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WATCH Eric Trump Almost Burst Into Tears During An Interview With Sean Hannity

Things are falling apart for the Trump family, and the stress of multiple investigations — paired with news that the Trump Organization’s longtime accounting firm has dumped the company and declared Trump Org’s financial filings are a lie — led Eric Trump go to on Sean Hannity’s show Monday evening and whine about how bad things are.

At a couple of points during the discussion, Eric even looked like he might start weeping at any moment.

Rather than defend his father and the Trump Organization, Eric Trump used deflection, suggesting that Hillary Clinton needs to be under investigation:

“Where are the prosecutors right now? You know, the same prosecutors, they’ll go after my father every single day for nothing, right? Just because they want to disqualify him because he’s clearly the front runner for 2024.

“Where are those prosecutors? Hillary Rodham Clinton is a New York resident. Let me just kind of break that down for you. She lives in Chappaqua, New York and guess where Trump Tower is located is located? It’s located on Fifth Avenue in New York. Where are these prosecutors? Where is the DA? Isn’t that a federal – Isn’t that a, you know, isn’t that fraud? Isn’t that all sorts of offenses?”

Seconds later, the ex-president’s son asked Hannity:

“Where’s Letitia James in this whole thing? Is she just gonna ignore this because Hillary happens to be in her political party?”

The “whole thing” Eric is referring to is a court filing by Special Counsel John Durham which right-wing media is attempting to prove is a smoking gun that proves Hillary was spying on Trump. Problem is, there’s nothing in that filing that suggests such a thing, as Dean Obeidallah noted on Twitter:

Attorney Marcy Wheeler also explained what a giant nothing burger the Durham filing is during an appearance on MSNBC Tuesday morning:

“One of the things [Durham] revealed in that, which I have heard from other people is this claim that Rodney Joffe was accessing data from the White House. All of that data precedes Trump’s inauguration, so you have Trump out there calling for these people to be put to death when really what happened is Rodney Joffe was trying to keep [then-president] Barack Obama safe from hackers. That’s all it is. That’s why Trump wants these people killed, Durham knows that.”

Poor Eric. He can sense that the walls are closing in on him, his father and two of his siblings, Don Jr. and Ivanka. So he’s lashing out and getting all weepy. He’d do better to keep his mouth shut and let his attorneys handle the matter. Instead, he’s giving prosecutors even more ammunition they can use against him and his family.

 

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Trump’s Longtime Accounting Firm Says His Financial Statements Are Bogus

Donald Trump and the Trump Organization’s longtime accounting firm has dropped him as a client because they say statements of his financial condition cannot be “relied upon.”

CNBC reports the news came in a court filing on Monday:

The accounting firm Mazars has fired the Trump Organization as a client after saying that a decade’s worth of statements of ex-President Donald Trump’s financial condition “should no longer be relied upon,” the New York Attorney General’s office revealed in a court filing Monday.

Mazars, which for years prepared Trump’s income tax returns and financial statements used to obtain loans for his company, told the Trump Organization’s top lawyer Alan Garten that it would no longer represent the company due to the lack of reliability of the financial statements in a letter last Wednesday.

The letter was cited by AG Letitia James’ office on Monday as it asked a state judge to order the Trump Organization, Donald Trump Jr. and his sister Ivanka Trump, and others to comply with subpoenas seeking documents and testimony.

Mazars also noted in their letter:

The firm said it based on its decision about the past work’s reliability, “as well as the totality of circumstances, we have also reached the point such that there is a non-waivable conflict of interest with the Trump Organization.”

The information from the accounting firm would seem to confirm accusations made against the Trump Organization that Trump and his company have repeatedly inflated the value of their assets in order to obtain larger loans which they then devalued when it came time to pay taxes.

Attorney Luppe B. Luppen had this to say about the move by Mazars:

“The determination by Mazars that Trump’s financial statements over a full decade are not reliable through no fault of its own amounts to a declaration that it has been repeatedly misled by its client.”

 

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Trump Said To Be ‘Mortified’ Of The Revelations In A New Book That Lays Out His Crimes

Everywhere he looks, failed one-term former President Donald Trump sees only trouble, be it legal, political, or financial.

And now things are about to get much worse for the ex-president, as an upcoming book from Maggie Haberman of the New York Times is already revealing a potential crime Trump committed when he allegedly flushed official White House documents down the commode while still in office.

The book, which will be released in October (right before the midterm elections), is one that Trump is reportedly “terrified” and “mortified” will expose his most serious crimes, according to former Trump administration communications aide Alyssa Farah, who was a guest host on “The View.”

Farah said she remains in touch with people who have close ties to Trump:

“I still talk to some folks in Trumpworld, the ones who have not engaged in criminality. The former president is terrified of Maggie Haberman’s book. This is the first big anecdote, but there is quite a bit more to come.

“She’s covered him for decades. He’s scared of that. He is mortified.”

Additionally, Farah addressed the issue of Trump’s alleged destruction of government documents, which is a federal crime:

“What’s interesting to me is I’m, like, what would be on those documents that you would be, like, this has to go down the toilet? That’s the question I think we’re all dying to know the answer to, but let me say this. I have to say as a Republican, I hold a top-secret security clearance. I know how to handle classified information. It was wrong when Hillary Clinton destroyed classified federal documents and it’s absolutely wrong when Donald Trump does. I’m just shocked he went a step further, not just bleaching it, but sticking it down the toilet which is something else.”

Trump’s reaction to what Clinton did was to chant “lock her up” at the 2016 Republican National Convention and then chide the former secretary of state at their debates, telling her if he was president she’d already be under arrest.

Now, however, karma has come to pay a call on Donald Trump. And if anyone deserves to be locked up, it’s the Grifter Supreme.

Here’s video of Farah on “The View”

 

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Trump Facing Disqualification From Running For POTUS For Destroying White House Records

Thanks to some excellent reporting from the Washington Post, we now know that failed, one-term, twice-impeached former President Donald Trump often ripped up official government documents, which is prohibited by law.

According to the Post:

President Donald Trump tore up briefings and schedules, articles and letters, memos both sensitive and mundane.

He ripped paper into quarters with two big, clean strokes — or occasionally more vigorously, into smaller scraps.

He left the detritus on his desk in the Oval Office, in the trash can of his private West Wing study and on the floor aboard Air Force One, among many other places.

And he did it all in violation of the Presidential Records Act, despite being urged by at least two chiefs of staff and the White House counsel to follow the law on preserving documents.

While Trump did indeed violate federal law with his actions, he may also have guaranteed that he can never run for any federal office again, according to presidential historian Michael Beschloss, who cited the law on Twitter:

Here’s what the law says:

“Subsection (b) of 18 U.S.C. § 2071 contains a similar prohibition specifically directed at custodians of public records. Any custodian of a public record who ‘willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys (any record) shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.’ While the range of acts proscribed by this subsection is somewhat narrower than subsection (a), it does provide the additional penalty of forfeiture of position with the United States.”

So could Trump be prosecuted and banned from ever holding office? Hayes Brown of MSNBC doesn’t think so, explaining in an op-ed:

“If federal prosecutors were to go after him for this specifically, they’d be challenged to prove that this isn’t targeting him with a charge they wouldn’t bring against anyone else. Given the number of people who purposefully or accidentally walk off or mishandle federal records, and the lack of prosecutions over it, that feels unlikely.”

Fair enough, but it’s worth bookmarking the law in question and keeping in mind we may well need a way to prevent Trump from running again in 2024. Considering that he’s facing indictment in New York, Georgia, and as a result of a possible criminal referral from the House Select Committee on January 6, there are plenty of reasons to believe Trump has no intent of running. But if we happen to need a stopgap measure, this might be it.

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Trump Is About To Be Indicted In New York On Charges Of Racketeering: Report

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has written extensively about failed, one-term former President Donald Trump said Saturday on MSNBC that the ex-president is about to be indicted in New York on charges of racketeering.

According to David Kay Johnston, the charges will come from the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr., who has been investigating Trump for allegedly misleading lenders and tax officials about the real value of his properties.

Johnston told host Yasmin Vossoughian:

“I anticipate they’re going to bring a racketeering charge against Trump. Certainly Trump’s team, when he’s indicted, and I’m certain he will be indicted, is going to try to lay the blame on everybody else, and so what the prosecutors want to show that is if (Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer) Allen Weisselberg phonied up documents, it was at the direction of Donald Trump.”

Vossoughian asked if Johnston was certain about his reporting, to which he replied:

“Oh, yeah. They would not have done all of this and know how much they know … if they weren’t going to to do this. Yeah, they will indict him. Exactly when? I don’t know. I don’t expect it will be on a straight tax charge. I think there will be a tax charge, but the key charge will be racketeering.”

Johnston also laid out what will happen once an indictment is handed down against Trump:

“Once he’s indicted, Trump will have to surrender himself to be booked. I’m sure he will be released on his own recognizance, and then we will see a campaign of trying to delay trial. You will see Donald say, ‘This is corrupt, the prosecutors are corrupt, the police are corrupt, the auditors are corrupt,’ because that’s what Roy Cohn taught him when he was a young man — accuse law enforcement, and then delay, delay, delay.”