I cannot stress enough that as a financial professional handing off facially fraudulent records to banks and taxing authorities is not a trivial matter

well the thing about elon musk and securities and tax fraud is,,,

Gee Elon, I dunno. 34 felonies doesn't sound trivial to me. Someone get him on record as to what would NOT be trivial. I'll bet Trump's done whatever that is too anyway.

*reads, re-reads, narrows eyes* Full audit of TSLA’s books when, IRS?

Too bad you don't have 185.3M followers

Also worth saying that *anyone* can be convicted of “trivial matters,” no political motivation necessary. People get convicted of seemingly minor stuff all the time!

It would be LESS trivial for Musk than for Trump. The availability of accurate, comparable financial information for publicly traded firms is the foundation of capital in the US. The system has problems, but the financial reporting requirement isn't one of them.

Everyone is at risk of political prosecution for 6-figure hush money payments. I now have to confront the fact that, if they could come after him for it, they could come after me for it. Who among us is safe from being accused of campaign finance law violations while running for president

Especially when the company's head is currently under SEC investigation and it's operating under a consent degree.

If it's so trivial, why do they do it and work so hard to hide it?

Musk has moved on from proclaiming CFT (Convicted Felon Trump) innocent to saying it was a trivial crime. Nice