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2021-07-03 Home Front: Politix
Trump Organization indictments are a travesty of justice
[NYPOST] It’s a travesty, not a triumph: Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance’s long-running investigation (with New York Attorney General Letitia James) into the Trump Organization just produced ... indictments for minor offenses that almost never bring criminal charges.

But this is Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
(well, his company), so normal standards didn’t apply.

The company’s chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, walked in on his own — yet the prosecutors made a show of handcuffing him and walking him down a hall crowded with news hounds.

Vance acquired years of Trump Organization tax records, yet all he’s found is an alleged failure to pay proper taxes on corporate perks like cars, tuition and apartments. Any other company and it’s a civil suit, an audit, perhaps a hefty fine.

If Vance had any evidence suggesting serious fraud (as press leaks long suggested), he’d have included them already. MSNBC hosts and blue-checked Twitter are slobbering that the CFO will cut a deal and reveal the real crimes. Why hasn’t he flipped yet, they yell. Maybe because there’s nothing to flip on?

When it comes to Trump, liberals are giving Wile E. Coyote a bad name. We’ll get him this time! Just you wait!
Posted by Fred 2021-07-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 This is why Trump was elected. US politics became swmp water full of snakes, alligators and bull frogs.
Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-07-03 00:15||   2021-07-03 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Don't make NY State your headquarters: taxes too high and partisan "law"
Posted by magpie 2021-07-03 00:18||   2021-07-03 00:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Derek Chauvin's conviction is a travesty of justice. The murder trial of the guy in Texas who shot a BLM threatening him with AK-47, is a a travesty of justice.
Trump Organization indictments are a fart in a glass of water.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-07-03 04:57||   2021-07-03 04:57|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ Second that.
Posted by Dron66046 2021-07-03 05:02||   2021-07-03 05:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Banana Republic is not just a clothing store.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-07-03 08:16||   2021-07-03 08:16|| Front Page Top

#6 So Trump does business for decades with the New York-New Jersey construction industry -- which I understand is not operated by the Little Sisters of the Poor -- and this is what four years of investigation by a highly motivated federal prosecutor turns up? Trump must be entitled to some sort of merit badge for being the most thoroughly investigated man in history.
Posted by Matt 2021-07-03 09:56||   2021-07-03 09:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Definite scraping of the barrel's bottom; if multiple tax jurisdictions missed an extremely minor tax matter (de minimus / taxable fringe benefits), this is a chickenshit indictment.
Posted by Raj 2021-07-03 10:10||   2021-07-03 10:10|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ Raj, you da man, but it looks to me like this indictment is a gift-in-kind to the DNC.
Posted by Matt 2021-07-03 10:27||   2021-07-03 10:27|| Front Page Top

#9 ..they forget with the Orange Man, the torpedoes circle around.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-07-03 15:12||   2021-07-03 15:12|| Front Page Top

#10 Look for Republican prosecutors to get a little payback whenever and wherever they can.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-07-03 15:18||   2021-07-03 15:18|| Front Page Top

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