Trumps Throw Tantrum Over Court Monitor’s Financial Bombshell

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A lawyer for the Trumps slammed Judge Barbara S. Jones in a court filing Monday morning, vehemently denying Trump lied about a missing $48 million loan.

Now that the retired federal judge babysitting the Trump Organization has uncovered potential tax fraud at the company, the Trumps responded over the weekend by tasking their own accountant as a monitor that monitors the court monitor.

In an indignant court filing Monday morning, a lawyer for the Trumps for the first time launched an all-out attack on Judge Barbara S. Jones—calling her latest report on the family company an absolute lie, a cheap attempt to justify her government-mandated job, and a last-minute ploy to bolster the New York Attorney General’s bank fraud case that just wrapped up.

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the Trumps responded over the weekend by tasking their own accountant as a monitor that monitors the court monitor.

"I'm going to have my own monitor! With blackjack and hookers!"

He tried blackjack already. Poor guy couldn't figure out how to keep multiple casinos, an industry known for basically printing money, afloat. Truly baffling considering what a genius businessman he is.

Turns out you can't launder money & profit from a casino at the same time.

He couldn't - utter abject failure loser.

Laundering is integral to casinos profits.

Which is an amazing achievement for Trump, as usually the issue with trying to launder money through a business is that it looks TOO profitable.

Repurposing discredited monitors.

But that too might fail to convince the judge, because it came from Jason Flemmons, a CPA who lost credibility when testifying at the recent bank fraud trial. Justice Engoron tore into the accountant last month, noting how Flemmons had “inexplicably” contradicted himself several times and seemed willing to bend over backwards to appease the Trumps. Engoron was annoyed at how Flemmons kept providing cover for the Trump family, like when he asserted that basic accounting principles require that an asset’s present value reflect discounted future income—but refusing to admit the Trumps broke the rules when they failed to do that.

I guess they had to get another accountant since the last one went to prison & is barred from working in finances.