Ivanka Trump is in deep trouble over Donald Trump’s tax returns
The release of Donald Trump’s tax returns on Sunday night reveals that he’s the world’s worst businessman, he’s flat broke and deeply in debt, and he’s a tax fraudster. It turns out Donald isn’t the only member of the Trump family who has to be worried about the ramifications.
Donald Trump paid huge chunks of money to his daughter Ivanka Trump as a “consultant” for the Trump Organization, and he wrote off those payments accordingly. But Ivanka was already an employee of the Trump Organization, so that’s tax fraud.
Ivanka is going to have a heck of a time trying to explain how she somehow wasn’t a party to this fraud. At best she’ll be compelled to testify to the grand jury against Donald Trump or face contempt charges. At worst she could potentially be criminally charged herself. This has opened a whole can of worms, and the reverberations are just getting started.
Bill Palmer is the publisher of the political news outlet Palmer Report