problem and why why me? isn t it better to have not said anything at all? or is this play right politically for him? well, nobody controls donald. he never listens to advice on things like this. my law students at syracuse university are going to have some very interesting discuss discussions about, you know, what do you do when you have a client you can t control? and a lot of lawyers would simply say i m not taking you on. but and we ll see who donald, eventually, gets to represent him when he is charged because this is not the last indictment. this is the first indictment from the manhattan grand jury. now, you say that. and you wrote that in your piece, that we should be expecting more indictments maybe involving the trump organization. do you think that, eventually, this will actually ensnare trump, himself? or someone with the same last night? because right now, as you know, weisselberg, the highest-level employee at trump organization without the name trump, who might be
trying to make the case that, look, rules shouldn t apply to the trump organization because, well, everyone does it. so, if this were anyone else, how would this be dealt with? oh, it d be dealt with a felony prosecution. allen weisselberg got $1.7 million of compensation, that he hid with, i m sure, donald trump s connivence, from the state, the city, and the federal-tax authorities. the typical-american worker will put in 33 years to make $1.7 million. i suspect, a lot of people have been taking taxes on their typical income for the last 33 years would not be happy about this. but donald s position is that he s special. and my piece is about a man, a hungry, homeless man, who stole a slice of pizza from some children. and a nonviolent crime. 25 to life. and other people, who have gotten life sentences or
to life. and other people who have gotten life sentences or virtual life sentences for incredibly petty crimes. stealing $9 in one case. you know, it just makes it all the more real to think about that notion, just the comparison he was trying to make. why on earth do we have these laws, when we have those laws, we listen to what trump said about taxes, by the way, in 2016. i know more about tax abatements, i know more about taxes than any human being that god ever created. but, i mean, yet, this weekend, as you know, he was suggesting that no one understands these corporate tax rules. what s the game he s playing here? well, donald is always inflating what he knows when he thinks there are rubes who will buy it. he s also creating an atmosphere in which he can say, gee, i m not an cpa, allen weisselberg, my cfo, must have done all of
virtual-life sentences for incredibly petty crimes, stealing $9, in one case. you know, it just makes it all the more real, to think about that notion of just the comparison he was trying to make. and so be it, and this is what you do. and why, on earth, would we have these laws when we do have those laws? i mean, listen to what trump said, by the way, about taxes back in 2016. i know more about tax abatements. i know more about taxes than any human being that god ever created. but i mean, yet, this weekend, as you know, he was suggesting that no one understands these corporate-tax rules. so, i mean, what s the game he s playing here? well, donald is always inflating what he knows, when he thinks there are rooms who will buy it. but he is also here creating an atmosphere, in which he can say, gee, um, i m not a cpa. allen weisselberg, my cfo, he must have done all of this. i just followed whatever advice he gave because i don t know
if allen weisselberg turns state s evidence. none of the charges in this indictment mandate prison time. he could get 15 years. but given his age and he is a first aoffender, he is likely t get probation. that s not going to motivate him to flip but the indictment contains hence that other people might be indicted and i would think the likely people, as i read the indictment, include his son barry. eric and don jr. and possibly, ivanka. and other people, whose names are are not household names. clearly, this was designed to focus allen weisselberg s attention. and i believe, eventually, laura, and since i first said this about a year ago, a number of prosecutors have agreed with me. that the ultimate indictment here is likely to be a new york state racketeering-enterprise charge. article 460 of the new york state penal code. unpack that for people, what racketeering is. racketeering is running what appears to be a legitimate