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babylonsister

(171,104 posts)
Mon Jan 3, 2022, 09:44 PM Jan 2022

Trump Family Starts Airing Dirty Laundry to Fight Off Subpoenas


Trump Family Starts Airing Dirty Laundry to Fight Off Subpoenas
COMING OUT SWINGING
Donald Trump, Don Jr., and Ivanka are exposing details about the New York attorney general’s investigation in an effort to dodge interviews with prosecutors.
Jose Pagliery
Political Investigations Reporter
Updated Jan. 03, 2022 8:05PM ET / Published Jan. 03, 2022 7:58PM ET


With their backs pressed against the wall by two simultaneous tax-dodging investigations in New York, the Trump dynasty is starting to hit back.

On Monday afternoon, copies of subpoenas and details about the investigation were exposed in court documents filed by attorneys for former President Donald Trump and his adult kids—Don Jr. and Ivanka. The trio are trying to avoid being forced to testify under oath in a civil investigation, saying their statements will simply be used in a parallel criminal investigation that could threaten them with prison time.

“The [office of the attorney general] is engaged in a criminal investigation that has an active Grand Jury. It cannot issue subpoenas for testimony under the guise of a civil investigation that will immediately become available—to its own… criminal investigation,” they said in a court filing.


Earlier in the day, court documents were made public showing that New York Attorney General Letitia James had set her sights on the former president and his two children for refusing to cooperate with her civil probe into potential tax dodging and bank fraud. Although these kinds of investigations tend to be quiet matters until a formal lawsuit is filed—or both sides reach a settlement—this is starting to become an airing of dirty laundry.

As such, the Trump family has used this as an opportunity to start exposing details about the AG’s investigation.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-family-lays-out-new-york-attorney-general-letitia-james-case-against-them?ref=scroll
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Trump Family Starts Airing Dirty Laundry to Fight Off Subpoenas (Original Post) babylonsister Jan 2022 OP
The Trump family can do what it can... Stuart G Jan 2022 #1
I don't think you can incriminate yourself unless you have committed a crime Walleye Jan 2022 #2
Our court system gets abused BootinUp Jan 2022 #3
No one wants to see your soiled Depends Donny. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2022 #4
How much of this is actually them trying to throw each other under the bus? GoCubsGo Jan 2022 #5

Stuart G

(38,454 posts)
1. The Trump family can do what it can...
Mon Jan 3, 2022, 09:52 PM
Jan 2022

The real dirty laundry will be in convictions, convictions and more convictions..

...and in order to evade ....convictions.. ....more filthy laundry...

If we think you have seen it all.
More to come...........................

BootinUp

(47,207 posts)
3. Our court system gets abused
Tue Jan 4, 2022, 12:26 AM
Jan 2022

all the time by people like these. But it also can occasionally get it right. Typed like a silent prayer.

GoCubsGo

(32,099 posts)
5. How much of this is actually them trying to throw each other under the bus?
Tue Jan 4, 2022, 08:44 PM
Jan 2022

According to people close to the family, like Michael Cohen and Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, they all hate each other. I would not put it past any of them to implicated the rest of their family, in order to keep their own asses out of prison. Or, to prevent themselves from financial losses in any civil suits.

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