Rachel Maddow on Billy Long: Five things to know about Trump’s pick for IRS commissioner

1,496,850 views Jan 4, 2025 #billylong #trump #irs

How much will Americans get to know about the people Donald Trump is choosing to run the U.S. government? In the absence of any real vetting the way it’s usually done, Rachel Maddow presents a Rachel Maddow Show Public Servant Announcement to hopefully help fill that gap. In this episode, Rachel takes a closer look at Trump’s choice for IRS commissioner, Billy Long, a dubiously credentialled former congressman whose qualifications for the job are distant at best.

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Donald Trump

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People in the future honestly won’t believe that a Bible-selling, gold sneaker-selling, sexual assaulting, sleepy, farting, diaper wearing, insurrection-inciting, lying CRIMINAL with 91 felony counts was the Republican presidential nominee of 2024.
I can hardly believe it myself.

President-elect and 45th president of the United States

Billy Long

American politician (born 1955)

Dear Elon Musk. Thank you and your mother Maye Musk liking and retweeting my post about Ed Stier comparing Vladimir Vladimirovich 5 Kopek’s Putin akin to the other well-known narcissist Donald J Trump. 5 Kopek’s is the value Putin puts on a human life, Russian or anybody else, stated in an FT interview with Lionel Barber. So, I suggest you listen to the interventions of Jess Phillips in the British parliament on behalf of rape victims and then think of why you did not comment whatsoever on the way the legal system in the US ALLOWED Jeoffrey Epstein’s rape of young girls to continue for years after he was first found guilty of the rape of young girls unless you did, of course. Please explain. Could The Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer, KCB KC MP be right when he said that you had no thought for the victims of rape in your attack against Jess Phillips and Sir Keir Stamer but only considered the promotion of yourself? You may like to watch and listen to Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom | Lex Fridman | by comparison. Lex is a man you most likely trust…

You are one billionaire I can think of who hasn’t stolen their way to their profits. Your continued support for the Starlink system upon which President Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy of Ukraine and his countrymen and women rely to defeat the one-sided illegal onslaught. Please step up to the mark. Malcolm Patten

NB Jessica Rose Phillips (née Trainor; born 9 October 1981) is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Yardley since 2015. A member of the Labour Party, she has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls since July 2024.

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“The guy who claims that the border is secure wants you to know that they see nothing nefarious regarding these drone sightings. Believe it or not.”-LB
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