As New York authorities continue their criminal investigative efforts targeting former President Donald Trump, Jennifer Weisselberg has now predicted during an appearance on CNN that Allen Weisselberg — her former father-in-law and a top financial officer at the Trump family business — will flip against the former president and provide information to prosecutors. Jennifer herself has already been cooperating with authorities, including by providing investigators with materials that she had covering financial matters connected to the probe.
Check out Jennifer’s comments below:
Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg's former daughter-in-law, Jennifer Weisselberg, says without hesitation that he will flip on former Pres. Trump.
She also says she has hard evidence that Trump paid for her kids’ tuitions. https://t.co/Q2gmbIkmIX pic.twitter.com/0TpfonDLdC
— OutFrontCNN (@OutFrontCNN) May 21, 2021
While on CNN, host Erin Burnett noted that Jennifer displayed “no hesitation” in offering her assessment that her former father-in-law will cooperate with authorities against Trump. According to a new report from The New York Times, the office of New York state Attorney General Letitia James (D) “has been criminally investigating [Allen Weisselberg] for months over tax issues,” with tax issues under examination including “whether taxes were paid on fringe benefits that Mr. Trump gave [Allen], including cars and tens of thousands of dollars in private school tuition for at least one of Mr. Weisselberg’s grandchildren.” Just recently, James’s team announced that their investigation of the Trump Organization itself is formally a criminal probe.
Asked while on CNN why she has been cooperating with authorities’ efforts to investigate Trump World, Jennifer explained as follows:
‘Because I think the truth matters, and it’s become so much bigger. I’m not motivated by money; I’m not motivated by the post-judgment divorce situation that they started. I mean they start civil cases to cover up their own crimes. I have no motivation. I get nothing out of this, but I think the truth matters, and it’s so horrifying to think that Donald Trump could be president again, knowing what I know. I’m not afraid to tell the truth, and I respect the DA’s and AG’s investigation. It is serious. And it continues to be finite, because numbers are finite, you know? They always are. And there needs to be accountability.’
Unsurprisingly, the former president himself has freaked out. After James’s office publicly revealed the criminal investigation into Trump’s company, the former president whined on his blog in reference to James that “If you can run for a prosecutor’s office pledging to take out your enemies, and be elected to that job by partisan voters who wish to enact political retribution, then we are no longer a free constitutional democracy” — but the ability for public officials to face electoral pushback from large enough groups of voters is one of the fundamental features of democracy itself.
