A court-ordered financial auditor has caught Donald Trump quietly moving $40 million from the Trump Organization into a personal bank account—seemingly so the former president could pay his whopping $29 million tax bill.

Trump isn’t supposed to be moving any money around without alerting Barbara S. Jones, a former federal judge in New York tasked with babysitting the Trump Organization for its relentlessly shady business practices. But on Wednesday, she notified a New York state court about some major bank transfers that were never brought to her attention by the Trumps.

  • massive_bereavement
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    327 months ago

    This is not because it’s Trump; it’s because the system was made so rich people do not face consequences.

    • mo_ztt ✅
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      457 months ago

      Not true. When rich people steal from investors (or other types of equally-rich people), they face consequences right the fuck away.

      The system has the ability to work. It just doesn’t care about democracy as much as it cares about capital.