At least one of Trump’s four criminal trials is set to begin while the others are now in jeopardy
After five decades of playing fast and loose with the laws of New York, and a plenary of fraud, deception and corruption, legal appeasement seems to be declining and legal accountability seems to be ramping up as the proverbial hens are finally returning home to roost for the former Houdini of white-collar crime, Donald J. Trump.
First, there was the civil judgment of 5 million dollars awarded to the writer E. Jean Carroll by a federal jury of Trump’s peers. Then there was a second judgment of $83.3 million in damages awarded to Carroll by another jury of Trump’s peers for the additional defamatory statements that he continued to make after the first judgment was rendered for denying that he had sexually assaulted Carroll. And then there was the New York civil fraud decision by Judge Arthur Engoron holding Trump and his sons, Eric and Don, Jr. financially liable to the tune of more than $350 million underscoring “the extent of Trump and the Trump Organization’s white-collar malfeasance.” Last week, Judge Engoron turned down a request by Trump’s lawyers to postpone payment.
However, in the case of the historic $454 million judgment, “a figure that is growing by more than $100,000 in interest every day,” Trump sought a stay yesterday in opposition to New York law that requires first forking over the entire amount in damages or putting up a cash bond for the same known in the New York civil court system as an “undertaking.”
Trump also had previously done the same thing with the $83.3 million ruling by a jury in the second E. Jean Carroll defamation lawsuit. Neither of these appeals should go anywhere and the clock is still ticking in each case and soon time will be up before Carroll’s attorneys and then the New York attorney general Letitia James can start seizing the former president’s assets and property.
Run someone worth voting FOR not against someone else
No disagreement, but the horses are already out the gate on this one. Gotta support who we got, unfortunately.
No.
You know how people frequently look back and say “I was an idiot when I was X age”? You’re embarrassing your future self.
Hell I’m embarrassed for you right now. Bless your heart.
I feel way worse than embarrassment when I find out that my fellows would rather throw in with trump or support someone who actively aids and supports genocidal actions rather than joining those of us who would stop it.
FYI: “Bless your heart” is southern for “Fuck yourself” or some sentiment to that effect.
I know.
I absolutely love southern insults, the grace and thought that go into so many of them is glorious!
My, now that is an outfit that I never would have thought to wear in public. Good for you!
…and this is why half the women in this country don’t have safe access to abortion.
Oh shit, my bad I voted for Clinton that time.
But this time you’re grouchy
I did it again in 2020, this time “my” guy won and then directly and actively supported genocidal actions.
Unfortunately, imagine if you picked the other dude. We’d be directly commiting it.
I already had that happen, don’t fool yourself into thinking that just because our soldiers aren’t pulling the trigger means nothing to me.
“I’m good with trump if available candidates dont get me going”.
This sucks, we all agree. But you have a very simple game theory decision to make.
Assist Biden or assist trump.
I think Bushnell showed us a third option, and I’m not talking about setting ourselves on fire.
Very funny but I’m interested in non violence.
hows that workin out for ya
Just fine
“we only have two choices” would seem to suggest otherwise. good luck with all that. i for one am tired of being told my only choices are bad and worse.
Use violence and you’ll just get a new powerful, violent person filling the vacuum. Hope they like your brand, or the next fire is for you
You have the same choice to join us.
If you don’t you are helping trump by not dropping your objections and siding with us.
Balls in your court
It absolutely is not. There are two possible outcomes, in this month of this year related to this election, with 5 possible actions you can take:
Biden and trump.
If you pick a prog or liberal third, you pick a spoiler for Biden, and therefore assist trump.
If you pick a libertarian or conservative third you spoil trump, therefore assisting Biden.
If you pick Biden you help Biden.
If you pick trump you pick trump.
if you don’t vote at all, you assist the more populist candidate, and have no voice re any directed action of your least preferred candidate
There are zero other actual choices in this election.
For a future election, it’s a great time to discuss more progressive candidates to not have another biden-like candidate.
You’re acting like popular vote matters. What you’re saying only applies in like 3-5 states. I live in Connecticut. Bidens going to win Connecticut. It’s not going to be a significant help to him, because our puny electoral votes are never ever ever ever ever going to decide an election. It does not matter who I vote for in the presidential race. Lots of people are in the same boat as me, probably most of the country. I suggest you save your shit for Floridians and Ohioans.
“your shit”. No need to be rude, sorry I didn’t describe each particular voting district’s individual game theory tree of options.
Nothing I said is wrong, just perhaps not exhaustively descriptive for your (or indeed many) folks position.
Do you like democracy? Can it be fixed? Are you pushing for election reform?
I think the sentiment is more that Trump is worth voting against, because the danger is if he wins, there won’t be another vote in 4 years.
With Biden you can at least hope for better candidates next time. Because Democrats actually still defend democracy.