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There seems to be no indication of precisely when the move was made, but it is treated as a new escalation; the use of outside experts to probe Trump company records may be a prelude to being able to use those experts as witnesses in upcoming legal actions. The timing certainly seems conspicuous. Trump will be leaving office in just three weeks, at which point he will lose the supposed presidential “immunity” from criminal charges that he has used to stonewall each investigation. He will be, as of the afternoon of Jan. 20, unquestionably indictable.
But there are three weeks between now and then, and Trump’s bender of self-serving pardons of associates will no doubt be continuing. He has already pardoned each of those that lied to federal investigators about his campaign’s efforts to utilize and benefit from the Russian government’s espionage efforts aimed at sabotaging his opponent in his 2016 presidential bid. One presumes the next set of pardons will be broadly aimed at immunizing himself and his children from the financial crimes uncovered in those past press reports, but it will only work to block federal charges, not state ones. This is New York probing his business dealings, not the ever-compliant Department of Justice.
So we can read the tea leaves here, but … hmm. It doesn’t tell us much. It’s possible District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office has hired new outside help because something of special note was found in the Trump Organization’s finances; it’s just as possible they were hired because the office’s in-house experts simply lacked the capacity to follow each number and lead. It’s possible this new escalation was intentionally leaked in order to signal that the investigation is in high gear and prepared for Trump’s imminent loss of presidential privilege; it’s very possible it was not supposed to leak as it gives the currently fuming and unstable Trump three weeks to mull whether there are any additional presidential powers that can be used in retribution.
Granted, Trump is currently preoccupied with an attempt to overthrow the United States government, but investigations that could someday put him in jail seem to still get his prompt attention.
All we know is that in New York, the probe into whether Donald Trump has gained what fortune he still has by being a lifelong crook is still not just ongoing, but expanding. That’s going to piss him off, yet again. This still probably all ends with him fleeing the country, claiming that he is simply too good for us and we are too mean to him. It will pain him to leave Mar-a-Lago, but he left his New York tower over far more petty insults. And he wants to grift off a new presidential run, to be sure, but there’s nothing to say his adoring base won’t keep donating to that cause even after Dear Leader has sauntered off to a sympathetic kleptocracy.
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