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global1

(25,270 posts)
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 02:06 PM Aug 2022

What Am I Missing In This Allen Weisselberg Guilty Plea?......

I hear he's not going to testify against TFG - but will with respect to the Tr**p Organization.

Isn't TFG really the Tr**p Organization? I always read that everything that goes on in that organization goes through Tr**p.

Can this trial that's coming up that Weisselberg will have to testify in - incriminate TFG?
Could TFG get indicted and convicted at that trial?

What am I not understanding here. Something seems off - and it's probably me.

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unblock

(52,318 posts)
1. They may be more interested in an 8- or 9- figure judgment against his businesses
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 02:16 PM
Aug 2022

rather than a criminal prosecution against Donnie personally. Easier to prove, harder for Donnie to assert executive privilege, more likely to avoid having trumpies in the jury refuse to convict him personally, etc.

no_hypocrisy

(46,190 posts)
2. Trump Organization is the business.
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 02:16 PM
Aug 2022

TFG likely has almost everything he owns in the business. Take away the business and TFG loses wealth and influence.

RockRaven

(14,998 posts)
3. "Corporations are people too, my friend." Trump Org is a legal person separate from TFG, so
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 02:17 PM
Aug 2022

this scumbag can implicate the company in all sorts of misdeeds and liabilities without providing sufficient evidence against TFG to satisfy everyone's sense of justice.

There might be legal consequences to his testimony, but they won't be criminal charges against Donald John Trump.

LeftInTX

(25,555 posts)
5. No the TFG can't get indicted and convicted at this trial/case
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 02:26 PM
Aug 2022

His business can get ruined....

Keep in mind that although Trump brags that he and his business are one in the same, they legally are not. Trump exists via a birth certificate. A corporation is something he created.

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