A senior Trump Organization official has testified before a state grand jury in an ongoing criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump and his family business, according to multiple reports.
Oh, please, please, please, please be the smoking gun that takes down the T**** crime family.
I once heard or read about a lawyer who introduced himself to the court this way: “I’m relatively new to this case, Your Honor. I’ve only been working on it for five years.” The wheels do grind slowly. But every day they grind is a day Trump sweats and worries and does himself physical and psychological harm. Be patient, folks. Let the bad guys worry and be of good cheer yourselves. 
Several things that I have to keep reminding myself about Donald J Trump and the Trump Org. is that it’s a small operation, how many employees, well that’s question I’d like to know. Then there is the fact that Donald J Trump apparently invokes loyalty from his employees. Which with the stories of former employees and their description of working in that atmosphere of chaos, I just can’t understand.
We all know from reporting that Weisselberg has been in picture for decades, first with Fred, and now Donald. But this controller has been their for 30 years, why? Either Donald hired incompetent people and Allen controls all financials, or Donald isn’t as clueless as we are led to believe. I’m having a very hard time reconciling these two concepts, as in how Donald knows how do all the financial chicanery, but is clueless in all other human interactions.
If one can put aside Trump’s so-called celebrity, his past business life, and his self-serving politics, at the root and at his core he is an awful human being. He totally lacks any redeeming value, and I am being charitable. He started as a spoiled child, and is now that plus possessing a criminal mind and totally selfish instincts.
I found reading Michael Cohen’s book interesting on this very subject. He describes how he was excitedly brought into the fold and how it worked. Trump wasn’t clueless but rather demanded that certain things happen and please don’t bother him with the details. Cohen was loyal to the max until the end when such loyalty was going to make his family suffer and Cohen finally figured out what Donald really thought of him. I often think that if Trump had just given Cohen a job in Washington, a lot of what happened between them would not have. You have to put in the back of your brain that Cohen is a bit self-serving in the book but it sure was revealing of the Trump Org. dynamic.
I think Trump is pretty good at cheating but not so hot at legit deals. However, I’m not sure he is so good at cheating that he covered it up well. Now that the spotlight is on him, things are spilling out into the light that they all thought were lost and forgotten. To be honest, how hard is it to make money if you don’t pay your creditors? Yet he seemed to lose money on even those deals.
I think you just described how a socio/psychopath, like so many corporate minds are; full of themselves and unable to be self reflective.
Seems like pretty good news. Still going to wait and see but karma maybe about to hit the Trump crime family. I will enjoy it.
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But every day they grind is a day tRUMP sweats and worries and does himself IN physical and psychological
Saying it bigly good, TPMers!!
Special guest appearances by Rudy and Roger?
I’m not sure how this indicates that he has “flipped.”
He was subpoenaed to testify. And NY Law grants the immunity, not the Grand Jury or the DA.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/nyregion/trump-organization-investigation-allen-weisselberg.html
The decision to subpoena Mr. McConney, who has worked at the company for nearly 35 years, suggests that the examination of Mr. Weisselberg’s conduct has reached a new phase, with the grand jury hearing evidence about him.
Under state law, witnesses such as Mr. McConney who appear before the grand jury are granted immunity on the subject of their testimony. They cannot exercise their Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer questions on the grounds that they might incriminate themselves. (If they lie, they still can be prosecuted for perjury.)
I see the Reserved-Seat Gang (TPM commenters) are here to opine.
And revel…
I’m in
He’s not worried at all.
He has pressed conservative commentators and writers to echo his claims that the election was rigged. His focus has intensified in recent weeks, coinciding with the empaneling of a special grand jury by Cyrus Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, into his businesses.
The small core I think is about 20 or so. Ridiculously small. I think he gets people young and dazzles them with working for a celebrity billionaire. He gives them perks, but in such a way that they go up in a puff of smoke, if they ever leave his employ. Like the upscale apartment, the private school tuition and meanwhile, Trump can claim those as tax write-offs and not salary.
I think it’s a promise of future riches, closeness to celebrity and vast money and then you put his narcissistic personalty disorder on top of that, demanding obeisance and there you go.
I believe he knows how to cheat the system, but makes almost no attempt to cover it up. Like when he paid a $250,000 court fine from his charity, which is blatantly illegal.
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