It’s over for Donald Trump Jr
Back in December, the SDNY revealed in court filings that a Trump Organization executive known only as “Executive-2” was on the legal hook for conspiring with Michael Cohen to commit financial fraud. At the time, Palmer Report explained that because Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg had already cut an immunity deal, and because there were no other Trump Organization executives outside the Trump family, one of Trump’s three oldest kids had to be Executive-2.
Sure enough, Michael Cohen confirmed during his public testimony yesterday that Executive-2 is in fact Donald Trump Junior. Cohen went so far as to produce a reimbursement check he received for committing his crimes, which was signed by Weisselberg and Junior. This moment served to inform the public that Donald Trump Jr is at the center of a criminal investigation. It also confirmed that it’s over for Junior.
It’s not just that Donald Trump Jr signed his name on the check. It’s that SDNY is clearly in the process of building a larger criminal case against him. The check is simply a smoking gun that proves he’s every bit as much of a fraudster and financial criminal as the SDNY is going to accuse him of being.
We already knew that Donald Trump Jr was going down for lying to Congress, a criminal charge that no one beats, because the transcripts are right there to prove it. Now we know he’s also going down for fraud, and that he has no chance of beating those charges either. In other words, even if he thinks he can beat the inevitable Russia charges at trial, he’s looking at a very long prison sentence anyway. And those charges can easily be carried out at the state level if Donald Trump tries pardoning his son. There’s no way out for Donald Trump Jr; it’s over for him.
