[WIRE] President Trump is on the hook for a $454 million judgment, according to the courts in New York. Judge Arthur Engoron presided over a stacked court in the civil fraud prosecution that was brought against Donald Trump. And it was done specifically in civil court, as opposed to criminal court, because the burden of proof is lower in civil court.
"It's not me they're after, it's you. I'm just in the way."
This is the case in which Attorney General Letitia James came into office pledging to target Trump, which prosecutors should not do. One does not go into office vowing to target "that guy." Rather, one vows to prosecute a crime — not find the criminal. The person who does the crime is by definition, the criminal.
If a specific person is targeted, then that looks very much like malicious and selective prosecution, which is exactly what James was doing. She prosecuted Trump in this New York court for the great crime of supposedly inflating the value of his real estate assets in obtaining loans from the bank.
There was no allegation the banks that gave the loans were actually damaged. In fact, they all got their money back. Instead, the allegation is that by inflating the price of the real estate, inflating his assets, somehow Trump had perpetrated a fraud against the people of New York despite there being zero damages.