# A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 14, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537 "2020-11-14T00:09:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 229
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4567 "2022-02-15T17:24:16Z")
Somehow, I don’t think Donald Trump needs any prompting. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4568 "2022-02-15T17:28:52Z")
Even if they’re not suggesting bogus numbers, they might still have some explaining to do it they prepared documents with clear inconsistencies (i.e. they worked on both lowball property assessments for tax returns and highball property assessments for loan applications). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4569 "2022-02-15T18:17:53Z")
Their (now ex-) client has no problem being utterly inconsistent, as it politically suits him moment to moment - why should they? ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4570 "2022-02-15T18:40:03Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > they might still have some explaining to do it they prepared documents with clear inconsistencies Might depend on how siloed the operations are - possible that the tax guys never talk to the loan guys. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4571 "2022-02-15T21:57:40Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > My CPA never checks my numbers. That’s not their job. > > Their job is to take the numbers that I give them and do their magic CPA stuff to make sure that I pay the lowest taxes I legally can. My understanding is that Mazars is the Trump Organization’s auditor. When they need to perform an audit, as a condition of some agreement, they would use Mazars. I believe that their output would be part of the work referenced in the AG filing. > **[Meet the Shadowy Accountants Who Do Trump’s Taxes and Help Him Seem Richer...](https://www.propublica.org/article/meet-the-shadowy-accountants-who-do-trumps-taxes-and-help-him-seem-richer-than-he-is)** > > The Supreme Court fight over Donald Trump’s tax returns has pushed his accounting firm into the limelight. In various episodes over 30 years, partners — including the CEO — have run into trouble for fraud, misconduct or malpractice. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4572 "2022-02-15T22:38:56Z")
COME, LET US DRINK THE SCHADENFREUDE OF ERIC TRUMP’S TEARS: > ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4573 "2022-02-15T22:58:16Z")
Raise your glasses, my friends! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4574 "2022-02-15T23:13:32Z")
🍷 🍷 Clink! ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4575 "2022-02-15T23:13:58Z")
It’s ain’t over till it’s over. (And even when it’s over, it ain’t over.) ---
**Author:** ![Jumpbass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jumpbass/32/147_2.png) [@Jumpbass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumpbass)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4576 "2022-02-16T00:07:38Z")
Hey… apparently gerrymandering is bad. Huh. > **[Republicans Discover the Horror of Gerrymandering](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/02/gerrymandering-new-york-republicans-democrats/622086/)** > > The GOP learns what it’s like to be on the losing side of a redistricting power grab. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4577 "2022-02-16T00:34:38Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > It’s ain’t over till it’s over. > > (And even when it’s over, it ain’t over.) Yup. The Bengals want Mike Pence to fix the results of the Superbowl. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4578 "2022-02-16T01:32:27Z")
Yes my uninformed and Schadenfrueda biased interpretation of this is that they have signed a deal with the NY or the feds to cooperate probably in exchange for a certain degree of immunity. As such they have a clear conflict of interest in terms of working for Trump since they are actively working against him, and its unwaivable since they legally bound themselves to cooperate. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4579 "2022-02-16T01:35:26Z")
“Whiiiine! Why aren’t they going after Clinton sob sob, She lives in New York too?” Maybe because she didn’t commit massive fraud and tax evasion you dumbass! ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4580 "2022-02-16T01:43:27Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Yes my uninformed and Schadenfrueda biased interpretation of this is that they have signed a deal with the NY or the feds to cooperate probably in exchange for a certain degree of immunity. As such they have a clear conflict of interest in terms of working for Trump since they are actively working against him, and its unwaivable since they legally bound themselves to cooperate. This is my uninformed and hopeful interpretation as well. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4581 "2022-02-16T01:44:11Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Maybe because she didn’t commit massive fraud and tax evasion you dumbass! What about her buttery males? ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4582 "2022-02-16T01:49:16Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Yup. The Bengals want Mike Pence to fix the results of the Superbowl. || “Hang (the referee)!” :|| ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4583 "2022-02-16T02:25:27Z")
I’m a lawyer rather than an accountant so I’m not sure how it works with accountants. But in most circumstances, as a lawyer I would be legally unable to “sign a deal” that involved me breaching client confidentiality - even if I wanted to - because that confidentiality can only be waived by the client, not me. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4584 "2022-02-16T03:49:23Z")
The Bangles were obviously the better team look at how many people attended their games. The bangles always had huge crowds at their games, the Rams games would be practically empty. Would the Bangles have stadiums full of cheering fans week after week if they weren’t superbowl winners, I don’t think so. But lets go the the game itself if you look at the score at the two minute warning quarter we were up 20 to 16, we’d won. Then a minute later and suddenly it says 20 to 23. How does that happen? How does the score just suddenly change for 16 to 23 just by magic. The Rams must have cheated that’s how. Several of those referees looked chinese, and what state is closer to China than California where LA is located. Connect the dots! I’ve heard people say that the Bangles gatorade was spiked with opium, and half of the rams playbook was written in chinese. We have the video! Listen Mr. scorekeeper all I’m asking you to do is find 4 more points, we know that there were lots of points we should have had and they shouldn’t have, if they game were fair we would have beat them by 30 points. But I’m just asking for 4. Surely you can find that. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4585 "2022-02-16T03:54:53Z")
Lawyers can’t have their confidential client records subpoenaed by the court, accountants can. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4586 "2022-02-16T03:55:46Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Lawyers can’t have their confidential client records subpoenaed by the court, accountants can.   What if your accountant is also your lawyer? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537.md?page=228) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537.md?page=230)