{"id":46987,"date":"2022-02-25T09:32:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T17:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=46987"},"modified":"2022-02-25T09:32:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T17:32:47","slug":"mirth-from-the-mazars-accountants-courtesy-of-george-conway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/02\/25\/mirth-from-the-mazars-accountants-courtesy-of-george-conway\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirth from the Mazars Accountants &#8211; Courtesy of George Conway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you all know, last week the noose continued to tighten on Trump when his accountants \u2013 Mazars \u2013 fired him with a stinging letter.<\/p>\n<p>But if you happen to have read it, you realized that it was crafted by a top-notch law firm, employing some top-notched legalese.\u00a0 Our friend and outspoken Trump critic (not to mention Kellyanne\u2019s hubby), <em><strong>George T. Conway, Esq.<\/strong><\/em> (Harvard \u2013 AB <em>[Magna Cum Laude]<\/em>; Yale &#8211; JD) stepped up to translate it for us laymen.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be using snippets from the Mazars\u2019 letter, but you can read the entire dismissal missive here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/context\/letter-from-mazars-on-donald-trump-s-2011-2020-financial-statements\/05c11ff2-b2e2-4d95-bcf4-cdffee6454bf\/\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/context\/letter-from-mazars-on-donald-trump-s-2011-2020-financial-statements\/05c11ff2-b2e2-4d95-bcf4-cdffee6454bf\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>From their letter:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MAZARS: Trump\u2019s financial statements, from 2011 to 2020, \u201cshould no longer be relied upon\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>CONWAY: You lied to us<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>MAZARS: \u201c\u2026 various financial statements, as a whole, contain material discrepancies, based upon the totality of the circumstances, we believe our advice to you to no longer rely upon those financial statements is appropriate.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>CONWAY: The New York Attorney General clearly means business<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>MAZARS: \u201cAs a result, we are not able to provide any new work product to the Trump Organization.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>CONWAY: We\u2019re not going to jail for <em><u>YOU<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>MAZARS: \u201c\u2026 we have also reached the point such that there is a non-waivable conflict of interest with the Trump Organization\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>CONWAY: We\u2019re now on Team AG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After this devastating blow from his accountants, TFG made an announcement on how he plans to proceed:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>TRUMP:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Given the Trump Organization\u2019s history of &#8230; <em>hmmm<\/em> &#8230; creative accounting (aka, criminal malfeasance), and because we share so many of the same values, we really would\u2019ve liked to have used the services of <em><strong>Arthur Andersen.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 But sadly, their scandalous handling of the Enron account drove them into bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, Rudy Giuliani will soon announce the selection of our new accountants.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll report once again from that infamous site \u2013 the Four Seasons Total Landscaping building, conveniently located next to an adult bookstore.\u00a0 And fortunately for us, it has now become the <strong><em>Four Seasons Accounting &amp; Tax Service.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46989\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Trump_Giuliani_Four-Seasons-Accountants_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"647\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Trump_Giuliani_Four-Seasons-Accountants_2.png 647w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Trump_Giuliani_Four-Seasons-Accountants_2-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Trump_Giuliani_Four-Seasons-Accountants_2-150x109.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But still in the running is the esteemed firm of <strong><em>Price Waterhouse Roofing &amp; Siding.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46990\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Trump_Price-Waterhouse-Accountants.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"652\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Trump_Price-Waterhouse-Accountants.png 652w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Trump_Price-Waterhouse-Accountants-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Trump_Price-Waterhouse-Accountants-150x76.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So stay tuned \u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46991\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/The-Best-Is-Yet-To-COME_Guilfoyle_OPT.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you all know, last week the noose continued to tighten on Trump when his accountants \u2013 Mazars \u2013 fired him with a stinging letter. But if you happen to have read it, you realized that it was crafted by a top-notch law firm, employing some top-notched legalese.\u00a0 Our friend and outspoken Trump critic (not <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/02\/25\/mirth-from-the-mazars-accountants-courtesy-of-george-conway\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4866,4868,4867,4865,4869,4864],"class_list":["post-46987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-accountants","tag-four-seasons","tag-george-conway","tag-mazars","tag-price-waterhouse","tag-trump","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}