Hi there everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York on a Monday. An empire built on lies. That

is how one veteran prosecutor describes the twice in-peach disgraced ex-presidents

family business, the Trump organization. It is the linchpin of the image of a successful

businessman that Donald Trump sold to his voters for years. But those are the words

of Mark Palmer. And so you're going to hear a lot about him in the coming days. He's

a former prosecutor for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, a man who spent a year pouring

over financial statements from the ex-presidents' businesses and interviewing potential witnesses

about them. He came to one inescapable conclusion that Donald Trump committed financial crimes.

Here is what he said to CBS News about his boss, Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg's decision

to halt the grand jury probe that was looking into Trump's finances, a decision that led

Palmer ants to resign in protest. If you take the exact same conduct and make it not

about Donald Trump and not about a former president of the United States, would the case have

been indicted? It would have been indicted in a flat second. You said in your resignation

letter that Bragg's decision amounted to a grave failure of justice. You still believe

that? I still believe it. But don't prosecutors often disagree with decisions made by their

bosses? I mean, what makes this different? Given all the evidence that we had and that nobody

said, hey, the guy's not guilty. We've heard that before, right? Donald Trump's position

as the former president of the U.S. is the only thing protecting him from indictment again.

This time, according to Palmer ants, on charges based on a consistent pattern, years and years

of false statements about the values of his properties, including Mar-a-Lago and his

apartment in Trump Tower. Statement signed by the ex-president himself, all in order to

secure hundreds of millions of dollars in financing. Once again, from that CBS News interview.

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