Timothy L. O'Brien, Columnist

Trump’s Accountant Confronts a Loyalty Test

Now that he’s indicted, will Allen Weisselberg treat his boss as he can expect to be treated in return?

July 1, 2021 at 8:11 PM UTC

Timothy L. O'Brien is senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. A former editor and reporter for the New York Times, he is author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.”

He has months to contemplate turning on his boss.
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Donald Trump and his accountant, Allen Weisselberg, have spent decades crunching the Trump Organization’s numbers together. During a 2007 deposition stemming from an unsuccessful libel suit Trump filed against me, the former president testified under oath that he and Weisselberg routinely worked jointly to prepare summaries they shared with banks that were trying to assess Trump’s financial wherewithal.

“He shows me. We’ll talk about it. He’ll do it,” Trump noted. “And he’ll show me, before we go to the final drafts and put down everything.”