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The More Trump Talks, The More Nobody Listens.
The really big story about Trump came out Friday and hardly anyone noticed the news. It was an announcement from Carolyn Maloney, who heads the House Oversight Committee, that Trump’s accounting firm has handed over a trove of documents covering their work for Trump until the firm, Mazars, cut ties with Trump earlier this year.
The accounting firm said they would no longer work for Trump because they couldn’t ‘stand behind’ the reports they had issued about the Trump Organization’s net worth. Which basically means that there were doubts about the numbers that Trump’s company gave the accountants which were then used to create the financial reports that were submitted when the Trump Organization went out shopping for loans.
So, the question is this: Who’s ox will get gored now? Will Mazars be in trouble because they prepared financial documents based on numbers they knew weren’t right? Will the Trump Organization get in trouble because they gave Mazars numbers to use that they knew were off the mark?
We’ll see what we see. But either way, you may recall that Trump was the first Presidential candidate who refused to release his tax returns, so his claims about being worth ‘billions’ were maybe just another example of him blowing more hot air through Twitter and Facebook and every other internet venue for the…