Trump is already road testing his defense for a possible NY indictment —
but there's a big problem
if Vance ever chooses to try and bring a case against the former president,
Trump will likely try to claim he was unaware that these crimes were occurring,
or that he was unaware that what was being done was illegal.
Some legal commentators argued it was clear Trump was trying to establish this narrative to exonerate himself
However, there's a big problem with this defense. It
directly contradicts what Trump himself has said about his own understanding of tax law and his own company's finances.
In 2017, he told the New York Times:
"I know the details of taxes better than anybody. Better than the greatest C.P.A. 
I know the details of health care better than most, better than most. And if I didn't, I couldn't have talked all these people into doing ultimately only to be rejected."
And this wasn't just out of thin air — it literally followed his own discussion of businesses' tax liabilities:
"The tax cut will be, the tax bill, prediction, will be far bigger than anyone imagines.
Expensing will be perhaps the greatest of all provisions.
Where you can do something, you can buy something. … Piece of equipment. …
You can do lots of different things, and you can write it off and expense it in one year.
That will be one of the great stimuli in history. You watch. That'll be one of the big. …
People don't even talk about expensing, what's the word "expensing." [Inaudible.]
One year expensing.
Watch the money coming back into the country, it'll be more money than people anticipate."
His remarks aren't particularly articulate about the subject matter, but
given his interest in the topic,
it's a stretch to believe he was completely in the dark
about what kinds of company expenses created tax obligations for him and which did not.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-indictment-2653677740
Trash's loose lips sunk his own ship
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