Here is Rachel Maddow and team’s followup report:
Rachel Maddow updates previous reporting on Donald Trump's attempt to use a legal loophole to shield his son from responsibilities associated with a failed business in South Carolina, with news that the ruling went against Trump, and Trump's lawyer is shown to have lied to The Rachel Maddow Show.
In an earlier report Rachel Maddow & team busted Trump’s lawyer for lying.
Unless I’m missing something or over-simplifying, it seems the basics of the VCC (pdf) rules written up in the dhec Certification section is; a new property owner is not responsible for the cost of clean-up on a polluted piece of property that requires clean-up. That responsibility falls on the previous owner. The State can provide funds to a new owner for the cost of that cleanup if there is no connection to the previous owner.
Donald Trump bought and bailed out Trump Jr.’s failed business venture and in an attempt to get the State to pay for the cost of clean-up, denied he had any connection to the previous owner, his son.
Well, as the picture at the top of the page shows. The state of South Carolina didn’t buy Trump’s scam on taxpayers:
SC dhec ..
..will not be providing the additional requested information for our consideration. Therefore the Department has made the decision not to enter into the Voluntary Cleanup Contract.
— cheating tax payers. Lying about it. Violations of the US constitution. Conflicts of Interests both foreign and domestic too many to name. And now expecting regular folks to pick up the tab…
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— this, by an illegitimate, dangerous, saber rattling gelding of a crook who claimed he’s smart evading paying taxes
— I’ve seen some coverage of this story @ Daily Kos, but hadn’t yet seen Rachel Maddow & teams report posted — their take on it exposes how the Trump regime and the GOP girding it, views governance — imo — not as a democracy with elected officials as public servants accountable to their constituents.
Quite the opposite in fact. Secrecy, executive edicts, and blunt force trauma seems like some of the central pillars in this vigilante spawned authoritarian regime.
Plummeting poll numbers, massive protests, record breaking Global resistance marches, and failure after failure marking what would normally be the “honeymoon” period of an incoming administration has left us with the very real possibility that War (and not just on families) may become a last-ditch prerequisite to continue its dominant vengeance driven position. How widespread that war becomes may rest almost entirely on resistance to the saber rattling, the GOP and its current “leadership” at all levels beginning where each of us work and live