The theme of the week has been the new self-sustaining pace by which we see desperately needed evidence of Trump’s true finances and dealings with foreign governments come to the surface. To that end, we already have two key new revelations just this morning.

ProPublica released a report on some of Trump’s taxes and finances. The report shows inconsistencies in submissions, depending upon the intended recipient of the documents. From Rawstory:

Documents obtained by ProPublica show stark differences in how Donald Trump’s businesses reported some expenses, profits and occupancy figures for two Manhattan buildings, giving a lender different figures than they provided to New York City tax authorities. The discrepancies made the buildings appear more profitable to the lender — and less profitable to the officials who set the buildings’ property tax.

This is fraud of the type that Michael Cohen told us we could expect, and likely the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Trump’s willingness to literally make-up numbers, depending upon whether he can save money by over or under reporting his true interests.

For instance, Trump told the lender that he took in twice as much rent from one building as he reported to tax authorities during the same year, 2017. He also gave conflicting occupancy figures for one of his signature skyscrapers, located at 40 Wall Street. Lenders like to see a rising occupancy level as a sign of what they call “leasing momentum.” Sure enough, the company told a lender that 40 Wall Street had been 58.9% leased on Dec. 31, 2012, and then rose to 95% a few years later. The company told tax officials the building was 81% rented as of Jan. 5, 2013.

I am not conversant in finances or accounting, not even close. But, I do understand that if someone is addressing their taxes, they want their income to appear “low” and pay less in tax, while at the same time, one wants to report making lots of money to lenders, who price loans according to risk. Clearly, one of the issues Trump fears in releasing his taxes revolves around the fact that if anyone ever had all his financial documents in one place, at one time, it would be obvious that one cannot square all he reported, and that is precisely what they are finding.

Those who have been with me all along know that I refer to this as “crimes on paper,” and they are devastatingly hard to defend. As the term implies, the crime is sitting right there, “on paper,” and there’s fck all that can be done because it should be one or the other, not “both,” “both” is a crime.

The positive feedback loop marches on, more evidence bringing forth more evidence. Lenders hear of whistleblowers in DC and perhaps those documents find their way to Propublica. Judges see increasingly concerning behavior and determine that the courts cannot risk the legitimacy crisis if seen helping to protect someone’s political interests.

Speaking of evidence propelling more evidence forward, we have new reports coming out this morning that Rudy Giuliani (who else?) was urging Trump to do Erdogan’s bidding long ago, back in 2017, with respect to the cleric held in Pennsylvania accused of attempting a coup to overthrow Erdogan a few years ago:

Rudy Giuliani urged President Trump to extradite a Muslim cleric to Turkey, where he’s wanted for allegedly plotting a coup attempt against President Recip Tayyip Erdogan, according to The Washington Post. Giuliani reportedly told Trump in 2017 that he should grant Erdogan’s wishes to extradite Fethullah Gulen, a permanent U.S. resident who lives in exile in Pennsylvania, to Turkey. One former official described the Gulen subject as Giuliani’s “hobby horse” at the time, and some White House aides reportedly became concerned that Giuliani was making the case on behalf of Erdogan’s government. One former administration official recalled Trump asked why Gulen couldn’t be turned over to Turkey, and referred to Erdogan as “my friend.”

Holy shit. Is there a bad guy on Earth who isn’t “Trump’s friend” and working with “Rudy”?

Zoomers, it is increasingly obvious that the sum of our fears has likely not only been true, but under-appreciated all along. We will likely learn that Trump made each decision as president and commander in chief with no greater guiding principle than how he could “help his friends.”

Were that not bad enough, Trump is not “friends” with good people like Merkel, Macron, and Trudeau. No, Trump’s only “friends” are the people around the globe who rule nations in such a way that they pick winners and losers, the autocrats, the strongmen, the dictators, war mongers, people who cheat, get rich and crush opponents. That is what we are seeing.

At each and every point where we have seen new revelations of actual evidence (as opposed to the summary in the Mueller Report), it has not once broken the pattern. Trump is willing to wholly make shit up in an attempt to cheat on taxes and financial dealings, while also willing to “wholly make shit up” to “help HIS friends,” not the United States’ friends. Everything we’ve feared from the beginning seems not just true, it seems worse than we likely imagined.

Perhaps we are only “seeing it” now, as opposed to early in the administration, because Trump has so few people left willing to forcefully stop him. McGahn kept Trump from firing Mueller, but McGahn and Tillerson and Mattis and Kelly were all gone by the time Trump picked up the phone to call Zelensky. Trump rid himself of all those “adults in the room” who have perhaps stopped Trump from “helping his friends” in the past.

You saw the pictures of Kurdish kids killed by bombs, now put Trump’s modus operandi beside that picture, “I did this to help my friends.” Dead kids, because Trump needed to help the people that help him, the sum of our fears.

As people become increasingly aware that situation is likely more true than appreciated, more will believe they must come forward. It is not a coincidence that we wake this morning to these two exploding new revelations, the week after people started ignoring claims to privilege and testified as to the rot inside the White House.

I cannot help but think we will be left stunned for a decade, perhaps a generation, from the revelations we’re about to endure over the next two to three years, as all of this is actually sorted out, documents examined, witnesses spoken to, studies conducted, and new laws passed. The U.S. is going to eventually have to form a committee like the Warren Commission, to examine each detail, what broke down, how it happened, what happened, and how we can keep it from happening again.

But that is later. For now, we have to face each new revelation, and absorb what it means. This morning we have two more clear indications that Trump is willing to literally do anything, including tolerating needless killing of kids, to get what he needs personally. He never seems to be held back by a larger obligation. The law cannot rope him in, even the prevention of possible genocide cannot stop him. He is capable of near anything, and needs to be gone, as fast as possible.

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Peace, y’all

Jason

jmiciak@yahoo.com and on Twitter @MiciakZoom