Subject: Re: Trump gets special treatment yet again
I'm sure this is legal...

This is another example of the truism

It isn't what's illegal that's the crime, it's what is LEGAL...

This is wrong on so many fronts...

The trial judge didn't make up the damage numbers. He "showed the math" and extrapolated the exaggerated asset valuations against likely interest rate premiums someone with LESS collateral would have to pay on such outsized loans over the course of 6-10 years and $383 million was a very reasonable number.

Evidence provided in the trial supplied numerous examples of Trump's extreme spite of basic accounting and lack of remorse, making the additional damages tacked on to yield the $454 million dollar final judgement more than justified.

Trump knew the initial target of $383 million when the lawsuit was filed. That was his first warning shot. Trump's own legal team failed to file the paperwork to request a jury trial, lowering the chance one or two MAGA fanatics could block a jury verdict protecting him. That was his second warning shot. The case wrapped very quickly and he LOST and the court spent MONTHS trying to resolve the AMOUNT of the final verdict. That was his final warning shot to begin raising cash. When the final $454 million judgment came down, he still had THIRTY DAYS to find the money -- either to PAY it and shut up or use it to allow appeal and he STILL could not find the money.

Evidence provided in the trial clearly demonstrated the chuckleheads actively participated in this pattern of fraud the entire time and ran the show for four years while Trump played President. Why should they NOT remain barred from operating companies in New York? What's the legal rationale for THAT decision. They lied for years on state tax paperwork. They lied in court about their level of participation. They may not have the money for their multi-million dollar penalties either. So why does that justify the appeals court tossing a portion of the "sentence" they CAN "serve" that protects the public from them operating similar frauds for at least a few years?

It's clear at this point, he doesn't have the $454 million and I doubt he has enough to cough up $175 million or even a percentage of that as a bond. So why is that the public's problem? Why the forebearance? Why the lowered amount? Why the extra 30 days? Has he been a model citizen during this process? No, he has triggered death threats against the prosecutors, the judge and even the judge's clerk.

The only thing this decision does is defer recognition of reality by the larger public. Had the appeals court rejected his request and left the original amount required for appeal standing on the original due date, it would have allowed the same collection mechanisms to begin that would face any other citizen in the identical scenario and would have begun triggering the larger public to realize Trump is NOT the multi-billionaire he has claimed to be for forty years and whatever assets he DOES have have been wrung from forty years of fraud and criminal behavior.

Instead, that reckoning is again put on hold as the country inches towards an election amid a world closer to chaos than it has been in eighty years.


WTH