there aren t many people at the company who are more highly paid than him, and i don t believe any of them aren t named trump. so they are describing schemes that apply to other people who are beneficiaries of had things that are laid out there. and that s what allen weisselberg s just been criminally charged with so it s got to be an unsettling prospect for the trump family tonight. the other, amazing mystery. how is donald trump paid? what s the payment scheme within that business for donald trump, himself? and that s something we don t learn anything about in this indictment, so far. but i bet we are going to learn about it, before too long. it looks like it s coming. looks like that is what s ahead of us. thank you, rachel. thank you, laurchs. thank you. once again, donald trump signed his name to checks in the commission of a crime. according to an indictment by a manhattan-grand jury. unsealed today, in court, in manhattan. we have already seen donald trump s signat
written in the commission of a federal crime. here is donald trump s signature in a check to michael cohen, as part of the criminal payoff scheme to prevent stormy daniels from telling the ugly truth of what happened when she was alone in a hotel room with donald trump. that criminal scheme, of course, completely, fell apart. michael cohen went to prison for that criminal scheme. stormy daniels went on 60 minutes and told the story of that night, including donald trump comparing her to his daughter. today, another, criminal scheme involving donald trump signing checks was described in the indictment of the trump corporation, the trump payroll corporation, and allen weisselberg. from 2012 through 2017, and as part of the scheme to defraud, trump corporation personnel, including weisselberg, arranged for tuition expenses for weisselberg s family members to be paid by personal checks drawn on the account of and signed by
and i would say, the thing that will most induce trump to do this event is if ron desantis continues to tell him not to do this event. trump, i am i mean, i bet every dollar in my bank account, which isn t nearly as much as in yours and, you know, who knows, in terms of trump s, it could be completely empty. but i bet a lot of money that a lot of what s motivating trump, in this particular case, is the combination of him needing to be in front of large crowds and feel better about himself. and exert some kind of in his mind, at least, exert some kind of political power. and the particular kind of rivalry that is brewing with him and ron desantis right now. there is i mean, you see desantis winning these straw polls. and that sort of ron desantis is a sane-donald trump is the new line among republican-political strategists. trump s hearing that and it s making him crazy and i think there is a reasonable chance he will end up going through with this to spite ron desantis and to s
presidential campaign in 2016. the question that today s indictment does not answer is, exactly, how involved and responsible for these crimes was donald trump? tonight, donald trump, who is, reportedly, not a good sleeper, will, at some point, try to fall asleep knowing that allen weisselberg, who is 73 years old, is a husband, a father, and a grandfather. who wants to spend his remaining years with his wife, his children, and grandchildren. all of whom, have been beneficiaries of the crimes outlined in this indictment. direct beneficiaries. tonight, allen weisselberg is facing a possible sentence that could leave him in prison for the rest of his life. donald trump has to try to fall asleep, tonight, knowing that allen weisselberg could make those sentences disappear.
donald j. trump. the payment of tuition expenses for weisselberg s family members constituted employee compensation and taxable income to allen weisselberg, and was treated as part of weisselberg s annual compensation in the internal records maintained by the trp corporation. however, the indirect compensation in the form of tuition payments was not included on weisselberg s w-2 forms or otherwise reported to federal, state, or local-tax authorities. and no income taxes were withheld by the corporate defendants in connection with the tuition payments. weisselberg intentionally caused the tuition payments to be omitted from his personal tax returns, despite knowing that those payments represented taxable income, and were treated as compensation by the trump corporation in internal records. he did not pay taxes on approximately $359,058 in compensation he received in the