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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan someone explain why this is a "massive, massive red flag?"
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
"WASHINGTON (AP) Donald Trump's attorneys originally wanted him to submit an updated financial disclosure without certifying the information as true, according to correspondence with the Office of Government Ethics.
Attorney Sheri Dillon said she saw no need for Trump to sign his 2016 personal financial disclosure because he is filing voluntarily this year. But OGE director Walter Shaub said his office would only work with Dillon if she agreed to follow the typical process of having Trump make the certification. That is standard practice for the thousands of financial disclosure forms OGE processes each year.
The Associated Press obtained the letters under a Freedom of Information Act request."
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,166 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,634 posts)adds perjury to the charges.
unblock
(52,184 posts)Egnever
(21,506 posts)now he is on record saying it is true and accurate and if it turns out it is not he has again put himself into a compromised position he did not need to.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)good find
underpants
(182,739 posts)if an audit client tells you these aren't the "real books" clearly something is wrong.
It's like these supposedly well healed super educated in what is the WH staff never heard two very common sayings.
If you've got nothing to hide you've got nothing to worry about.
and
That's my story and I'm sticking with it - get one message regardless of how little sense it makes and stay on it. Hammer it home.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)1) It was an unnecessary risk in the eyes of his attorney. Risk mitigation even when nothing wrong is seen.
2) It's know that doing so is an act of perjury.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)A lawyers' job is to eliminate/minimize sources of legal exposure to the client. If a client doesn't have to do something that involves potential legal exposure, the lawyer will try to get them out of it.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)haele
(12,646 posts)If he doesn't sign it, it's as legally binding as a broach, or a hat, or an origami pterodactyl.
On edit - it's a red flag because he's acknowledging he's supposed to sign it as a true representation of his financial state, but because there's all sorts of incriminating and disqualifying crap in his background, he'd be setting himself up for RICO charges and prison if he did sign it.
Haele