I like how DJT starts laughing and the interviewer starts laughing with him. I bet she’s laughing for a different reason.
https://youtu.be/1r3ZuvDN32g?t=70
Speaking of, did you know that the COO (Chief Operating Officer) of the Trump Organization, Matthew Calamari, is a former security guard that caught Trump’s eye when he beat up some hecklers at a sporting event?
Calamari and Cheesebro sounds like a punk comic published in the nineties.
The team-up with the Flaming Carrot was a classic though.
Holy shit. I am by no means an accountant. I am a certified expert on Money Laundering, bank fraud, and the like. I did take some tax course from the IRS. But I know full well what GAAP means and I have even used it on these boards.
Yep.
I am wondering whether the investigators will look for evidence of his using the term in any document, and if they find it, will go after him for perjuring himself.
Not perjury (too high a hurdle) but that could be used to show his lack of truthfulness. Thus impugning his testimony. “We can prove you lied here under oath, so that means your evidence is suspect”
I’m not any of those exciting things, and I made a GAAP joke on these boards that amused nobody.
Indeed. I’m a marketing and advertising guy; my sole exposure to accounting is three semesters of accounting classes when I was in business school, 35+ years ago. Even I know what GAAP stands for, and what it means.
Hell, I’ve had no accounting classes at all and I know what “GAAP” means. I do proofread a lot of deposition transcripts, and a fair number of them involve financial issues where the term shows up. But for someone like Weisselberg to claim he knows nothing, nothing at all! about GAAP? That should have been met with snickers if not outright guffaws.
I have no idea what case this is from, or even if it’s recent. If anyone does, it can be moved to the correct thread.
In any case, I just ran across this gif, captioned only, by the person that posted it to imgur, with “He’s knows it’s over…”
It makes sense to me. The Generally Accepted Accounting Practices are for the suckers and losers out there. Trump has his own set of rules.
I grinned.
His job description was probably PLEASE (Provide Legal Exculpation And Sign Everything).
Those last couple of seconds, you can see him think, “Wait, no, I’m supposed to be ‘looking tough’ right now”, and then he tries to put on that mug shot face he practiced sooooo much.
“I was never in the military, so I don’t need to ‘accept’ any practices just because some ‘General’ told me to!”
I know they’re also accounting principles, so I know twice as much as Don Jr!
(I know a little more than that, tbf. I couldn’t cite them, but I broadly understand what they’re used for.)
It’s symptomatic of Trump’s approach to hiring.
He doesn’t want experience or expertise. He wants rubber-stamping fall guys. It’s absolutely not allowed that any minion should think they know better about anything than The Boss.
That was his main heartburn as president. His underlings were often disturbingly competent and too committed to doing their jobs, which interfered with Trump’s imperious desires. It sucks when you think you’re entitled to rule by dictat but your flunkies keep going on about “rule of law” and the “Constitution” and how the Civil Service won’t go along.
Yeah, the Deep State wasn’t a problem until it wouldn’t say yes to his idiotic commands.
This article suggests there may be some tactical method to the Trump team’s shenanigans in the NY case. Basically, they know they have essentially no chance to prevail in the current proceeding, but by antagonizing the judge, while this increases the chances of a harsher result in the short term, they may be able to bait him into behavior that establishes some sort of foundation on appeal. It’s a high risk strategy but it aligns with Trump’s reflexive “always fight, never surrender” philosophy.