Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump Witness SPILLS THE BEANS in Fraud Trial and DECIMATES Trump

Episode Date: October 16, 2023

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the testimony by Trump executive Patrick Birney in the New York AG Civil Fraud trial where Birney confirmed a lot of the allegations against Donald Trump and the other defendants.  Get up to 40% off for a limited time when you go to https://shopbeam.com/LEGALAF to try Beam's best-selling Dream Powder! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://pod.link/1510240831 Legal AF: https://pod.link/1580828595 The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://pod.link/1595408601 The Influence Continuum: https://pod.link/1603773245 Kremlin File: https://pod.link/1575837599 Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://pod.link/1530639447 The Weekend Show: https://pod.link/1612691018 American Psyop: https://pod.link/1652143101 Burn the Boats: https://pod.link/1485464343 Majority 54: https://pod.link/1309354521 Political Beatdown: https://pod.link/1669634407 Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://pod.link/1676844320 Uncovered: https://pod.link/1690214260 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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but they should be because this stuff is massive, massive, massive. You got Patrick Bernie testifying earlier in the day, the assistant vice president and financial operations officer at the Trump organization. He helped prepare a lot of these fraudulent statement of financial conditions from 2017 to the present that the judge presiding over the case, judge and Gora and has already ruled against Donald Trump and found that summary judgment should be granted in favor of New York attorney general Leticia James. There was this Perry Mason moment. I've been talking about these bombshell moments after bombshell moments

that have taken place at this trial. Shout out and had to to Adam Klassfeld, reporter over at the messenger who's there, subscribe to the messenger. By the way, they're doing great work. And he was there. He and some other reporters captured it, but here's how he described it. You have the attorney general lawyer questioning Patrick Bernie, grilling Patrick Bernie. And then there was this question at the end. Mr. Bernie did Alan Weiselberg ever tell you

that Donald Trump wanted his net worth on his statement of financial conditions to go up. Yes or no. And then Patrick Bernie said, yes, then there was objection, objection Donald Trump's lawyers led by Christopher Kice objected to the admissibility of the testimony and they said, judge, this is the epitome of hearsay. This is the heart of hearsay, motion to strike, remove it. And judge and goreons had looked all entertained some briefing on the issue. If that's hearsay, let me just peel that back for a second. I strongly believe that is not hearsay and that will be admissible. hearsay is an out of court statement used to prove the truth of the matter asserted. And here because it's a statement made by a party opponent, a party in this case,

Alan Weisselberg, it's per se, not an out of court statement. It's not under the definition of hearsay. So I don't believe it's hearsay at all. Alan Weisselberg could be cross examined on those statements because he is a defendant in this case. You know, a lot of the questioning of Bernie then focused on this Trump executive on the Trump brand premium, right? You'll recall that Donald Trump has been saying, oh, we've never added a brand premium.

There's no such thing as a brand. I should have added, we're like Coca-Cola. I should have added the Trump brand premium. Well, there's a ton of evidence that Donald Trump fraudulently added a Trump brand premium into the statement of financial conditions and then claimed he didn't add it. And that's how he would inflate the valuation by 15 and sometimes as much as 30% adding presidential brand premiums, Trump brand premiums into the financial condition. So that's a major part of the cross-exam of Patrick Bernie. And also one of the things that we see Trump do over and over again,

like he did with the square footage of the triplex where he lives. He claimed 10,096 square foot triplex was 30,000 square feet, just kind of randomly multiplies it by three and then uses that square foot to justify the fraudulent square footage to justify a higher valuation. He does that with like everything. And so for example, like his property in Aberdeen in Scotland, for example, when there is a limitation of the amount of units that can be built on an Aberdeen, Trump will say it's two or three times that amount.

When it's actually the amount of kind of units that can be built on a property are written in an agreement. So it's like obvious fraud that's taking place. Here, let's pull this up. This was shown, this was a major part of judge and goreons order. And this was a major focus as documents were shown to Patrick Bernie, the Trump brand premium. And this is what Judge and Goran previously found in the Summary Judgment Order. That the undisputed evidence indicates that for the years 2013 to 2020, the statement

of financial conditions relied on values that included a 15 or 30% premium based on the Trump brand for the following seven golf clubs. Trump National Golf Course, Jupiter, TNGC LA, TNGC Coltsnack, TNGC Philadelphia, TNGC DC, TNGC Charlotte, and TNGC Hudson Valley. However, the statement of financial conditions for those years and indeed all the years before this court also contained expressed language stating that quote, the good will attach to the Trump name has significant value that has not been reflected in the preparation of this financial statement. Accordingly, the statement of financial conditions, quote, double dip, both purporting not to include a brand premium while simultaneously including one of 15% or 30%.

And so when Donald Trump says he didn't add a brand premium, I mean, he, he did. I mean, it's, it's undisputed that he did. And the statement of financial condition says he did not. So again, that's kind of furthering the life. Did you know that poor sleep can cause weight gain, mood issues, poor mental health, and lower productivity? Sleep is the foundation of our mental and physical health and performance in our days.

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assets, you would see all these notations. Like 15% premium is added for a fully operational branded facility. And so you had these notations. Here is another one, as I mentioned with Aberdeen, for example. Here's how it was described in Judge and Gauron's order. The Trump Organization owns a golf course located in Aberdeen, Scotland. The value assigned to Aberdeen was comprised of two parts, a value for the golf course, and a value for the development of the non-golf course property, the latter

of which is the focus here, developing any of the non-golf course property required the local Scottish authorities approve any proposed plans. From 2011 to 2014, Donald Trump's statement of financial conditions reported that he had, quote, received outline planning permission from Scottish authorities in December 2008 for a residential village consisting of 950 holiday homes and 500 single family residences and 36 golf villas. had outlined planning permission to build a total of 1,486 homes, notwithstanding the 2014 to 2018 statement of financial condition valuations of Aberdeen, assumed the Trump organization had received approval to build 2,500 homes despite never having received such approval. And so folks, there's just undisputed fraud like that. And that's why I just really care about the evidence

and the facts and not the yelling and the screaming and just charges and operative, like this is just focus on the facts. And so when Patrick Bernie took the stand, the same way when Donald Trump's gonna take the stand, the same way when Weiselberg, Donald Trump's former chief financial officer and Jeff McConney, Donald Trump's former controller who testified that Weiselberg told him to commit fraud.

When these people take the stand, you just ask them the questions. You said, isn't it true that the Scottish authorities limited the total amount of units that could be built to 1,486 homes? Yes or no? Yes. And isn't it also true that your statement of financial conditions claim 2,500 homes? And didn't you do that to increase the valuation?

And isn't that number false and fraudulent? It's just that simple. You take the emotion out of it, I could take the passion out of it, and just surgically go through the evidence, surgically go through the data. And so that's what the New York Attorney General's lawyers were doing. Showing Bernie, read the documents, here are the houses, here are the units, here is

who receive the emails. One of the things Patrick Bernie was shown, for example, is an email that he was on showing that, quote, I put three copies for the kids and their folders on your chair. You and Jeff McConney have copies on your desk. I'll call you tomorrow. He was asked, well, who are the kids that you're referring to? And they were referring to Ivanka, Eric, and Don Jr. just think about that. They're referred to the Trump adult kids as kids in emails. But

that shows that all of the Trump kids who are going to be testifying had access to these documents. And so why is the New York Attorney General bringing Bernie now before the Trump kids to build the foundation, right? So when the Trump kids testify, which will be happening soon, they're going to be when they say, well, we never saw this. Well, you're going to have Patrick Bernie saying that's who it was referring to as well. Then there was a recess that was taken. There was more evidence about Patrick Bernie being involved in various meetings about planning of the statement of financial conditions. And then ultimately it concluded with the testimony that I gave you at the beginning of this video. I don't want to bury the lead here, but it's the question, did Alan Weisselburge ever tell you

that Trump wanted the network to go up? And the answer was yes. So there was other witnesses as well. Nothing yet as bombshell as Patrick Bernie's Testimony, but we will keep you updated as we learn more and but but just follow the evidence follow the data That's what we'll do here at the Midas Touch Network It's subscriber on our way to two million subscribers. Thanks to your support check us out as well at patreon dot com slash mightestouch have a great day. Check us out as well at patreon.com slash MidasTouch. Have a great day.

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