Don Jr., Ivanka, and Eric Trump “should be worried,” former White House Counsel John Dean warns.
Speaking to Don Lemon on CNN this week, Dean was asked about the ongoing investigations into the Trump Organization and whether the adult children of the ex-president might be in trouble.
Earlier this month, Don Jr. was deposed as part of the Washington, D.C. Attorney General’s lawsuit alleging the misuse of Trump inaugural funds. Jr. is also at the center of the Manhattan District Attorney’s office into the Trump Organization’s finances.
Meanwhile, Ivanka was deposed by lawyers from the DC Attorney General’s office in December, and Eric was deposed by the Manhattan DA’s office back in October.
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“I think they should be worried,” Dean said matter-of-factly. He went on to explain that the Trump family has managed to weasel their way out of trouble with Manhattan DA Cy Vance in the past, but he doesn’t think that’s going to happen this time around.
“I don’t think [Vance] looks very favorably on the Trump family anymore, and he wants to clean up his reputation,” Dean said. “So, he’s probably being very aggressive about them and pursuing any potential criminality.”
The work continues.
— Cyrus Vance, Jr. (@ManhattanDA) February 22, 2021
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Trump’s last-ditch, years-long effort to keep his tax returns and other financial documents out of the hands of prosecutors.
As a result, millions of pages of documents were turned over the the Manhattan D.A.’s office, including tax returns, tax prep documents, financial statements, and communications related to the tax returns.
“There’s almost a terabyte of data,” Dean told Lemon. “That’s massive. That’s thousands upon thousands of documents.”
“This is going to show how they prepared the tax returns over the last eight years that they’re looking at. The memos back and forth. Records of phone calls where the accountants were being instructed. So, if there’s malfeasance, non-feasance or misfeasance in there it’s very likely to be in that terabyte.”
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Circling back to Don Jr., Dean explained that his involvement in the family business appears to have been limited, largely due to the fact that “his father didn’t have the greatest faith in his skills and abilities and he was often kept out of things.”
And all this time, we thought Eric was the dumb one.
Dean concluded by saying that there are a lot of directions the cases could go, and it will likely take time to sort everything out.
“Who knows where all this is going to go?” he said. “The conspiracy law in New York is very broad, as most states have, and they’ve been operating clearly in secret for a long time. And that’s what Mr. Vance is looking at. So, I think he’s got jeopardy.”
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Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
LumpyPillows
I will be so very happy when these mobsters go to jail.
Jim
Can’t wait to see then turn on each other
nmharleyrider
Amen to that. Carrot head will throw them all under the bus.
Cam
They were about to be indicted on Fraud in NY, until their lawyer made a large donation to the Manhattan DA. The case was then dropped. The DA knows they are under a microscope this time, there won’t be any dropping the case in return for donations. These two are going to court.
cubcmh
I think Junior and Eric should get hot pink prison jumpsuits (Trumpsuits?), and Ivanka should get shit brown. But as much as I’d like to see that happen, I’d be ok with one or two of them getting off scot-free if they’d roll over on their dad (peach jumpsuit).
Lightbulb
Will the Trumpsuits be made in China with all of the Orange One’s and Ickvanka’s good. If they need a patent no worries the Chinese and Japanese fast track everything for the Draft Dodger x 5 family members!
cuteguy
I think their main concern is if they can still tweet from jail so they can complain about cancel culture and being censored, all the while doing this ON TWITTER
Essie
It will probably be a couple of years before anything happens. Just getting through the massive pile of “stuff” will take a lot of time. I’m just hoping it’s done before ’24 because if Dumpty and his children are indicted then none of them can run for office. And, maybe, MAYBE once his fans see what a lying, cheating, scumbag Dumpty is, they will desert him. (I doubt that because his fans are too dumb to think for themselves but I can hope.)
Question: Is that the same John Dean from Watergate????
Doug
We can only hope. Like the worms they are, this creepy family seems to be able to squirm out of anything they’re charged with.
MISTERJETT
CHILDREN OF THE CORN
sadiedog63
I hope the entire Trump crime family goes to prison, Eric the rat faces boy and idiot junior can share a cell together. They all deserve jail time. Nothing but seditionists.