"Clearer now is how Trump is running his personal debt empire like a ponzi scheme, always searching for new money to make interest only payments, and committing tax fraud, insurance fraud and bank fraud, while laundering money however possible, including now through Trump campaign donations, to stay afloat. Many of his loans come due in 2022, 2023 and 2025, an amount Forbes adds up to $1.1 billion.
Earlier reporting uncovered Trump organization business filings showed rental income twice as high on loan documents as tax forms, and a 20% variance in occupancy rates. CPAs, tax lawyers, forensic accountants and other experts, say those discrepancies are likely fraud; tax fraud, insurance fraud and bank fraud.
Early this year, a nonpartisan campaign finance watchdog filed an FEC complaint, accusing the Trump campaign of laundering $170 million in undisclosed funds through companies owned by campaign manager Brad Parscale, who was admitted to a psych ward yesterday after barricading himself in his home and threatening suicide.
What's new in the New York Times reporting is a lengthy list of personal expenses claimed as business expenses, unsurprising and illegal; double paying his kids, above market rates, as Trump Organization project managers and as consultants, through consulting firms they set up, doubly illegal; most surprisingly new is that Trump's in a protracted legal fight with the IRS over a fraudulent $72 million deduction, that's likely to put him on the hook for $100 million with penalties and fees.
Trump was pursuing a Trump Tower Moscow deal in 2015, when The Apprentice money dried up. That deal would have set him up as the world's premier money launderer, with access to an unlimited supply of dirty money. Trump ran for president to elevate his brand and it succeeded in pouring foreign monies into his properties. But instead of basking in a new round of solvency, building a Trump Tower Moscow to secure the Trump crime family's future, the unthinkable and unexpected happened, he won the presidency.
The Founders chose for the president to have a substantial salary to avoid any threat of them being beholden to foreign money. Well. If Trump loses this election, it looks all but certain that the long con is coming to an end; Trump properties repossessed, a wave of criminal indictments, and a former American president dragged into a courtroom in what will be billed as the trial of the century, or a dozen trials.
It really can't be overemphasized to the marks of this career conman, supporters of the most corrupt and dangerous president in American history, your criminal demigod needs you more than ever."