Trump CFO Waives Right To Remain Silent During Arrest - The Beat - MSNBC

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Citizen Donald Trump’s money man Allen Weisselberg may have admitted to prosecutors that he received some of the very perks they are investigating in the criminal probe into the Trump Organization, according to The Washington Post. MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber discusses the update in the case with Mother Jones’ David Corn, The New York Times’ columnist Michelle Goldberg, and political strategist Chai Komanduri. Komanduri discusses the unprecedented level of criminality within the Trump administration, asserting Trump “is basically a criminal.” The Trump Organization denies all allegations. Aired on 07/20/2021.

[NJCher]

1. The "right to remain silent"

Film montage is worth watching twice.

[Pas-de-Calais]

2. Having the right to remain silent is

Completely different than
The
Ability
To
Remain
Quiet

[BootinUp]

3. I would prefer Robocop read em to me. Nice guy,

[Warpy]

4. Back in the good old days when executives would forgo raises

because they'd kick them up into a much higher tax bracket, there were corporate perks like the corporate jet, the corporate limo, the corporate yacht, the corporate apartments to live in during the work week and those things were business expenses. Congress changed the rules since then, just like Reagan changed the executive compensation rules while lowering their taxes drastically.

Weisselberg sounds like he didn't keep up with the changes. The Feds have got him dead to rights. All that remains to be seen is whether or not he tells them TFG* approved the whole off the books scam.

He does have a point about the Long Island Distressway, the world's longest parking lot, it's infamous. The drive is so aggravating that most just drive to a rail station and take the train in. I guess he was too good for that.

*Please don't read this as "the former guy." I'm not that polite. It's THAT FUCKING GRIFTER. Thank you.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. Well, it looks like he was hired by Trump senior who was much smarter about laws/money than TFG

He was self-made and continued to make vast profits. When he "hired" TFG straight out of college, he only used him as the "face of the company," while continuing to run everything behind the scenes. It wasn't until TFG attempted to strike out on his own (casinos) that the trouble started. Fred Trump attempted to buy his son out of trouble over and over, and Weisselberg has to be aware of that history. The question is whether he's still loyal to the company after having witnessed the ever increasing messes/bankruptcies that TFG has gotten into over the years/decades.