Is “Bad News for Trump” ever really “bad” news for Trump?
He has avoided so many consequences for so long that if avoiding consequences was an Olympic sport, Trump would be the Michael Phelps, Larisa Latynina, Paavo Nurmi, and Mark Spitz of it, all rolled into one.
But when Mazars, (global audit, accounting and consulting group employing more than 42,000 professionals in more than 90 countries) decides that Trump is toxic – you have to wonder if it is really bad news.
(Trump) may finally have run out of enablers, blind groupies, pliable bureaucrats, and general scapegoats. Companies want to survive. People want to keep their jobs. Nobody wants to pay whopping fines or risk jail time. Not for him. Not anymore. A collective decision is being made that in many ways, including on the balance sheets, the former president* is simply not worth it.
I remember when the rumors of “the n-word tape” were all over the news 4 or 5 years ago, with people assuming that footage or audio of him saying something actually racist from the years on The Celebrity Apprentice would shock people and lead to some mass exodus of support.
I now actually think his poll numbers would go up if such a thing were released.
In MAGA World, the Mazars letter will cast a massive cloud on the entire accounting profession. CPAs from coast to coast will no longer be trusted. The fallout will include thousands failing to file tax returns (because they’re not smart enough to do it on their own) but they will have little fear of being caught because of the success of their Lord and Master in hollowing out the IRS.
the news of the day re: nothing ever happening to la familia trumpi – a judge says he and kids must testify at the ny ag probe – does the ag actually think they will tell an inkling of the truth?
They will appeal this decision up to the Supreme Court, which will overrule it based on the longstanding legal precedent of “LOL, nothing matters. fuck you”