#trump appeals 454 million

[thescoopess]

Donald Trump Appeals $454 Million New York Civil Fraud Judgment

PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES In an attempt to refute Judge Engoron’s conclusion that he lied about his wealth while building the real estate enterprise that propelled him to fame and the presidency, Donald Trump has filed an appeal of his $454 million New York civil fraud judgment. Attorneys for the former president filed notices of appeal on Monday, requesting that the state’s intermediate appeals court…

[beemovieerotica]

$454 million judgment against Trump is finalized, starting clock on appeal in civil fraud case (msn.com)

[simply-ivanka]

BREAKING NEWS

An appeals court slashed former President Donald Trump's bond payment on Monday, saying Trump must pay $175 million within the next 10 days.

[eaudrey35]

So our justice system decides to protect Donald J Trump from accountability. There was absolutely no reason for a reduction of the $454 million dollar bond. If Donald J Trump was as wealthy as he said he shouldn't have had any problem coming up with his bond money to appeal his case. Yet because he yet again lied Abt his wealth doesn't have anyone who would lend him the money because they know he wasn't able to pay them back. The appeal judge yet again gave him a break. So now Vlad r some foreign entity will give him the $175 million dollars to own him. Boy yet he plays victim talking Abt a two tier court system that showed they will protect the rich at all cost.

[gusty-wind]

https://links.truthsocial.com/link/112005510850579211

Former President Donald Trump's appeal of the $454 million civil fraud judgment against him in New York could be helped by an opinion written by the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Read more:

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[jackass-democrats]

The Socialist Democrat Party of America isn't very happy right now 😂

As always, never buy anything made in china. Don't ever trust a democrat and NEVER leave your child alone with one.

[cmesinic]

What stupid billionaire would bail out The Convicted Felon who accrues $120,000 of interest each day to his fine?🤔

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A judge's February ruling that found former President Donald Trump and his company committed hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud should be tossed out, attorneys for Trump said in an appeal filed Monday. Trump's lawyers called the $454 million judgment "draconian" and complained that the "case violates centuries of New York case law."  Judge Arthur Engoron found that Trump, his company and top executives, including his sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr., deceived banks and insurers for years, inflating Trump's wealth on financial statements in order to obtain favorable deal terms they wouldn't have otherwise received. Engoron concluded the Trumps and their company benefited to the tune of $354 million in "ill-gotten gains" through the scheme, and ruled they must pay the state that sum plus interest of about $100 million.

[longwindedbore]

Today in “Old White Men who think they are genetically superior mentally to (substitute ‘N’ word) ‘DEI’ BLACK prosecutors and - the even more ‘DEI’ BLACK WOMEN prosecutors.

Weisselberg testified at the trial on Oct. 10 that he was not involved in an incorrect valuation of Trump's Manhattan townhouse. Trump's 2015 and 2016 financial statements valued the unit at $327 million based on its stated size of more than 30,000 square feet, nearly three times the actual size.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office, which brought the charges against Weisselberg, said the former CFO's emails showed he was in fact paying close attention to the apartment.

Weisselberg also admitted to lying about his role in Trump's financial statements during two earlier depositions with James' office. James' investigation culminated in a $454 million penalty imposed on Trump for fraudulently valuing properties. Trump is appealing the order by Justice Arthur Engoron.

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As criminal ‘masterminds’ I find the Trump clown car disappointing.

Do they look down on paid-for-law-school-driving-hack Judge Engoron and so FAILED to read his brief of the State’s Motion for Summary Judgment? The Judge excerpted points from what must be masses of spread sheets prepared by the State detailing the crimes and the evidence.

Did these guys NOT study those spread sheets produced in the discovery phase to understand what the State could prove and what the State didn’t know?

Did they not discuss with the attorneys to develop appropriate responses and to insure that the attorneys dont get blindsided during the State’s cross-examination?

I prefer my criminal ‘masterminds’ to be literate.

[ralfmaximus]

The bond Trump is posting with the court now is essentially a placeholder, meant to guarantee payment if the judgment is upheld. If that happens, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee will have to pay the state the whole sum, which grows with daily interest. If Trump wins, he won’t have to pay the state anything and will get back the money he has put up now.

If he wins is such a longshot but ya never know.

The bigger risk (to the State of New York) is that by the time the appeals are done he's broke and they have nothing worthwhile to seize. But they WILL at least have that $175 million.

So in a way, this is a win for New York. They're guaranteed to get something when the original judgment is upheld, even if the amount is reduced (which may well happen).

Note that the original $454+ million dollar restitution grows at the rate of about $112,000 per day. The longer the appeal takes, the more interest piles on.

Current as of March 1 2024.

[simply-ivanka]

Good luck Mr. President. Time for the abuse from the Democrats to end!!

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Mike Luckovich

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

March 19, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

MAR 20, 2024

In Florida, Kansas, Ohio, Illinois, and Arizona, Republican voters chose their presidential candidate today. The results highlight the weaknesses former president Trump is bringing to the 2024 presidential contest.

Trump, who is the only person still in the Republican race, won all five of today’s Republican races. But the results showed that his support is soft. Results are still coming in, but as I write this, former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, who has suspended her campaign, received between 13% and 20% of the vote, Florida governor Ron DeSantis—who has also suspended his campaign—picked up votes, and “none of the names shown” got more than 5% in Kansas. 

Even in Ohio, where Trump’s preferred Senate candidate won, Trump received less than 80% of the Republican vote. After NBC News conducted an exit poll in Ohio, MSNBC producer Kyle Griffin reported that of Ohio Republican primary voters—who are typically the most committed party members—11% said they would vote for Biden in November and another 8% said they wouldn’t vote for either Trump or Biden.

Trump has money problems, too. This morning, Brian Schwartz of CNBC reported that while Trump has pushed Haley voters away, Biden’s team has courted both voters and Haley donors to help Biden defeat Trump. Schwartz said that at least a half dozen former Haley fundraisers have decided to help Biden. 

Aside from the Haley supporters who are moving to Biden, Trump’s campaign faces a money crunch. As Schwartz reported yesterday, small donors have slowed down their financial support for Trump considerably, possibly because of fatigue after 9 years of Trump’s supercharged fundraising pitches. Big donors have also been holding back funds out of concern that they will not go toward electing Republicans, but rather will be used to pay Trump’s legal fees.

On March 14, Trump’s people organized a new joint fundraising committee, called the Trump 47 Committee. It is designed to split the money it gets between state Republican parties, the Republican National Committee, and Trump’s Save America Political Action Committee (PAC). As Schwartz notes, Save America spent $24 million on Trump’s legal bills in the last six months of 2023.

While running for president is pricey, so is breaking the law. The former president continues to rail against the law that he must deposit either money or a bond to cover the court-ordered $454 million he owes in penalties, disgorgement of ill-gotten gains, and interest, after he and the Trump Organization were found liable for fraud. “I would be forced to mortgage or sell Great Assets, perhaps at Fire Sale prices, and if and when I win the Appeal, they would be gone. Does that make sense? WITCH HUNT. ELECTION INTERFERENCE!” Trump posted on his social media channel. 

Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick, and Jill Colvin of the Associated Press wrote today that Trump is putting the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol at the heart of his presidential campaign, rewriting the five deaths and the destruction to claim that the rioters were “unbelievable patriots” whom he will pardon as soon as he takes office again. His new hires at the Republican National Committee to replace staff he fired are strengthening the idea that Biden stole the 2020 election. 

He’s being helped by loyalists in Congress who are trying to rewrite the history of that day to claim that Trump and the rioters have been persecuted by the Department of Justice. They are attacking the testimony of witnesses like Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, about what she saw that day, although she testified under oath and they are not similarly bound to tell the truth. Trump has said former Wyoming representative Liz Cheney, a Republican who served as vice chair of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, “should go to Jail along with the rest of the Unselect Committee!” 

But while Trump’s supporters are willing to sing along to a recording of incarcerated participants in the riots singing their version of the national anthem—the song lyrics are credited to “Donald J. Trump and J6 Prison Choir”—the fact that more than 1,200 people have been charged for their actions that day and many of them have been sentenced to prison seems likely to dampen enthusiasm for trying something like that again. 

Today, former Trump advisor Peter Navarro also had to report to prison, in his case a federal prison in Miami, for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the January 6th committee for documents and testimony. Last September, a jury found Navarro guilty of contempt of Congress, rejecting his insistence that he didn’t have to answer to Congress because Trump had invoked executive privilege over their conversations about overturning the 2020 presidential election. 

Navarro vowed to take the case all the way to the Supreme Court, but a federal appeals court agreed with the verdict, and yesterday, for the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts rejected Navarro’s plea to stay his sentence. “I am pissed—that’s what I am feeling right now,” Navarro told reporters just before he reported to prison for his four-month sentence. 

Trump is also facing renewed scrutiny on his past behavior. With the election interference case in Manhattan heating up, Trump sought to block his former fixer Michael Cohen, adult film actress Stormy Daniels, and former model Karen McDougal from testifying. All of them say Trump paid to keep voters from hearing negative stories about him before the 2016 election. Judge Juan Merchan denied those motions.

And there was a surprise announcement today. Tomorrow, the House Oversight Committee will hold another hearing in the Republicans’ ongoing attempt to impeach President Joe Biden. Today the Democrats on the committee announced they have invited Lev Parnas as their witness. The Ukrainian-born Parnas was an associate of Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and was deeply involved in the effort to create dirt to smear Biden before the 2020 election. 

In 2022, Parnas was convicted of wire fraud, false statements, and breaking campaign finance laws by funneling money illegally to Trump and other Republican lawmakers. Since he broke with Giuliani, he has been eager to explain what happened and how. He will likely bring up stories that Trump would prefer that voters forget.

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, told reporters: “Lev Parnas can debunk the bogus claims at the heart of the impeachment probe and, in the process, explain how the GOP ended up in this degraded and embarrassing place.”

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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Trump must come up with the full bond amount to cover the $454 million civil fraud trial judgment, appeals court judge rules | CNN Politics

I wouldn't trust weasel tRump either.

[eaudrey35]

Letticia James warned the New York Appeals court Donald Trump was playing n their face. After they lowered his bond. He then says he had the money to pay the original bond of $454 million. Why don't ppl listen to black women we know when ppl playing n our face