America's #1 Crime Family: Frauds & Cons Я Us
From the man
who knows Trump and his supposed finances better than anyone – his story here
from Raw Story – the headline:
Biographer David Cay Johnston rips into detractors who
didn’t heed his warnings about “dictator Trump”
Highlights:
The author
who literally wrote the book on Trump’s shady financial history went off on
detractors who failed to heed his warnings even prior to 2016.
Pulitzer winner David Cay Johnston told CNN’s Ana Cabrera (video below)
that the laws governing the release of presidential tax returns are “incredibly
clear” — and noted that Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is “really sticking his neck out and risking
jail time in his refusal to cooperate with congressional investigators seeking
to get them.”
Cabrera then asked Johnston: “Why
would he be willing to potentially go to jail, potentially be removed from
office by rejecting this request from the house ways and means committee?”
Johnston
replied: “Because Donald Trump
appoints people who either lack moral character or who are willing to pledge
personal loyalty to him. I’ve been warning people as the person who’s covered
Trump longer than anybody else, for more than 30 years, from before the time he
took office, if Donald got in the White House he would act like a dictator
because he does not know what’s in the Constitution and he doesn’t care. He
believes in his own mind that he should run the country and he tells us all the
time he’s smarter than all of us, everyone else who stands in his way is an
idiot or a fool or a traitor or something else. That’s the language of
dictators, not of someone who under our constitution is there to faithfully
execute the laws that Congress has passed.”
As for the reason Mnuchin and Trump’s
continued refusal to provide the public with the president’s tax return,
Johnston said the answer is simple: “Donald Trump is not a
billionaire. His biggest concern is
that he’ll be exposed for the fraud he is, in finance but he’s also concerned
it will get into money he likely laundered for people who were not just
Russians but in the Middle East and elsewhere in real estate transactions.”
Watch the 4-minute video [click here]:
My 2 cents: Not
much to add to this fine story (which Trump loyalists will brush aside as “Fake
News, a Hoax, or Witch Hunt” by DEMS who are angry they lost in 2016 is also
simple: The Trump family, his organization and so-called “Trump Empire, Inc.”
is as crooked as a dog’s hind leg as the expression says – that is in the Trump
DNA.
More on this whether or not Mnuchin meets the deadline set by
Congress.
I suspect a lengthy court fight, and that outcome is anyone’s guess,
so stay tuned until April 23rd.
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