He’s just misunderstood
A New York appeals court on Monday paused for 10 days a massive civil business fraud judgment against Donald Trump — and sharply reduced to $175 million the bond amount he will have to post to obtain a longer stay of that award.
The ruling came the same day that New York Attorney General Letitia James would have been allowed to start seizing the former president’s real estate assets and bank accounts to satisfy the $454 million-and-rising judgment after he failed to obtain an appeal bond.
James is prevented from doing so — for now — due to the order from the five-judge panel in Manhattan Supreme Court’s appellate division.
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In its order Monday, the appeals court stayed trial Judge Arthur Engoron’s decision that had barred Trump from serving as an officer or director of a New York company for three years, and that had barred him and the corporate defendants from applying for loans from New York lenders for the same period. The order also stayed Engoron’s judge’s ruling that had barred Trump’s sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, from serving as officers and directors of New York companies for two years.
But the appeals court panel rejected a request to block enforcement of Engoron’s order extending and enhancing the role of a financial watchdog the judge had installed to monitor the Trump Organization’s finances.
We’re doomed.
H/t Artymorty
It’s also been ruled that his hush-money trial will start on April 15th, and Don ain’t happy.
Not sure what he meant by that last line, but in all likelihood neither did he. And it looks as though he’s going to appeal that ruling to a higher court anyway.
You’ve got to admire the nerve of anyone who can claim that it’s unfair to put him on trial for breaking the law, and that it’s unfair for the electorate to be able to evaluate whether they’re voting for an alleged criminal or a convicted one. I mean, we all know he’s a criminal, and we all know that a conviction or two probably won’t matter to the vast majority of Republican voters, but still, that’s a claim I certainly couldn’t make with a straight face.