- A court-appointed monitor in Trump’s fraud case said his company filed disclosures with “errors.”
- Tucked in a footnote is also an indication he may have committed tax fraud, per The Daily Beast.
- The letter indicates Trump may have lied about the existence of a $48 million loan.
… And does it actually get enforced by the justice system?
So far the only actual repercussions have come from civil suits, not anything from the DOJ. Between timid leaders, corrupt judges, and infinite appeals you can do anything once your wealth untethers you from the rule of law. Become and oligarch and you’re able to do whatever you like as long as you don’t hurt the money and power of other rich people. The nation writ large can go hang.
Haven’t we all heard this growing up: “If you don’t punish them, they’ll just keep doing it.”
The IRS had been chronically underfunded for decades specifically to allow the wealthy to get away with this. They got some extra funding through the IRA, so hopefully they can go after more guys like him.
“When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.””
I hate that this is such a ‘meh’ moment for me. This is just so petty and basic by his standards. Barely even news.
In all likelihood it’s a “meh” moment that’s going to seal his legal fate.
We are still playing the ‘this is the one’ game I see
I don’t know if this is the one or not, I’m just saying that if he does get in trouble it’ll likely be from something boring like tax evasion, than something exciting like treason.
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haha yep, “walls are really closing in on him now.”
The fact that this orange dotard’s meager wealth is enough to escape any form of justice is a testament to how broken our system of government has truly become.
The walls keep closing on him but he has the money to buy an unlimited number of 12 foot ladders
Is it though? Because he clearly admitted showing classified documents to people, and then lying about what happened.
If he can share national secrets with other countries that are known to fund his businesses and still run for president, this ain’t gonna stop him. Then once he becomes president he makes all this go away, again.
You’re FAR more optimistic than I am about that…
If it was either of us we’d be in jail every second we didnt pay that back + a decade of interest and penalties. Apparently it’s not enough to keep a conman from running for President though.
even though this amount of money would be life changing, even if it were split between 100 people. man, we are desensitized.
No way! Trump wouldn’t just go and evade taxes, would he? Surely this must be some sort of mistake.
STOP BREAKING THE LAW, ASSHOLE
OH YEAH? BUT HOW IS HE GONNA PROFIT FROM BREAKING THE LAW THEN, HUH? Haven’t considered that, have ya?
Cool, maybe the government will spend the next 4 years pulling a case together about it.
Meanwhile, multiple Joe Schmoes will be charged, prosecuted, and sentenced within that same time period for doing something relatively similar.
Is the Special Monitor the one with remote control that only the grownups can use? Or the one in the doctors office with the weird medical advert channel?
ooooh the special monitor!! tax evasion!! they’ll get him this time!!
They just “got him” on the E Jean Carroll Defamation case and they literally already “got him” in this very case, the Trump org has been found liable for fraud they are just sorting out damages.
I don’t know why people keep posting the “nothing ever happens to him” comments. They didn’t for a while because he was president and couldn’t be charged. Now he isn’t and every case so far has gone against him.
It might be the part where there’s a good chance he’ll be the next president again that’s causing that cynicism.
Your average person isn’t going to go count by count and see how he’s been punished, they’re going to see a guy who is still rich, still not in jail, and still the likely presidential nominee with a good chance of taking the office, and they’ll surmise that nothing ever happens to him.
And they wouldn’t be wrong.
