New York, a City of Demons By Charles Taylor (Florida)
I never felt at ease when in New York; there was something evil, sinister about the place, a presence. After reporting on the lawfare attacks on Donald Trump, I am sure of that. The latest is that New York Attorney General Letitia James is prepared to seize Donald Trump's assets if he is unable to pay the $ 354 million fine, designed to bankrupt him. Changes to New York law, made especially to hit Trump, require that before an appeal can be made the fine has to be paid as a bond! Why should that be, a legal case is either sound or not, it is not like there is someone who could leave the country before trial, exactly the opposite in fact?
So, a corrupt judgment can be made without leaving a reasonable opportunity of appeal. That is Catch-22 law, heads the Deep State wins, tails Trump loses. There is no longer even a pretence of fairness or operation of the rule of law.
This corruption of the law will need to be dealt with by Trump if elected. He will need to become as strong as Putin and Xi to drain the fetid swamp. If he loses his empire, he really will toughen up for the big fight ahead. I think in his book How to Get Rich, he describes how he once lost his empire and rebuilt it. He writes that he was walking in the rain to a meeting with bankers and saw a homeless person. He though: that guy is richer than me. Things can change with the toss of the coin of fate.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/21/letitia-james-says-shell-seize-trumps-assets-if-he-cant-pay-354m-fine/
"New York Attorney General Letitia James is prepared to seize former President Donald Trump's assets if he is unable to find cash to cover a $354 million fine in his civil fraud case, she said Tuesday in an interview with ABC News.
James told ABC News, "If he does not have funds to pay off the judgment, then we will seek judgment enforcement mechanisms in court, and we will ask the judge to seize his assets."
Trump was fined $354.8 million plus approximately $100 million in pre-judgment interest on Friday after Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron ruled the former president had inflated his net worth in order get more favorable loan terms.
Trump has said he will appeal the ruling. Still, he will have to pay the fine as a bond to New York State before he can appeal.
When asked about Trump's defense that the banks were paid back for all loans and there were no victims in the case, James responded "financial frauds are not victimless crimes," but did not name any victims and instead said the fraud was "massive."
"He engaged in this massive amount of fraud. It wasn't just a simple mistake, a slight oversight, the variations are wildly exaggerated, and the extent of the fraud was staggering," she argued. She then raised a hypothetical situation, saying, "If average New Yorkers went into a bank and submitted false documents, the government would throw the book at them, and the same should be true for former presidents."
James said she was eyeing Trump's building on 40 Wall Street known as the "Trump building."
"We are prepared to make sure that the judgment is paid to New Yorkers, and yes, I look at 40 Wall Street each and every day," she said.
She dismissed Trump's assertion businesses would leave New York over the case, saying, "Last I checked, tourism is up. Wall Street is doing just fine."
She also gloated about her, columnist E. Jean Carroll, and embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis's cases against Trump, saying, "Someone once told me if you want something done, give it to a woman."
"Trump lawyer Alina Habba told Breitbart News Daily that she is going to "thoughtfully" and "methodically" respond to the ruling in New York's fraud case against former President Donald Trump, stating that it is "going to be on the appeal" and "you can read it and weep."
Habba spoke about the trial and the aftermath of a New York judge — Judge Arthur Engoron — ordering Trump to pay $355 million over allegations of fraud. The judge also banned Trump from conducting business in the Empire State for three years.
"Let's just go to common sense, because the order that you're reading is not common sense. It's absolutely absurd … and for me to try to explain to you how Judge Engoron got to his ridiculous number would mean I have to go speak about politics and the problem with the dual justice system and election interference right now. But the numbers are what they are. What bank, whatever, just write a check. So that's how they feel they had a right to come in under a consumer fraud statute that's never been used in this way and butt their nose into two private, sophisticated individuals in a contract that has never been breached. No loan defaults, no loss of money, no victims, no damages," she said, adding that banks had nothing to do with the lawsuit and actually testified that they loved working with the Trump Organization.
"Ms. [Letitia] James is supposed to value properties now? She's got a bunch of associates under her, giving you what they think the value of Trump Tower is, and that's the basis of a lawsuit?" Habba continued, pointing to the absurdity of the entire case.
"Meanwhile, Deutsche Bank and Trump have no problems, no lawsuits. No one's saying they lost money. No one's saying they were hurt. Everyone's saying we did our due diligence. Trump's saying we did our due diligence. Everybody looks at the values. They put a number on it, they get a deal. They make a contract, and then they're good on the terms of that contract. Where is the harm? Because Ms. James and Judge Engoron say Mar-a-Lago is worth $18 million?" she asked, adding that these people "live in this world where they frankly, have no real knowledge."
"If you look at Judge Engoron he made a terrible decision that was reversed, hurting landlords and tenants in the state of New York, and he's known for that. He has said on the record, that even if a jury says something and gets it wrong, he won't agree with it, and he can use his own powers as a judge to completely disregard what a jury says," she said. "This is who we are dealing with."
"So if you want me to make sense of a nonsensical order, I just would assure you that number one, I'm not going to do it today. I'm going to do it thoughtfully, methodically, and it's going to be on the appeal," Trump's lawyer said.
"And you know, you can read it and weep, but that's where we are at right now," she added.
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