The donald is freaked out today because his accountant who knows about every dollar

[shraby]

that went in and every dollar that was paid out is testifying to a grand jury.

And every dollar that went where it shouldn't have?

Expect more and more frenetic tweets.

[dameatball]

1. Yes. The Manafort trial is getting the headlines, but this is a big deal.

[H2O Man]

2. Recommended.

The prosecutors have Trump's tax (de-)forms. You are right on target!

[shraby]

3. I figure Manafort is the least of his worries.

[H2O Man]

5. I think the

overlap between the two will be devastating to Trump & Co. One is above the surface, the other is below what the public can see. But they are very closely related.

[unblock]

6. oh, the tale those tax forms must tell!

[shraby]

7. The tax forms will be what keeps the accountant on the level. They can compare

what he says with what he did.

[H2O Man]

9. Exactly.

The -prosecutor isn't asking him questions that they don't already know the answer to. And the accountant isn't going in with a goal of protecting Trump. He is on the hot seat.

[calimary]

27. Isn't that the golden rule for trial lawyers?

Never ask a question you don’t already know the answer to.

It’s long been speculated that Mueller has the tax returns. No way to know for sure but if he’s going to bring in the accountant for questioning, I’d guess he’d have to have gotten them.

[FakeNoose]

17. This is awesome news

...but it's also possible that the tax forms won't say anything about the hush money that Michael Cohen paid to the women. I'm sure they have it disguised in a footnote somewhere on the profit & loss statements.

It's also possible that Weisselberg wasn't even told about the payments. They had Cohen handling everything under the table, so the Trump Organization could maintain plausible deniability.

On the other hand Weisselberg would surely know about the money laundering and secret cash deals with the Russians, so his testimony is still important.

[shraby]

24. Cohen is on tape telling the donald that he asked Allen (Weisselberg) about setting up a couple of

LLC's to handle the payments.

[H2O Man]

8. I'll speculate that

there is enough there to make Trump freak out today.

[lagomorph777]

13. Mueller has the tax returns, and the accountant knows everything omitted from the tax forms.

Oh shit.

[H2O Man]

14. One more thing:

Mr. Mueller knows already what has been omitted. He and his team do not ask any questions that they do not already know the exact answer to in the grand jury format.

[Honeycombe8]

26. Rule #1 for lawyers. You never ask a question you don't know the answer to.

That was a big problem in the O J trial.

[Shrike47]

30. Well, I have and I was a damned successful trial lawyer. But I get curious.

When the friend of the subject of my trial said she gave the subject advice, and said she had graduated from ‘lawyer school’, I just had to ask which particular lawyer school.

It was kinda amusing watching her waffle for awhile before allowing that it might not have been exactly a law school she went to.

[Honeycombe8]

31. LOL. But that's not a key question related to a key element, I think.

Not like that glove mistake at the O J trial.

[stonecutter357]

4. K&R !

[PearliePoo2]

10. Do you know when this is going to happen?

Also, am I correct that he won't be allowed to have an attorney with him at the Grand Jury?

Thanks!

[shraby]

11. You're right. No lawyers in the cat-bird seat. If they want to consult one,

they have to get permission to leave the room and consult in the hall.

[shraby]

12. I googled to find out when he will testify and here's the scoop.

(He is testifying in connection with the Cohen case)

Allen Weisselberg, a top Trump Organization official and the company's longtime chief financial officer, has been subpoenaed to testify as part of the ongoing criminal investigation into President Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the investigation.

The Journal reported that it is unclear whether Weisselberg has gone before a grand jury, when the subpoena was issued and what exactly prosecutors want to ask him, but that he is considered to be a witness in the probe.

[H2O Man]

15. Thank you.

This is by far the most important OP/thread today. I hope everyone here reads and fully appreciates the implications.

[ancianita]

18. .... Oh, I do. Indeed, I do.

[tonyt53]

16. I think it isn't so much where the money went as it is where the money came from.

[Mr.Bill]

19. What Trump fears the public learning about

is how little money there really is. I'm of the opinion that he's hocked up to his eyeballs to the point where his net worth is a negative number, and it has been for years.


He's got a few properties generating some cash flow, but in total he owns nothing.

[LuckyLib]

28. This is my take as well. He is in major debt to the Russians.

All his bluster about being a billionaire is just the usual blather.

[Grammy23]

37. I have this image in my head of the guy who used to spin plates on the Ed Sullivan Show

Of long ago. That’s tRump. It was his strategy for keeping his “empire” afloat by loans and living on them and strategic manipulation of the monies he got by hook or crook. Now it is his strategy for keeping the whole thing from falling in on him and his family of thugs and thieves. So he runs around like a crazy man trying to distract and to deceive the public with tweets and quick and dirty comments as he is about to board a helicopter. He tries to appear too cool for school but the word is leaking out that behind the scenes in the White House he is a seething cauldron of rage and irritability.

The plates he has spent years spinning are wobbling and he is running out of space to give them a spin to keep them going a little while longer. Mueller is closing in on the truth and tRump isn’t privy to all the information already in Mueller’s treasure trove of fatal facts that will bury tRump in a blizzard of unavoidable trouble. It is driving him crazy (crazier?) and there is not much he can do about it. Yes, there are things he COULD do but those things will only bring more trouble. So as he sees his ways out blocked, his behavior is only going to get stranger and more erratic. Pop some corn, fellow DUers. This show is going to get a lot more interesting, really quick.

[Cartoonist]

44. As I recall

That guy with the spinning plates used to end his act by catching them all without breaking a single one.

[Grammy23]

47. Yes, but tRump ain't that guy.

[LuckyLib]

49. Drumpf's nightmare in a nutshell. Spinning plates

he can no longer control.

[watoos]

20. I'm sending out thoughts and prayers,

for Trump's golf game, I hear it is floundering.

[erronis]

23. Gotta keep your beady eyes on the ball, douche-bag.

And best wishes for a cold cell in a federal (or state penitentiary.) Altho I hear that Gitmo has a couple of empty ones now.

[flibbitygiblets]

33. The one human being I'd LOVE to see waterboarded. Conald J Dump.

The "J" stands for "Jackass"

[Honeycombe8]

21. Is that today? Holy Crapola, Batman!!! POW!!! ZAM!!!

This is exciting, gotta say. I'll be surprised if this guy doesn't hold the golden key to all the fraud.

Of course, HE would be charged with a crime, too. So it's possible he'll try to lie. Won't work, but he might try. These guys don't know the truth when it hits them in the face. Their lies have been accepted by so many for so long, that they may not understand the jig is up.

[lagomorph777]

45. If immunity or deal is required, Mueller will make it so.

[Honeycombe8]

48. Yep. He's after the snake head. Not the tail. nt

[Fiendish Thingy]

22. IS his CFO actually testifying today? Nt

[keithbvadu2]

25. Donald's finance man needs some serious protection for his life. Not just from Donald.

[duforsure]

29. If they called him in

They already know, and have him caught up in it all, also, so his only way out is to flip to stay out of prison, trump has to know that and is freaking out because he knows its over, and on all fronts. He won't win , and when they expose all he's allowed to be done to these children even his die hard supporters will turn and demand he gets the max penalties for it all.

[flibbitygiblets]

32. Sounds like someone's about to get in a tweet-fight with [insert random celebrity name]

Distraction time!!

[erlewyne]

34. No, it is Mueller Time!

I know that phrase is redundant. But we have to be patient.
Witnesses will be held accountable for everything they say say
and they do not know what Mueller knows so they are liable
to open a new can of worms (unintentionally) because of fears
of perjury.

Everyone of us are speculating but Mueller knows.

EW

[calguy]

35. I'm running out of popcorn

and I can't find my ID to go to the grocery store

[flibbitygiblets]

36. How many will starve to death because grocery stores won't sell food without ID? SAD!

[dalton99a]

38. If you cannot purchase food legally, try McDonald's

[HipChick]

51. Last time I ate at Mickey D's, I was sick as a dog.

haven not eaten there now for a couple of decades or more..

[WinstonSmith4740]

42. I knew I should have bought popcorn futures!

[kentuck]

39. Is there a link ?

About the "accountant" going before the Grand Jury?

[shraby]

50. I googled it and the blurb above came from the Wall Street Jounal.

[PunksMom]

40. All I want to know is this...

How does this asshat sleep? I mean, simple stuff keeps me up some nights. I’m thinking, I would have resigned months ago.

[olegramps]

41. When you don't have a conscience it is only a game with losers and winners.

The striking thing about Trump is the remark of his ghost writer who spent many hours with him. He remarked that the Trump had no hesitation in bilking people since he was a man without a conscience. He had no regrets in hiring someone and then refusing to pay them. He didn't hesitate to lie about someone to get an advantage. Trump is as vicious as any tyrant and would throw his kids to the wolves at the drop of a hat.

[Orsino]

43. Especially so because Donald himself hand-waved his way...

...through crimes Cohen navigated and could recite from memory. Trump's own laziness means that he doesn't really know from which direction comeuppance will arrive.

[lagomorph777]

46. Comeuppance will come at him from every direction.

Trump will spend the rest of his filthy life in lawsuits, criminal cases, and ignominy.