Meanwhile, life goes on at Maga-Logo...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/13/sarah-palin-republican-party-trump-defamation-trial

Discusses how Sarah Palin's love of misinformation and saying anything she wanted back in 2008 paved the way for Trump (and holy crap she's aged a lot since 2008!)

quickymart:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/13/sarah-palin-republican-party-trump-defamation-trial

 

Discusses how Sarah Palin's love of misinformation and saying anything she wanted back in 2008 paved the way for Trump (and holy crap she's aged a lot since 2008!)

 

Very interesting. I hadn't made that connection until now.

PS: She's certainly aged but obviously hasn't yet matured.

The NY Times - Accounting Firm Cuts Ties With Trump and Retracts Financial Statements

breaking

The statements are at the center of two investigations into whether the former president and his company exaggerated the value of their assets.

 

Donald J. Trump’s longtime accounting firm cut ties with his family business last week amid ongoing criminal and civil investigations into whether Mr. Trump illegally inflated the value of his assets, court documents filed on Monday show.

 

In a letter to the Trump Organization on Feb. 9, the accounting firm notified the company of its decision and disclosed that it could no longer stand behind annual financial statements* it prepared for Mr. Trump.

 

The firm, Mazars USA, compiled the financial statements based on information the former president and his company provided. ...

 

* dated 2011-2020

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586398/insurgency-by-jeremy-w-peters/

I'm about to start reading this (mentioned in the Guardian article I linked to above). Should be interesting.

kingdragonfly: Accounting Firm Dumps Trump Over Dubious Financial Statements

The Guardian - The long list of legal cases against Donald Trump

07 Feb 2022

The former president faces 19 legal actions - about half of which allege improper conduct during his presidency :

 

Insurrection (7)

 

• DC attorney general investigating Trump over January 6 riots
• Eleven congresspeople suing Trump over Capitol attacks
• Representative Swalwell suing Trump and others for Capitol riots
• Seven Capitol police officers sue Trump
• Two Capitol police officers sue Trump
• Two police officers sue Trump over Capitol riot
• Capitol police officer sues Trump over January 6 riot

 

 

Financial (6)

 

• Criminal investigation into finances
• Westchester golf course investigation
• New York state attorney general investigates Trump Organization for fraud
• Misuse of 2017 inauguation money
• Mary Trump fraud suit
• Trump Corporation class-action suit

 

 

Election interference (2)

 

• Fulton county election interference investigation
• NAACP sues Trump and RNC for trying to overturn election results

 

 

Sexual misconduct (1)

 

• E Jean Carroll defamation suit

 

 

Other (3)

 

• Former top Ukraine adviser sues Trump for retaliation
• Trump Tower assault suit
• Michael Cohen suit

The burning question: Will his lawyers get paid?  😶

Nope, I believe he never pays his lawyers, even when he wins. Why lawyers keep wanting to work for him, I have no idea - I certainly wouldn't lift a finger without getting a payment up front.

quickymart:

 

Nope, I believe he never pays his lawyers, even when he wins. Why lawyers keep wanting to work for him, I have no idea - I certainly wouldn't lift a finger without getting a payment up front.

 

He doesn't have to pay his lawyers. Whoever pays the court costs - most of the time whoever loses - is paying...

This is going to be good: Judge rules Donald Trump must testify in New York investigation - BBC News

 

Former US President Donald Trump and two of his children must answer questions under oath in a New York investigation into their business practices, a judge has ruled.

 

New York Attorney General Letitia James has accused the Trump Organization of using "fraudulent or misleading asset valuations" to get loans and tax breaks.

 

Mr Trump must now sit for deposition within 21 days.

 

Can he find a way out of it? You know him - if he can, he will.

freitasm:

This is going to be good: Judge rules Donald Trump must testify in New York investigation - BBC News

• witch hunt
• I don't recall
• I refuse to testify because of self-incrimination
• I take the fifth.(amendment)

The Guardian - Donald Trump’s legal woes threaten to engulf him as accountants abandon ship

16 Feb 2022

Last month [the New York state Attorney General, Letitia James] tightened the screws on Trump and the Trump Organization by releasing details in a filing of several instances involving golf courses, real estate and other assets where the family had allegedly “falsely and fraudulently valued multiple assets and misrepresented those values to financial institutions for economic benefit”.

 

In a letter dated 9 February, Mazars’ general counsel, William Kelly, told the Trump Organization that the annual financial statements it had prepared for the family business between 2011 and 2020 were no longer reliable. ...

 

On the back of James’s latest attack, Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney and an ex-vice president of the Trump Organization, told the Guardian that in his opinion “the House of Trump is crumbling”.

 

James’s investigation is one of the most advanced and potentially dangerous of all the 19 legal actions bearing down on Trump. The inquiry is being pursued on both civil and criminal lines. ...

 

EDIT (from the same source)

 

It has also become known that Rudy Giuliani, who as Trump’s lawyer was a key figure in the campaign to overturn the presidential election results, has opened a dialogue with the committee that could see him testifying in some form.

 

Hopefully Michael Gohen's prediction is correct.  😐