Trump ordered to pay over $350M for business fraud

Actually, it's $355 million, and not allowed to do business in NY for 3 years.

Oooh that's gotta hurt! Now, add Carroll's $83 million and that 's well over $400 million he's gotta pay.

Do you think the judgement is fair? If not, why not?

Please read the 93 page ruling (link below) before you jump to conclusions, as a lot of evidence, testimonies, etc., have been considered before the ruling was made.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/16/trump-fraud-case-verdict-350-million-00141990

NEW YORK — The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial issued him a $354.8 million penalty Friday, finding that for years Trump orchestrated massive business fraud by falsely inflating his net worth to obtain favorable rates from banks and insurers.

The verdict strikes at the heart of an aspect of Trump’s identity that he harnessed in his 2016 presidential run: his personal wealth and his success as a businessperson.

The ruling:

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24432591/ruling-in-donald-trumps-civil-fraud-trial.pdf

 

“Justice Arthur Engoron has delivered his verdict in Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud trial that sees the former president, his company, and his associates with $364m in fines and a three-year ban on doing business in the state.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-updates-fraud-new-york-verdict-b2497356.html

Pretty much as expected. And so will The Stain’s reaction.

Let the gnashing of teeth and the rending of garments begin…!

 

Trump is screwed, as are his fail sons.

 

I'm sure the GOP will be helping him pay that as soon as they finish paying off his defamation/sexual assault decisions.

 

What a beautiful day.

Trump is ruined.

There he can pretend to be close to the little people....

 

Yah but the judge shared a pic of himself with no shirt! lol
Been an expensive year for him so far!

 

Sorry Patricio, didn’t see you started one at the same time. Mods, please merge if required.

 

Earache and Dumb, Jr. are banned from doing business in NY for 2 years.

 

I thought of a good analogy for me personally.
I get the same satisfaction as if I saw some arrogant prick driving through traffic, cutting me and others off, tailgating, etc and then seeing the same guy standing next to his car torn up in a ditch.
Argue over whether that's right or not, but there's something inside me who likes to see people get what they deserve, good or bad.
If Trump had exhibited responsible behavior and acted humble, he wouldn't be where he is now.

 

Yes, it’s been raining steadily for the past few days here………but the sun just came out…!

 

Weren't they also banned for defrauding charities as well?

 

The progressives are going to be severely disappointed on appeal.
I get that some people cheer injustice out of pure hatred, but those people are wrong.
He probably deserved a crooked trial and even better every anti -Trumper got a piece of it!

 

Ahh heck all Trump has to do is sell that 18m dollar Maralago property to pay off this partisan judge's settlement and end his 15 minutes of fame.

 

It'll get thrown out on appeal...lol.

 

I hope every lawyer on the defense gets disbarred, and so does the judge if he doesn't retire first.
Great grist for a special prosecutor. DoJ is going to by busy slaying Democrat icons of dual justice.

 

“lol” all you like….the odds are well and truly against him…

https://www.courtstatistics.org/__data/assets/pdf_file/0029/23969/vol14num1civiltrialsonappeal1.pdf

 

“How can you run for election and be sitting in a courthouse in Manhattan all day long?
I’m supposed to be in South Carolina right now, where other people are, and where,
again – this is where I should be. I shouldn’t be in a courthouse!”
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Trump was even more explicit in comments after leaving the courtroom later in the morning, saying,

“So instead of being in South Carolina and other states, campaigning, I’m stuck here!”
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Facts First: Trump wasn’t “stuck” in the courthouse in New York on Thursday. In fact, he was not required to attend any part of the hearing, since Judge Juan Merchan had waived his pretrial appearances in the hush money case. Rather, Trump voluntarily chose to appear at the hearing after considering instead attending a Thursday hearing in Georgia that is related to the charges he faces there. And he had not been scheduled to be in South Carolina on Thursday even before he made the decision to attend the New York hearing; his next scheduled campaign appearance in the state is next week. His next rally after the Thursday hearing is a Saturday event in Michigan.​

Trump's campaign scheme to show up at his trials and whine about them is not an effective substitute for his grievance jamborees, but his lickspittles seem to enjoy his being very pissy about the American justice system and flailing his victom card.

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It will be thrown out because it violates the 8th Amendment.

 

This is the fourth time in 5 months that a MAGA has said that.

Keep hanging in there.

 

There had to be a ruling before there could be an appeal...lol

 

Yah yah yah, always relying on some future fantasy to change today’s reality. We all remember November 2020 when we were told trump won and would prove it lol
Hell, I’m still waiting to hear from his Hawaii birth certificate investigators!

 

You must be anxious for Trump to win one.

 

I sincerely doubt it.

 

Difficult times ahead for Trump...

 

I am confident that Trump will win all his appeals.

He will become POTUS again and will lock up all these corrupt jurists in the 7 trials he had to face in 2023-2024.

And the birds will start singing again.

But in the meantime, he is demolished by the justice of the country he still wants to lead.

This is the fate reserved for criminals in this country.