All posts tagged "Smoking Gun"

Former President Donald Trump's niece Mary Trump explained in her Substack Wednesday why a five-word "note from hell" written by the Trump Organization's top accountant could cost her uncle everything in the civil fraud trial in New York.

"A scribbled note said to have been written by former Trump Organization Comptroller Jeffrey McConney reads: 'DJT TO GET FINAL REVIEW.' The note appears on a document that allegedly exaggerated Donald’s net worth by $3.5 billion, and contained expansive evidence of fraud," wrote Mary Trump, herself a professional psychologist. "I shared this evidence with attorney Joe Gallina of Call to Activism, who said, 'I can’t think of a bigger smoking gun than one that says – in all caps – 'DONALD TRUMP MUST APPROVE THIS' on a document riddled with fraud.'"

The problem for the former president and his adult sons, who are currently on trial for exaggerating and manipulating the value of their assets, is that their primary defense is that they simply followed their accountants' advice — and this piece of evidence would directly contradict that....

Donald Trump was handed a target letter on Sunday informing him that he was likely to be charged with violating several statutes around the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Addressing the issue on Thursday, MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace aired clips of the House Select Committee hearings that uncovered enormous evidence around the goings on in the White House on Jan. 6.

Former J6 lead investigator Timothy Heaphy said everything he's seen in the target letter backs up the committee's findings. ...