At least one of Trumpā€™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 Trumpā€™s peers. Then there was a second judgment of $83.3 million in damages awarded to Carroll by another jury of Trumpā€™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 ā€œthe extent of Trump and the Trump Organizationā€™s white-collar malfeasance.ā€ Last week, Judge Engoron turned down a request by Trumpā€™s lawyers to postpone payment.

However, in the case of the historic $454 million judgment, ā€œa figure that is growing by more than $100,000 in interest every day,ā€ 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 ā€œundertaking.ā€

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 Carrollā€™s attorneys and then the New York attorney general Letitia James can start seizing the former presidentā€™s assets and property.

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    9 months ago

    At this point Iā€™m almost okay with him not serving any real time so long as he doesnā€™t get be president again and they keep running down everything that has and will come up from investigating him until most of the right is either locked up or barred from politics.

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        9 months ago

        I mean personally. He is not going to do any real time, if any time behind bars, period. The sooner we get ourselves okay with that, the better.

        Iā€™m okay with knowing that the orange anal douche is the downfall of the people who worshipped him to their own detriment.

        Donā€™t let perfect be the enemy of good. Iā€™ll be watching with glee when more on the right are brought up on charges and/or permanently barred from politics and whatever their original field was before running for office.

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        9 months ago

        Personally I want this fuckerā€™s family to suffer - not like jailing random family members but take away enough of this fuckā€™s Iā€™ll begotten gains to make Eric, Don Jr. and Ivanka slum it with the rest of us plebs.