Anthony Scaramucci briefly served as White House Communications Director in the Trump administration and has known failed ex-president Donald Trump for many years, and he says he knows his former boss is worried and even terrified of what the outcome will be in the New York business and election fraud case currently being deliberated by a jury.
On Wednesday, Trump said during a court break that “Mother Teresa could not beat these charges,” which led Scaramucci to note:
“If you see that accordion move that he’s doing right there, that’s a nervous tic of his.”
“And so, when he gets upset, he always goes to the accordion move and so that that’s a tell that he’s bummed out.”
Scaramucci added he’s “pretty confident” that Trump has been told by his attorneys that his chances of being acquitted of the charges against him are slim to none, which he suspects has badly rattled the former head of state.
“And so I think he’s preparing his base and he’s preparing himself, mentally, for a potential guilty [verdict]… if he gets off, then he’s better than Mother Teresa.”
Jury deliberations could take days and we may not have a verdict until next week.
Already facing massive legal problems for his role in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol and illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort, failed former president Donald Trump is now accused of shaking down a partner in his failing social media venture, Truth Social.
The Washington Post took a deep dive into why Truth Social is sinking into financial morass and discovered that the ex-president wanted a top executive at the site to hand over some of his shares to former first lady Melania Trump.
Will Wilkerson, then an executive at former president Donald Trump’s start-up Trump Media & Technology Group, was at a Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,coffee shop with company co-founder Andy Litinsky last October when Trump called Litinsky with a question: Would he give up some of his shares to Trump’s wife, Melania?
Trump Media, the owner of the fledgling social network Truth Social, had just been boosted by a huge merger agreement and a flood of investment that had made the stake worth millions of dollars. Trump had already been given 90 percent of the company’s shares in exchange for the use of his name and some minor involvement, leaving everyone else to split the rest.
Litinsky tried to brush it off, telling Trump “the gift would have meant a huge tax bill he couldn’t pay,” Wilkerson said in an interview. “Trump didn’t care. He said, ‘Do whatever you need to do.’ ”
A few months after Litinsky refused to do as Trump had suggested, he was unceremoniously removed from the company’s board of directors, which certainly sounds like retaliation for not doing what the Donald wanted.
Though Litinsky has not spoken publicly about the incident, Wilkerson has and is now cooperating with prosecutors who are taking a close look at Truth Social, according toThe Post.
Wilkerson is cooperating with investigations into Trump Media by the SEC and federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York, said his attorneys, Phil Brewster, Patrick Mincey and Stephen Bell. Among the materials he filed with the SEC’s whistleblower office is a detailed, day-to-day computer log compiled by company co-founder Wes Moss, Litinsky and Wilkerson about their daily company-related activities.
Those investigations could serve as the end of Truth Social, which is already on the verge of financial collapse, as Trump and his partners cannot access more operating capital as long as federal regulators suspect illegal behavior by top excutives.
Wilkerson now says he believes Truth Social will fail, like so many of Trump’s business ventures have:
“We weren’t trying to be Trump Org 2.0. We always saw Trump as the rocket fuel to send this thing to space. I wanted this to succeed more than anything. … But these are glaring issues, and they’re threatening me now for calling them out. I couldn’t stay quiet anymore.”
During a rally in Mesa, Arizona on Sunday that was held in the middle of a dirt field, disgraced, one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump admitted that he did indeed steal classified documents before he left office.
Specifically, Trump told his supporters:
“I had a small number of boxes in storage… There is no crime. They should give me immediately back everything they have taken from me because it’s mine.”
Trump: I had a small number of boxes in storage… There is no crime. They should give me immediately back everything they have taken from me because it’s mine. pic.twitter.com/nSR2MjmAMk
In legal terms, what Trump said is considered to be a “summation exhibit,” which means the evidence came directly from the suspect. It’s a bit like being questioned by the police and flat-out telling them you did indeed commit the crime. At that point, all that’s left for prosecutors is the paperwork.
Legal experts were stunned by Trump’s admission of guilt, and they noted the Justice Department now has exactly what they need to indict, put on trial, and convict the disgraced ex-president.
Former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann, who served as a prosecutor during the Russiagate investigation, explained:
“This is what we call a summation exhibit. Proof from the defendant’s own mouth. And on video.”
This is what we call a summation exhibit. Proof from the defendant’s own mouth. And on video. https://t.co/896a89GJdj
— Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)🌻 (@AWeissmann_) October 10, 2022
Former special counsel Ryan Goodman echoed Weissmann:
“There is more than ample evidence to indict Trump for crimes listed in the FBI search warrant. The question will come down to aggravating factors for Garland DOJ to consider. Outrageous, open defiance of the law —like this — must surely rank high among those factors.”
There is more than ample evidence to indict Trump for crimes listed in the FBI search warrant.
The question will come down to aggravating factors for Garland DOJ to consider.
Outrageous, open defiance of the law — 👇like this 👇— must surely rank high among those factors. https://t.co/KXQgQlpJzc