The Trump Organization Civil-Fraud Investigation: What to Know | WSJ
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- Опубликовано: 9 авг 2022
- Donald Trump was expected to testify Wednesday in the New York attorney general's probe into the financial dealings of the former president and his business. WSJ’s Corinne Ramey explains what to know about the investigation.
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Wasn’t it trump who said “if you plead the fifth, you’re guilty”?
You are only 100000% right.
So let me get this straight, now that HE'S playing by YOUR rules he's right?
Got it lol
@@lednails ouch.....that hurts. I'm straight enough to know a brainwashed fool when I hear one. 😏👍
Trump is crooked and hypocritical AF.
Trump is not an attorney.
At a campaign stop in Iowa in 2016, Trump said, “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”
The FBI is crooked you dope
Exactly
Not Testifying and Taking the 5th are two different things.
He wasn't referring to witch hunts completely lacking evidence.
@@philipdillard1581 And Trump took the 5th.
You can see the desperate swamp monsters squirming by how aggressive they're getting now.
LOL at all Trumpers
Trumps own pick for the fbi, does that mean he helped create the current swamp🤔
They are accusing Hunter of bad stuff too bro.
He's innocent!
@@superameric8 Hunter never was President... don’t you see the difference or are you a Trumper?
Well articulated. These democrats have become monsters. Add about half of the GOP to that list. We truly need a revolution.
The mob boss president, finally getting his due
Let’s hope so.
Dear Donnie took the 5th. What was it he said about those taking the 5th?
We know your sad when anyone but democrats use that little trick 🤡!
You really are trying hard to convince yourself that you’re “winning” huh?
"Anyone being investigated by the FBI is not qualified to be the president of the United States" -Donald Trump August 2015
Hunter Biden
He wasn't referring to witch hunts and fishing expeditions.
@@1985cjjeeper what was he referring to when he said anyone who pleads the fifth...like he did this morning...is guilty?
@@TheBlowMachine69 Paul Pelosi Jr.
He was just on his mom's global plane ride around the world at the tax payers' cost. He is all over the photos and video on foreign press footage, but you don't see it on major networks in the U.S. Why?
Paul Jr. has business dealings like Hunter. Mom is complicit. Crooked Pelosi as usual.
ruclips.net/video/uGumxj9Nm5M/видео.html
@@j.b.delaney3444 apparently you’re not self aware enough to see how stupid your “argument” is!
How beautifully the system is set up that the rich can value their own properties up and down depending on what's more advantageous to them but the rest of us has to go through the standardized loops of having a professional appraiser.
Not fair !
Yep... and they really don't like these loopholes seeing the light of day, and prefer to keep the doors closed as much as possible or come to a settlement. By risking tricks of the trade to public scrutiny means a lot of people in high places really don't want him running again. But they have ignorance and a short attention span(the public) on their side to minimize the damage.
Especially when it comes to the IRS.
just imagine the pelosi's paul buys chip investment low nancy violates military training areas her son makes deals and they come home and sell chip investments high.
however, it's the ordinary average people that are deplorable and privileged. all while paul's DUI just disappears. it's a shame that privileged injured civilian can't sue a politician huh?
@Dr Karl Marks stealing from the people that hold you up, does not a government make. that's called piracy...
Mob boss Al Capone went down for tax evasion!
Screw irs they are about to be armed an dangerous to the people of the United States of America 🇺🇸
Al Capone was living well beyond his declared income. Mostly money and luxury cars and homes. It was easy to show in his case of his tax evasion. Now tax evasion is an art form.
It cracks me up how some will fink on one another in the political realm if they are in trouble.
Of course, they do. This dude already went to jail because of doing something Trump ordered him to do, and then trump turned on him. So yeah, of course, people in that situation, are going to get up there and spill the beans and tell the real truth under oath. And not just people in politics. He already knows he would go to prison if he lies under oath. That's why you will NEVER see Trump testify for anything under oath.
only people who are guilty plead the fifth according to trump in 2016 campaign speech
Are you sure?
He wasn't referring to political witch hunts where every question is an attempt to cause a contradiction. Conflating the two situations as if they are the same is just plain ignorant.
According to Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, pencil neck, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger and the main stream media Trump will always be guilty so why bother answering them at all.
Lets look into the dealings of all lifelong politicians some have been dirty dealing for decades some are in their 80's and still making inside deals. Beware of the politician who makes millions while they are in office.
And ……
Every politician makes millions in office. Whether it be inside trading or selling themselves (their votes to push specific legislation such as tax breaks) to large corporations or groups in exchange for "generous donations" (pretty much bribery) such the NRA (one of the most notable examples), etc.
This happens on both parties, Democrats and Republicans. They make everyone think they care about constituents when in reality they are filling their own pockets. Corporations and the wealthy run the government and own politicians
EXACTLY ...pelosi schumer schiff clintons obamas to name just a few scummy corrupt democRATS
@@georgecuster527 YA...STARTING WITH ALL THE INNOCENT INDIANS MOST WOMAN AND CHILDREN GEORGE CUSTER MURDERED
WAKE UP...HOW CAN YOU ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WHEN YOU CANT TRUST THEM...???
Because he said hundreds of times over the last 6 years that you should.
What about the current president and his sons business dealings involving americans oil reserve.
What about you stick you your cult leader's criminality!!!!!
Whataboutery is the last resort of....
I’m ignorant when it comes to politics and everything they’re talking about sounds like a foreign language. But I do know this is extremely embarrassing and this is just another reminder that the people making decisions for us can’t even make good and moral decisions for themselves.
So the thing about politics that most people don't understand is that politics is not government. Politics is not interested in creating laws, politics is not interested in making the world or even its country a better place. The single, sole purpose of politics is to win the power to do those things. Politics is about doing whatever it takes to win power. At the surface that looks like debates, campaigns and rhetoric. Deeper, it's as ugly as you can imagine a fight to gain control of the most powerful nation in the world is. This should help shed light on why virtually all politicians are terrible, selfish people.
I hear ya but ... People like this will continue to get into positions of power if we do not inform ourselves and Vote! One would think abortion rights and marriage equality are not politics right? Yet this guy brought in three judges on the highest court in the country who literally are turning back progress in America when it comes to these things and they just getting started
You just said nothing. How sad...
@@rahrahrobbbieee over 30 people so far including me have understood what she was saying
Value what freedom and liberty you have or it will be taken from you by those who want you unaware of what is happening.
In other words "They will pose as your servant in order to become your master".
So don't be what is known as a useful idiot for the leverage political fundamental change encourages in 5 min sound bites - exchanging your life and liberty for a safer federal regulated cage is not what it appears to be.
Once our freedoms are removed those with ever increasing political/media leverage will NEVER give it back without crushing all who stand in their way. Look around at other nations - learn history - or be doomed to repeat it!!
They pass bills for anti bullying, anti corruption, and more...yet they do exactly that to anyone who challenges the established ruling class.
Trump is a criminal. 'Nuff said.
@øddist exactly
Trump is part of the rulling class silly
Says the Russian Bot
An informed gringo 👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻. I don't understand how people judges so superficially only believing what these sick media say.
Banks just don't go by the value the borrower claims. They do evaluations. They are not going to loan more money than the property is worth.
If that actually happened can I get the name of the Bank? I say My house is worth 5 million, and they can have it right after I cash the check
I mean if you can't tell that the rules are different for rich people you haven't been paying attention this is also the same dude that said if you borrow enough from money from the bank you end up owning the bank in his method of inflating assets to borrow more money and then deflating assets to pay taxes ensures that he comes out on top 10/10.... trumps highlighting how broken this system is.
You probably could - you thinking there is this magical oversight - is incorrect.
@Faux Que If it’s knowingly false, then it’s a crime to say it (i.e. in an application that’s signed & delivered to the bank). Whether the bank relies on it or not.
@@sciencenate it is called buyer beware.
@@adamchristman7367 That only applies to real estate sales. Valuation for loans and tax purposes is different. Our friend the OP seems to think it works the same for us as it does for the 1%.
Taking the fifth,. Because he is GUILTY OF, ALL of the charges against him. HE US A COWARD!!
Is
It's hard to keep up with all the investigations.
Sounds like some more bs to me. Trump takes advantage of the system he doesn’t do anything wrong
It's all political.
My favorite part is watching the fallout after the investigations are over and Trump is still running the show.
TRUMP '24
I know, there are so many
If you're guilty and you know it plead the 5th. That would make a great song. if you're guilty and you know it plead the 5th.
😆! If you're guilty and you know it then your mouth will surely show it!
If there was anything there it wouldn't be in a civil court.
The courts have ruled otherwise. In other words, you're wrong.
@@veramae4098 Fraud is a crime. If they had anything real he'd be in criminal court. Have a good day Boomer.
@@veramae4098 It's civil court. If they had ANY way of charging Trump in criminal court, that's what we'd be hearing about..
The fact that they're in civil court points directly at "They don't have evidence to win a trial in a criminal case".
So just like everyone, they fell back to civil court to atleast try to get some money. Since they have 0 ways to send him to jail. 🤤
Nothing ? plead the fifth then ?
@21 accounts Removed I plead the 7th 🤣🤣🤣
Financial penalties ONLY? If it was any one of us “regular” people, wouldn’t we be going straight to jail?
No because it’s a civil cases. Civil cases carry no jail time. Only fines and fees.
RUclips should start making people pass tests before they’re allowed access to the comment section.
I think the same. If I had led a mob to the Capital and they destroyed property and threatened to hang the Vice President, I would be in a cell! This insanity is mindboggling. Why is the law in fear of taking action? Why is anyone afraid of this grifter/ dictator wannabe? He's going to die before receiving any repercussions and that's sickening.
@@Ministry-Of-Truth that's the problem with social media, it gives people like roseli a platform to express their uninformed opinions and it generates even more ignorance.
yes but not any of our politicians
Thank you for clarifying it. I appreciate that! Let’s just now wait for the other major investigations that are going on on a federal level. May justice follow its course…
Trump just pleaded the 5th in NY...what did he say about people pleading the 5th?...
At a campaign stop in Iowa in 2016, Trump said, “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”
At some point you gotta use the Eric Holder Lois Lerner playbook 😏
We know they set purgery traps so I don’t blame him
He’s pleading the 5th against a corrupt democrat political machine that has been bent on destroying himsince he came down his escalator at TRUMP Tower 6 years ago to STOP them, so GFY democrat hypocrite stooge!
So. Didn’t Lois Lerner, Eric Holder, and your boys Adam Schiff, Comey, and agent strzok all plead the 5th?? We know the FBI lies and sets traps. I don’t blame anyone for not cooperating with the FBI and installing their constitutional rights.
All proof of every single thing trump has ever said about the media and politicians
being a criminal gives you that perspective about institutions.
keep calling it fake news just cause you don’t like the truth
What proof? LOL
@21 accounts Removed Commenting to multiple people multiple times, real weird for a grown adult to show so much devotion to another man. And you all say you aren’t a cult…..
@21 accounts Removed He violated the Presidential Records Act of 1978, numerous finance/tax laws, committed sedition by instigating a rebellion against the government, attempted to defraud the election and the government, asked election officials in Georgia to commit election fraud, etc. The list goes on and on. I voted for him but I deeply regret it after everything he did after the election. If you still support him after all he did, you’re simply ignorant.
“You see the mob takes the Fifth,” -Trump
“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -Trump
“Fifth Amendment. Fifth Amendment. Horrible.” -Trump
Bot
@@txup92g33 the “bot” ain’t lying though lol. He literally said all of the above.
TRUMP ISNT INNOCENT.. I RATHER HE NOT TESTIFY BECAUSE HE WOULD LIE ANYWAY!!!!! NOTHING TRUE COMES OUT OF HIS BIG MOUTH & ITS SAD WHEN YOU HAVE A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO TAKES HIS WORDS FOR GOSPEL.....SMH!!!!!
Given the FBI raided his home yesterday it’s smart to not testify.
The fifth amendment clause Is to protect a person from entrapment questions. Prosecutors are very adept at twisting words to incriminate a defendant.
What to know: Trump/Desantis 2024
lol peak cringe
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
What about Pelosi's insider trading? Why are we so lop sided about who gets in trouble for what?
Because Trump is dangerous to the euling class
One crime at a time
They are investigating pelosis 💩, but the news won’t cover it because it won’t get the views despite how some you are on the crazy deep end with her , she doesn’t bring the shine like trump does . No one but the crazies care about her .
Yea i am sure there is a youtube video for that. This is about what trump is going thru now. Ppl who make excuses or deflect on issues are usually complicit, enablers, or part of a bigger problem. Example… you call the fire department because your house is burning. When they arrive your neighbor comes out and says, yea but “what about” the house down the street!
See how pointless that statement is
@@chrisdavid2408 haha a RUclips video and having the FBI raid your home are two very different things.. are you okay?
I’m an equal opportunity person. When Trump and his family goes down, then Biden and his family need to be held accountable. And all the other terrible dirtbags we have in politics. PLEASE hold the slime accountable. At this point is it even possible to get rid of the infestation we have in our political system?
For what exactly??? The way most Presidents and polticians works is they have lawyers and experts on staff to ask what they can and cannot do to avoid prosecution, it doesn't mean they aren't committing crimes or taking bribes, etc etc it just means they are ensuring that they can't be held accountable. Trump on the other hand is a HEAD CASE, he's the DECIDER, HE TELLS PEOPLE WHAT TO DO and he doesn't care about what the rules are, he thinks he's above them, and instead of avoiding things that could come back to haunt him like taking official documents out of office etc etc etc that are known laws he says SCREW IT, I'M DONALD TRUMP AND I DO WHAT I WANT................and now his curtain call is coming, I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Trump for having such an overbearing ego that he made sure his crimes on and about Jan 6 were filmed and documented.
Well I think you are forgetting the concept about the squeaking wheel gets the grease .
@@marvinhacking5777 squealing.....
🤣😂
Bla blaaa bla bla. ....yeah boyee
Since when does a person set the value of property they own? Property values are set by the local government and then you are taxed based on the assessed value. If Trump's property has been undervalued it's the local governments fault.
You don't know anything about this obviously
@@jamesball8519 and you do lol ok
You’re not paying attention…
100% this. Another nothing-burger
Dude. Please. It's bringing me down knowing there are people this ignorant in the world.
im starting to suffer memory loss and have since scaled down my responsibilities as not to cause harm to others, or myself. But now I learn that memory is not important for wealth generation or ruling a nation. Saying and doing the wrong thing seems to be advantageous.
While the FBI let's Mass Shooters "Slip Through the cracks" smh
And have one the highest rate of killings in Chicago. Sad, I know those families want peace, only if the fbi would do there job and find where those guns are coming from.
If only they were allowed to more easily stop them, like having universal background checks..... But wait some people don't want that to happen.....
Mass shooters are not as dangerous as the tangerine tyrant
What a moronic statement.
Will they be looking at the corpse of his ex-wife on the golf course? I guess tacky and heartless is still legal.
He did that for tax reasons.
@@Tharr-cx4uq Heartless
It’s not a religious burial ground so who knows
@@hardlylast no, it's not...but it DOES mean a property tax exemption for his whole golf course.
I heard that cemeteries get special tax breaks....so he'll probably claim his golf course is a cemetery.
They doing everything they can so he can't run again 😭😭😭
exactlyyyy
Good; we shouldn’t have another four years of putting children in cages, preventing any reform, and destroying the economy
except this case has been running since long before the previous election. He's managed to drag it out for years.
This ain't enough
Following the money always give you a surprise, 😄
Yeah so why aren't they following Joe and Hunter?
this is one of the reasons my family and i will be voting red moving forward.
Red or dead.
A guy that voted once for Reagan said he'd vote a second time yesterday for Trump
Vote Democrats into extinction in the midterm elections period!
You are the lowest common denominator.
@@firewoodtime2 me and my family always been democrats and voted for biden too. but not anymore man. This is insane what democrats are doing
Fraudulent, a good word for his whole life.
Long before he came down the escalator
And this is why the tax code needs and must be redone. It is way too long and complicated, allowing some to value their assets at their discretion while others have to go though a third party.
Consumption tax simplifies everything. The rich spend the most. This is how you determine how wealthy someone is, not by how they report their net income. People who spend a million a year will show revenue of zero. But if you tax their spending, you capture their true earnings.
The tax code does not need to be redone. I forget my codes and passwords as is. Resetting it would push memorization progress back multiple days.
@@WillisFerguson_ It is over 2,900 pages long, 75,000 pages if you include all the codes and regulations from the irs...yes it needs to be redone and simplified and everyone needs to pay taxes, especially all the foundations and charities. Last year 57% of the population paid no income tax. Let that sink in.
@@MM-te8tz Read what I said again
@@MM-te8tz Well said.
The federal tax code, as we know it, is largely the product of decades of lobbying by myriad corporations and/or special interests. It's, moreover, often selectively enforced.
So yes: It needs an overhaul and soon, to end abusive deferrals and write-offs - as well as to expand the tax base (including bringing in more of that 57% you mentioned).
We can't keep running trillion-dollar deficits indefinitely, and expect to preserve the world's faith in the dollar both on sight and as the reserve currency of choice - our greatest strategic asset as a nation.
The American people have had about ENOUGH of this....
yeah we have had enough of trump, just lock him up already
@@cowfat8547 i could say the same thing about Biden because of political perspective but okay.
@@AndrewDickmeyer You could say it but it would not be true Cletus.
Yup, I know truth hurts that’s why you’re crying enough of this, right 😂🤣Don’t generalize not all American people just you and the retrumplicans 😂🤣
@@AndrewDickmeyer on the other hand Biden didn’t incite an insurrection to overthrow an election… so🤔
Saying that you will investigate a citizen does not imply prejudice.
Real Estate 101...... An appraisal is what someone believes the value to be. The property's actual value is when a BUYER and SELLER come together and exchange instruments of value that can be measured. If no one wants the property, then the value is ZERO, if everyone wants the property, then its value is whatever the Buyer is willing to pay. This is an absolute JOKE for the Democrat DA to go down this road.
Making up fraudulent property values to dodge taxes is very smart because daddy Trump does it. I love how down your earth and populist he is. I hate it when other billionaires defraud us working class people and get away with blatant lies, but when Donald trump does it it’s ok because he says the words that I agree with
What trump did is criminal and you're completely mischaracterizing trump's criminal activity... Trump was specifically and illegally artificially devaluing his properties by $200 Million to cheat his taxes, and at the same time artificially and illegally inflating his property values by doing things such as lying about the square footage of his properties etc... all of this is fraud which is a crime, stop trying to sugar coat it.
Letitia James alleged that there were several properties owned by the Trump Organization which were valued incorrectly in order to appear worth much more money than they actually were.
How much more, exactly? Sometimes by hundreds of millions, according to the investigation.
Here is a look at some of the properties the Trump Organization owns, and how much the attorney general's investigation claimed they were falsely valued at.
SEVEN SPRINGS
The 212-acre Westchester County property was purchased by the Trump Organization in 1995. Nine years later, in 2004, Trump valued the property at $80 million; then in 2007 at $200 million; then in 2012 at $291 million. The basis for the final valuation came from the claim that nine luxurious homes worth a total of $161 million in profit were zoned for the property.
But the attorney general's investigation found two separate, professional appraisers valued the lots at fractions of the price put forward in the financial statement. A March 2016 appraisal valued the property at $56 million, but Trump's subsequent financial statement disguised what would have been an 80 percent loss (from $291 million to $56 million) by moving the property into a different category, where nothing was itemized, according to the investigation.
TRUMP TOWER TRIPLEX
The same category used for even Springs was used for Trump's triplex apartment, which was given a value of $127 million. Valuations done on the Manhattan apartment since 2012 were done based off the claim that the property was 30,000 square feet. In reality, James said, the property was 11,000 square feet - and Trump signed documents in 2012 confirming that number, the attorney general claims.
Financial statesments from 2015 and 2016 still made the claim that the triplex was the much larger size, and valued it at $327 million. But in testimony given to the attorney general's office, Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg said that the apartment's value was overstated by "give or take" $200 million.
TRUMP INTERNATIONAL GOLF CLUB SCOTLAND
When Trump bought the Aberdeen, Scotland, property in 2006, it was valued at $12.6 million - but was valued at $161 million just five years later, the investigation found. That valuation was found not to be professionally determined, but rather based on an email prepared to send to Forbes magazine for a quote.
In 2014, a financial statement by the Trump Organization valued the property at nearly $436 million, basing that off the right to build 2,500 luxury homes on it. But the company had approval to build under 1,500 holiday apartments and golf villas only, James said.
TRUMP INTERNATIONAL GOLF CLUB WESTCHESTER
After purchasing the golf club at $8.5 million, Trump said in a 2011 financial statement that the property was valued at $68 million. A portion of the total reflected initiation fee for 67 unsold memberships to the club, which would be worth nearly $13 million if each membership cost $150,000, the financial statement claimed.
However, the investigation not only found that membership rate to be completely made up, but that many new members paid no deposit whatsoever in 2011, and the Trump Organization showed that no members paid the initiation fee in 2012.
The value of the golf course also included money from the sale of 31 mid-rise units, which the organization said had been "put on hold."
TRUMP PARK AVENUE
Between 2011-2020, Trump Park Avenue represented between $135 million to #30 million of the total assets for Trump, the attorney general's office said - adding that evidence show unsold condos made up the majority of that value, in some cases more than 95 percent of it. For example, the investigation found that the reported value of the building was $311 million, but unsold units residential units made up $293 million of that.
The office of the attorney general said evidence showed the reported values of the unsold units were significantly higher than other internal valuations done by the Trump Organization used for business planning, and also failed to account that many of the units were rent stabilized. For example, Ivanka Trump was renting an apartment, and held an option to purchase it for $8.5 million. That same unit was valued as high as $25 million in financial statements, James said.
40 WALL STREET
The Trump Organization owns what is called a "ground lease" for the property, which means that it owns a leasehold interest in the land and the buildings on the land, but pays rent to the owner.
The attorney general's office said that it obtained evidence showing outside appraisals from 2010-2012 valued Trump's interest in the property at $200-$220 million. At the same time, Trump's financial statements claimed the address' value nearly three times as much ($601 million in 2010, $524 million in 2011, $527 million in 2012), James' office said.
Then in 2015, the attorney general alleges, the Trump Organization valued the property at $550 million as it looked to renegotiate a loan to avoid a $5 million payment. However, Capital One (which held a $160 million mortgage on the property and previously conducted the previous appraisals through real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield) determined the building to be worth $257 million, and decline to renegotiate.
That's when the Trump Organization and CFO Allen Weisselberg began working with his son, Jack, who was a director at a different real estate investment firm. Now employed for the firm where Weisselberg's son worked, the same Cushman & Wakefield team that conducted the earlier appraisals valued the building at $550 million in 2015, according to the investigation. On top of what the attorney general's office said was not a "good-faith assessment of value," Trump inflated the value of 40 Wall Street even further, James said, valuing the building in June 2015 at $735 million.
Yeah. I was thinking the same. Dad has borrowed what was a lot years ago. Had to have an appraisal. Banks aren't stupid when it comes to risk. This seems odd. The bank had to think the value was correct.
Illegal is illegal. Lying is lying.
Leticia James.....your the best
"I'M THE MOST PERSECUTED MAN IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE! THINK ABOUT IT! A BEAUTIFUL, STABLE GENIUS ATTACKED FROM ALL SIDES! THEY RIFLED MELANIAS PANTY DRAWER! I DONT EVEN GET TO DO THAT!"
Pay to play😁
NOT TO MENTION, WHEN I WAS AT YOSIMITE PARK TALKING TO THE PRESIDENT OF PORTO RICO, I SAID HE COULD TRADE PORTO RICO FOR GREENLAND. YOU COULD USE ME TO BROKER THE DEAL. HE SAID I WAS THE PRESIDENT OF PORTO RICO, WHAT.......I SAID ARE YOU SURE....
This is very sick the matter is not even filed in court yet and guys condemned already. I am sick because this is five years already
What????
He will be fine, they’ve tried for years and gained 0 ground. All this stuff does is make his base even stronger and more intense.
I’m not even a hardcore right-winger, and I can see this. Anyone else?
His base is growing smaller. Just like the Tea Party with Bush, many will pretend that they never really supported trump. Rinse and repeat, "I'm a Independent" will garnish their plate of lies
Just curious. IF they find corruption and fraud would it change your mind?
He’s a criminal. Period.
@@sassysarina9718 so why not raid Hunter?
@@sassysarina9718 just curious, if they found nothing, would that change your mind?
What a clown. Never have I seen such a guilty individual. I don’t get how all the righteous people think this man is of good moral character.
he is a double talker. every time he talks, he is lying at least once. Not very moral, is he.
Sounds like you don't like Trump. Do you think Biden is of moral character?
@@gregorybezanson do you think Biden doesn't lie. What about his naval academy speech? What about him being a truck driver. What about his trip to South Africa where he was jailed with Mandella? What about him not discussing Hunters business with him? What about the US not being in recession? What about Putins gas prices?
@@skipperx5116 No politician is of moral character.
Tax Inspector: " So Mr Trump, can you explain how you told Forbes Magazine that you are a Billionaire, worthy of inclusion on their " Rich List " ". " Yet, here on your Tax Returns, You are claiming to be a mere Millionaire ".. ??? :(
Can’t flush this one Down the toilet
"... opposition to federal authority should not be equated to distaste for government coercion and intrusion. As long as the diktat doesn’t emanate from the Potomac, the Republican party is fine with the long arm of the state flexing its muscle." - The Guardian
And the Guardian is nothing but the supporting arm for the middle finger of the left ..the Guardian is a leftist lying rag
This isn’t right!!! What about Biden and his family?!?!? What about the Clintons?!?!?!?
why shouldn’t they also investigate trump for his crimes
@@cowfat8547 Innocent until proven guilty. Or are you living in Russia?
@@kathymelcher5971 I don’t think you understand what an investigation is
Deflect. Deflect. Deflect. Trump is the topic.
@@cowfat8547 I don't think she understands what staying on topic is either.
Only 200 million, that's an easy mistake that could happen to anyone.
Please just promise us to put this guy in jail!!!
For?
Who really knows how Trump mind works. Because he is not like not other presidents has acted in office.
If you want to know how the mind of trump works you absolutely must read The Art of War by Chinese general Sun Tzu. All of his strategy both in business and in politics is based upon it.
Exactly. He acted way better. They're acting how they should have acted about Hillary's servers, or Biden using foreign aid as blackmail to stop Hunter being investigated...
There is plenty of information on how malignant narcissist think.
@@davidkimbrough6048 Bunk. He's just a mobbed up crook.
@@davidkimbrough6048 As stated by Trump's own inner circle, "I don't think he has ever read a book, even his own." If Trump is applying The Art of War, then he is absolutely failing at almost every concept. He might want to try reading it.
"'Anyone being investigated by the FBI is not qualified to be the president of the United States" -Donald Trump tweet from 2016
DONALD IS ONE OF THEM...FBI NEEDS TO CHECK DON JR HOUSE AND INVANKA & ERIC
Followes his pattern, Crooked
How is this any worse than any other gov official have done and gotten away with it.
Who?
If we live in a non-racist society I would love the black judge to judge over Donald Trump what comes around goes around
All these attacks are making the MAG movement even bigger.
lol no trump’s popularity is as low as ever
Keep dem Maga tears rollin
You're right about that. My father never admits that he's wrong and yesterday he sent me a voicemail saying after what happened at Mar-A-Lago he finally believes everything I've been telling him about the deep state.
MAGA is on the decline...
"The Mob takes the 5th. If you're innocent why are you taking the 5th Amendment?" -DJT Sept. 28th 2016
Corinne Ramey says that the lawsuit could drag on for years and eventually be settled financially, but she misses an important point. AG James could file a lawsuit that contains evidence of crimes. Once she makes such a filing in court and it is public information, the Manhattan DA and the Feds can use that information to file criminal charges. That will be a shorter process, and it could lead to Trump being indicted in a few months.
Unfortunately there will be no evidence of crimes in anything they took from Mara Lago.
This will have the same outcome as the bs Russia investigation
@@SusanKay- the AG's office may be looking for new employees after this blows up in their face, Trump's exonerated and decides to run again (because of the raid) and wins a second term.
It would make my heart glad to see you and yours spend another four years in melt down mode.
@@SusanKay- lol aww keep telling yourselves that! It’s only been 6 years worth of baseless allegations, but maybe THIS time they’ll finally arrest mean orange man right sweetheart??
"Only mobster's plea the fifth"
Can you say IRS Lois Lerner I bet you can't... the 5th my u no what....
If he wasn’t running for 2024 would you even care????
But he is.
Yes, but He is not running, He is teasing for $queezing
It's obvious the dude's guilty. He's still going to get away with it.
You can't run through a camp site. You can only ran, because it's past tents.
The stink of desperation on the Democrats is suffocating.
The stink of criminality and cowardice on trump gags me buddy.
FOR REAL! It’s pathetic
At the end of this Trump may have to pay more money in taxes. They of course dont explain that up front.
Perjury, too.
@@martykayzee8398 perjury is lying under oath. When has he ever been under oath to lie?
@@Ministry-Of-Truth His lawyers are at least smart enough to know he would probably perjure himself with in minutes of basic testimony.
@@Ministry-Of-Truth ~ At Least he lied when he took the oath of office to uphold the Constitution, plus, lying on a loan application is considered fraud for which he will soon be charged and tried. Will he take the stand to defend himself under oath?
Other democractic pArty fund raiser (rich people laughing 😂😂 and say we licks boots )
Why did Cohen go to jail for tRump's crimes?
No one is above the law.
Omg!!! After all this, THIS IS WHAT THEY COOKED UP??? For the love of God!!!
This has nothing to do with the raid.
He’s a criminal 😂
He'll be OK, just keep that recurring donation going.
Smorgasbord
@@Amanda-Renee Can you cute the charges he has received from a judge and state where he served his time in prison? Please be factual and cite the sources.
I love the innocent until proven guilty in our country!
Oh, wait, not for us only for them.
Well last I checked he isn't in jail..... Unlike a lot of people who haven't been convicted and have been awaiting trial for months....
I paid more in income tax than this cheap hood did last year. $750? Jeez. What a farce.
are we saying that US banks are not appraising property on application of loans? and that in the US its easy to get money than the actual worth of the property? same thing as is US taxation that bad that you can deflate your assets during taxation without any verification of the documents presented? I dont know much about property taxes but is it common sense that you pay tax based on your land or property title which is surveyed and measured by the city assessors office? and any tax exemption you file should always have to be approved by tax office?
Regrettably, there aren't near enough police to catch every crook. Happens in the best of countries. Trump pretty much advertises his wrong-doing and now the law has caught up to him.
This movie is going to be soooo good. Maybe we need a series🤔 we need 4 seasons 10 episodes at an hour each. Because this is getting good 🍿
SIS I SAID THE SAME THING!!!!! GONNA B GOOD!!! I’M PUTTING IT OUT THERE, I WANT TO B PART OF THIS MOVIE CREW!!!!!
What movie????
It can be called "the Many, Many Trials of Donald Trump"
lol just watch the four year highlight reel of this dude. He is the biggest fool ever to be in office... EVER.
If he announced in 2021 he was retiring from politics and public life
None of this would be happening
2022 2024
Why would he do that? Haha. All he has to do is breath and he's on the news all day every day.
So the killer that took out 20 folks says he is retiring...that automatically makes it okay? He said he was done and retired so hes off the hook for taking out those 20 folks? Makes no sense. Everyone is accountable for their actions. Period.
So all the unknown thousands of people who aren’t running for office are investigated for their crimes because…..???
Let’s be clear, the party of “Law and Order” don’t care what crimes Trump commits and actually demand that he get away with it under threat of civil war. Truly astounding. American Patriots.
Mate, he has blood on his hands and I agree with the fact he shouldn't be allowed to run in '24 or '22
What about Hunter? A serial criminal?
TAXES deduction ??? You Must kidding with American Taxpayer!!!!
Every Real Estate Developer in the Country would be in prison if this were the standard. Witch Hunt.
muh witch hunt
God bless AG L.James .!
ON THE POSSSITIVE NOTE, NOW WE ARE PAYING ATTENTION OF WHOM WE VOTE FOR..
Bury the sob. The adults in this country are going to prevail over the children over age 25.
"Taking the fifth, that's disgraceful". --DJT
Still living rent free
So what. None of this is a crime.
No one above the law
The Biden's are!
wherever this guy goes, whatever he touches, turns into chaos. As a republican, I'm sick of it
What about hunter investigations?
@Sheps what about da BIG GUY
Mafia heads did the same in the past and we all saw how those stories ended.It only worked for Vito Corleone but this isn't a movie.
GET your hopes way up corporate voters. No lawsuits no chance.
The 'Mob Boss' takes the 5th...Just like the Mob always does...Indict him now because he is guilty
Right after they indict Hillary, Joe and Hunter. We'll make it a party. 🎉
I find it impossible to believe that assessments by third parties would not be held in such transactions. Please address this statement directly WSJ if you’re not peddling a narrative which has zero substance.
All of this and not once did WSJ mention the Trump vs Clinton RICO lawsuit that was filed in March.
I don't think I've ever heard of anyone who had more potential charges against them and more civil lawsuits than Donald Trump. The talking lemurs who constitute his supporters seem unable to deal with this or to cognate it in any kind of rational fashion.
Imagine if your country lets him get away with it. god bless you America, but you are letting the far right kill you.
How is it legal for his lawyer to speak out against him?
"Former" lawyer. He went to jail for lying and covering up for Trump/Trump org.
I guess he was scared
As someone who spent years financing commercial real estate this case is awfully fishy. The tax value of a property is always lower than the market value. Plus a bank doesn’t care what the developer thinks his property is worth. He could say $1 trillion for all they care. They go off the appraised value. Developers always think their properties are worth more than what they probably are. That’s not fraud it’s bias toward your asset.
Can you elaborate more?I bit confuse. One of the properties mentioned he said a value based on 30,000 sqf but it was actually 10,000 sqf. Wouldn't that be fraud?
Knowingly lieing to getting loans larger then necessary is where it crosses a threshold to fruad.
So what about the lying about the square feet of the building. I guess that's ownership bias as well 😆 🤣 😂
@@THISDICFOO it’s not going to stand in court, If you’re suggesting that it will.
It's not a lie if you believe it.... it's funny you defend tRUMP not knowing why he was even raided and tRUMP pleads the 5th
TRUE
Why isn’t my state going over Trump property?
We need a change in our government now! This is not a country you want to live in
So you’d rather live in a world where political officials are above the law?🤔
Europe has many countries to choose from. Some might say you should never have been here to begin with.
@@jeffsimpson1421 is it the same ? I don't see any difference here at all. If you look back at Biden Jr record dates(if FBI dared to show them) he should be in prison. But yes, I understand, laws changed. Isn't that making the same ?
LOL
@@tonywilliams1771 Niceeeeeeeee
Comparing and contrasting other properties at the same time and place, what was the difference? How much of a depreciation or overvalued the properties were? Again Vis-à-vis other properties (at the time), what was the difference? It gives perspective.
Are you drunk?
tens of millions of dollars in some cases. He valued the same exact property up and then down and then back up again when it suited his needs (up for loan applications, down for tax filings, and then back again the next time)
@@xiaoka One can assume the prosecution can make a stronger case if other properties near or next to his can be compared in price flux.
That’s tuff
They were looking for the"Binder" as mentioned on TRunews (08/10)
" That was more than a mistake. That was done purposely. OK? That was not a mistake. That was done purposely. When you have your staff taking the Fifth Amendment, taking the Fifth so they’re not prosecuted, when you have the man that set up the illegal server taking the Fifth, I think it’s disgraceful. And believe me, this country thinks it’s -- really thinks it’s disgraceful"
Donald Trump today.
🦗 I plead the fifth.
Completely different situation. He wasn't referring to a political witch hunt.