Both brothers pointed
This week in Trump crime family news:
Trump’s elder sons, Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump, took the witness stand in New York this week and testified they had little knowledge about the financial statements at the center of the case. Next week, Donald Trump is expected to take the stand on Monday, followed by daughter Ivanka Trump on Wednesday.
In the middle of a school week.
The New York attorney general’s office has been building its case that Trump, his adult sons and executives at the Trump Organization knowingly inflated the value of assets to boost the former president’s net worth when brokering deals. Judge Arthur Engoron ruled before the trial started that documents prove the family had fudged financial statements to do this. The trial has been about whether Trump will have to pay a fine of at least $250m for committing fraud.
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Over the three days that Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump testified on the witness stand, both brothers pointed to the company’s accountants and lawyers as responsible for handling the financial statements at the center of the case.
Ah yes, that’s how that works. Of course. It’s not the owners of the organization who are corrupt, it’s the people who work for the owners who are.
This is despite multiple emails and signed documents that show the brothers, who serve as top executives of their father’s company, were consulted by employees preparing the statements and brokered deals in which the statements were used to confirm Trump’s net worth.
All forgeries. The brothers weren’t even in the country at the time. They weren’t even on the planet.
The attorney general’s office brought in an expert witness, Michiel McCarty, the chief executive of an investment bank, to testify about the losses lenders unwittingly accrued when making deals with the Trump Organization because it had inflated the value of its assets.
McCarty explained that if lenders had been given accurate valuations for the assets, they could have charged the Trump Organization higher interest rates. McCarty calculated the lost interest for loans given for four properties in the case at $168,040,168.
Oh, is that all. I thought this was about real money.
Well Ophelia, a prole like you can’t be expected to know that $168 mil and change just isn’t what it used to be.
Does anybody else see the “party of personal responsibilty” as an arkload of hypocrites? Or does that only apply for welfare and abortion?
Maybe the two of them now have a teeny, tiny inkling of what it’s like to be in a canned hunt.
(Except they put themselves into this situation by being corrupt sleazebags. (No fault being the offspring of a corrupt sleazebag, but full responsibility for following in his footsteps.))
(And no risk of being shot by rich idiots who’ve paid for the privilege.)
Okay, maybe no inkling at all. They probably don’t have the imagination or empathy to think such thoughts or have such feelings at all.
The emails were found on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
To be fair, third grade can be a bear. She’s still trying to learn her times tables and master “Mary Had a Little Lamb” on the recorder.
@3 It takes a special kind of idiot to kill wild animals for sport, but the factory farming of animals is like canned hunting on a massive scale. I doubt most people have any idea about the suffering involved.
@5,
Oh yes, because none of us have ever encountered a self-righteous vegan before. Please, tell me more, O enlightened one, because I always assumed that meat just magically appears in the grocery store.
Self righteous? How so?
Enlightened? How so?
Do you think I’m vegan Screechy, or that I adhere to some ideology or other, because that’s assuming quite a bit.
No more than you’re assuming about what ‘most people” know.
I’m assuming that if most people knew, most people would care, but I’m not sure by the looks of things.
I said nothing about how your food gets to the grocery store, or what kind of meat comes from what animals, most kids learn that in school, but I have been to dairies, chicken houses, feedlots, and slaughterhouses. I know what they smell like. I know what their blood smells like. Do you? It didn’t “enlighten” me, it educated me, it gave me a certain understanding.
If you think vegans are self righteous, than maybe you should question your own morality, not mine. Or don’t, I don’t care, most people don’t. I made no moral statements @5, that was your doing.
I’m not questioning your morality, just your rudeness and sanctimoniousness.
Er, takes one to know one? Not sure how my statement that contained no moral judgements is sanctimonious.
As for rude, yeah. I’m your Huckleberry.
twiliter, enough. Your comment @ 5 was totally off-topic to begin with, and hurling insults in the aftermath is worse. Stop.
Yep, totally off topic, sorry. I won’t hurl insults. I’m done.
Mike #2: Yeah, that’s pretty much it.
I like the bit where Ivanka claimed the middle of the school week was too burdensome on her, and therefore she couldn’t give testimony at all.
#2 Mike
The buck stops one office short of mine.