trump i mentioned before, there seems to be cult following that really pays attention to every single detail of these cases and they re following it very closely. i think there is not a whole lot of political appetite to see the government go after the former president. i think it is just a little too complex to have legs. howie: susan, the vanity fair, read a headline, which despises trump, donald trump s odds, the odds of donald trump going to prison just skyrocketed which is not the case at all. clearly you mentioned this earlier, clearly the prosecutors are trying to flip allen weisselberg. that is a standard prosecutorial tactic but the media speculation that weisselberg has a whole bunch of dirt on his old boss is going to far? part of the coverage is will he flip? will weisselberg flip on president trump. nobody has any idea if he would flip what he will have to say. he has given no indication he
the coverage, alexandra wilkes a former republican strategist and lawyer, susan per reach choe, from the washington examiner and clarence page from the chicago tribune. do you think this indictment against allen weisselberg matches the magnitude of the media build up over cyrus vance s investigation? no. march the trump organization would have to turn over tax returns, the media stories promised us this huge investigation. i kind of equate the people who are hoping, something comes of this to like a fan fiction base. they re watching particular shows on msnbc, cnn, really hoping something comes of it, whether hush-money payments or the inauguration or evaluation of the buildings. those are the thee main areas they were hoping to see see something from.
when they come out with an investigation into fringe benefits is a murky area of tax law. some is black letter law, some of it is not, but in this case it seems very anticlimactic. howie: susan, journalists can t say a charge against a cfo for allegedly inindividualing hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxes but if you look at the leaks over the year. trump organization defrauded banks. not in the indictment. the trump organization inflated assets, not in the indictment. donald trump s personal tax returns win cy vance has, not in the indictment. your thoughts. looks like they re trying to get him to flip to a bigger secret about president trump, so they can go after the president. it seems like it is political. 10 years ago tim geithner was accused ever the same thing. he evaded taxes part of what he did was write off school tuition