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Journalist Tim O’Brien, who saw Trump’s taxes, thinks the Trump accountant will now open a DA investigation
Tim O’Brien of Bloomberg, one of the few journalists who saw tax returns from former President Donald Trump, told Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC on Thursday night that he will sleep better now than the Manhattan district attorney, Cy Vance, finally has eight years of Trump’s financial documents, from 2011 to 2019. Trump “is very afraid of what is in those documents, I think,” because they put him at serious criminal risk, said O’Brien, but he didn’t is the only one involved. O’Brien went on to explain why he thinks it is likely that Trump’s chief accountant, Allen Weisselberg, will shake up Trump. “What we really need to focus on here is that it’s not just the tax records that Cy Vance has now,” said O’Brien. “He probably has reams and reams of the accountant’s work product. This is a criminal case, they will need to prove criminal intent on the part of Trump, his three oldest children, Allen Weisselberg, and anyone else in the Trump Organization who fell under the parameters of this investigation. And if there is e-mail and notes and other communication records about what they intended to do when they increased the value of the buildings so that they could get loans against them, then they changed and emptied the value of the buildings so that they could pay lower taxes on them, and there is communication about it prior to any of these tax entries, which is gold for a prosecutor. “A few hours earlier, O’Brien told Nicolle Wallace of MSNBC that the specific eight years of documents that Vance’s team has “are important, because they predate Trump’s rise to the White House and I think it helps to build the narrative around the money trail and the Trump’s motivations for his destructive and obscene dance with people like Vladimir Putin. It’s a shame that they couldn’t come back anymore – I think this is one of the tragic flaws in Robert Mueller’s investigation, he could have gone further, I think, than Cy Vance is capable of in Trump’s finances. “O’Brien also pointed out that the investigation involves at least Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump, and” also targets people within the Trump Organization who can report Trump if they are exposed to criminal liability “, but” the bronze ring on all that is, if Trump has a criminal conviction, he will not be able to run for president again, and that is also hanging over all of that. “More stories from theweek.comJosh Hawley, Senator NoHusband of Hitler, the Republican Congresswoman parked her truck with the militia in front of the Capitol, January 6. Ta-Nehisi Coates is writing a new Superman movie