What do they expect to find? And Trump hires others to do his taxes...would they commit fraud for him??
What do they expect to find? And Trump hires others to do his taxes...would they commit fraud for him??
This. He is audited every year and has been for over a decade long before he ever became involved in politics. He has tax attorneys and accountants and while I am sure he pays well, why would they commit felonies on his behalf? They wouldn’t.
This tax return issue is a complete red herring like everything else they have attacked him with. There is NO DOUBT that the state of the New York has targeted him for political partisan purposes. They will still be going after him after he leaves office along with his children, employees, and anyone associated with him.
It is disgusting!
That’s a good question. I run a business (no where near the size of Trumps!), and taxes would only give Democrats talking points, such as amount of taxes paid (maybe low), or large deductions taken, or special programs or tax exemptions requested.
to attempt to prove any kind of fraud, they would need to find discrepancies within company records, actual invoices, emails, etc…. And that’s a whole different investigation. I assume Trump is smart and destroys those after 7 years anyway.
As such, they are looking for talking points, and to keep the leftist base agitated. Trump on the other hand is right to demand his regular privacy, and also Presidential privilege
As has been mentioned here before me, the left has no real interest in the actual finances involved. What they really want are names of businesses and individuals mentioned as debtors and contributors. Then they turn the ‘cancel culture’ on those folk and instigate SLAPP lawsuits to harass the Trump financial empire.
It is as Rush has said many times, the left simply wants to ‘punish’ DJT for getting into politics at this level. PDJT has caused an interruption in the flow of ‘rice’ into the political left’s rice bowl and now someone has to pay.
Trump hires the best accountants possible, so there is no tax issue.
What they are digging at is the loans, and if he got favored interest rates, and how the rates were given to him. Deutsche Bank is the usual bank that he did loans with, and various questions will come up.
But I would suggest this....as any info starts to leak to the NY Times...the prosecutor will be brought into a lawsuit over protection of data. He could be forced into a game where several million dollars of his money (not the government’s) has to be paid for damages.
As long as he isn’t stupid and agrees to taped testimony...I don’t see them getting far with this act.
The expectation is, I believe, that Trump’s net worth is a small fraction of the billions he claims.
They expect to find years worth of attack headlines.