Cheer up! Yes, it remains indubitably true that Don the Con has not been held accountable for anything, but we can slap our thighs with uninhibited delight upon learning that Mazars USA, his own longtime accounting firm, has now fled his orbit with all deliberate speed.
It’s like his old TV game show with a delicious new twist. Mazars to Trump: “You’re fired!”
In a court filing yesterday, the New York attorney general’s office, as part of its ongoing Trump tax fraud investigation, shared the news that Mazar has decided to cut all its ties with the grifter’s corporate firm. Mazar, in a Feb. 9 letter to the AG, said it will no longer work with Trump – and moreover (this is the cherry atop the sundae) it now says that an entire decade of Trump Organization financial statements, from 2011 to 2020, “should no longer be relied upon.”
Which means, in New York street patois, that the Trump financial statements are bullshit.
Gee. I wonder why Mazar is now ‘fessing up about that.
Could it be, perchance, that the accountants have been apprised of the fact that the Trump team fed them fraudulent numbers year after year? That perchance the Trump team did so in order to inflate or deflate its real estate assets as it deemed necessary, in its pursuit of ill-gotten gains and illegal tax savings?
That certainly appears to be the case. From Mazar’s letter: “This conclusion (is) based, in part, upon the filings made by the New York Attorney General on January 18, 2022, our own investigation, and information received from internal and external sources.” Mazars says it is done with Trump “based on the totality of the circumstances.”
I love that line, “the totality of the circumstances.”
Translation: The prosecutors have the goods, so the accountants had only two choices: Take the fall for Trump, or scrape him off their shoes. They’ve opted for the latter. Indeed, they could be flipping on Trump and working with the good guys.
How bad is all this for Trump? Conservative attorney George Conway (hubby of Kellyanne) said it best last night: “This is worse for him than getting impeached twice…This is as calamitous a thing that could happen to a business that you can imagine” – because no reputable accounting firm is going to step in and try to fix the unfixable; and because the revelation that his financial statements are worthless will further imperil his shady businesses.
Tim O’Brien, one of his biographers, explained it all on the air last night: “Trump has hundreds of millions of dollars from the business empire and good luck refinancing your debt when the accountants just walked out the door. That is going to give anybody else who would consider lending (him) money enormous pause…That makes him a mark for foreign lenders, and I think this has to be watched very carefully.”
The Trump team released a statement last night declaring that all their finance statements have been on the up and up, and that Mazar’s letter “effectively renders the (AG’s) investigations moot.” I kid you not. Rest assured that in some celestial realm, Orwell is laughing harder than you.
The way things are going for Trump, on this front and so many others, there’s clearly only one solution:
He’s gonna need a bigger toilet.