A lawyer for the Trumps slammed Judge Barbara S. Jones in a court filing Monday morning, vehemently denying Trump lied about a missing $48 million loan.

Now that the retired federal judge babysitting the Trump Organization has uncovered potential tax fraud at the company, the Trumps responded over the weekend by tasking their own accountant as a monitor that monitors the court monitor.

In an indignant court filing Monday morning, a lawyer for the Trumps for the first time launched an all-out attack on Judge Barbara S. Jones—calling her latest report on the family company an absolute lie, a cheap attempt to justify her government-mandated job, and a last-minute ploy to bolster the New York Attorney General’s bank fraud case that just wrapped up.

  • Flying Squid
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    the Trumps responded over the weekend by tasking their own accountant as a monitor that monitors the court monitor.

    “I’m going to have my own monitor! With blackjack and hookers!”

    • @[email protected]
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      621 year ago

      He tried blackjack already. Poor guy couldn’t figure out how to keep multiple casinos, an industry known for basically printing money, afloat. Truly baffling considering what a genius businessman he is.

      • Jaysyn
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        291 year ago

        Turns out you can’t launder money & profit from a casino at the same time.

        • @Pretzilla
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          211 year ago

          He couldn’t - utter abject failure loser.

          Laundering is integral to casinos profits.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          Which is an amazing achievement for Trump, as usually the issue with trying to launder money through a business is that it looks TOO profitable.

    • @[email protected]
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      231 year ago

      Repurposing discredited monitors.

      But that too might fail to convince the judge, because it came from Jason Flemmons, a CPA who lost credibility when testifying at the recent bank fraud trial. Justice Engoron tore into the accountant last month, noting how Flemmons had “inexplicably” contradicted himself several times and seemed willing to bend over backwards to appease the Trumps. Engoron was annoyed at how Flemmons kept providing cover for the Trump family, like when he asserted that basic accounting principles require that an asset’s present value reflect discounted future income—but refusing to admit the Trumps broke the rules when they failed to do that.

    • Jaysyn
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      101 year ago

      I guess they had to get another accountant since the last one went to prison & is barred from working in finances.

  • Treczoks
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    421 year ago

    The more things he throws tantrums about, the bigger the change he will get a nice and friendly aneurism.

  • Kraiden
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    At this point, Trump throwing tantrums is kinda just assumed. It’s hardly news…

    Although I have to admit the move to monitor the monitor is hilarious.

    “We’ll have our own monitor! With blackjack and hookers!”

    Edit: damn it, someone already made this joke! I’m leaving it.

  • Jaysyn
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    161 year ago

    Trump is going to die destitute & in state custody.

    • @Bdtrngl
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      161 year ago

      The sooner the better.

    • @dhork
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      141 year ago

      Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter

    • @buddascrayon
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      31 year ago

      We can only hope to dream. The oligarchy often works to preserve its members so who fucking knows…

  • @silverbax
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    61 year ago

    The answer to everything Trump ever says is ‘prove it’.