A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on February 9, 2022.
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February 9 did not deliver one giant spectacle so much as another ugly proof point: the people and institutions that once insulated Trump were backing away. When your accountants are refusing to stand behind your numbers, that is not a PR problem. It is an integrity problem, a legal problem, and for a man who sells himself as a master of leverage, a very expensive one.
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Mazars told the Trump Organization that a decade of financial statements it prepared should no longer be relied on, a devastating move for Trump’s business credibility and a major boost to ongoing fraud scrutiny.