05 April 2023
A Tax Fraudster President?
The most compelling of DA Bragg’s felony charges against Donald Trump seems to be that the former President committed tax fraud by characterizing some of his payments as business expenses instead of personal purchases of silence from sexualized women. It’s not that the payments were campaign expenses; nor that they were actually meant to prevent discovery of these peccadillos by Trump’s wife.
Of course, John Edwards was able to escape campaign expense charges by using the latter rationale to explain his own hush-money payment. However, apparently, he had not also tried to use that payment to fraudulently reduce his income taxes.
To paraphrase Nicole Wallace, Trump has perhaps sealed his own conviction on Bragg’s charges by being not only dishonest, but also by being cheap.
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