If Trump were to simply ignore AG James' subpoena and drag things out, it would cost him around $3.6 million a year: that's chump change for a billionaire oligarch.

Last Thursday New York's Attorney General Leticia James asked a state judge to fine Donald Trump $10,000-a-day until he complies with a subpoena from last December requiring him to turn over documents relating to the development of a fancy estate in upstate New York. The deadline had been March 3rd, but Trump is still procrastinating.

Ten thousand dollars a day seems like a lot of money to most of us, but consider Donald Trump's situation: he has billions, and access to billions more through friends he made when president.

The dictator of Saudi Arabia, for example, just apparently paid-off Trump's son-in-law to the tune of $2 billion, as documented by Judd Legum at Popular.info.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "$10,000-a-Day Fines Mean Nothing to Trump - He Should Pay a Percentage of His Income" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The Spirit Of Laws" by Montesquieu.

Article: "The Constitutionality of Income-Based Fines" by Alec Schierenbeck.

Article: "The big payback" by Judd Legum.

Tweet: "I've said it once, and I'll say it a thousand times: If the penalty for breaking a law is a fine, then that law only exists for the poor." by Andrea Junker.

Article: "Fees and Fines: The Criminalization of Poverty" by Kiren Jahangeer.

Article: "Magna Carta Translation" by Nicholas Vincent.

Article: "Finland: Speeding millionaire gets 54,000-euro fine" by BBC.

Article: "New York attorney general wants Trump held in contempt, fined $10,000 per day" by Graham Kates.

Article: "Trump Brags About Relationship To Putin As Fox News Shows Body Bags In Ukraine" by Josephine Harvey.

Article: "Meet Marina Gross, the interpreter who was the only other American in the room for Trump and Putin's 1-on-1 meeting in Helsinki" by John Haltiwanger.

Article: "Trump was planning to withdraw US from Nato and ditch South Korea alliance, according to new book" by Helen Elfer.

Article: "Coons: Biden 'Masterfully' Pulled NATO Together Against Putin" by Pam Key.

Article: "Tesla CEO Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion" by Michelle Chapman, Matt O'Brien, Tom Krisher.

Article: "Lawsuit: Musk saved $143 million by illegally waiting to disclose Twitter stake" by Jon Brodkin.

Article: "Three Republican Residents of The Villages Arrested for Casting Multiple 2020 Votes" by Jamie Ross.

Article: "Black woman sentenced to six years in prison for registering to vote" by Ny Magee.

Article: "Texas woman sentenced to five years for trying to vote gets new appeal" by Jane C. Timm.

Article: "'Prosecute him': MSNBC's Claire McCaskill demands voter fraud charges against Mark Meadows" by Bob Brigham.

Article: "2021 United States Capitol attack" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Shootings, Arrest, Trial and More: The Kyle Rittenhouse Story Explained" by NBC5.

Article: "Watch: Marjorie Taylor Greene Brands Dems 'the Party of Princess Predators from Disney'".

Article: "Blood libel" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: "The Holocaust" by Wikipedia.

Article: "McMartin preschool trial" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Exceptions to Section 230: How Have the Courts Interpreted Section 230?" by Ashley Johnson Daniel Castro.

Article: "Outrage as Donald Trump Proposes 'Second Amendment People' Stop Hillary Clinton" by Karen Mizoguchi.

Article: "Trump suggests supporters vote twice to ensure their 'precious vote' has been counted" by Allan Smith.

Law: "American Rescue Plan Act of 2021" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ted Nugent Says Democrats Should be Shot Like Coyotes" by Greg Price.

Hour Two: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick
- J. David McSwane Investigative Reporter - ProPublica (DC office) / Author of the new book, PANDEMIC, INC.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick

Article: "AirBoss of America" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jared Kushner's shadow coronavirus task force used a spreadsheet called 'VIP Update' to procure PPE from inexperienced Trump allies over legitimate vendors" by Ashley Collman.

Article: "Charles Kushner: 10 Facts to Know about Jared Kushner's Father" by Naveen Rao.

Article: "'Unsatisfactory in all aspects': NYT reporters break down details of Jared Kushner's sweetheart Saudi deal" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "Before Giving Billions to Jared Kushner, Saudi Investment Fund Had Big Doubts" by David D. Kirkpatrick and Kate Kelly.

Article: "DOJ to name a chief prosecutor for pandemic fraud, Biden says" by Mychael Schnell.

Article: "Georgia Republican leads GOP revolt against bill honoring iconic Black judge" by John Micek.

Article: "26 things Rick Scott's 'rescue' plan for America would do" by Chris Cillizza.

Article: "'Bible Believing' Christian Nationalist Who Wants to Shoot 'Godless Commies' in the Face Running for State Senate" by Kyle Mantyla.

Site: Tulsa Blue Together.

Article: "Donald Trump: 'I love the poorly educated'" by Dylan Stableford.

Article: "Nokia boss gets record speeding fine" by BBC.

Article: "Swede faces world-record $1m speeding penalty" by BBC.

Article: "What is anti seize lubricant used for?" by Gioconda Cillero.

Article: "Should Black Northerners Move Back to the South?" by Charles M. Blow.

Hour Three: Should democrats demand that Clarence Thomas be Impeached and his wife arrested?
- Brendan Fischer, Deputy Executive Director - Documented and a lawyer with expertise in campaign finance & government transparency issues

Article: "Documented Obtains List of 2020 Donors to Ginni Thomas Group That Supported Trump's Attempted Coup" by Documented.

Article: "The real Ginni Thomas revelation" by Andrew Prokop.

Book: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer

Article: "Council for National Policy" by Wikipedia.

Site: Heritage Foundation.

Article: "National Rifle Association" (NRA) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Leonard Leo" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jenny Beth Martin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "We need to plan now in case Trump loses in November — but refuses to leave the White House" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The Hayes-Tilden Electoral Commission" by James Monroe.

Article: "Trump lawyer knew plan to delay Biden certification was unlawful, emails show" by Hugo Lowell.

Article: "Conservative Operatives Float Plan to Place Retired Military, Police Officers as GOP Poll Watchers on Election Day" by Lee Fang, Nick Surgey.

Article: "Koch-Funded ALEC Planned Since February To Claim The Election Was Stolen From Trump" by Susie Madrak.

Article: "Meeting Program Nov 2020: What Next?" by Council for National Policy.

Article: ""Action Steps" November 2020" by Council for National Policy.

Article: "After lawmaker draws Hitler comparison, Tennessee homeless bill heads to governor's desk" by Ilene Gould.

Article: "Hon. Merrick B. Garland" by Federalist Society.

Article: "Rick Scott 'oversaw the largest Medicare fraud' in U.S. history, Florida Democratic Party says" by PolitiFact.

Article: "McConnell rebukes Scott over his 11-point plan that includes a tax hike on the poorest families: 'That will not be a part of the Republican Senate agenda'" by Bryan Metzger and Joseph Zeballos-Roig.

Article: "Fighting Continues in Yemen Amid Humanitarian Disaster as War Enters Its Eighth Year" by Democracy Now!

Article: "Andrew Clyde" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Birch Society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Richard Mack" by Wikipedia.

Article: "$3.6 Million Awarded In Flash-Bang Grenade Maiming Of Baby Bou Bou" by Asa J.

Article: "Sundown town" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws" by National Geographic Society.

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