Below is my column in the New York Post on the appellate court decision to toss the entirety of the fine imposed against President Donald Trump in the civil action brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Here is the column:
New York Attorney General Letitia James is going to need a bigger fish or a smaller trophy wall.
For months, James has paraded her victory over President Donald Trump in her civil judgment of half a billion dollars. It did not matter that many of us denounced the judgment as grotesque and raw lawfare.
Now, however, the appellate court has replaced that mounted Marlin with a mere minnow. It threw out the financial penalty as unconstitutional and unwarranted.
Even that downsized catch may have to be pulled down, since Trump can appeal the decision to leave the injunctive relief — including limits on doing business in New York — in place.
The problem is that this over-stuffed guppy has cost the people of New York tens of millions of dollars in staff, security and other costs. It was all just the cost of doing business with James, who ran on the pledge to bag Trump on something — anything! — if elected.
For James, it was worth it. For her base, the case was never about the merits or the law. James offered lawfare against political opponents, and New York Democrats elected her with a gleeful malice.
They were thrilled as James suggested that she was going to seize Trump buildings after the judgment and sought a massive bond.
Notably, even the judges who sided with James on her ability to bring this case were critical of her ethics or judgment in running on bagging an individual on unnamed crimes or civil actions. They simply chose not to do anything about it.
It was Judge David Friedman, who, on the appeal, offered an unblinking account of how James abused the legal system.
“Plainly, her ultimate goal was not ‘market hygiene’ . . . but political hygiene, ending with the derailment of President Trump’s political career and the destruction of his real estate business. The voters have obviously rendered a verdict on his political career. This bench today unanimously derails the effort to destroy his business.”
The five appeals court judges fractured on the rationale for their opinions. Two of the judges — Dianne T. Renwick and Peter H. Moulton — correctly found that “the court’s disgorgement order, which directs that defendants pay nearly half a billion dollars to the State of New York, is an excessive fine that violates the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution.”
The rest of the judges found other reasons to negate the damages while preserving the fraud judgment.
In the end, James could not get a single vote on appeal to support Judge Arthur Engoron’s ridiculous fine. Engoron, like James, will continue to enjoy the status of a folk hero in New York. But he will go down in history as a judge who yielded to the demands of the mob rather than the law.
Yet nothing will change. With the exception of Judge Friedman, the mild rebukes of the appellate court of James show how Trump remains persona non grata, a disfavored figure who is entitled to no consideration, let alone sympathy, in New York.
The most courage that Judge Moulton could summon was to say, “One can reasonably question whether a candidate running for the top law enforcement position in statewide government should make such pointed statements.”
I suppose one could also reasonably question whether a judge faced with blatant, open targeting of a political opponent should do more than a judicial shrug.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of the best-selling book “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
Spotlight on injustice!
“Trump official @JeffClarkUS has filed a pleading listing 112 ERRORS – you read that right – in the disciplinary report that recommending suspended his law license due to his work assisting Trump with handling the 2020 election wrongdoing in Georgia. The bias is staggering, the D.C. bar system is so corrupt continuing to go after 2020 election attorneys.
The gist of it is Clark drafted a proposed letter that was never even sent to Georgia officials outlining some options they could take to deal with the wrongdoing. The Georgia Senate had issued the Ligon Report about it, which found that the election was so “fraught with irregularities” that it “should have never been certified.”
The bar said that his two colleagues at the DOJ who disagreed with him about sending the letter – going against Trump so much that at one point Trump designated Clark the acting Attorney General instead of one of them – were the ultimate authority on what was allowable legal work and completely ignored the fact that Clark was working under Trump’s instruction and actually providing him legal options unlike the other two who were undermining Trump! 🤬🤬🤬🤬And the DC Bar’s main attorney Hamilton Fox is still pushing to fully DISBAR Clark, who is now Trump’s Regulatory Czar.”
https://tennesseestar.com/kamalafare/trump-appointee-jeffrey-clark-files-list-of-112-alleged-errors-in-unconstitutional-proceedings-to-disbar-him-over-2020-election-legal-work/rachel-alexander/2025/08/22/
“As Arendt said perfectly .. 1951 book The Origins of Totalitarianism, she described masses who “had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true” due to constant propaganda. This state of mind, she argued, was a consequence of mass manipulation and the subsequent destruction of truth, which made people incapable of discerning facts and thus easily susceptible to totalitarian rule.”
Thanks Obama.
for allowing our airwaves to be inundated with propaganda
No kidding!
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Americans are compelled to integrate and respect black african-Americans who could not function without and who received $30+ trillion in “welfare” public financial assistance (Cato Institute) during the unconstitutional and still ongoing “Great Society” campaign and incalculable benefits from affirmative action, DEI, forced busing, public housing, quotas, mortgage assistance, unconstitutional unfair “fair housing” laws, unconstitutional discriminatory “non-discrimination” laws, etc., ad infinitum, ad nauseam.
Not gonna happen! End the communist American welfare state! I want my money back! I demand reparations!
start with cutting your VA benefits for your Vietnam PTSD
“start with cutting your VA benefits for your Vietnam PTSD”
Still hating vets? Just like a democrat.
“Still hating vets?”
Thank you for your response given you using Vets like me as a crutch for your malingering lazy crazy POS disposition
“Just like a democrat.”
Just like a psychopath using VA benefits at my expense
“Thank you for your response given you using Vets like me as a crutch for your malingering lazy crazy POS disposition”
Where’d you serve? The pentagon cafeteria? 🤣
“Just like a psychopath using VA benefits at my expense”
As if you’re a net payer of taxes 😂
Non sequitur!
Democrats hate vets.
I don’t receive any benefits. I pay monumental taxes. What will I do?
I was just funnin’ Doc, just foolin’ about.
I wasn’t Johnny Ringo, we’re playing for blood.
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IMPARTIALITY, ANYONE?
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The judicial branch allowed the complete destruction of the Constitution and Bill of Rights and has moved on to enhancing and perpetuating the environmental wackjob “putsch.”
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Pretty much everything the Left/Dems/Commies/Globalists/Neocons have thrown at Trump has been about as honest and authentic as the building fronts in a Hollywood Western movie set Main Street.
It does seem, though, that persons holding public office taking these insane and dishonest actions have crossed legal lines many times. In the interest of a functioning society where people can have some level of trust in their institutions, this sh!t needs to stop.
I think James, Engoron, Willis, Bragg, Schiff, Pelosi, Raskin, Maddow, and an entire host of others are guilty of capital crimes. I think the American people deserve to watch hangings on the Mall but we might be satisfied with public humiliation and prison terms for the traitors.
I think public hanging or firing squad is too good. I prefer to see them shackled and publicly perp walked into prison where they will do hard time for the rest of their despicable lives. Make them suffer life in prison.
As for demons like Dr. Fauci, make sure he never knows a moment’s peace any time he shows his face in public.
Same for scumbags like McCabe, Comey, and all the rest. Mock them, sneer at them, curse them, and never allow them a moment of peace anytime they go out in public.
It was Democrats like Maxine Waters who instructed their voters to do this to Trump and his cabinet members! Those evil Democrats told their thugs to get in the faces of Trump officials and harass them relentlessly. And they did!
Trump’s press secretary was even spit on in public and denied entry to dining in a restaurant.
The Democrat party is nothing but scummy criminals and communists who lie and brainwash their voters –who are nothing more than useful idiots for them to hold onto power. Power which they abuse.
Anyone who still votes Democrat or defends ANY insane Dem policy should be ashamed to admit it.
The Democrat party is nothing more than a criminal operation. It’s a racket.
People with the ability to think rationally simply cannot ever again vote a Democrat into office.
They suck worse than dirt.
Sounds just like a liberal.
Exactly. And sorry to say that taking the high road or offering grace to these criminal scumbags is not an option.
America, and all we stand for is on the line. If Kamala had been elected our country would soon be an unrecognizable hellscape. Trump would be on his way to die in prison – and that’s not being hyperbolic. They would do it. Not just to Trump, but everyone else they could destroy and jail, they would. These are not reasonable, respectable, honest or decent people we are talking about. They are sociopaths, psychopaths and hard core communist scum. Know your enemies. Go after then with everything you’ve got in your legal quiver. No mercy.
*. Preemptive pardons were given to Fauci and Milley, Biden family, J6 committee and police. Perhaps others but I couldn’t find a complete list. Btw the Constitution is pardon and NOT Preemptive pardon.
Jonathan: Are you even the least bit embarrassed at being a member of the American Democrat Lawyers – watching your Democrat brothers and sisters engaging in police state fascism as AGs, judges, and prosecutors?
Obviously, not a single one of you has anything resembling even a personal code of ethics – much less a professional code of ethics.
Turley can associate with anyone he wants. Who are you to pressure him. You sound just like a liberal.
This is the SECOND column Turley has written to try to divert attention away from the Epstein Scandal and Trump’s failures at negotiation in Alaska and Washington, but what he ignores is the fact that the NY Appellate Court rejected his argument in the piece he wrote a few days ago, in which he repeated the MAGA argument that the NY Appellate Court should toss the judgment because Trump’s lying on loan applications hadn’t resulted in an actual financial loss to the bank and that the bank was willing to loan him money again. The NY Appellate Court made clear that those are not valid grounds for reversal, and every other aspect of Judge Engoron’s ruling, other than the financial fine–was affirmed. So, Turley, writing for the MAGA paper the NY Post, attacks Letitia James as somehow wasting taxpayer resources for vindicating the State’s right to protect the financial services industry by going after blatant liars like Trump who falsify financial records to get loans. Turley argues that Trump can appeal the other aspects of Judge Engoron’s ruling–well, guess what? Letitia James can also appeal, and has indicated an interest in doing so.
Turley attacks James, claiming that James’s lawsuit against Trump was blatantly political. On this topic, why does Turley ignore Trump’s take over of the DOJ and FBI to go after people he doesn’t like–going after Bolton right after Bolton again criticized Trump, by sending the FBI to raid his home and office–payback for the FBI raiding MAL. How petty and pathetic can he get? We’re about to find out. Bolton even said, in an interview with ABC that aired a few days before, that he would be targeted. If allegedly “classified documents” are found, I have 5 bucks that say that they were planted. Regardless of anything else you might think about Bolton–he’s no fool. Do you really think he had any classified documents lying around his home or office? Then, there are the criminal “investigations” into Adam Schiff, Letitia James, Barak Obama, Jack Smith, and others.
How about indicted liar Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview, in which Trump’s personal attorney, under the guise of representing the citizens of the US, got her to say Trump did nothing wrong. Then, she gets sent to a cushy federal prison for which she does not qualify based on her crimes, and which has cost us taxpayers extra money to hire more guards to protect her from the other inmates, to install additional fencing and a curtain shield so that people cannot see her from the street. Few to no one doubt that an eventual pardon or commutation was promised in exchange for trying to exonerate Trump. Bear in mind she NEVER testified at her own trial or agreed to be interviewed. Why weren’t the promises made to her recorded, and HOW does that interview in any manner benefit the citizens of the US, that Todd Blanche is SUPPOSED to be working for? Are there going to be additional indictments or prosecutions? Has the statute of limitations run? What valid law enforcement purpose was there in interviewing her? There wasn’t any. She even tried to claim that Epstein also never did anything wrong, and that all of the sexual encounters were “consensual”. Some of the victims were only 14 years old–by law, underage children cannot “consent” to sex with an adult. What a joke and what a slap in the face to the victims! So, we’re supposed to believe this convicted felon and indicted perjurer over the hundreds of victims who all tell similar stories? I doubt that even diehard MAGAs believe that one. Why won’t they just release the entirety of the Epstein file, redacting only the personal identification information of the victims, and let us decide for ourselves? We all know why–Elon Musk told us why. If there’s nothing there that is incriminating against Trump, there would be nothing to hide. THAT’s why Trump commanded Patel to get over 1,000 FBI agents, on the taxpayers’ payroll, to pour over the entire Epstein file to redact and remove references to him. What he cannot remove or erase is the knowledge of former FBI personnel who know what should be in the file. He won’t get away with it. And, more of the victims will be speaking out. So how much in wasted taxpayer money has gone into Trump trying to hide his involvement with Epstein, since Turley wants to talk about wasting resources? Bondi’s and Blanche’s protection of Trump and pampering of Maxwell are a slap in the face to these women whose innocence and virginity were stolen–every time this comes up, it’s like ripping the scab off of a wound that cannot heal. It’s disgusting, but what do you expect from someone who brags about being able to grab women by their genitals, who cavorts with a porn actress and nude models?
There is no Epstein scandal related to Trump. Only to democrats like Clinton. You should have your TDS looked at by a professional.
*. Listening Maxwell Blanche audio- she was an employee at 25 thou per year. The oddest thing is no one interviewed her until now. No questions have been asked.
She thinks Epstein was murdered. She said inmates will a person for 25 dollars commissary money. She fears for her life. May be too late.
TDS taking its toll on ya?
more like not getting laid.
Why not both?
Would you like those straws in paper or plastic?
Stop ‘projecting’, Ghislaine Maxwell said that she didn’t see Trump doing anything inappropriate, That said, it what she didn’t say or was not asked, such as: At anytime did you see or know of any other ‘Former or Current U.S. Official’ or Common Persons engaging in inappropriate behavior (Sexual) with the underage women present on the Island or other residences utilized by Jeffery Epstein or You over the times that you were there?
She said that “There is no list”, a contradiction of Her prior statements. That maybe true, but one could easily put together one from the Data already attained by the Investigation and in the Hands of the DOJ. THey are keeping the focus on Trump, not the Other ‘customers’ of the Island operation.
Face it, She’s in Prison, has a Supreme Court pleading pending, and wishes she had never met Jeffery Epstein to begin with, all she wants is to be set free. So YES she is going to say what They want her to say. If nothing happened, then why is she sitting in prison and two are dead? Why did Prince Andrew settle out-of-court? … ???
Now that she has ‘cleared’ the air, there’s no more need for Her – They will whack her.
Remember Ghislaine Maxwell | RIP Jeffery Epstein & Virginia Giuffre
Ghislaine Maxwell denies seeing ‘inappropriate’ conduct by Trump
Ghislaine Maxwell, the jailed associate of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has told US officials she did not witness any inappropriate conduct by Donald Trump or former President Bill Clinton.
By: Bernd Debusmann Jr., – BBC News, White House ~ August, 23rd. 2025
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdd3pe6189go
Prior to giving her Congressional testimony, Ghislaine Maxwell asked for ‘immunity’, She was denied. Obviously she was under duress about giving her testimony and the testimony she gave was under duress. Numerous Women (Jane Doe’s) have given statements that give first hand witness to the activities and Clients of the Island, Further the Local authorities have documented account of these account as well.
Ghislaine Maxwell gave them what They wanted, because she had to. Nough Said
We should all sleep better tonight, knowing that there are a bunch of Pedophiles running around on the loose.
Regarding Epstein, Virginia Giuffrey and Prince Andrew, who has been shunned by the royal family, stripped of his duties as a working royal, and kicked out of Frogmore House, don’t you think that Queen Elizabeth, who had the investigative services of MI6 at her disposal, would have had the allegations thoroughly investigated BEFORE taking such drastic action against her own son? The royal family doesn’t just kick people out and take away their security and other privileges arbitrarily.
You can choose to believe or disbelieve what anyone in this country or with our government says about this scandal, but the Queen’s actions leave no room for doubt in my mind. Maxwell will say anything to get out of prison, and Trump’s refusal to release the Epstein file, after unqualifiedly saying he would do so, putting the FBI to work redacting references to him and bribing Maxwell with a cushy prison reassignment and a commutation and/or pardon down the road for praising him and claiming he did nothing wrong leave no room for doubt that there’s something serious in that file that Trump is trying to hide.
So no matter what materials get trotted out as time goes on, there will always be doubts— and that’s because of Trump’s actions. Another log on that fire is her absurd claim that Epstein never did anything wrong and that sexual encounters with minors as young as 14 were consensual. There are literally hundreds of victims. She has been proven to be a liar and has 2 indictments for perjury.
One thing Americans, regardless of political affiliation, generally agree on is that sexual exploitation of children is reprehensible and that those who traffic in the sexual abuse of children belong in prison. Trump has yet to say anything resembling empathy for the child victims of Epstein and Maxwell, but he has expressed sympathy for Maxwell because “her boyfriend is dead “. That, along with his other behavior, leads to a logical conclusion that there are things to be ashamed of and/or that will damage his standing with his base that he’s trying to hide.
Why would any of the aforementioned, fly down to Jeffery Epstein’s Island for Business & Pleasure?
Why has; Prince Andrews and Bill Gates, family relationships and marriages ended in Divorce, surrounding Jeffery Epstein?
Why would; Alan Dershowitz, who was part of the defense team for the initial investigation leading to that plea. In the later case, David Schoen continue to be involved in Jeffery Epstein “Legal Affairs” after his death, and up to as currently as Maxwell’s Congressional Hearings?
Why was Jean-Luc Brunel, an associate of Epstein, found dead in a Paris jail cell in February 2022? French authorities concluded he died by suicide. Brunel was a central figure in the French investigation into Epstein’s activities.
Why would Mark Epstein, brother of Jeffrey Epstein state “Jeffrey… had dirt on people”?
Who was Jeffery Epstein’s intelligence employer (both U.S.A. CIA & Israel Mossad)?
Epstein was in the Business of selling Philandering to wealthy connected Men, by offering Young Women in a discreet out of sight location. It was Business & Pleasure with a bit of Blackmail, the oldest Business & Pleasure in history.
Epstein’s Business was the business of Business-Espionage.
Ghislaine Maxwell and Girls were Epstein’s fishing lure to bring in the Big Fish.
He was an Intelligence Asset that ‘Enjoyed the Ride’ grifting High-Rolling Deep Pockets.
Re Google AI Overview
Jeffrey Epstein was a financier and money manager for billionaires, but the full extent of his business was mysterious and has been linked to criminal activity.
The source of his considerable wealth, which was reported to be $560 million at the time of his death, was never fully transparent.
Early financial career:
Epstein’s career began without a college degree when he was referred by a parent to work at the investment bank Bear Stearns in 1976. He rapidly moved up the ranks, becoming a partner before his abrupt departure in 1981 under a cloud of controversy.
In the 1980s, Epstein was associated with several financial activities:
• He founded International Assets Group, a consulting firm of which the nature is largely unknown.
• He worked as a consultant for Towers Financial Corporation, a company later exposed as a massive Ponzi scheme. Epstein was reportedly involved but was never charged and left the company before it collapsed.
Money management for the super-wealthy:
From the late 1980s until the mid-2000s, Epstein’s primary business model was managing the fortunes of select ultra-wealthy clients through his secretive firm, J. Epstein and Company (later renamed Financial Trust Company).
Billionaire clients: His only publicly known client was Leslie Wexner, the CEO of L Brands (Victoria’s Secret). Wexner granted Epstein full power of attorney over his financial affairs and foundations in 1991. Epstein allegedly misappropriated tens of millions of dollars from Wexner and ultimately profited enormously from the relationship. Another major client was private equity executive Leon Black, who paid Epstein $158 million for tax and estate planning services.
Tax haven operations: To take advantage of favorable tax conditions, Epstein based his business in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where he purchased the private island of Little St. James.
Investments and other financial activities:
In addition to money management, Epstein engaged in various investments and ventures, especially in the 2000s:
• He founded the offshore company Liquid Funding, which was partially owned by Bear Stearns and contributed to the lead-up to the 2008 financial crisis.
• He invested heavily in a hedge fund, the D.B. Zwirn Special Opportunities Fund, before it folded in 2008.
• He invested in the startup venture capital firm Valar Ventures, co-founded by Peter Thiel. At the time of Epstein’s death, this was his largest single asset.
• He financed media projects, including bids to acquire New York magazine and seed the celebrity and pop culture magazine Radar.
Through the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation, he donated millions to institutions like Harvard University to fund science research and education.
Allegations of criminal activity:
Throughout his career, Epstein’s financial activities were intertwined with alleged crimes, including:
• He was allegedly involved in the Towers Financial Ponzi scheme, which defrauded investors of hundreds of millions of dollars.
• He was accused of using his money and social status to fuel and conceal a vast human-trafficking operation. He allegedly used his wealth to operate a “sexual pyramid scheme,” pay victims, and acquire blackmail material on powerful associates.
Banking records show numerous transactions and large withdrawals from banks like JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank, which later paid settlements to his victims.
Epstein died by suicide in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges.
Google AI Overview: What was Jeffrey Epstein business
We have not seen the file, and it’s highly unlikely that we’ll see anything other than what Trump approves–which will, of course, not be anything involving him, major Repubican campaign contributors, Republican cronies or people he could leverage for his own benefit by letting them know that he has the goods on them. If there’s anything there regarding any Democrat, that’ll be trotted out. Just like everything else, Trump uses the power of government for his own benefit. He treats the FBI and DOJ like it’s his own personal vengeance and investigative companies, and Patel and Bondi were put in charge precisely because they would go along with this–instead of honoring their oath to the citizens of the US. No one forced Trump to promise to release the Epstein file–he did that on his own, and it’s obvious that he’s never going to do it. Bondi and/or Patel told him that eventually there would be subpoenas for the file, which is why he put the FBI to work redacting references to him and removing proof of what he’s done. That should make even his own MAGA supporters furious. There is a photo of Prince Andrew with Virginia Giuffrey, which I believe was given to her as a sourvenir, but I’ve seen nothing else in the form of evidence about the involvement of anyone else, including Bill Gates. Now, Trump’s most-avid supporters are honoring his demand to drop the Epstein matter–that’s not going to happen. Trump must know that some of his avid supporters, especially people like Evangelicals, would drop support for him if they learned what he’s trying so hard to hide.
Wow. You’re projecting so hard, we can use the Taj Mahal as a movie theater.
-Rabble
Far from Trump using this opinion to divert attention from Epstein, it is fair to say that the MM trolls are using Epstein to divert attention from this opinion. The vacation of the damages award effectivly ends this case. It will not be retried.
As to the equitable part of the decision — barring Trump and his family from conducting business in New York State — it has always been clear that it will be vacated by the Court of Appeals, probably unanimously. In a free country — which we still like to think of ourselves as iving in — courts cannot tell specific persons that they cannot conduct business in a state. Only in Alice in Wonderland would a nutcase make that kind of ruling. Whereas James may think of herself as the Red Queen, she is really only a deranged rabbit. possibly on the way to prison.
If you can’t impeach Trump ‘Was Right About Everything’, who can you impeach? Clearly, Trump and Epstein were like two peas in a pod at the Disco. .. once upon a time.
Alas, like the first two impeachments, Judge Engoron and NY AG James’ big Whopper that got away is not helping. As always, the only antidote for Trump is rational and authoritative arguments .. . which, for whatever reason(s), the loyal opposition has been sorely lacking.
*note. there have not been too many impeachments in the 21st century imo . .. but far too few.
At a disco huh? See folks, this is what stupid liberal people do here.
Joke Biden and Kamalala Harris are going to resolve the Epstein issue.
Oh, wait, they’re not gonna do anything, are they?
Well, anyway, they had four years to do an Epstein exposé.
Hmm, I wonder why they didn’t.
Spoken like a true Leftist. Excessively verbose and hateful. I didn’t even read it, I didn’t have to.
Gigi
The only Epstein scandal is among wealthly left wing nuts.
If there was the tiniest evidence involving Trump – not only would it have leaked – but Biden would have tried to prosecute.
Cleaning up the mess you made is hard – peace may take time. Though it is going pretty well.
It is not wise for left wing nuts to draw attention to another needless war they started.
No Gigi the NY court of appeals did NOT reject Trump’s argument
The UNANIMOUSLY vacated the financial judgment.
and 3-2 the rule that James/Enmoron had so botched the trial – Trump was entitled to a new one.
Several of us have been telling you that from the start.
The idiotic law James was using is a consumer protection law – it does NOT apply to mortgages – and especially to mortgages between sophisticated parties.
The only reason Enmoron was allowed to try the case as he did was BECAUSE it is a consumer protection law that CAN NOT result in a conseuential financial penalty. If it did – then there would have to be a jury trial – see the US constitution.
While they did not explicitly say that – by vacating the fine, the court 5-0 said – this law does not apply to these circumstances.
Regardless 3 of 5 justices ruled that Enmoron had made multiple FATAL legal errors.
Not only is the financial judgement vacated – but the remaineder of the judgement is STAYED
James will have to start over.
Of course this all preseumes that higher courts do not further obliterate this case.
Which is near certain.
This is such an egregious violation of the rule of law that if NYS does not fix it they will lose billions in tax revenue – more than they already have.
That is what happens when the courts go lawless. When prosecutors go after a person, not conduct.
People who can move say – that could be me, and they leave.
No one rejected the argument that the bank did not suffer – that is just a FACT.
Since when are left wing nuts trying to protect giant foreign banks that do not even want their help ?
MAL is not worth $18-27M – can we prosecute James and Enmoron under this law for putting forward a bogus price ?
Just wait – many people are talking about Trump now being able to go after James and possibly enmoron – certainly NY.
Contra YOUR bogus claims Trump actually has suffered real financial harm from this idiotic judgement.
He has had to put up a bond that has cost him an enormous amount of money – though probably not half a billion dollars.
He has had to pay massive legal expenses – all for a laughably bad case.
EVEN buy your own idiotic claims – neither James nor Enmoron were EVER legally permitted to impose any fine of any conseuence.
You should think about that – the court did not REDUCE the fine – they obliterated it entirely.
Why ? Because Enmoron;s court and the law James used does not allow fines. Because if the law did allow for fines, there would have to be a jury trial in a regular court. Not enmoron’s kangaroo court.
They vacated the entire judgement. They did so because even if James had a REAL case – she STILL could not have enmoron impose ANY fine. To do as she and enmoron did – she needed to use a different law – one that does not exist – such a law does not exist because if Deutche Bank had actually been defrauded – they would be in court suing Trump’s ass off – there is no need for the state to step in. Which is why there is no law that allows James to do as she did.
And the only thing the court made clear was that enmoron screwed up.
certainly this decision will be appealed – and it will get WORSE for James an Enmoron.
I do not know i James will actually appeal regardless of what she has said.
This likely gets worse for her if she appeals.
I am not sure Trump needs to appeal – Enmoron must revisit the case – and he has essentially been directed to throw himself off and James must start over. The stay on the other aspects of the judgement will never be lifted – and in the unlikely event they are AND Trump loses in every other apelate court – Trump enterprises will just move to TX or FL or anywhere but NYS.
Just as Tesla and trillions of dollars of other businesses moved after the idiotic Delaware decision.
When courts do not follow the rule of law – especially in cases that effect significant amounts of wealth – the money MOVES elsewhere.
One of the huge reasons that Capital massively flows to the US is that even in countries where you can get a good return on investment – there is a real risk that the state will step in and screw you
People do not invest money in places where government can steal it, unless the return on investment is ENORMOUS.
People will invest in the west before they will invest at a higher return in developing countries.
They will invest in the US – even when they can get a higher return in Europe – they do so BECAUSE
With the execption of recent stupid left wing nut cases the courts in the US do not egregiously violate the rule of law.
I talk about that alot .
I have repeated over and over – that you left wing nuts can NOT just make things up as you go.
You can rant about big business and the wealthy all you want – but the money that is invested that is critical to economic growth is going to go where the laws are haonestly crafted an honestly followed.
You can eat the rich if you want – and you will make this country POOR.
They will go elsewhere. Or they will just stop investing.
Another nutjob…
“Another nutjob…”
Just like all democrats.
It is probable that the judicial branch will never allow any judge to release the unsubstantiated and defamatory details of any court proceeding that involves as many luminaries as that of the Epstein case.
“It is probable that the judicial branch will never allow any judge to release the unsubstantiated and defamatory details of any court proceeding that involves as many luminaries as that of the Epstein case.It is probable that the judicial branch will never allow any judge to release the unsubstantiated and defamatory details of any court proceeding that involves as many luminaries as that of the Epstein case.”
Can you honestly say that you believe any of that would change if those details you reference *were* substantiated?
So guilt by association?
Why are there insane comments longer than the original article?
“. . . every other aspect of Judge Engoron’s ruling, other than the financial fine–was affirmed.”
Really?
Then why did the Court rule that Trump is entitled to a new trial?
This grand conspiracy to Get Trump was coordinated directly out of Obama-Biden, then Biden-Harris White House.
And the operation was going full speed ahead had Kamala won.
They censored dissent, using big tech as proxies.
They disbarred lawyers.
Debanked everyone they could. With direct pressure from White House to do so.
‘Never forget they arrested the US President, his lawyers, his accountants, his campaign manager, his media allies, and even his valet.’
They threw Trump advisors in prison on misdemeanors.
They threw Trump accountants in prison.
They debanked Trump himself, Melania herself, even Barron.
Debanked conservatives, Trump supporters, everyone they could.
They hunted down and arrested 1,600 J6 protestors and treated them like terrorists, throwing hundreds in prison, mostly for misdemeanor trespassing.
They put them on terrorist lists. Black-balled them, destroyed reputations.
Hunted by Democrats, targeted for utter destruction because of their political views.
These leftist Democrats are bad people. They are sick, vicious, lawless communist scum.
They must be stripped of their power, prosecuted, imprisoned, and destroyed. No mercy.
It’s the only way forward.
And disgustingly, many of these sick, vicious lying scum are paid contributors on CNN and MSNBC.
Hey, ita job anon. You’d do it for money, so back off.
Hear hear! Think of the tax dollars these corruptocrats stole and squandered from us all in their insatiable lust for power. They should all be perp walked from the courts after being convicted to the gallows, sell tickets $10K a head, we could pay off the National debt!
Did all of these alleged miscreants FORCE Trump to lie by tripling the actual size of his apartment, which is less than 11,000 sq. ft–he claimed it was 33,000 sq. ft.? He made this representation under oath, subject to the penalties for perjury, and did this to juice up the equity so as to qualify for a loan on better terms. Letitia James held him accountable for the “penalties for perjury”.
The J6 defendants were NOT “protesters”–they tore down doors and windows, trashed the Capitol, beat and battered police officers and defecated and urinated in our Capitol, while hunting for the VP because he refused to break the law. Trump watched what they did for over 3 hours and only called them off when it became apparent that Pence was in a safe place and wasn’t going to be intimidated into doing what Trump wanted. They are criminals and should have gone to prison instead of being pardoned. You want to talk about a “derangement syndrome”? Failing to see the truth of January 6th is as deranged as it gets.
I agree with what you said: “Failing to see the truth of January 6 is as deranged as it gets.”
You are failing to see the truth.
You are regurgitating lies.
Because you have been intentionally fed lies.
You have been brainwashed.
How many times did President Biden and Democrats repeat the lie that officers were killed on J6?
The actual evidence from J6 has shown that not only were no officers were killed, none were seriously injured.
The damage done to the Capitol was negligible. The only people killed that day were protesters.
They “defecated and urinated in our Capitol”….
Nancy Pelosi saying it does not make it true.
The made-for-TV movie presented by Pelosi and her sham committee was full of distorted facts and flatout lies.
The narrative sold to the public about J6 is mostly tall tales told by idiots who lie for a living.
There are many politicians and judges who still believe the lies. Pity their ignorance.
The truth is that J6 protesters were viciously hunted down and rounded up by Biden’s DOJ,
and then railroaded by corrupt, dishonest prosecutors, biased DC judges, and poisoned jury pools.
As reported by Julie Kelley:
“Biden’s FBI used SWAT teams with armed agents and battering rams to conduct early morning raids of hundreds of J6er including those accused of minor nonviolent offenses. This happened frequently while their families including young children were home. Agents using bullhorns would scream out the name of the J6er repeatedly so the entire neighborhood and any reporters who has been tipped off could hear. The J6er was then arrested and hauled off in front of family and neighbors.”
Hundreds of J6ers were denied their due process rights, many rotting in a DC jail for years with no trials.
Biased judges refused to allow juries to see or hear exculpatory evidence.
The injustice done to J6ers is grotesque and un-American.
History will judge all of this correctly as “the greatest mass injustice against American citizens since Japanese internment.”
You cite absolutely NO source whatsoever for the fantastic pack of lies you wrote. Excerpted from “Wikipedia”, that cited reliable sources for all facts–refer to article to check sources identified by footnote numbers:
“Gained positions
Jared Lane Wise, who had been an FBI supervisory agent from 2004 through 2017, was arrested in Oregon on misdemeanor charges in May 2023 related to the attack on the Capitol. According to an FBI agent’s affidavit, Wise repeatedly shouted “Kill ’em!” as he watched rioters assault officers outside the Capitol. Wise entered the Capitol through the Senate wing door and remained in the building for around nine minutes. Police body camera footage captured Wise berating officers outside the Capitol, shouting: “Shame on you! I’m former law enforcement. You’re disgusting. You are the Nazi. You are the Gestapo. You can’t see it.” After his pardon, he became a counselor to Justice Department pardon attorney Ed Martin who was overseeing the “weaponization working group” investigating the FBI.[37]
Organizers
Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys who had been serving a 22-year sentence for charges including seditious conspiracy.[17]
Alan Hostetter, retired police chief, sentenced in December 2023 to 11 years in prison for conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. He drove to Washington with hatchets, knives, stun batons, pepper spray, and other gear for himself and others and used a bullhorn to encourage rioters to break the police line.[38][39]
Rioters sentenced for attacking police officers
David Nicholas Dempsey, sentenced in August 2024 to 20 years in prison for stomping on police officers’ heads, using flagpoles and other objects to attack officers, and spraying bear spray into the gas mask of an officer. His prior criminal record included burglary, theft, and assault.[38][40]
Peter Schwartz, sentenced in May 2023 to 14 years for assaulting police officers with a chair and pepper spray. He boasted in a text message that he had “thrown the first chair at cops” and “started a riot”. He also had a record of prior violent offenses.[41][42][38]
Daniel Joseph “DJ” Rodriguez, sentenced in 2023 to 12.5 years in prison for conspiracy and obstruction of an official proceeding, obstruction of justice, and assaulting a law enforcement officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon. Rodriguez had shot Officer Michael Fanone, who had been dragged into the mob by another assailant and was lying face-down on the ground, twice with a stun gun held to his neck. Fanone had a heart attack and received other injuries during the attack.[43][41][38] Video footage also showed Rodriguez deploying a fire extinguisher and attacking other officers with a wooden pole.[43]
Christopher Joseph Quaglin, member of the Proud Boys, sentenced in May 2024 by a Trump-appointed judge to 12 years in prison for choking and tackling officer Michael Fanone to the ground, attacking other officers with metal bike racks, stolen police shields, and pepper spray.[38][44]
Thomas Webster, retired police officer, sentenced in 2022 to 10 years in prison for attacking an officer with a flagpole and tackling him.[41][45]
Christopher J. Worrell, a Proud Boy member, sentenced in 2024 to 10 years in prison for attacking police officers with pepper spray.[38]
Thomas Harlen Smith, sentenced in October 2023 to 9 years in prison for, among other violent actions, kicking an officer in the back and knocking him to the ground and hitting two officers in the head with the metal pole he threw at them.[38][46]
Albaquerque Cosper Head, sentenced in October 2022 to seven years for dragging officer Fanone face-down down the West Terrace steps and attacking police in the entrance to the Lower West Terrace tunnel.[41][47]
Kyle J. Young, pleaded guilty to a single charge and was sentenced in September 2022 to seven years for handing the stun gun to Rodriguez and grabbing Fanone’s hand when he tried to protect himself.[41][48]
Patrick McCaughey III, sentenced in April 2023 to 7.5 years for using a stolen police riot shield to crush officer Daniel Hodges in a doorframe at the entrance to the Lower West Terrace tunnel.[49][50]
Steven Cappuccio, sentenced in November 2023 to seven years for ripping off officer Hodges’s gas mask and striking him across the face with his own baton.[51][52]
Andrew Taake, sentenced in June 2024 to 6.5 years for attacking officers with bear spray and a metal whip. At the time of the Capitol attack, he was out on bond for soliciting a minor in 2016.[53] The bond was revoked in September 2021, and Houston authorities are looking to rearrest Taake.[54]
Rioters found guilty of and awaiting sentencing for attacking police officers
Edward J. Kelley, convicted on November 8, 2024, in federal court in Washington, D.C., of tackling a law enforcement officer from behind and throwing him to the ground and various acts of property damage inside the Capitol. His sentencing had been scheduled for April 7, 2025,[55] when he was pardoned on January 20, 2025.[56][57]
While awaiting trial in December 2022, Kelley had conspired to assassinate the law enforcement agents who had arrested him in May 2022 and those who had searched his home.[58] In November 2024, he was convicted in federal court in Tennessee of conspiring to murder FBI employees, soliciting a crime of violence, and threatening federal officials; the sentencing date was set for May 7, 2025.[56] In early February 2025, Kelley’s attorney filed a motion arguing that the pardon for the Capitol riot also covered the murder plot and asking for Kelley’s immediate release.[55] The judge rejected the argument, and, in July 2025, Kelley was sentenced to life in prison.[59]
Rioters who had awaited trial for attacking police officers
Daniel Ball had been awaiting trial when he was pardoned. He was accused of throwing a device that “flashed and exploded”, a wooden leg of a chair or table, and other objects at officers in the Lower West Terrace tunnel, and for damaging a shutter. Investigators searching his Florida residence as part of the case had found a firearm and ammunition, items he was not allowed to possess because of two prior felony convictions. He was served with the arrest warrant on a federal gun charge while still in custody and had been awaiting extradition to Florida.[60][61] However the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Tampa, after initially stating that clemency did not extend to the subsequent charges, ultimately followed an emerging pattern of the Department of Justice under Trump of excusing additional crimes committed outside the riot by filing a motion to drop the indictment; Ball’s case was dismissed on February 25, 2025.[62]
Edward Jacob Lang. Was in custody awaiting trial for three assault charges, including attacking officers with a baseball bat.[41][63][64]
Andrew Kyle Grigsby. Was in custody awaiting trial on five felony charges, including attacking officers with bear spray.[65][66]
David Paul Daniel. Had pleaded guilty for assaulting police officers and was in custody awaiting trial. After he was charged in November 2023, FBI and Mint Hill, N.C., police officers discovered images of Daniel sexually abusing two children under 12 during a search of his home. He is in custody in North Carolina on charges of production and possession of child pornography and pleaded not guilty.[65][67] Daniel has filed to dismiss or suppress these charges with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina[68] because thus far, the Justice Department has not pardoned him for additional crimes uncovered in the course of gathering evidence for the January 6 riot, as they have done for other rioters.[69]
Rioters arrested for entering a restricted area and property damage
Theodore Middendorf. Was awaiting trial for striking a window with a flagpole. In May 2024, he was sentenced to 19 years in prison in Illinois for committing “an act of sexual penetration” of a 7-year-old child.[65]
Rioters sentenced for entering a restricted area
Matthew Huttle, was sentenced in November 2023 to six months in prison and a year of supervised release for entering the Capitol and multiple offices. Huttle had a prior criminal record which included a sentence of 2.5 years in prison for beating and injuring his 3-year-old son.[65] On January 26, 2025, Huttle was shot and killed while in possession of a firearm and resisting arrest during a traffic stop.[65][70]
Emily Hernandez. Pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 days in federal prison in 2022. She was seen holding Nancy Pelosi’s broken nameplate during the riot. Nine days after the pardon, she was sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing a woman and injuring her husband in a car crash on January 5, 2022. Hernandez, who was intoxicated, drove the wrong way on Interstate 44 in Missouri and crashed head-on into an oncoming vehicle.[71][72]
Commutations
Trump commuted the sentences of 14 individuals. Although their convictions remain on their criminal records, they became eligible for immediate release from prison, as their sentences were commuted to “time served.”[32]
Kelly Meggs, member of the Oath Keepers.
Kenneth Harrelson
Thomas Caldwell (pardoned on March 20, 2025)[73]
Jessica Watkins
Roberto Minuta, member of the Oath Keepers.
Edward Vallejo
David Moerschel
Joseph Hackett
Zachary Rehl
Dominic Pezzola, member of the Proud Boys.
Organizers
Ethan Nordean, a leader of the Proud Boys.
Jeremy Bertino, former leader of the Proud Boys.
Joseph Biggs, a former organizer of the Proud Boys.
Stewart Rhodes, leader of the Oath Keepers, sentenced to 18 years for seditious conspiracy.[38][74][75]”
There are plenty of license reputable psychiatrists online that you can see. I highly recommend that you try one.
Excerpted from Wikipedia:
Jared Lane Wise, who had been an FBI supervisory agent from 2004 through 2017, was arrested in Oregon on misdemeanor charges in May 2023 related to the attack on the Capitol. According to an FBI agent’s affidavit, Wise repeatedly shouted “Kill ’em!” as he watched rioters assault officers outside the Capitol. Wise entered the Capitol through the Senate wing door and remained in the building for around nine minutes. Police body camera footage captured Wise berating officers outside the Capitol, shouting: “Shame on you! I’m former law enforcement. You’re disgusting. You are the Nazi. You are the Gestapo. You can’t see it.” After his pardon, he became a counselor to Justice Department pardon attorney Ed Martin who was overseeing the “weaponization working group” investigating the FBI.[37]
Organizers
Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys who had been serving a 22-year sentence for charges including seditious conspiracy.[17]
Alan Hostetter, retired police chief, sentenced in December 2023 to 11 years in prison for conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. He drove to Washington with hatchets, knives, stun batons, pepper spray, and other gear for himself and others and used a bullhorn to encourage rioters to break the police line.[38][39]
Rioters sentenced for attacking police officers
David Nicholas Dempsey, sentenced in August 2024 to 20 years in prison for stomping on police officers’ heads, using flagpoles and other objects to attack officers, and spraying bear spray into the gas mask of an officer. His prior criminal record included burglary, theft, and assault.[38][40]
Peter Schwartz, sentenced in May 2023 to 14 years for assaulting police officers with a chair and pepper spray. He boasted in a text message that he had “thrown the first chair at cops” and “started a riot”. He also had a record of prior violent offenses.[41][42][38]
Daniel Joseph “DJ” Rodriguez, sentenced in 2023 to 12.5 years in prison for conspiracy and obstruction of an official proceeding, obstruction of justice, and assaulting a law enforcement officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon. Rodriguez had shot Officer Michael Fanone, who had been dragged into the mob by another assailant and was lying face-down on the ground, twice with a stun gun held to his neck. Fanone had a heart attack and received other injuries during the attack.[43][41][38] Video footage also showed Rodriguez deploying a fire extinguisher and attacking other officers with a wooden pole.[43]
Christopher Joseph Quaglin, member of the Proud Boys, sentenced in May 2024 by a Trump-appointed judge to 12 years in prison for choking and tackling officer Michael Fanone to the ground, attacking other officers with metal bike racks, stolen police shields, and pepper spray.[38][44]
Thomas Webster, retired police officer, sentenced in 2022 to 10 years in prison for attacking an officer with a flagpole and tackling him.[41][45]
Christopher J. Worrell, a Proud Boy member, sentenced in 2024 to 10 years in prison for attacking police officers with pepper spray.[38]
Thomas Harlen Smith, sentenced in October 2023 to 9 years in prison for, among other violent actions, kicking an officer in the back and knocking him to the ground and hitting two officers in the head with the metal pole he threw at them.[38][46]
Albaquerque Cosper Head, sentenced in October 2022 to seven years for dragging officer Fanone face-down down the West Terrace steps and attacking police in the entrance to the Lower West Terrace tunnel.[41][47]
Kyle J. Young, pleaded guilty to a single charge and was sentenced in September 2022 to seven years for handing the stun gun to Rodriguez and grabbing Fanone’s hand when he tried to protect himself.[41][48]
Patrick McCaughey III, sentenced in April 2023 to 7.5 years for using a stolen police riot shield to crush officer Daniel Hodges in a doorframe at the entrance to the Lower West Terrace tunnel.[49][50]
Steven Cappuccio, sentenced in November 2023 to seven years for ripping off officer Hodges’s gas mask and striking him across the face with his own baton.[51][52]
Andrew Taake, sentenced in June 2024 to 6.5 years for attacking officers with bear spray and a metal whip. At the time of the Capitol attack, he was out on bond for soliciting a minor in 2016.[53] The bond was revoked in September 2021, and Houston authorities are looking to rearrest Taake.[54]
Rioters found guilty of and awaiting sentencing for attacking police officers
Edward J. Kelley, convicted on November 8, 2024, in federal court in Washington, D.C., of tackling a law enforcement officer from behind and throwing him to the ground and various acts of property damage inside the Capitol. His sentencing had been scheduled for April 7, 2025,[55] when he was pardoned on January 20, 2025.[56][57]
While awaiting trial in December 2022, Kelley had conspired to assassinate the law enforcement agents who had arrested him in May 2022 and those who had searched his home.[58] In November 2024, he was convicted in federal court in Tennessee of conspiring to murder FBI employees, soliciting a crime of violence, and threatening federal officials; the sentencing date was set for May 7, 2025.[56] In early February 2025, Kelley’s attorney filed a motion arguing that the pardon for the Capitol riot also covered the murder plot and asking for Kelley’s immediate release.[55] The judge rejected the argument, and, in July 2025, Kelley was sentenced to life in prison.[59]
Rioters who had awaited trial for attacking police officers
Daniel Ball had been awaiting trial when he was pardoned. He was accused of throwing a device that “flashed and exploded”, a wooden leg of a chair or table, and other objects at officers in the Lower West Terrace tunnel, and for damaging a shutter. Investigators searching his Florida residence as part of the case had found a firearm and ammunition, items he was not allowed to possess because of two prior felony convictions. He was served with the arrest warrant on a federal gun charge while still in custody and had been awaiting extradition to Florida.[60][61] However the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Tampa, after initially stating that clemency did not extend to the subsequent charges, ultimately followed an emerging pattern of the Department of Justice under Trump of excusing additional crimes committed outside the riot by filing a motion to drop the indictment; Ball’s case was dismissed on February 25, 2025.[62]
Edward Jacob Lang. Was in custody awaiting trial for three assault charges, including attacking officers with a baseball bat.[41][63][64]
Andrew Kyle Grigsby. Was in custody awaiting trial on five felony charges, including attacking officers with bear spray.[65][66]
David Paul Daniel. Had pleaded guilty for assaulting police officers and was in custody awaiting trial. After he was charged in November 2023, FBI and Mint Hill, N.C., police officers discovered images of Daniel sexually abusing two children under 12 during a search of his home. He is in custody in North Carolina on charges of production and possession of child pornography and pleaded not guilty.[65][67] Daniel has filed to dismiss or suppress these charges with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina[68] because thus far, the Justice Department has not pardoned him for additional crimes uncovered in the course of gathering evidence for the January 6 riot, as they have done for other rioters.[69]
Rioters arrested for entering a restricted area and property damage
Theodore Middendorf. Was awaiting trial for striking a window with a flagpole. In May 2024, he was sentenced to 19 years in prison in Illinois for committing “an act of sexual penetration” of a 7-year-old child.[65]
Rioters sentenced for entering a restricted area
Matthew Huttle, was sentenced in November 2023 to six months in prison and a year of supervised release for entering the Capitol and multiple offices. Huttle had a prior criminal record which included a sentence of 2.5 years in prison for beating and injuring his 3-year-old son.[65] On January 26, 2025, Huttle was shot and killed while in possession of a firearm and resisting arrest during a traffic stop.[65][70]
Emily Hernandez. Pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 days in federal prison in 2022. She was seen holding Nancy Pelosi’s broken nameplate during the riot. Nine days after the pardon, she was sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing a woman and injuring her husband in a car crash on January 5, 2022. Hernandez, who was intoxicated, drove the wrong way on Interstate 44 in Missouri and crashed head-on into an oncoming vehicle.[71][72]
Commutations
Trump commuted the sentences of 14 individuals. Although their convictions remain on their criminal records, they became eligible for immediate release from prison, as their sentences were commuted to “time served.”[32]
Kelly Meggs, member of the Oath Keepers.
Kenneth Harrelson
Thomas Caldwell (pardoned on March 20, 2025)[73]
Jessica Watkins
Roberto Minuta, member of the Oath Keepers.
Edward Vallejo
David Moerschel
Joseph Hackett
Zachary Rehl
Dominic Pezzola, member of the Proud Boys.
Organizers
Ethan Nordean, a leader of the Proud Boys.
Jeremy Bertino, former leader of the Proud Boys.
Joseph Biggs, a former organizer of the Proud Boys.
Stewart Rhodes, leader of the Oath Keepers, sentenced to 18 years for seditious conspiracy.[38][74][75]
Trump’s Big Lie, his calling for an insurrection because he’s a sore loser, sitting by watching his fans abuse police officers and tear up the Capitol for over 3 hours while they hunted for Pence, intending to kill him, and then pardoning his fans who did the above deeds, which isn’t all of them–there are hundreds more that didn’t get charged–will be one of the biggest political scandals in US history.
Some day, once you get released from the mental ward, you’ll look back on the insane rantings that you put here, and you’ll just cry.
“The J6 defendants were NOT “protesters”–they tore down doors and windows, trashed the Capitol, beat and battered police officers…”
By your reasoning then, the BLM rioters were not protestors. They burned down businesses, looted, robbed, assaulted cops, caused mayhem and destruction — for MONTHS. How many of those violent offenders were rounded up and thrown in jail, tried, and sent to prison for years?
Show me the lists of hundreds of prosecutions that resulted in lengthy prison time for BLM riots.
You can’t.
Get the psychiatric help that you so desperately need.
You too.
I’m stable and happy. Unlike any given democrat.
You are such a loser. Get help.
“He made this representation under oath, subject to the penalties for perjury”
LIAR
It’s the only way forward.
That or bring back firing squads with or without a hood.
The hood worn by prisoners during execution by firing squad serves two primary purposes. It dehumanizes the condemned, making it easier for the firing squad to perform its function without an emotional response. The target on the chest further reinforces the notion that the firing squad isn’t killing a human being, but merely aiming at a target and firing. Secondly, it prevents the condemned from witnessing his or her own death, saving the individual, in his or her final moments, from looking into the faces and down the barrels of the guns that will bring about imminent demise. However, it’s not unheard of for a prisoner to request to go without a hood or blindfold; to look death in the face.
https://www.ranker.com/list/shooting-squads-throughout-history/aaron-edwards
Can you prove any of that nonsense you posted?
“Can you prove any of that nonsense you posted?”
Look for it in the vaunted Steele Dossier. You believed that, right?
Impartial Administration of Justice
In keeping with the rule of law, the federal courts provide fair and impartial administration of justice. All persons may “have their day in court” regardless of race, sex, religion, national origin, or socioeconomic means. Disputes are resolved with reasoned decisions made through publicly visible processes and based faithfully on the law; judges can act without fear or favor.
Federal judges maintain and enforce high standards of conduct to ensure fairness and impartiality in the administration of justice and accessibility of court processes. Federal judges strive to treat all persons before the courts with dignity and respect.
The federal judiciary is respected throughout America and the world for its excellence, for the independence of its judges, and for its delivery of equal justice under the law.
– uscourts.gov
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No rational human being would propose that Attorney General Letitia James and New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron effected the impartial administration of justice.
Attorney General Letitia James and New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron must be charged with and found guilty of political impropriety, conspiracy, fraud, corruption et al.
RFK and the Trump administration announce amazing medical breakthrough !!!!!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GzArU6qboAQrIOB?format=jpg&name=small
Aww what a sad life you lead Gigi. Truly pathetic.
Hi Jonathan. I have heard from so many people today that you are now referred to as “Trump’s Apologist!” What do you think of this? I guess it’s crazy isn’t it?
The professor does not read or responds to comments.
“ I guess it’s crazy isn’t it?”
It is if you’re a moron. Oh wait.
Recall Barack Obama told reporters that he was most proud of his scandal-free administration.
Scandal free. Scandal free. It was scandal free.
Obama said it over and over.
The fake news spread the lie.
Obama’s tan suit was the biggest scandal in his two terms in the White House.
Now communists like David Axelrod, are spreading their new line of BS.
We leftist Democrats believe in following rules and norms!
Democrats believe in upholding the law, the Constitution, respect for our institutions!
But Trump does not!
Now repeat often: Democrats play by the rules, we follow laws and norms. But Trump does not!
Democrats are engaged in asymmetrical warfare with a lawless dictator who does not play fair.
We play by the rules. We do everything by the book.
We Democrats follow the rule of law! Trump is lawless!
Trump is a dictator!
Just one of many scandals, the worst of which was Benghazi, and the destabilization of Libya.
“…prosecutors in Mexico charged seven individuals with crimes related to Operation Fast and Furious, including Mexico’s former top police official
and a former Mexican Federal Police commander,” he wrote.
Operation Fast and Furious was a high-profile scandal that ensnared former President Barack Obama’s Justice Department, the ATF, and ex-Attorney
General Eric Holder. The imbroglio saw federal agents allow more than 2,000 firearms to be sold illegally to known or suspected straw purchasers.
At the time, the federal government hoped the weapons could be used to track and ultimately arrest the high-ranking leaders of drug cartels in
Mexico. The sting operation backfired, however, with the guns being used to facilitate crimes along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The scandal came to light in 2011 shortly after two firearms involved in the sting were found at a crime scene where a U.S. Border Patrol agent was
killed.
[Obama’s] ATF declined to comment.”
https://judiciary.house.gov/media/in-the-news/atf-set-to-destroy-guns-associated-with-obama-era-fast-and-furious-scandal
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
– Barack Obama
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“We will stop him.”
– Peter Strzok to FBI paramour Lisa Page
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“[Obama] wants to know everything we’re doing.”
– Lisa Page to FBI paramour Peter Strzok
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“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before 40.”
– Peter Strzok to FBI parmour Lisa Page
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“People on the 7th floor to include Director are fired up about this [Trump] server.”
– Bill Priestap
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“I had a discussion with the case team and we believe there to be predication to include former President of the United States Donald J. Trump as a predicated subject.”
– Timothy Thibault to John Crabb, U.S. Attorney’s Office, D.C.
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The Obama Coup D’etat in America is the most egregious abuse of power and the most prodigious crime in American political history. The co-conspirators are:
Kevin Clinesmith, Bill Taylor, Eric Ciaramella, Rosenstein, Mueller/Team, Andrew Weissmann,
James Comey, Christopher Wray, McCabe, Strozk, Page, Laycock, Kadzic, Sally Yates,
James Baker, Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr, Priestap, Kortan, Campbell, Sir Richard Dearlove,
Christopher Steele, Simpson, Joseph Mifsud, Alexander Downer, Stefan “The Walrus” Halper,
Azra Turk, Kerry, Hillary, Huma, Mills, Brennan, Gina Haspel, Clapper, Lerner, Farkas, Power,
Lynch, Rice, Jarrett, Holder, Brazile, Sessions (patsy), Nadler, Schiff, Pelosi, Obama,
Joe Biden, James E. Boasberg, Emmet Sullivan, Gen. Milley, George Soros, John McCain,
Marc Elias, Igor Danchenko, Fiona Hill, Charles H. Dolan, Jake Sullivan, Strobe Talbot,
Cody Shear, Victoria Nuland, Ray “Red Hat” Epps, Don Berlin, Kathy Ruemmler, Rodney Joffe,
Paul Vixie, L. Jean Camp, Andrew Whitney, Lisa O. Monaco, Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg,
Matthew Colangelo, Merrick Garland, Juan Merchan, Timothy Thibault et al.
I don’t think Trump is done with her.
She is a walking, talking, left wing target representing everything wrong with Lawfare: plus the back office lawyers who knew better and gleefully stepped aside may have a thing or two to say about her LOL’ing the evidence.
Is there any story on why it took the judges so long for something this straight forward?
Yes, there is a story on why the judges tooks so long for a routine determination when only the facts and the law are considerred. The problems for the (Democrat) judges was how to best save face for the Democrat Party, so they don’t look like the total liars and frauds that most of the nation thinks of them. The ways to save face for the Democrats was complex, challenging, and detailed as there appeared to be no way they could get away with their fraudulent case, which took plenty of time to work out.
Anonymous–
Adopt a name. That was a good comment and I would like to watch for you. Like many others, I often skip anonymous comments and it helps to recognize someone interesting.
I 100% agree. I also often skip the Anonymous comments figuring that if the author had any smarts or character she/he would be willing to be identified with her/his comments.
Rabble:
I comment when I can. I dislike all y’all’s crusades against anonymous postings, honestly. I’m on a work computer that goes through at least 2 proxies and sideloaders before it gets to the main server several states away. I can’t set accounts for websites on this.
The continuing conversations regarding the minutiae of legalisms obscure the heart of the matter. The Law was used as a political weapon. The purpose of the Law is Justice. Justice cannot be satisfied when the Law is employed as a weapon to achieve political outcomes. And those who defend the use of the Law in such a way are to be condemned as willing participants in the destruction of everything good and holy in the very intent of the Law. I see comments arguing elements of this case that are so far up in the legal weeds that normal thinking people find it not only disgusting, but downright dangerous. Normal thinking people long for the ability to trust the Law to represent Justice, to represent them and their interests. When the Law is postured as a game, played by expensive attorneys and arrogant, black-robed judges, normal thinking people feel dirtied. When they do, they lose respect for everything to do with the Law. Respect dies first, then obedience. At that point the only emotion possible is rage. We know what will come when rage predominates the human spirit. We are about to face it. It’s coming like a tsunami.
This case is as tangled and muddy as they come.
It is clear that NY Exec. Law 63(12) has been determined by multiple NY cases to NOT require any showing of scienter or intent (see. e.g., , People v. GE decision), (even with the law’s 1965 amendment to broadly define proscribed “fraudulent or illegal” conduct way beyond the parameters of common law fraud, New York Bill Jacket, 1965 S.B. 1219, Ch. 666). It also does not require any “victims.” This could be a stumbling block for Trump.
NONETHELESS, in addition to the disgorgement order, there still is the additional punishment of business dissolution.
There has been a finding by AP (reviewing 150 cases brought under 63(12), that “nearly every previous” time a business was dissolved, “victims and losses were key factors.”* Moreover, there is justifiable question as to why Trump’s case was singled out for prosecution among a plethora of non-prosecuted similar/putative cases-all WITH alleged victims and losses.
So when you look at the matter in toto, including candidate James’ pre-election promises, it is hard to escape the conclusion drawn by Justice Friedman, -that AG Letitia James’ primary motive was patently “political” over any notion of needed protection for NYers as her stated purpose.
For this, she herself should be held accountable. On the surface, it appears that she and Engoron were more interested in going down in history as the ones who took Trump down, than any interest in perceived justice (for whom?)
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*”Dissolving Trump’s Business Empire Would Stand Apart in History of NY Fraud Law,” by Bernard Condon. Associated Press (Jan. 29, 2024), https://apnews.com/article/trump-fraud-business-law-courts-
banks-lending-punishment-2ee9e509a28c24d0cda92da2f9a9b689.
Nothing of the sort will ever come to pass. This case is done and over in all but name.
Absolutely! And thank you for the cite, Lin!
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/best-of-the-week/honorable-mention/2024/trump-fraud-lawsuit/
https://apnews.com/article/trump-fraud-business-law-courts-banks-lending-punishment-2ee9e509a28c24d0cda92da2f9a9b689
Only in fantasy land.
Lin, I don’t think this will be a stumbling block. The law requires a “tendency or capacity” to deceive. In the context here, involving huge, sophisticated institutions making their own assessments of unique properties, and no connection to the public, there was no such tendency or capacity.
Friedman’s opinion got it all right. Even two of the other justices found that Engoron got it wrong on his findings, but wanted the remedy to be a retrial rather than dismissal. A majority of three thus found that Engoron erred in finding any violation of law whatsoever.
Friedman also found that this law does not apply in this context at all and so James had no authority to bring the case.
The court of appeals should adopt Friedman’s opinion.
Hello Daniel:
While I agree with you in coming to the most logical conclusion, I do not trust it as dispositive.
-What you cited is case law pertinent to that case, -not the actual 1965 amendment/language of Section 63(12), i.e.,
“The word ‘fraud’ or ‘fraudulent’ as used herein shall include any device, scheme or artifice to defraud and any deception, misrepresentation, concealment, suppression, false pretense, false promise or unconscionable contractual provisions.” (and, if needed, the insertion of “shall include” is legally interpreted to indicate “some” items of a larger or broader category and is not limited to the enumerated inclusions.)
Second, I would need to go through the dozen or so cases to see when 63(12) was successfully invoked despite an absence of victims.
I think the stronger argument is the absence of a”public interest at stake” to warrant AG involvement to begin with, as well as political animus as the real impetus.
whatd’ya think?
p.s. in the case decision language you likely cited (ex rel Sptizer v. General Electric?), you quoted the engine but left out the caboose; the complete quote is “the test for fraud is whether the targeted act has the capacity or tendency to deceive, or creates an atmosphere conducive to fraud.” Was this language used in Trump’s case?
Friedman discussed it.
I agree with you that Friedman’s argument that the statute doesn’t apply in this context because there is no public interest that needs vindication is also very strong.
I think that James’ citing Michael Cohen’s testimony (and Friedman did bring up his credibility) to show Trump’s intent to inflate -(though not required as an element under 63(12))- was nonetheless used to establish an intentional (minimal) “misrepresentation” under 63(12)’s language (separate from and not necessarily fraudulent). Does this establish the minimum “creat[ion] [of] an atmosphere conducive to fraud” to create a “stand-alone” claim under that law?
Yes, Friedman took down each premise, one by one. I also thought Rosado/Higgitt contributed a lot of salient distinctions to consider.
(when I say, “was used to establish “misrepresentation, ” I am not declaring that it did. I am saying that it was used as a premise to speciously establish justiciable presence.)
Your analysis is flawed because the financial statements and the valuations that were the very subject of the bogus case against Trump were prepared under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“GAAP”), specifically Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) No. 274, Personal Financial Statement. To have a case against Trump, New York State would have to prove that Trump failed to comply with the requirements of ASC 274. And that they utterly failed to do. Valuations under ASC 274, are much broader and much more subjective than valuations under GAAP’s “fair value standard” that applies to non-personal financial statements. But when this portion of GAAP was written, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) that creates and updates the financial standards codification deliberately made the accounting for personal financial statements much more flexible than for corporate accounting. Because neither Letitia James’s team, including “Judge” Engoron, understood less than nothing about ASC 274, accounting, or valuation under GAAP–the only standard by which the personal financial statements could be false or misleading–Engoron was forced to write false, contradictory, and bogus opinions. First, Engoron made a preemptive ruling that the Trump’s personal financial statements must be false because a valuation can only be a single number–which is obviously untrue. The value of your home on a given day, for example, is not a single number the same way that the closing price of a share of publicly traded stock is. Real estate involves a range of values and the ranges can be substantial when the overall price level of the asset is large. Second, when Engoron and James realized that they got their whole case wrong, Engoron just switched his claim and revised his opinion to say that valuations could be a range, without admitting they he got it wrong the first time. But they still got it wrong the second time too because they failed to produce any facts or expert witnesses that could possibly prove that Trump’s valuation were out of range of the norm required under ASC 274, while Trump had produced a mountain of facts and several leading financial and accounting experts proving that Trump’s valuations were exactly in line with the valuations under the ASC 274 standard. This forced Engoron to lie for the third time by throwing out the professional expert testimony of the two financial and accounting experts under the bogus rationales that #1, since Trump paid the experts for their professional opinions and testimony, they were just hired guns that would say whatever Trump’s attorneys wanted them to say; and #2, since the two experts didn’t agree with the James’s and the judge’s predetermined valuations, their testimony must be unreliable. But that’s absurd because all experts are paid for testifying and no expert is required to reach the same conclusion that some other person did, even if that person happens to be an ignorant judge, like Engoron. Of course, the media did nothing to educate the public about any of this because the media doesn’t care about facts, the evidence, the truth, or justice. And James and Engoron were just like the media.
My analysis may be flawed. But it may not be.
You are arguing against me for something not relevant to what I am saying, e.g., whether the SFCs comported with GAAP and ASC provisions.
I note that yesterday I cited background information regarding AG’s use of Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony regarding the creation of Trump’s SFC’s and evidence/indications of his intent to inflate.
While such intent is not required here under 63(12), I only note that AG used it to create her C/A here in order to shape a cognizable claim under the statutory language of 63(12).
Please note in the appellate decision,
“Once Cohen testified before Congress, and alleged that President Trump inflated his assets in conducting New York
business, the Attorney General’s ‘interest of securing an honest marketplace” in which
to conduct business in New York was implicated (Coventry First LLC, 52 AD3d at 346),
as well as her interest in securing a “marketplace that adheres to standards of fairness’
(New York v Amazon.com, Inc., 550 F Supp 3d 122, 131 [SD NY 2021])”
Why are you arguing with me? I’m on your side here buddy, maybe not for all the same or relevant reasons though.
It’s possible that I’m misinterpreting what you wrote. But your statement that scienter and “victims” aren’t required under the NYS law could be a “stumbling block” for Trump is what I disagreed with. While I agree that NYS law doesn’t require scienter or “victims” under NYS’s politically invented new definition of “fraud” under this law, those features of the law are actually irrelevant to this bogus case against Trump.
The prosecution still failed to prove falsity and THAT was not just a “stumbling block” for the prosecution; it was a WALL they failed to cross through. And THAT was my point. Any appeals court that followed the law would have recognized that and further would have easily observed that Engoron’s rulings were FILLED TO THE BRIM with rubbish and unlawful conclusions. For example, the prosecution COULD have introduced their own financial and accounting experts to provide testimony supporting the prosecution’s “arguments,” but they FAILED to do so! Real appellate judges would have saw that and understood immediately what it meant. It meant that the prosecution had no case because it couldn’t find an accounting-finance expert that would be willing to LIE under oath for them. And real appellate judges would have also readily observed that Engorons “reasons” for excluding the testimony of Trump’s two first-rate, nationally recognized accounting-finance experts–namely that Trump paid the two experts for their testimony and the two experts didn’t comport with Engoron’s wishes–was a violation of civil procedure under NYS law. And in NYS, the standard for experts is the FRYE standard (as opposed to the Daubert standard). That means that for Engoron to lawfully throw out the two experts’ testimony, he would have to show that those two experts failed to to apply methodologies “generally accepted” by the “scientific community”. But Engoron DIDN’T AND COULDN’T do that because those two experts absolutely DID follow and apply generally accepted valuations under ASC 274! In short, the case against Trump and James and Engoron were TOTAL FRAUDS from beginning to end and the case should have been immediately dismissed in its entirety. Additionally, harsh sanctions should have been imposed on Engoron for his own violations of civil procedures.
Friedman’s discussion of ASC 274 is well done.
-It is, -in showing that the accommodation of fluidity and acceptable range/scope of disparate valuations can still comport with ASC274, -but more importantly, Friedman pointed out that the Supreme Court placed more emphasis on which valuation was more likely, rather than acknowledging AG’s failure to meet her burden to show that any overstatement of Trump’s net worth in the SFCs had any effect on the terms of the transaction (p.282).
Lin: “This case is as tangled and muddy as they come.”
But it should have been stopped when James ran on a platform of getting Trump on something, no matter what.
That puts her on the shelf with notable humanitarians like Beria: “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.”
Her law license should have been revoked immediately. That it wasn’t is a disgrace for the New York bar that reveals it may be as morally and ethically corrupt as she is.
What is going on in our law schools that creatures like these are cranked out?
Hello Young:
Was about to sign off when I saw your comment.’
Distasteful action? Objectionable? Questionable motive? “Morally and ethically” despicable? Self-promoting? YOu bet!
But actionable?….
ABA Rule 3.1? 8.4?
(Not familiar with NY’s)
The valid arguments you raise should have been highlighted during her candidacy, but apparently didn’t stick or weren’t raised at that time.
Let’s see if Elise Stefanik gains some ground in her filed ethics complaint against James….
https://eliseforcongress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Elise-Stefanik-Files-Bar-Complaint-Against-New-York-Attorney-General-Letitia-James.pdf
As a civil Appellate Lawyer, I have nothing but contempt for the New York bar for not suspending or disbarring Letitia James for her unethical electiin campaign to get Trump. It is even more shameful that the appellate judges save one did not possess the courage to condemn her ethical violation. James’s animosity-ethical lapses should have negated the entire lawsuit.
Furthermore, the Appellate Division did not interpret the NY code correctly. Because of the short time frame for answer, the injunctive power was granted to the AG to stop on-going fraudulent activity .
The appeal may have been decided differently in another Department, e.g. the Fourth Department here in Rochester, NY. At least Rep. Elise Stefanik has filed an ethics complaint against Ms. James. We’ll see where that goes. James has been squandering taxpayer dollars in New York for some time. For example, she sued the SEC five years ago when it adopted a new rule (Regulation BI) relating the standard of conduct for broker-dealers. This civil fraud case is by far the most egregious lapse in judgment. There should be consequences.
The depth of depravity of these bad actors knows no bottom.
Trump knows who and what he (and the country) is up against.
He knows the Left’s power structures must be dismantled. And he is doing it piece by piece.
Never let these filthy communists off the hook with a shrug or slap on the wrist.
They must be removed from power, stripped of everything — which is how they play the game when given power.
They went after Trump’s lawyers – intending to destroy them as well!
In their sick minds, Trump was not even entitled to legal advice and defense.
How many of Trump’s inner circle of lawyers and advisors are *still* being harassed, bankrupted and disbarred?
Eastman, Clark, Giuliani, etc.
These Democrats like Tish James, et al, are bad people, pure evil, and they will continue to abuse whatever power they have.
Strip them of it.
Prosecute Letitia James and throw the dam book at her. Put her away in prison for the maximum, no parole.
Then find all the right judges and juries to send every last one of them to prison for the rest of their filthy lives.
We all know their names. Now make examples out of them. Mock them. Bankrupt them. Destroy them.
It’s the only way.
The problem is the majority of the voting public in New York is corrupt. Who votes to put these people in power and keep them there? James ran her campaign on a promise to get Trump. She was overwhelmingly elected. The same with D.C. YOU CAN’T GET AN HONEST JURY IN NEW YORK OR D.C. The jury pool is corrupt. The communist pols in blue states have been elected by the people. They will never be brought to justice in those states. That is the case with most blue states. They are communist controlled. The voters in blue states have been dumbed down and brainwashed. They are anti-American.
‘They disbarred lawyers. Debanked everyone they could. And it was going to be a full speed run has Kamala won.’
‘Never forget they arrested the US President, his lawyers, his accountants, his campaign manager, his media allies, and even his valet.’
These are bad people. They are sick, vicious, lawless scum.
They must be stripped of their power and destroyed.
It’s the only way forward.
BREAKING
Newly discovered transcripts of interviews with Eva Braun reveal that she never saw Hitler do anything inappropriate
Gigi, you apparently didn’t get the memo. Nobody cares about Epstein anymore. Web searches are down over 90%. Trump’s numbers are stable or increasing. You failed again. Move on to the next talking point please.
That’s about as lame as they come. Braun was Hitler’s long-time lover and eventual wife. Silly, childish.
You haven’t been caught yet either.