back to Gerald Ford: release his individual tax returns. As a candidate, Trump said he wouldn't release his tax returns because he was being audited by the IRS.
The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Jeb Hensarling, plans to release by the end of the month a revised proposal to scrap much of the Dodd-Frank Act. The Texas Republican's new bill would give banks relief from the government's annual stress tests, which assess whether they could survive a financial meltdown, and strip the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau of key powers.
She's 78 years old, but Rep. Maxine Waters is more popular with millennials than their parents ever dreamed of. The blunt-talking Democratic congresswoman who represents a densely populated corridor of Los Angeles County stretching from Inglewood to Torrance and east to South Los Angeles has been in public office longer than the 20- and 30-somethings have been on the planet.
Gov. Jerry Brown speaks to reporters in Washington, D.C., Tuesday after a meeting with Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. As the leader of a state that seems more a country of its own in its isolation from the Republican revolution, Gov. Jerry Brown saw his visit to Capitol Hill on Tuesday play out like that of any foreign ambassador to the nation's capital.
Yesterday well known Russian pair of phone pranksters, Vovan and Lexus , placed a phone call to U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters pretending to be Prime Minister Groisman of Ukraine. They discussed another Russian aggression in state of Limpopo and installing Putin's right hand marionette as its President by the name of Aibolit .
In addition to living in the past, the Democrats are now in full obstruction mode, committed to bringing down the Republican POTUS, whoever he might be. Blind rage at the unexpected electoral humiliation of the Democrats last November has pushed some Democrats over the edge, into inchoate fury toward Republicans -- all Republicans, who, based on the words of the most recent Democrat Speaker of the House of Representatives, are now indistinguishable.
Registration will allow you to post comments on fairfieldcitizenonline.com and create a fairfieldcitizenonline.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. Rep. John Lewis Lewis said on "Meet the Press" that he doesn't think Trump's presidency is legitimate.
More than three dozen Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives are refusing to attend the inauguration of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump , according to a news release from the liberal advocacy organization MoveOn.org. Why not? Because in the words of their leader, U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, they believe Trump's presidency to be illegitimate.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Los Angeles area U.S. Congressional members hold a press conference event to support protection of the Affordable Care Act at the California Endowment on Alameda Street in Downtown Los Angeles, Calif. Jan. 16, 2017.
Web surfers expecting to tune into C-SPAN's online feed of debate in the House on Thursday instead saw images supplied by the Russian news site RT, which briefly interrupted programming on the network's website. Spokesman Howard Mortman said the website, www.c-span.org , was replaced by RT for about 10 minutes.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus stood before the doors of the Department of Justice on Thursday and demanded a greater reaction from Attorney General Loretta Lynch to repeated instances of police shooting black men. Their trip down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol was a response to the deadly shootings of black men by police in Tulsa, Oklahoma , and Charlotte, North Carolina .
Rebellious Democrats shut down the House's legislative work on Wednesday, staging a sit-in on the House floor and refusing to leave until they secured a vote on gun control measures. Exasperated Republicans were forced to recess while cutting off cameras that showed the protest.