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Good article! It's unlikely that Mazars will be able to emerge from the unscathed. It's possible that bankruptcy is in their future IMO. I guess they were like "going belly up is better than going to jail"

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if it smells like a rat ... well, you know. great article jay!

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So THAT'S why Eric (the Dumber) Trump was close to shedding tears on Sean Hannity last night. I guess his 500 5th's at his deposition last year didn't help one little bit. The ship is nearly sunk. Will Melania be the next to grab a dinghy?

And FoxNews hasn't written any articles at all about it. That's very telling.

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That's always the biggest tell, right? What Fox doesn't report means its really big news; they can't spill it. Often more damaging than what they do report is what they ignore altogether.

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Thanks for the great article. The cesspool is about to overflow.

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If the past is any guide, a lawsuit against Mazars by *trump will be announced shortly, though, of course, he is in no position to be suing anyone. Probably his main source of income now is his "Save America' fundraising (which really amounts to a legal defense fund), and judging from its increasingly frequent and desperate texts and emails (which I receive about ten times a day), he's in dire financial straits, regardless of his accumulated war-chest. But we're all still waiting for the veritable centipede of "other shoes to drop"!

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this was my thought - I wonder how much he'll earn fundraising off of this?? *SIGH*

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Depends on how he tries to spin it. This one won't be easy even for him. He'll probably just add Mazars to his huge enemies list and say that they have been bought off by the Democrats. (And the QAnon folks will say it's more evidence of the power of the Deep State.) Whether all this will convince the little people (who have been digging deep into their pockets for years) to send him even more dollars remains to be seen, but it certainly won't fly with most of his dwindling wealthy base, who may be assholes but most are not stupid.

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Ooh...this is going to be an ugly divorce. The bigger they are, the harder they fall! I'm here for it!!

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I'm curious how this will really hit the Trumps though -- aren't they collecting millions from the sheep? Can't that money be used to pay the debt?

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When I read Mazars statement last night, and then the Trump Org's spin on it, I could not stop laughing. I'm like, in what universe do they live that THIS is an exoneration?? LOL

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It's the *trump cult universe. Although there may be an epiphany for some and they may finally decide they've had enough craziness, I doubt that most will abandon him. To them it will be more evidence that Great Leader is being persecuted, and of course that's the way *trump is already spinning it.

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I just don't understand how anyone could believe this letter "vindicates" him. Oh yea, because his true followers believe whatever he says no matter how little sense it makes.

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"Tainspin"

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And as I read on Facebook, TFG will need a lot of luck finding a new accounting firm.

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there may be a few in the prison where he may be vacationing

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Oh my, the plot thickens and not in a way that has any good outcomes for the former president.

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So happy that the trumpers are really going to be prosecuted!!

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