Trump administration has criminally referred New York AG Letitia James to the Justice Department for mortgage fraud. Boeing strikes back at President Trump with a 145% tariff on Chinese goods. Gary Shapley, the IRS whistleblower who exposed the political interference in the Hunter Biden tax invasion case, is expected to be named the acting commissioner of the IRS. The director of Home Alone 2 has said he would like to cut out President Trump s iconic cameo in the film. The Chinese government has ordered its state-controlled airline to halt all exports of Boeing's finest passenger planes.
00:00:00.000Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Wednesday, April 16th.
00:00:04.880Happy Wednesday, folks. Breaking news. The Trump administration has criminally referred New York Attorney General Letitia James to the Justice Department for Mortgage Fraud is first reported by the great Roger Stone.
00:00:17.760He, by the way, is our guest today on the Great America Show, 6 p.m. Eastern time. We're going to take this up.
00:00:23.200The Trump administration referring Tish James earlier yesterday, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the FHFA, accusing Letitia James of falsifying records citing a five-unit property in New York she claimed was only four units in order to get more favorable loans.
00:00:41.700Very interesting, Tish James, because you're the one who went for Donald Trump for allegedly doing the same thing.
00:00:47.940For more than 20 years, Letitia James reportedly claimed her Brooklyn apartment building was four-unit property on mortgage application despite official records proving it had five.
00:00:57.880This is not a minor discrepancy lying to the bank about units could enable Letitia James to secure more favorable loans, including a 2011 Home Affordable Modification Program, also known as HAMP, a loan that saved her tens of thousands of dollars annually.
00:01:14.000Tish James was able to secure a comforting loan through Fannie Mac and Fannie Mae since they are only available on properties up to four units.
00:01:25.280Now, the falsification of documents about her four-condo unit, even though it's five condos, is far from the only problem that Tish James is going to have.
00:01:35.900Bill Pellutti, who's the director of FHFA, also said that Letitia James claimed her Virginia property as her primary residence.
00:01:44.260Now, that wouldn't make much sense, would it?
00:01:46.360Because she's the attorney general of New York.
00:01:48.820Of course, that's where she went after Donald Trump, right?
00:01:59.880Really, really doesn't add up for Tish James, looking like she's going to be in a little bit of trouble.
00:02:04.840The Gateway Pundit has reported also that Letitia James may have either married her father or falsified a loan dated back to 1983.
00:02:14.360According to the New York City Department of Finance records, on May 20th of 1983, Letitia James and her father, Robert James, took out a real estate loan from Cadillac Funding, LTD, for $30,000 as, quote, husband and wife.
00:02:28.200Now, Letitia James is not married to her father.
00:02:34.840Folks, you know what they say, don't throw stones when you're living in a glass house.
00:02:41.560And Tish, I hate to break it to you, but you're certainly living in a glass house.
00:02:47.620Turning to some other news, Gary Shapley, that's the IRS whistleblower, who exposed the political interference in the Hunter Biden tax invasion case, is expected to be named the acting commissioner of the IRS.
00:02:58.900IRS. I got to be honest, I like the sound of it.
00:03:04.120Shapley's appointment comes as President Trump's nominee for permanent IRS commissioner.
00:03:08.680Former Missouri Congressman Billy Long awaits Senate confirmation.
00:03:12.200His anticipated appointment as acting commissioner follows the resignation of Melanie Krauss, who's stepping down amid controversy over data-sharing agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
00:03:24.120This agreement permits ICE to access certain taxpayer information, such as names and addresses, to aid identifying and deport illegal aliens.
00:03:35.500Krauss complained that she was left out of the loop and only found out about the agreement after it was finalized.
00:03:40.360Sounds like a Marxist dem to me, so getting her out of there was probably the best case.
00:03:43.960Home Alone 2, a movie that we probably all saw growing up, either, or for our kids.
00:03:50.780The director of Home Alone 2 has said he would like to cut out President Trump's iconic cameo in the film.
00:03:56.360In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Columbus, who's the executive producer, said that he's become a curse, meaning Donald Trump, and he would like to see it gone.
00:04:07.780Trump derangement syndrome? At its finest, folks.
00:04:10.700China, the Communist Chinese Party, has ordered its state-controlled airlines to halt all deliveries of Boeing aircraft striking a blow to America's manufacturing giant of airplanes.
00:04:22.180The directive, reported by Bloomberg News, comes as a retaliatory jab in response to President Trump's bold 145% tariff on Chinese goods,
00:04:31.800a policy aimed at leveling the playing field for American workers, long exploited by China's unfair trade policies.
00:04:38.020Boeing, who's, as I said, the U.S.'s largest exporter, now faces a loss of critical market.
00:04:43.720China's top three airlines, Air China, China Eastern, and China Southern, plan to receive 180, nearly 180 Boeing planes between 2025 and 2027.
00:04:53.760That's fine. The CCP is messing around, and they are going to soon find out.
00:04:58.060And big tech oligarch, Mark Zuckerberg, he's in a little bit of a pickle, to say the least.
00:05:05.360During the ongoing antitrust case against Meta, an email revealed that CEO Mark Zuckerberg contemplated separating Instagram from the company in 2018
00:05:13.700due to the, quote, non-trivial risk the government would move to break up his social media empire.
00:05:19.420So you may ask, what's the issue here?
00:05:22.680The issue is, is that once this trial is concluded, Zuckerberg may be forced to part ways with Instagram, one of the largest social media platforms in the world.