We in the public will not be seeing any of Donald Trump’s taxes any time soon. That’s fine. It is reality and many legal commentators predicted such a result a while ago. But we do know that Trump’s taxes are going to the state of New York within the next few weeks, and the grand jury will evaluate whether Trump committed a crime with a co-conspirator who is already in prison – Michael Cohen. In other words, it’s a pretty tight case, at least with respect to charging Trump.

But it is even more interesting to ponder what else might be in Donald Trump’s taxes. A man who has studied Trump’s financial history for some time is pretty sure he knows.

On Saturday morning, David Cay Johnston told Joy Reid that there may well be even more serious issues within Trump’s taxes:

“Well, Donald Trump has already had two income tax fraud trials by the state of New York and the city of New York,” said Johnston. “They were civil fraud, not criminal fraud. The New York Times in October of 2018, in this brilliant project on Trump’s taxes based on records we know came from his niece — without question, he and his siblings are major-league tax cheats.”

“What the district attorney is seeking is the business records, the accounting records, the banking records to 2011,” said Johnston. “If those deviate from what Donald trump put on the tax returns, I expect they’ll indict Donald Trump for criminal tax fraud. How quickly it comes depends on how successful Trump’s lawyers are in delaying and using procedure and interlocutory appeals if they don’t like the federal judge overseeing the case — his rulings.”

Johnston then reminded viewers that all of these records were outside Barr’s grip, given they are in state court. Trump cannot even get a pardon for these possible charges:

The state charges are completely different. The only involvement in the federal government is challenging to seek his remedies in federal court … Donald Trump is going to be indicted if the business records do not match up. They won’t match up. Trust me. I have a lot of his records. They won’t match up.”

Johnston has been reporting a long time and has written books on Trump’s finances. He is no flame thrower. If he’s basically assuring us that Trump will be indicted, well …

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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