As we watch the President strongarm his party into keeping him in office, it's worth remembering that he's on the hook for a tremendous amount of tax fraud and other infractions like campaign finance violations in the Stormy Daniels case. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
In this interview Andrea Bernstein, who has studied the Trump family closely, estimates that Fred Trump evaded taxes on about a billion dollars that he ultimately funnelled to his descendants, including Donald. npr.org/2020/01/08/794…
The best way for Trump to avoid being held accountable by the state is for him to be the state. It's a smart strategy on his part. No one in the GOP, however, is obliged to go along with it.
I wrote this a few months before the 2018 midterms. I think it still holds up as a way to understand what's going on here. medium.com/@sethcotlar/wh…
