Trump appears to be guilty of yet another (financial) crime

by Aldous J Pennyfarthing

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Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019 Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019 at 5:46:56pm PDT

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 17: U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters while hosting workers and members of his cabinet for a meeting in the Oval Office at the White House October 17, 2018 in Washington, DC. The White House said the meeting was on â€œCutting the Red Tape, Unleashing Economic Freedom.' (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Yes, I do realize that pointing out one more Donald Trump crime-’n’-lie is like posting a notification on Twitter every time you have to go to the bathroom. I mean, it’s just a given, right? But for what it’s worth, yeah, Trump appears to have skirted the law once again.

I’ll let HuffPost White House correspondent S.V. Dáte take this one:

Failing to accurately reflect your finances is punishable by up to a year in jail.

Making a false statement about it by attesting to its accuracy is punishable by up to five years in prison.
— S.V. DÃÂ¡te (@svdate) August 20, 2019

And there's Doonbeg in Ireland. Where he tells Irish authorities that the resort has lost $7.2 million over three years -- but has simultaneously told Americans that it has earned him $37.4 million in income.
— S.V. DÃÂ¡te (@svdate) August 20, 2019

Supposedly being super rich and a genius businessman was one of his big selling points to voters when he ran for president. pic.twitter.com/RSlKK5CYHD
— S.V. DÃÂ¡te (@svdate) August 20, 2019

He did not respond to follow up questions about the widely divergent claims regarding assets and income and why Trump failed to disclose the two loans.
— S.V. DÃÂ¡te (@svdate) August 20, 2019

This, of course, jibes with Michael Cohen’s testimony that Trump inflated and deflated his assets to serve his diabolical ends du jour, so the assertion that he ran afoul of the law here is certainly believable — and, frankly, extremely likely to be true.

And, as Dáte points out, Trump once claimed to be worth TEN BILLION DOLLARS, even though no one on the planet besides Trump’s rampaging horde of red hats has ever believed that figure.

So, yeah, another crime.

Must be Tuesday.

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