According to Trump’s biographer, the former president should be facing yet another round of criminal charges (as if he didn’t already have enough) — this time, over his infamous taxes.
Trump biographer David Cay Johnston has made a years-long career out of covering Donald Trump’s taxes and finances and recently made an appearance on MSNBC’s Alex Witt Reports Sunday, where the host got straight to the point, asking the author about the former president’s taxes and what they could mean from a criminal charges standpoint.
“There’s a lot of ifs on all of this. Going back to 2017 when you obtained some of his tax records from 2005. In 2022 you said his taxes were the best case yet for putting him in prison. Of course that has not happened. Could he be in legal jeopardy for that?” Witt opened.
“There’s statutes of limitations for criminal prosecution of taxes, but one of the things we know from the Donald Trump returns we finally got, is he created 60 fictitious businesses, took tax deductions for a number of them that reduced his overall tax bill, even though they had no revenue, and in other cases the revenue and expense matched to the dollar, which I have never seen in 50 years of writing about taxes, and in 1984, Donald Trump did the same thing,” the Trump biographer responded. “He claimed over $600,000 of deductions for a business that had no revenue, no invoices, no records of existence, and was tried twice for income tax fraud, civil, not criminal. Both judges found against him, and his own tax lawyer Jack Mitnick testified against him for forgery saying he put his signature on it when he didn’t prepare it.”
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Johnston went on to add, “Since he has done this again, more than 60 times, I have argued either Alvin Bragg or the U.S. government should bring a case against him for tax fraud, proving he created fictitious businesses would be easy, and he was on notice not to do this, a clear indication of criminal intent.”
You can watch the MSNBC segment here:
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