Trump Pulls Out Paper from His Suit During Testimony, Says It Completely Vindicates Him The Western Journal Story by Joe Saunders • 5h
It was a show-stopper moment in the political show trial of former President Donald Trump
On the witness stand on Monday in his civil fraud trial in Manhattan, the former New York real estate king and leading 2024 GOP presidential candidate drew a piece of paper from his jacket pocket that he said would end the case once and for all.
Naturally, he wasn't allowed to read it.
According to the New York Post, the document was likely a disclaimer notice, a kind that's routine in major financial transactions, that warned potential lenders to the Trump Organization that they needed to conduct their own valuations of Trump properties before deciding to lend the business money.
A $250 million civil suit brought by New York's politically ambitious Attorney General Letitia James accuses Trump and his business of overvaluing the Trump Organization's assets in order to borrow money on more favorable terms.
Setting aside the absurdity of a lawsuit that doesn't even make a claim that any person or entity was victimized -- all loans were repaid at the agreed-upon interest.
It's simply ludicrous to believe that the sharp-eyed money men (and women) of Manhattan's financial scene were so wet behind the ears that they would lend 10 cents, much less tens of millions of dollars, based solely on the word of the borrower.
It's even worse to pretend that a state attorney general in a fiscal disaster like New York -- a state that's bleeding population and battered by budget problems \-- is going to do a better job watching out for private bank money than the extremely highly paid bank managers are going to do.
But James campaigned on a promise of getting Trump, and she's keeping that promise -- no matter what damage it does to the concept of justice under the law in New York.
She's being abetted in the vendetta by New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, who has made his disdain for the defendant abundantly clear throughout the proceedings (it's an opinon Trump clearly returns in spades).
In fact, as Reuters reported in September, Engoron has already ruled on the heart of the case -- finding that Trump and his organization are guilty of fraud. What's being argued now boils down to the penalties.
So, naturally, Engoron had no use for Trump's reading the disclaimer document.
"I would love to read this, Your Honor, if I could?” Trump said, according to the Post.
“Not at this point, not at this point,” Engoron replied.
"I'm shocked," Trump answered.
The dispute over the document eventually set off a witness stand eruption by the 45th president.
"He called me a fraud and he didn’t know anything about me!” Trump shouted, pointing at Engoron, according to the Post.
He then included James in his denunciation.
“The fraud is on the court and not on me … the fraud is on her!” he said, the Post reported.
Courtroom outbursts are rarely justified, of course, but if ever one was, it was this one.
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Naturally, he wasn't allowed to read it.
According to the New York Post, the document was likely a disclaimer notice, a kind that's routine in major financial transactions, that warned potential lenders to the Trump Organization that they needed to conduct their own valuations of Trump properties before deciding to lend the business money.
A $250 million civil suit brought by New York's politically ambitious Attorney General Letitia James accuses Trump and his business of overvaluing the Trump Organization's assets in order to borrow money on more favorable terms.
Setting aside the absurdity of a lawsuit that doesn't even make a claim that any person or entity was victimized -- all loans were repaid at the agreed-upon interest.
It's simply ludicrous to believe that the sharp-eyed money men (and women) of Manhattan's financial scene were so wet behind the ears that they would lend 10 cents, much less tens of millions of dollars, based solely on the word of the borrower.
It's even worse to pretend that a state attorney general in a fiscal disaster like New York -- a state that's bleeding population and battered by budget problems \-- is going to do a better job watching out for private bank money than the extremely highly paid bank managers are going to do.
But James campaigned on a promise of getting Trump, and she's keeping that promise -- no matter what damage it does to the concept of justice under the law in New York.
She's being abetted in the vendetta by New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, who has made his disdain for the defendant abundantly clear throughout the proceedings (it's an opinon Trump clearly returns in spades).
In fact, as Reuters reported in September, Engoron has already ruled on the heart of the case -- finding that Trump and his organization are guilty of fraud. What's being argued now boils down to the penalties.
So, naturally, Engoron had no use for Trump's reading the disclaimer document.
"I would love to read this, Your Honor, if I could?” Trump said, according to the Post.
“Not at this point, not at this point,” Engoron replied.
"I'm shocked," Trump answered.
The dispute over the document eventually set off a witness stand eruption by the 45th president.
"He called me a fraud and he didn’t know anything about me!” Trump shouted, pointing at Engoron, according to the Post.
He then included James in his denunciation.
“The fraud is on the court and not on me … the fraud is on her!” he said, the Post reported.
Courtroom outbursts are rarely justified, of course, but if ever one was, it was this one.
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1 comment:
This is a show trial. Not only are the facts irrelevant they are totally unwelcome. This episode is proof that the entire legal/judicial system of the country is corrupt beyond redemption.
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