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2024-02-17 Government Corruption

Trump fined $355 million in fraud trial, banned from NY business

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Posted by trailing wife 2024-02-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [37 views ] Top

#1 Political repression has arrived in force. Extortion, violation of civil rights, unlawful confiscation, entrapment and imprisonment of supporters, intimidation and threats of assassination (see cryptic threat made by George Soros's son Alex Soros), etc..

Posted by Beldar Uneter3543 2024-02-17 00:28|| 2024-02-17 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Between the United States and Russia, one country just arbitrarily seized the assets of an oligarch opposed to the regime, and is trying to jail him

The other country is Russia

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-17 00:49|| 2024-02-17 00:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Seattle High School Issues Handout Telling Children That Enjoying the 'Written Word' Is White Supremacy

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-17 00:53|| 2024-02-17 00:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Who lost money in the deal?

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-02-17 06:24|| 2024-02-17 06:24|| Front Page Top

#5
Could it be the goal is to Bankrupt Trump so he can't hire lawyers and investigators to find things
like DA's humping the paid Investigators?

Posted by NN2N1 2024-02-17 07:17|| 2024-02-17 07:17|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ Never thought of that, but it's certainly a plausible theory.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-17 08:09|| 2024-02-17 08:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Welcome to lawfare. The process is the punishment.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-02-17 09:06|| 2024-02-17 09:06|| Front Page Top

#8 load your weapons.

Posted by irish rage boy 2024-02-17 10:24|| 2024-02-17 10:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Judge has well documented bias. Decision was cooked in the cake before the first selfies taken. I enjoyed the fix being so in, everyone involved got cocky and exposed themselves.

Its the appeal which has me concerned.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-02-17 10:36|| 2024-02-17 10:36|| Front Page Top

#10 /\ Yep. Evil fok that he is, Vlad Putin has absolutely nothing on these people.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-17 10:38|| 2024-02-17 10:38|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ A lot of the New York big money bidness community is nervous about the "precedent" set here. Phones will be ringing in the places where appeals court judges take phone calls.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-02-17 10:41|| 2024-02-17 10:41|| Front Page Top

#12 The dizziness of NBC news this morning gleefully reporting the judgement against Trump and then the very next story outlining the tyranny of Russia versus Putin’s political opponent. Not seeing the irony is quite unbelievable if not intentional.

Posted by Airandee 2024-02-17 11:02|| 2024-02-17 11:02|| Front Page Top

#13 #4 Who lost money in the deal?

Well, the State of New York figures they're up $355 million...

Posted by Bobby 2024-02-17 11:18|| 2024-02-17 11:18|| Front Page Top

#14 3/4 of what the judge used to convict Trump was well past the statute of limitations. That alone should guarantee an appeal victory but considering this is New York I am very skeptical.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2024-02-17 11:22|| 2024-02-17 11:22|| Front Page Top

#15 The dizziness of NBC news this morning gleefully reporting the judgement against Trump and then the very next story outlining the tyranny of Russia versus Putin’s political opponent. Not seeing the irony is quite unbelievable if not intentional.

Yeah, I hear a lot of talk about CNN but NBC, ABC and CBS are just as bad.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-02-17 13:08|| 2024-02-17 13:08|| Front Page Top

#16 How is commercial real estate doing in NYC anyway? I thought so.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-02-17 14:09|| 2024-02-17 14:09|| Front Page Top

#17 I think the outrageous amount and conditions were intended to accomplish two things - to garner as much attention and encouragement as possible for Trump's enemies as it made headlines, and the guarantee that the Appellate Court could act in some "reasonable" fashion to overturn the insanity. Engoron has made his bones for the political establishment in the miasma that is New York demokrat politics, and will be immune from actual consequences.

That it confirms the reasons for mockery of "equal justice under the law" and contributes to the general decline of public trust in government is unimportant to the left, they have long since abandoned any understanding of "consent of the governed" and don't see where that leads!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-02-17 14:49|| 2024-02-17 14:49|| Front Page Top

#18 Fox was giggling about it, too. Clowns.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-02-17 16:27|| 2024-02-17 16:27|| Front Page Top

#19 @#5&6 - And perhaps a warning to future enemies of the state. Let's recall the $1 billion fine handed to Alex Jones.

Posted by DooDahMan 2024-02-17 19:25|| 2024-02-17 19:25|| Front Page Top

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