In an attempt to talk his way out of his many legal troubles, former President Donald Trump inadvertently handed investigators more ammunition to indict him.
Here’s how The Daily Beast reported Trump’s epic self-own in chronological order:
MONDAY: “Trump’s lawyers filed documents alleging that he ‘denies knowledge’—and doesn’t even know enough ‘to form a belief’ about the way he allegedly slapped a 30-percent brand premium on some business properties in 2014.
TUESDAY: “Trump said the complete opposite when he issued a lengthy statement to counter news that his long-time outside accounting firm, Mazars USA, had suddenly ditched him. He took the opportunity to show off his supposed previous net worth of $5.7 billion in 2014—and, more importantly, noted that it didn’t include the typical boost from the “enthusiasm” of the Trump brand.”
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WEDNESDAY: “Prosecutors contended in a letter that Trump can no longer play clueless; he had just revealed that he knows “exactly what OAG is investigating.”
“His answer is more than merely legally deficient: it plainly contradicts his public statements,” they wrote, according to The Daily Beast.
THURSDAY: “A state judge ordered him to turn over evidence about shady real estate values in a case about the Trump Organization’s alleged bank and tax fraud.”
Yup. Trump said too much—at just the wrong time, and his incessant need to boast ended up revealing he had more evidence to turn over.
Read the entire report on The Daily Beast.
