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Global soccer icon Cristiano Ronaldo has signed an agreement to pay $21.6 million in fines after he pleaded guilty to tax fraud in a Madrid court.

The state prosecutor had accused Ronaldo of tax fraud from 2011 to 2014 worth around $16.7 million.

The court also handed him a two-year suspended sentence, but under Spanish law, this means he will not face jail time.

The recent convictions of the high profile soccer players is due to the removal of a tax exemption for players, according to the BBC.

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Trump calls the Washington press corps “the enemy of the people” , “fake news,” and they hate him right back, calling him dangerous and stupid. By doing so, they call his voters stupid, and worse, all 63 million of them.

Trump and journalism are now locked in a battle of excess and outrage. Most in the media have given up trying to be fair.    

What is bothersome isn’t that reporters and many pundits don’t understand Trump,  but the real concern are his voters, our countrymen and women. That’s half of our nation. The more the attacks on Trump, the more support he gets.

Trump’s voters know what put him in the White House. It wasn’t merely that Hillary Clinton was a lousy candidate. It was that Trump voters detested the crowd that backed her, loathed them; and those in turn were viewed as something to be stepped on, to be ridiculed for heresy.

What is the role of Money in this equation?