Donald Trump’s lawyers rested his defense Tuesday and sought anew to immediately end the New York civil fraud trial that threatens the former president’s real estate empire. The judge said “there’s no way I’m going to grant that.”
Trump’s lawyers — thwarted in a similar bid last month — were swatted down as they asked Judge Arthur Engoron to cut the trial short and issue a verdict clearing Trump, his company and top executives of wrongdoing. The judge reiterated his feeling that state lawyers had met their legal burden for seeing the three-month trial through to its conclusion.
New York Attorney General Letitia James alleges Trump duped banks, insurers and others by inflating his wealth on financial statements used in securing loans and make deals. Engoron has already ruled on James’ top claim that Trump committed fraud.
Can anyone enlighten a legal-dummy about what the most likely outcome is? Like what can we honestly expect to happen, not just best case scenario. I just don’t see a world where this dude actually faces punishment, right?
Anyone claiming they can shouldn’t be trusted.
Well, there can’t be infinite possibilities, I’m assuming? Just sort of wondering if anyone could comment on what they thought the most likely outcome might be.
Is that really asking someone to predict the future?