'From the horse's mouth': Legal expert says Trump already admitted to fraud
A document from The Mazars exposed in Donald Trump's fraud trial for his Trump Organization has a damning message at the top reading "DJT to get final review." The document in question was a financial statement from 2014 that declared Trump was worth $3.4 billion in assets and cash.
According to New York Timesinvestigative reporter Susanne Craig, who has followed Trump's financial problems for years, the note directly links Trump to the fraud.
"It wasn't a great day in a lot of not-great days for Donald Trump and the Trump Organization," said Craig. "And, you know, Donald Trump has really tried to distance himself from this. He has said that he has an army of accountants and lawyers who look at these things. And I always think it's interesting. With the Trump Organization, you hear on the one hand they're a mom-and-pop organization, very tightly run from the top down to the point where Donald Trump, up until the time he went to the White House, was signing every check that went out the door."
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But when it suits them, she continued, they're too large to know what's going on.
Legal analyst Lisa Rubin said that while the document is great, Trump has already admitted to his involvement.
Speaking to MSNBC on Wednesday, Rubin quoted from his testimony on the stand, in which Andrew Amer conducted the examination and asks, "Is it correct you had reviewed the statements of financial condition in each of the years from 2011 to 2017 before it became final?"
Trump answered: "Yeah, I would look at them."
"So, you had it from the horse's mouth," said Rubin. "You didn't need Jeff McConney and his handwriting, and the attorney general confronting him with things that put, sort of, a wrench in the narrative about blame it on Mazars. Donald Trump is willing to admit it himself when he took the stand."
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