Rachel Maddow just nailed it
Donald Trump’s newly unearthed tax returns reveal that he’s either the world’s worst businessman, or he committed felony tax fraud by pretending to be the world’s worst businessman. Of course if he told the truth in his tax returns, it means he lied to his potential lenders, which is also a felony. Either way he committed a crime; it’s just a matter of digging into the numbers and figuring out which crime(s) he committed.
Rachel Maddow pointed out on her show tonight that as bad as things currently are for Donald Trump, he could very well be about to make it even worse for himself. It was one thing for Trump to privately tell the IRS that he’s flat broke and a terrible businessman. But now that this admission has become public, it’s embarrassing for Trump, a narcissist whose sense of self worth is largely rooted in creating the illusion that he’s wealthy.
Trump is also increasingly erratic and self destructive in his behavior as everything unravels for him. As Maddow pointed out, the embarrassment of being exposed as a broke loser could prompt Trump to blurt out that he lied in his tax returns, and that his businesses actually did better than that.
In such case Trump could be confessing to felony tax fraud, and making it extraordinarily easy to get a conviction against him. Keep in mind that even if he tries to pardon himself on federal charges, New York could nail him on state level income tax evasion. Investigators’ lives will get a whole lot easier if Trump’s big mouth points them in the right direction.
