Today’s trial in Manhattan was not an Alex Jones-level shocker, but it was a bit rich for a lot of peoples’ blood. Allen Weisselberg, the reportedly former CFO of the Trump Organization revealed that he’s still the CFO of the Trump organization. He only descended one floor, physically, from the 26th to the 25th. Otherwise, he’s still doing the same job for the same salary. Wowie Owie. Daily Beast:
The arrangement calls into question whether Weisselberg will be helpful to the DA’s office, which is trying to use him as a star witness to nail the Trump Organization for running its operations like a lawless zoo—paying its executives with untaxed benefits and creating a no-show job for Weisselberg’s wife.
The only demotion Weisselberg appears to have actually suffered was literal, as he got bumped from Trump Tower’s executive offices on the 26th floor down to the boring 25th.
During the start of his testimony Tuesday afternoon, Weisselberg only briefly showed a realization of how bad this looks when he recalled what he did on Aug. 15. Hours after he met with prosecutors to finalize his plea agreement, he made his way to Trump Tower to have a birthday bash.
“My son wanted to make sure I had a birthday party… much to my regret,” he said.
After getting prodded by the prosecutor, he added, “it was a small cake. It was a cake. It was a small party, yes.”
Oh, it was only a small party. It wasn’t a wingding with 900 people and planes dragging sky banners and his boss, Trump, pivoting his corpulent bulk to the strains of “YMCA” while Kari Lake jumped out of a cake. We’re so glad to know that. That makes all the difference in the world.
And it was wild yesterday, too, at the same trial.
On Monday, Trump Organization controller Jeffrey McConney testified that he didn’t know whether creating a fake job for Weisselberg’s wife, so that she could qualify for taxpayer benefits like Social Security, was legal.
“I knew it wasn’t correct,” McConney said. “Wasn’t sure it was illegal.”
Part of the reason a moral compass is called a moral compass is because if something is wrong morally, generally speaking it’s not such a great idea legally, either.
More play acting from Donald Trump and those around him. Meanwhile, as details of more lies and obfuscations become publicized in New York, Trump is down in Florida readying his big comeback announcement.
I hope Weisselberg and McConny prevaricate just enough to nullify their arrangements w/ the DA. “Don’t do the crime, if you can’t do the time.”
These guys are so crooked they couldn’t pass a roadside sobriety test.
Orange blaze and the kids did not know anything about what was going on at organization!!!!! Snookums knew where every single dollar and every legal and illegal
arrangement occurred. Can’t play innocent in a grifter organization!!!!!!