Said Donald Trump, in a statement quoted in "Trump seeks to use indictments as a political rallying cry as he tries to survive latest legal threat" (WaPo).
From the article:
People who have spoken to Trump in recent days said he plans to attack the prosecutors at his rallies, raising the fact that both New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. (D) have expressed opinions critical of him, with James saying she would charge him if elected. He has told allies he wants to run for president again and has planned rallies, endorsement speeches and events for the rest of the summer....
“They’ve investigated me for years and this is all they have,” Trump said, according to one confidant who spoke with him over the weekend as details of the indictment began to be reported. “It’s a total joke.”
On Thursday, he complained about the visuals of the arrest, which included Weisselberg in handcuffs, and described it as a “chicken s----” prosecution, according to a close adviser....
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Temujin writes:
"Trump will be here in Sarasota tonight to do a rally. We've had days of heavy 'Florida' thunderstorms rolling through the area and now we're playing wait and see on a tropical storm/hurricane in the Caribbean (it's the season here in Florida). But dozens and dozens of people began lining up *yesterday* at the property where the rally will take place at 8pm tonight. (Can you imagine anyone standing in a heavy rain a day early for either Joe Biden or Kamala Harris?)
"To say he still has a pull with a large segment of the population is an understatement. I think a lot of people- and I include myself in this- see his work as a job unfinished, cut short. I don't miss his speeches or his Tweets. I do miss his administration's strength projected to the world (especially China), and his policies and actions, both domestically and abroad. Especially when looking at the mess we have now (for instance, our southern border). And I think his comment on radical Left prosecutors hits home. Millions have seen the work of far-Left prosecutors and DAs from Philadelphia to Atlanta, St. Louis to San Francisco, Los Angeles to Chicago and more. The crime in our country is a direct result of these people. So he's pinning the far Left Cyrus Vance with that same brush. (as he should).
"I don't think Trump will run again, purely because of his age. But his strength to gin up the base- even without the use of Social Media and without coverage from mainstream media- cannot be denied. I'm curious to see how many people show up in Sarasota tonight for this rally."
Lucien writes:
"There’s a semi-famous (among lawyers, at least) speech that then AG Robert Jackson gave to assembled US Attorneys including the exhortation that prosecutors should prosecute crimes, not people. When you see a local DA decide to do the work of the IRS by charging a business and its CFO for a tax issue that is usually a civil matter at most, it’s hard not to view the prosecution as selective and personal. The possibility that it’s being done to pressure an individual rather than based on the merits only makes it worse.
"When an employer pays an employee salary, the employer deducts it as an expense, and the employee recognizes it as income. When the employee gets “fringe” she or he does not recognize it as income, but the employer doesn’t deduct it — which is apparently what happened in this case. Whether the characterization hurts or benefits the taxing authority depends on who has the higher marginal tax rate. It’s basically a tax accounting, rather than a criminal issue."
Joe writes:
My biggest concern now is that lefty prosecutors feel comfortable just telling everyone that they will go after people they don't like if elected, even if there is no evidence of a crime.
Just as bad is arresting a middle-aged accountant, alerting the media, and then parading him around in handcuffs in public for the requisite photos and video.
As Pelosi said, even if Trump wasn't convicted, he would be 'impeached forever.' Now this poor schlub will be arrested forever, convicted or not.
Pretty shitty way to run a 'justice' system.
Stephen writes:
"During thirty years as a prosecutor, twenty as the Democrat elected “D.A.,” in a major metropolitan jurisdiction, I never permitted my staff to engage in a targeted prosecution without demonstrable probable cause, nor did we ever undertake a criminal investigation of minor civil violations such as these appear to be. These were inviolable moral and ethical principles.
"Cy Vance has a history of forgiving criminal conduct by Democrat consorts like Harvey Weinstein and Geoffrey Epstein that buttresses Trump’s accusation of “chickenshit” here. The new Democrats corrupt everything, but to an old prosecutor the corruption of law enforcement is the least forgivable stain.
"I hope Trump doesn’t run for President again. He is old and his most important function is as a beacon and a crier shining a light on and calling out corruption in both parties. I do hope he continues to fill stadiums."
Paul writes:
An earlier comment was incorrect when stating that the employer does not take a tax deduction if the fringe benefit is included in the taxable income of the employee recipient. Regarding the employee’s personal use of company property, the employer still receives a tax deduction whether or not the employer includes the value of such personal use in the employee’s individual taxable income. The net result is an increase in total income taxed by employees and no decrease or increase in the taxable income of the employer. Since there are large number of different types of transactions that warrant this attention, and complicated tax laws, there may some instances when an employer is denied a deduction, but that is not the general rule.
In a prior lifetime, I, as the tax manager was responsible for computing the amount of income to include in the employee's W2 in these circumstances. I did the best I could, but in large organizations I can guarantee that not all personal use is declared in-house to the tax and or payroll departments. These are items that often must be discovered by, not disclosed to, the appropriate in-house employees such as myself. You can imagine how easy it is to miss the many different transactions that require such actions by the employer in a large organization.
Missing some declaration of attributable taxable income for personal use of an employee is not a crime, just an issue; and a common one at that.
So Chisom's in New York now?
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