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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is not lamenting President Donald Trump's decision to change his residency from his lifelong home of New York to Florida. USA TODAY

After a lifelong residency in New York City, President Donald Trump is officially trading in the skyscrapers of the Big Apple for the palm trees of the Sunshine State.

The New York Times reportedThursday that Trump and First Lady Melania Trump filed separate declarations of domicile in Florida last month, a legal move that shifts his residency from Manhattan to his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach.

Trump confirmed the move in a series of tweets Thursday night.

I hated having to make this decision, but in the end it will be best for all concerned, Trump tweeted. As President, I will always be there to help New York and the great people of New York. It will always have a special place in my heart!

According to NBC News, Trump has spent 99 days at his Mar-a-Lago club and golf course compared with 20 days at Trump Tower since he took office. But what prompted the official change in residency?

Trump and his administration havent confirmed why the Queens native decided to officially declare his Southern White House as home, but many have speculated that politics and money play a large part.

Trump criticized his political opponents in his Farewell, New York tweet Thursday suggesting his decision may have had to do with histreatment by political leaders in the city and state.

Despite the fact that I pay millions of dollars in city, state and local taxes each year, he tweeted. I have been treated very badly by the political leaders of both the city and state. Few have been treated worse.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo didnt seem to mind Trumps move to Florida and instead responded with a good riddance.

Its not like Mr. Trump paid taxes here anyway, Cuomo said in his statement. Hes all yours, Florida.

Trumps contributions to the state and city cant be confirmed as he has refused to release his tax returns.

However, moving to Florida could be a huge tax saver. The president and first lady would be escaping an 8.2% state tax rate and a 3.87% city tax rateon income over $90,000, according to Joseph Callahan, attorney and president of Mackay, Caswell & Callahan, P.C. in New York.

In order to avoid income tax, the Trumps cant be in the state of New York for more than 183 days. However, the state can still tax some Trump dollars, Callahan explained, as part of his income tax could come from capital gains through the sale of real estate and, of course, property taxes on his New York properties.

Trump would also be escaping New York states estate taxes, which would be a maximum of 16% on an estate worth over $10.1 million with an exclusion amount of $5 million. Florida doesnt have income or estate taxes.

"Its an absolute no-brainer," Callahan said on the president's decision to move. "It's excellent as a tax-saving decision."

'Good riddance': Gov. Andrew Cuomo's response to Donald Trump moving from New York to Florida

The move means Trumps permanent residence will no longer be Trump Tower, the Manhattan building that he has long called home.

However, he will still be residing in the White House for the next year with weekend trips to his new, official residence in Mar-a-Lago.

According to the Palm Beach County Clerk, a declaration of domicile is a sworn statement that basically says an individual is a resident of that state and county. That individual is stating they reside in and maintain a place of residence there and intend to make it a permanent residence.

Not every state requires you to file a declaration of domicile to make your residency official. The states that do require it often don't have state taxes, such as Florida and Texas.

How much?: Trumps Mar-a-Lago visits cost Coast Guard nearly $20M

A married couple cannot file a declaration of domicile jointly like they can file tax returns.

Copies of the president and first ladys declarations of domicile show that they must file individually.

However, according to paperwork published by the Times, they both declared primary residence at the same address in Mar-a-Lago.

Contributing: Jon Campbell, USA TODAY. Follow Adrianna Rodriguez on Twitter: @AdriannaUSAT.

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WASHINGTON Speaker Nancy Pelosi's patience has been rewarded.

With the impeachment script fully flipping this week, it's Pelosi who wants Americans to watch every turn of the trial of President Donald Trump, and Republicans who have abruptly stopped calling for more transparency.

"They want transparency like a hole in the head, for crying out loud," said Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J. "Transparency is not going to help them."

The reason for the change: the facts in evidence.

It's a lot easier for even most of the swing-district Democrats to say the president should have to answer for his actions after weeks of testimony in which current and former administration officials have described a wide-ranging effort by the Trump team to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to open an investigation into a political opponent former Vice President Joe Biden.

The shift led Pelosi and top lieutenants to announce Tuesday that they would move forward with a floor vote this week to formally set the rules for a series of public House Intelligence Committee hearings that are expected to give more attention to what lawmakers have been hearing in private about Trump's use of his power.

"With every new witness we get further detail corroborating the basic story," said Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-N.J., a former State Department official who has participated in the hearings in a secure facility deep beneath the Capitol complex. "With every witness it becomes harder to deny the facts and harder to defend the president's conduct."

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That's exactly what Trump is pleading with fellow Republicans to do. Until this week, the unified GOP message revolved around attacking Democrats for holding closed hearings in a secure room usually used for discussions involving classified material.

"Republicans are very unified and energized in our fight on the Impeachment Hoax with the Do Nothing Democrats, and now are starting to go after the Substance even more than the very [unfair] Process because just a casual reading of the Transcript leads EVERYBODY to see that ... the call with the Ukrainian President was a totally appropriate one," Trump wrote on Twitter Wednesday morning.

"As he said, 'No Pressure.' This Impeachment nonsense is just a continuation of the Witch Hunt Hoax, which has been going on since before I even got elected. [Republicans], go with Substance and close it out!" he wrote.

He's had some success in getting Republicans to drop their argument that the hearings should be brought out into the open. But rather than defend his actions, Republicans are now contending, as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has, that any future findings are "fruit from the poisonous tree" because Republicans believe the early process was unfair to Trump. Most will also continue to make McCarthy's case that the president did not engage in a "quid pro quo" an exchange of one benefit for another and has not committed any impeachable offenses.

Yet while the range of responses on Trump's behalf is varied in some cases, Republicans are attacking witnesses, many of whom are career officials in the federal government GOP lawmakers aren't rushing to cameras to contend that foreign governments should be invited into the American electoral process, that appropriated funds should be withheld for policy or political purposes and that the release of American foreign aid should be predicated on foreign investigations into U.S. citizens.

Rep. Max Rose, D-N.Y., a top target for Republicans in the 2020, said substance is the problem for the president.

Rose said the process argument, carried by McCarthy and Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., wasn't working out because it was a weak one.

"Heres also Politics 101, as practiced in the JV variant by Kevin McCarthy and Steve Scalise and the rest of those jokers," he said. "What they do is, if they are scared of the potential facts, if they are scared or wary of the way the way in which this investigation is going in terms of the facts that it is producing, you will proceed to point to process."

Rose, who has been supportive of the impeachment inquiry, said what he's concerned about is "the potential that the president used the apparatus of the state to advance his own self-interest."

Before the Ukraine story broke in September, Pelosi was holding off her liberal flank's demands to move forward quickly on impeachment, and likely would have needed to apply serious muscle to adopt a resolution like the one that is now expected to pass easily on Thursday.

"I think you had a lot of people on the left that were pushing this issue without a clear timeline or a strategy or how we were going to convey this to the American public," said Rep. Lacy Clay, D-Mo. "And as you can see from recent polls we have now gained a majority of Americans who agree with this inquiry, with this impeachment inquiry, and I think the facts will lead us to the truth of what occurred and will more than likely lead to articles of impeachment."

Trump found early help from one Democrat: New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew, who said Tuesday he would probably vote against the resolution.

But there were strong signs this week that the speaker wouldn't have to worry about the whip count including the announcement by Rep. Joe Cunningham, who won one of the closest races in the country in 2018 in a South Carolina district long held by Republicans, that he would vote for it.

Pascrell said Pelosi and fellow Democrats are in a much different position than they were in just a couple of months ago.

"We could have never had the vote," he said. "So much has happened, which we predicted could happen, it has happened, and I think its moved people."

Jonathan Allen is a Washington-based national political reporter for NBC News who focuses on the presidency.

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History repeats itself, as Karl Marx once wrote, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. In a farcical return to the chaos that resulted from a December 2018 phone call between the U.S. and Turkish presidents, Donald Trump has once again announced the pullback of U.S. forces in northeastern Syria, sending Washingtons entire policy establishment into damage control mode.

To prove he was not pushed around by or caving into the demands of Turkeys Islamist strongman, Trump then tweeted threats to totally destroy and obliterate the Turkish economy, echoing his tweet to devastate Turkey economically the last time around. So far, the only thing he seems to have destroyed is U.S. credibility in the Middle East and beyond.

Trumps latest move rewards a fellow NATO member for behaving badly, as he has done multiple times before when dealing with Turkey. Recep Tayyip Erdogans government has held U.S. citizens and State Department employees hostage, helped Iran evade U.S. sanctions at the height of Washingtons efforts to thwart Tehrans nuclear ambitions between 2012 and 2014, and most recently procured the Russian-made S-400 air defense system despite frequent warnings against doing so.

So far, Erdogan has miraculously walked away without any major diplomatic pushback, sanctions, or fines from the United States owing to an inexplicable leniency that belies Trumps tough talk. Even as the U.S. president was reinforcing his Turkish counterparts sense of impunity, he was selling out the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), comprising Syrian Kurds, Arabs, Syriac Christians, and Yazidis who have been key partners in defeating the Islamic State while sacrificing more than 11,000 of their soldiers in the effort.

Trumps hasty action risks undermining all the gains that U.S. special operations forces and their SDF partners have secured to defeat the Islamic State. A recent report by the U.S. Defense Department inspector general warned that the Islamic State solidified its insurgent capabilities in Iraq and was resurging in Syria. There are further credible reports of Islamic State efforts to replenish its ranks from members held in detention facilities.

Given that these terrorist detainees are dispersed in a number of facilities, some of which are deep in Syrian territory, there is no way that Turkish troops and their proxies can take control of such facilities from the SDF in an orderly fashion. The logical result of the inevitable clashes between Turkey and the SDF will be a redeployment of SDF forces from the detention facilities to the front lines, leading inevitably to mass prison escapes and an Islamic State resurgence. If the Islamic State makes a comeback, triggering attacks not only in the Middle East but also in Europe and the continental United States, this will all be laid rightly at Trumps doorstep.

The humanitarian consequences will be no less worrisome. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom warned in its 2019 annual report that any planned withdrawal from northeastern Syria should be conducted in such a manner that will not negatively impact the rights and survival of vulnerable religious and ethnic minorities, a message the commission reiterated following Trumps latest announcement.

Turkeys Islamist proxies in Afrin, which took control of the area following Turkeys cross-border operation into northern Syria in 2018, have been implicated in numerous human rights violations against ethnic and religious minorities in the cityviolations almost certain to be replicated in northeastern Syria.

Erdogans plans for demographic engineering in the region are a further recipe for disaster. The Turkish president announced at the United Nations General Assembly that he intends to settle up to 3 million mainly Arab Syrian refugees in northeastern Syria as part of a sinister attempt to turn Kurdish-majority areas into Arab-majority ones. Such a blatant manipulation of the regional ethnic balance is certain to fuel intercommunal tensions and violence in decades to come, further sowing the seeds of hatred and enmity in a region already seething with more than its fair share of prejudices and grievances.

An important word of caution about the sinister motivations behind Erdogans Syria plans could have come from Turkeys pro-secular opposition bloc, which succeeded in defeating Erdogan in the recent municipal elections in Ankara and Istanbul. But Trumps threats to destroy and obliterate Turkeys economy have effectively gagged the opposition.

Erdogan instead benefits from a rally-round-the-flag effect in advance of an anticipated military incursion into Syria and activation of anti-American sentiment that bolsters a government badly scathed by the recent economic downturn, election defeat, and defections of some of the founding figures of the ruling party. Trumps bewildering rhetoric and policy zigzags have not only hurt the prospects for secular political forces on both sides of the Turkish-Syrian border; the president has also offered a lifeline to struggling Islamists there.

Trumps Syria tactics have hurt the United States as much as its partners. The latest abandoning of U.S. allies has solidified an already widespread belief in the Middle East and beyond that the United States is not a reliable ally. As Russia and Iran offer the Syrian theater as proof that they are reliable partners that will stand by their allies, state and nonstate actors will pivot from Washington toward Moscow and Tehran as part of an attempt to hedge their foreign and security policies.

Trumps willingness to yield in the face of Erdogans threats will create a vacuum that Moscow and Tehran will be only too willing to fill, doing lasting damage to the interests of the United States and its European allies. There is no better time to remind Trump that whats at stake is not just the future of Syria but the fate of the region and Washingtons credibility as an ally.

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Former president Barack Obama told the "politically woke" not to be so judgmental at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago. USA TODAY

Former President Barack Obama has a message forthe "politically woke"crowd that has become prolific on social media in recent years:Get over it.

Obama called out young progressives for being too ideologically rigid and judgmentalduring an interview Tuesday moderated by "Grown-ish" star Yara Shahidiat the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago.

"This idea of purity and you're never compromised and you're always politically woke and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly," the two-term Democrat said. "The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws. People who you are fighting may love their kids and share certain things with you."

Obama said he has particularly noticed the trend on college campuses he has visited with his daughter Malia. He described it as a "danger" that is "accelerated by social media."

He said some young people appear to think that the way to bring about change"is to be as judgmental as possible about other people,and that's enough."

Criticizingpeople on Twitter for doing something wrong or for a poor choice of words gives those criticsa sense of self-satisfaction, he said.

"Then I can sit and feel pretty good about myself because, man, you see how woke I was, I called you out," Obama said."That's not activism. That's not bringing about change. If all you're doing is casting stones, you're probably not going to get that far. That's easy to do."

The comments were widely applauded on social media in a rare moment of bipartisan agreement.

Conservative Fox News host Tomi Lahren said it was good to hear Obama "standing up for our rights and our values of the First Amendment."

Lahren said Obama's comments made some people "remember that we used to think Barack Obama was bad," but in contrast to today's Democratic leaders, "Obama is looking like the voice of reason."

"That's when you know the Democratic Party has gotten this bad,"she said.

"Dear 2020 Dems: Listen to Obama. It's important," tweeted John Schindler, a national security columnist for the New York Observer.

University of New Mexico psychology professor Geoffrey Miller tweeted that Obama went after "the cheap-talk virtue-signaling at the heart of woke online cancel culture." Miller was censured by UNM in 2013 for a tweet that was deemed insensitive to overweight people.

"Monty Python" actor John Cleese said, "I very much like what Obama says about 'woke.'"

"Truer words have never been spoken," said drag queenMont X Change, a former contestant on "RuPaul's Drag Race."

"Obama is right, but he's not criticizing "cancel culture" alone (whatever you think that is)," tweeted Tablet magazine writer Yair Rosenberg. "He's criticizing attempts to force normal people into black-and-white good/evil boxes, because most humans are more complicated than that and shouldn't be reduced to their worst tweet."

Although most responded positively to Obama's remarks on Twitter, Mother Jones' Ben Dreyfuss said the 44th president "must be getting 'ok boomer'd' hard on ticktock."

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