Michael Cohen says there’s a lot more to come after today
Today’s initial criminal indictments against Allen Weisselberg and the Trump Organization are damning in terms of the extent of the tax and benefits fraud they cover, but they’re also narrow in their focus. Nothing in these indictments specifically ties the Trump Organization’s crimes to Donald Trump personally. Nor is there any mention of the broader crimes that New York is investigating, including felony asset inflation and deflation.
The doomsday folks are already insisting that this means the whole thing is kaput and that Donald Trump has magically gotten away with it all. But the facts all point to the opposite. In fact Michael Cohen, who is considered credible enough by the prosecutors in this case that they’ve met with him ten times and counting, went on CNN today and said that “There are a multitude of documents that are in the possession of prosecutors that tie Donald Trump to everything, because everything went through Donald.”
Michael Cohen also pointed out that “Every single thing went on Donald’s desk,” meaning that there’s no way he couldn’t have known about the years of financial fraud that Weisselberg was cooking into the books. Keep in mind that Trump Organization Controller Jeff McConney has testified to the grand jury in this case, meaning prosecutors appear to already have an inside witness to confirm that Trump signed off on Weisselberg’s moves.
