The Tax Deal, The Trial, and The Outbreak

Mimi Brown breaks down the day. The IRS just agreed to never audit Trump or his family for their past tax returns. A Virginia school official is on trial three years after a six-year-old shot his teacher. And the WHO just declared a new Ebola outbreak a global emergency. Plus The Underplayed. 

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
The IRS is now agreed it will no longer pursue
audits of President Trump's past tax returns or those tied
to his family and businesses.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
I know very little about it.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
I wasn't involved.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
And a former Virginia assistant principle is now on trial
three years after a six year old shot his teacher.

Speaker 4 (00:20):
I knew it.

Speaker 5 (00:22):
And the World Health.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Organization declares a new Ebola outbreak a global health emergency.

Speaker 5 (00:28):
Should Americans be worried?

Speaker 3 (00:29):
There is an American that is symptomatic and has tested positive.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
It's Wednesday, May twentieth, from the Black Effect Podcast Network.

Speaker 5 (00:38):
I'm mem Brown.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
This is front Page, and here are the day's biggest stories.
Plus today on the underplayed the ninety four billion dollar
HBCU story.

Speaker 5 (00:48):
Almost nobody is covering.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Stay with me, so lots of breaking news today front Pagers.
The Trump administration officially creating what it's calling the Anti
Weaponization Fund, a nearly two billion dollar fund the federal
government says well compensate people it believes were unfairly investigated
or prosecuted during the Biden administration. We talked about this

(01:14):
a little bit yesterday, but let's talk about it some
more because This is taxpayer.

Speaker 5 (01:20):
Money, your money, my money.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Federal dollars nearly one point eight billion dollars at the
government could now send to people this administration decides were
politically targeted.

Speaker 5 (01:32):
Here's Vice President JD. Vance defending the idea, we're going.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
To valuate these things on a case by case basis,
and if we think that somebody whatever they were accused of,
if we think that somebody was unfairly prosecuted and deserves
just compensation, then that's what this fund is going to
exist provide. It's just going to correct a wrong. And
I think that's a good thing, and I'd encourage everybody, Democrat, Republican, Independent,

(01:56):
let's turn the page on this thing that we did
under the last administration where we try to throw people
in prison because they had the wrong politics.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
And now this story goes one step further because overnight
another document surfaced, and this is the part that should
make every working taxpayer in this country stop in their tracks.
According to a separate, one page document quietly posted by
the Justice Department Tuesday morning, the IRS is now barred
from auditing Donald Trump, his family, or his businesses over

(02:25):
tax returns filed before this past Monday so that means
the President, his sons, his companies, his trusts, none of
them can be audited by the IRS for any return
they filed before this week. The document was signed by
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. There is no signature from
the IRS itself. But let me put this in perspective.

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The IRS audits regular working people every single day over
a missing W two, over a math error, over a
few hundred dollars in unreported tips. And two former IRS commissioners,
people who act actually used to run the agencies, said
this week they have never seen in the agency's history
anything like this. One of them called it a terrible precedent.

(03:09):
The others said they can't find a single example of
the IRS ever agreeing in advance to permanently stop auditing
one specific person. So let's land this plane. In one week,
the administration set up a nearly two billion dollar taxpayer
funded payout system to compensate people. They decided we're wrong
and quietly signed a separate document making sure the President

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and his family never have to answer to the IRS
about a previously filed tax return ever again. Meanwhile, millions
of Americans will still be audited, and millions are deciding
right now between paying rent and putting food on the table.
And if this is allowed to continue, what's next. Perhaps
Senator Chris Murphy said it best.

Speaker 6 (03:50):
And if he gets away with it with this slush
fund from the IRS, he's going to do it everywhere.
He'll show every federal agency with some bogus book claim,
he'll settle out of court for billions of dollars, and
that money will be used by him to try to
curry favor and gain political influence. We've never ever seen

(04:12):
anything like this before. I get it that people don't
know what a big number is anymore, but one point
seven billion dollars that's a lot of money. That's your
taxpayer money, worked hard for that money, and that money
is now going into a political slush fund for the
president to give to January sixth rioters to hand out
to his political allies around the country. That's outrageous.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
There's a trial happening right now in Newport News, Virginia,
and it's probably the type of trial that ends up
being studied in law schools years from now. So the
defendant is doctor Ebeny Parker. She's a former assistant principal
at Richnek Elementary School, and she's facing eight separate counts
of felony child neglect, one for every bullet in the
gun a six year old brought to school that day.

(05:03):
So you may remember this story. Back in January of
twenty twenty three, a six year old child known in
court documents only as JT, brought a loaded gun to
school to his first grade classroom. He pulled it out,
he pointed at his teacher, and he pulled the trigger.
The bullet went through her hand and into her chest,
and she survived. She came back to teaching, and on
Tuesday she took the witness stand.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
So, if he was on that presented the danger to
your students, is that correct?

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Okay, So you took no action to separate JT from
his other classmates is that correct?

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (05:39):
All right? And so you allowed him to go out
to recess with the understanding that he may have had
a gun. Is that correct? Yes, you could have refused
to let him to go to recess. You could have
removed them from the presence of his other classmates. Is
that correct.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
But the person on trial is doctor Ebeny Parker. She's
a school official who was warned that a child had
a gun in the building multiple times over the course
of more than an hour, and prosecutors say she did nothing. Now,
Parker's defence team they are not denying the shooting happen.
They're not even denying that the staff came to her,
But they are arguing that the teachers, the ones who

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reported the concern, should have done something themselves. A civil
jury has already weighed in, and last November, Abby's werner
won a ten million dollars civil judgment against Parker. Now
Parker is appealing that. But again, this is a criminal trial,
and each of those eight counts carries up to five
years in prison. If Parker is convicted on all of them,
she could face forty years in prison. But I think

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part of the reason why this story is gaining so
much national attention because Parker is the first school administrator
in American history to face criminal charges in a case
like this. So what this jury decides, every superintendent, every
school board member, every educator in this country will be watching.

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Every Wednesday on Front Page, we spotlight a story that
deserved way more attention than it got. Today's pick. The
Department of Energy just announced ninety four million dollars in
clean energy grants going directly to HBCUs. The money will
help fund sustainable technology on campuses, student led energy startups,
a new farming technology using solar panels above crops across

(07:30):
the rural south. And here's the key part. The government
says the funding is being fast tracked to reach schools
in months and not years. So if you've got family
at an HBCU, especially studying engineering, science or tech, tell
them to pay attention because this is one of those
opportunities that can quietly change lives. That's the underplayed. Health

(07:53):
officials are closely monitoring a new ebola outbreak in Central Africa.
That's where an American mission doctor tested positive for the
virus is now being transferred to Germany for treatment. The
doctor had been working in the Democratic Republic of Congo
when the outbreak began. Several family members and other doctors
are also being monitored. Health officials gave an update on

(08:14):
the situation.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
There is an American that is symptomatic and has tested
positive for it's the Bundibuja virus, a strain of a bola.
That American, as well as six other high risk contacts,
are going to be taken out of that region and
taken to Germany. We want to thank our German counterparts.
For all other Americans, we have issued travel warnings, we
have instituted just today entry restrictions for non US citizens

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that have been in the region in the past twenty
one days. So in Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, and
South Sudan. Right now, there are no cases of a
bola in America. We want to keep it that way.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
And health officials, they say ebola does not spread casually.
It requires direct contact with bodily fluids from someone showing symptoms,
but concerns are growing because this particular strain has no
approved vaccine. As of today, more than one hundred people
have died in the outbreak. That's your front page. I'm

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Me Me Brown. This podcast is brought to you by
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