Paranoid Donald Trump now refusing to be alone in a room with Allen Weisselberg
In the weeks since it became clear that Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg was going to be criminally indicted, we’ve seen some rather strangely stilted stories in major newspapers which made it sound like things between Donald Trump and Weisselberg were still hunky dory. In fact the stories sounded so stilted, we questioned if perhaps they were falsely planted.
Now it turns out things are very much not hunky dory between Donald Trump and Allen Weisselberg. During his MSNBC show tonight, Lawrence O’Donnell revealed that even ahead of tonight’s indictment of Weisselberg, Trump has been refusing to be alone in a room with him. Whenever the two have recently met or spoken, a third party has always been in the room.
This means that Donald Trump is indeed very much afraid that Allen Weisselberg will end up flipping on him, and he’s afraid of giving Weisselberg anything more to work with than he already has. The third party in the room means that if Weisselberg claims Trump said this or that to him, there will be a witness who can dispute it.
Remarkably, this suggests that Donald Trump has become so paranoid, he’s now afraid Weisselberg will just pretend that Trump said this or that incriminating thing to him. Of course Trump is so inherently dishonest, it’s not surprising he expects his underlings to be just as dishonest.
But as has always tended to be the case with Donald Trump, this is too little too late. Allen Weisselberg has been running Trump’s businesses, doing the accounting for his criminal antics, and cooking his books, for decades. Weisselberg surely already has more than enough to cut a deal against Trump. So Trump’s belated paranoia won’t help him.
