To your knowledge, did the president or his company ever inflate assets or revenues?

Yes.

And was that done with the president's knowledge or direction?

Everything was done with the knowledge and at the direction of Mr. Trump.

Do you think we need to review his financial statements and his tax returns in order to compare

them?

Yes, and you'd find it at the Trump org.

Quote, you'll find it at the Trumporg.

That was Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen laying out a roadmap that prosecutors

investigating the former president

now appear to be following. Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe. It is Wednesday, May 26th.

The Washington Post reported late yesterday that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has convened

a special grand jury to decide whether

to bring criminal charges against former President Donald Trump, other executives at his company,

or the company itself. According to the Post, the move indicates that after a more than two-year

investigation, with a lengthy legal battle for Trump's tax returns,

Vance believes he may have found evidence of a crime somewhere in the Trump organization.

The panel will sit for three days a week for the next six months longer than a traditional New York grand jury assignment.

People familiar with the matter told the paper. These sources say the Democratic prosecutors investigators are scrutinizing

Trump's business practices before he was president, including whether the value of specific

properties in the Trump organization's real estate portfolio

were manipulated in a way that defrauded banks and insurance companies, and if any, tax

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