
Lawfare Archive: Trump's Money and National Security
The Lawfare Podcast
The One Takeaway That Isn't Getting Attention?
CNN's John Sutter says he thinks the IRS has the upper hand in this audit. Trump probably did violate the law on walking away from an Atlantic City casino, but only if he didn't get anything of value out of it. He clearly got a 5% stake in the reconstituted property; that seems pretty cut and dried to me. The other thing that I keep thinking is not so much the payments that will come due in terms of his debts, but rather whether or not this leaves invulnerable to criminal prosecution if he doesn't get reelected.
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