Exquisitely analyzed piece.
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) July 4, 2021
Trump lawyers laid false claim #Weisselberg-#TrumpIndictments were "fringe benefits" case.
Since then, DJT, Eric and Don Jr. have maintained that frame. So has much of the media!
Top #TaxLaw expert demolishes that framing.https://t.co/ytknJHP2O0
3. Professor @DanielShaviro (the very top tax law expert who authored the article) also provides a list.
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) July 4, 2021
"The following items that the company paid for, on Weisselberg’s behalf, most emphatically do not fit the profile of potentially excludable fringe benefits": pic.twitter.com/WUPsdzpebH
Like I said: Al Capone.5. "It is hard to fathom that the IRS–if it agrees that those facts are true–would not promptly indict the defendants .... Failing to bring charges would amount to saying that overt and deliberate tax cheating of the most brazen kind need not be addressed criminally."
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) July 4, 2021
And he's right: read the article. Everything you know is wrong. And Trump isn't confessing to the crime; he's trying to make it a different crime. Unfortunately, cases are not tried in the court of public opinion. On the other hand, almost nobody in jail thinks they are guilty.6/6 "If the Manhattan DA can prove the facts asserted, this is not a trivial case, or one that ordinarily would not be brought, or one that bespeaks political bias.... It is unimaginable to me that any prosecutor would not bring these or similar charges under the asserted facts."
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) July 4, 2021
Journalism is really lousy at researching their claims and verifying what they present as facts. Freedom of the press has spoiled them. Especially when filling air time and lines on a computer page is the prime directive.
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