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Manhattan Prosecutors Obtain Millions of Pages of Trump’s Tax Records and There’s NOTHING He Can Do About It

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Until Donald Trump, if news exploded out about a president having an affair with an adult film star while his new wife and baby were at home across the country, that president would have been out of office before sunset. But not Donald Trump.

No, it took that same adult film star revealing a complicated payoff scheme, which led to the imprisonment of the president’s friend, along with an ongoing investigation of “Individual One” about that payoff, all of which may ultimately reveal complicated financial schemes constituting felony tax fraud and bank fraud.

Perhaps voters within the MAGA right aren’t bothered by the sexual greed that led Trump to cheat on his wife, but the government likely will be bothered by  Trump’s financial greed if it led him to cheat the public.

We will see. If we have learned anything with respect to Trump it is to not assume a thing. Fortunately, we no longer have to assume that prosecutors within the government will “someday” get copies of Trump’s tax returns. Someday came today, Thursday. The State of New York, by and through the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, now hold Trump’s tax returns in their investigative hands. It took three years.  It also took a brave woman. Fitting.

It may be quite a bit more time before we know what might or might not be in Trump’s tax returns. They are not going to leak from the D.A.’s office. There will only be a small number of copies made, all scan-barred, all assigned to particular investigators, all held under lock and key. Once financial investigators have gone through the returns, prosecutors may present possible criminal activity to a grand jury. Only when the grand jury returns a true bill, will Trump be indicted and charged with a criminal complaint filed in court. Only then will “we” the public see what the D.A. found as set out in the complaint.

So settle in. Assume it will take more time, perhaps a lot more time. But also assume that some of the best financial auditors on earth will review the matter and come to a conclusion. It is a safe assumption.

Now we only want to know what Deutsche Bank knows…

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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Jason Miciak
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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