donald trump announced he was handing over to his sons? that s right. the trump trust is an umbrella group that includes the trump organization. so when donald trump entered office, he kept ownership of his company, he kept the right to withdraw money from it at any time, he just changed something about the administration of it so while he still owns it and can withdraw money, he put in the the trust run by eric, don, and allen weisselberg. it s not a blind trust correct, he and his lawyers implied it s a blind trust. it s not. he spends half its time in his businesses so it s not a blind trust but there s no hard divider that says donald trump sr. can t know what s happening in his business. they made big promises and he said he d stay away but there s no bar on reaching into his business. the trust is an administrative structure that doesn t keep donald trump out but gives day to day control to don jr., eric and allen weisselberg. what role if any would
the beginning. donald trump treated all points of his personal empire personal expenses, company, charity as one big pot of money and the person who oversaw all that pot of money was allen weisselberg. he would bring in checks individually for donald trump to sign. he didn t have a lot of executive responsibility, but he had a lot of administrative responsibilities, he handled the ins and outs of the money. if i was to pick one person besides donald trump sr. that was integral to the operation of the trump organization it would be allen weisselberg, it wouldn t be don or eric, it would be allen weisselberg. interesting. we re trying to get to the bottom of how valuable weisselberg is to investigators. given what you know about how the trump organization works and it s a little unorthodox, not like corporations, some of it feels like a corporation, some feels like something else, what s your sense of how the reimbursement to michael cohen would have worked? obviously as you sa
people involved? at this time, january and february 2017 there were only three people who had authority over the trust that donald trump put his business into. remember, donald trump still owns his business but the administration of it is left to this trust which is run by eric, don, and allen weisselberg. so allen weisselberg to me is not somebody who typically does things on his own, somebody tells him to do it, we dent know who gave that order. as you saw in the charging documents, the only executives mentioned are allen weisselberg and somebody who works for allen weisselberg so if there s some conversation between allen and don sr., don jr. or eric, it s not captured in that information. let me ask you to be clear, there s the trump organization, the trump foundation, a charity being looked at now by the attorney general of new york but this is a trust. weisselberg said please pay this from the trust. is this the company donald trump got up, is that the company that
responsibilities, he handled the ins and outs of the money. if i was to pick one person besides donald trump sr. that was integral to the operation of the trump organization it would be allen weisselberg, it wouldn t be don or eric, it would be allen weisselberg. interesting. we re trying to get to the bottom of how valuable weisselberg is to investigators. given what you know about how the trump organization works and it s a little unorthodox, not like a lot of corporations. some of it feels like a corporation, some of it feels like something else what s your sense of how the reimbursement to michael cohen would have worked? obviously as you say weisselberg would have been involved but would he have had to get approval from someone else? would there have been more people involved? at this time, january and february 2017 there were only three people who had authority over the trust that donald trump put his business into. remember, donald trump still owns his business but the a
weisselberg, it wouldn t be don or eric, it would be allen weisselberg. interesting. we re trying to get to the bottom of how valuable weisselberg is to investigators. given what you know about how the trump organization works and it s a little unorthodox, it s not like a lot of corporations. some of it feels like a corporation, some of it feels like something else what s your sense of how the reimbursement to michael cohen would have worked? obviously as you say weisselberg would have been involved but would he have had to get approval from someone else? would there have been more people involved? well, there s only at this time, january and february 2017 there were only three people really who had authority over the trust that donald trump put his business into. remember, donald trump still owns his business but the administration of it is left to this trust which is run by eric, don, and allen weisselberg. so, allen weisselberg to me is not somebody who typically does thin