The former daughter-in-law of Allen Weisselberg said on Thursday that she believes the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization whom she has known for years, will flip as investigators dig deeper into his personal and financial dealings.
At what point does the Biden administration start to view all these investigations, looming trials, recriminations, and everything else generated by the Trump crime family to be a distraction and liability to their agenda? And if that is a viewpoint they hold, or will come to hold, will Biden or someone lean on NY and the DOJ to turn the boil down on it all and somehow just make it go away?
I certainly hope the answer is NEVER
This is why it’s so significant that the investigation is being spearheaded by the New York State Attorney General’s office. Sure, the MAGA crew will whine and say that “Democrats” are persecuting the two-time loser of the Presidential popular vote, but that won’t really stick to the Biden Administration or require them to expend political capital.
I was naive enough to think an indicted or convicted criminal could never attain the Presidency, but I’ve been disabused of that quaint notion.
Trump’s play is probably two-fold: to stoke violence against the prosecution team, and if that fails, to drag things out long enough so he can run, and perhaps win the Presidency to pardon himself. And, yes, I’ve also been disabused of the idea you can’t self-pardon, because you clearly can when you’re a Republican president.
Something tells me, though, he won’t pardon Weisselberg. Something for him to mull over.
I cannot speak for the “organization” and its CFO…but I do know about one man.
That man has never encountered a setback he couldn’t whine about.
That man has never deviated from cowardice when faced with adversity.
That man is Donald John Trump.
Are you suggesting that the Biden administration should do what the Trump administration did, i.e. corrupt and interfere in the workings of the DOJ and the legal system for political purposes?? What??
I would rather see a Biden distraction than the one hundred inevitable Republican distractions as the case proceeds.
Bernie Madoff got real quiet after he landed in prison and his death last month hardly made a ripple. That’s my idea of hell for Fat Donnie.
There is some political advantage to pro-actively dealing with it, too.
Biden needs to look like what Trump did to all of us really matters still.
It does.
The Feds need to keep an iron in this fire somehow, so we know they recognize just how dangerous it got and how bad it can get again if we don’t deal honestly and openly and aggressively with the racists and supremacists at EVERY level.
They (Biden’s DOJ) can pick their battles carefully, but they really need to keep a very mean dog in the fight that shows the rest of us they understand how we feel.
Well this is something I haven’t read yet. Allen has two sons, Barry is the youngest and worked for Trump, while the oldest Weisselberg Jack works for Ladder-Capital as a loan-originator executive.
So is this something that is being investigated?
Also the part where Jennifer said that the tuition was only good for that school. And who paid the tuition for Jennifer’s other child?
If they put him in the Epstein cell you know something is up.
Stevie is just being cynical this morning. Not enough coffee.
Since when is Justice political?
I mean the virtue, not the department.
The definition of the word itself precludes politicization.
If Justice is served, who can be faulted by anyone but the bitter guilty?
This is some odd sort of contrived political correctness.
Justice doesn’t need caveats, conjured up to protect politicians from the disapproval of the guilty.
@khyber900 has mentioned witness tampering by Trump to be a possibility. I would like to add that thought to my last post.
I don’t see where “should” is even implied in my rumination. The best of people can fall victim to political expediency. And the backroom where the deals are getting done and the knives are out, and the arguing and arm twisting is intense, is an ugly scene that sees a lot of high minded moral approaches and intentions gutted and bled out on the floor. In the improbable scenario where McConnell and McCarthy say to Biden “See to it Trump is left alone and we’ll push through your infrastructure and economic assistance bills, intact.” what does Biden do?
Count the ways. Those open crimes were so exposed, we all saw it as it happened.
More than once he did it publicly in a TV interview, and even more often on Twitter.
Expose it very publicly.
Do it like a sting operation, lure them into lying and wheeling and dealing to save Trump’s fat orange ass, then play the tape for The People.
Just a thought.
Actually, it isn’t Trump’s ass they care about its his assholes.
From her lips to god’s ear and social media accounts.