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I swear, Trump's trial in NYC now has turned into a gross, brainless, idiotic joke, folks--just ck these little snippets
Trump's NYC trial has now turned into a gross, moronic joke, suckers; Trump's shysters have now filed for mis-trial
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Trump Asks for Mistrial in N.Y. Civil Fraud Case
Link: https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-new-york-fraud/2023/11/15/id/1142368/Judge Arthur Engoron (Jefferson Siegel for The New York Times via Getty Images)
Wednesday, 15 November 2023 12:43 PM EST
Donald Trump's lawyers on Wednesday urged a New York judge to declare a mistrial in a civil fraud case over his family real estate company's business practices, but the former U.S. president faces long odds of getting a new trial.
Lawyers for Trump and his family company argued in court filings that the conduct of Justice Arthur Engoron, who is overseeing the case, and his law clerk showed they were biased against the defendants.
Trump's lawyers said Engoron had posted links to news articles "disparaging" Trump to a newsletter for alumni of a school he attended, and had improperly given his law clerk - who sits beside him during the trial's proceedings — too much latitude to participate in the case.
"Given the demonstrable partisan bias present on the bench at trial, the only way to maintain public confidence in a truly independent and impartial judiciary and the rule of law is to bring these proceedings to an immediate halt," Trump's lawyers wrote.
In a statement responding to the motion, a spokesperson for New York Attorney General Letitia James said Trump was trying to distract from his fraud.
A spokesman for the New York State court system did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The motion argued that a gag order Engoron imposed on Oct. 3 forbidding both sides from speaking about his staff was unconstitutional.
The order came after Trump shared on social media a photo of the judge's principal law clerk posing with U.S. Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, and falsely called her Schumer's "girlfriend."
Trump's lawyers said in their filing that the gag order "may reasonably be interpreted as an effort to shield" his law clerk's role from scrutiny. They called the clerk's political contributions to Democratic candidates and organizations "impermissible partisan activity."
In the motion, Trump's lawyers included links to the newsletters for alumni of the Wheatley School, a public school on Long Island from which Engoron graduated in 1967. Engoron runs the newsletter, which frequently includes updates on alumni lives and reminiscences about their time in school.
Reuters reviewed the nine newsletters Trump's lawyers flagged. He posted the links, mostly without commentary, to articles in outlets like the New York Times and New York Daily News about the long-running case under headings such as "1967 - Art Engoron - In the News."
In a Feb. 16, 2021post, he referred to an article about the case in legal blog Above the Law as "a humorous, irreverent take."
It is highly unlikely that Engoron will declare a mistrial, given his earlier fraud findings and defense of his law clerk's conduct.
The lawsuit over his real estate practices accuses Trump pumping up the value of apartment towers, golf courses and other assets to win better financing terms.
The trial largely concerns damages. Engoron has already found Trump, his adult sons and 10 of his companies liable for fraud, describing in scathing terms how the defendants made up valuations.
Engoron's ruling could strip Trump's control of some of his best known properties, though that order is on hold during appeal.
Trump took the stand in the case last week, defending his business practices and calling the case "election interference."
The case is among the many legal woes facing Trump as he campaigns for the presidency. He has pleaded not guilty to four criminal indictments, including two over charges he tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
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Latest moves in Trump's NYC trial after Trump's move for mis-trial
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NY AG Letitia James’ Case Against Trump Gets Wrecked by Deutsche Bank Testimony
By thepoliticsbriefNovember 29, 2023
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A Deutsche Bank executive may have just wrecked New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit against former President Donald Trump.
James’ lawsuit has turned on framing the German bank lender as Trump’s ‘victim’ in an alleged scheme to inflate his assets in order to get better terms from banks and insurers.
It turns out that she has a problem with her alleged ‘victim.’ The bank seems to have approved of Trump’s asset valuation.
David Williams, who worked directly on at least one of Trump’s loans over several decades, testified on Tuesday in Manhattan that it’s “atypical, but not entirely unusual” for a bank to internally slash a client’s stated asset values by 50% and still approve a loan, as they did with Trump, according to Bloomberg.
“It just depends on the circumstances,” said Williams, a managing director at the bank.
As Bloomberg reported:
Deutsche Bank, which loaned hundreds of millions of dollars to Trump for properties in Miami, Chicago and Washington, cut his stated net worth in 2011 and 2012 from about $4.2 billion to $2.3 billion, according to internal bank credit memos. The same documents indicated the bank approved the loans anyway because it expected them to generate a profit based on Trump’s history of successful developments and other criteria.
Trump, who denies wrongdoing and claims the case is politically motivated, is calling to the stand this week four current and former Deutsche Bank employees — including the family’s former private banker Rosemary Vrablic — as part of his defense case, seeking to flip the script on the state’s version of events.
The testimony destroys AG James’ assumption that Trump misled the German bank.
“As part of our due diligence, we subject a client’s asset value to adjustments,” said Williams.
“It’s part of our underwriting process we apply it to every client regardless of what’s reported.”
“Is a difference of opinion in asset values between the client and the bank a disqualifying factor to extend credit?” Trump attorney Jesus Suarez asked Williams.
“No,” he replied.
“Why not?”
“It’s just a difference of opinion,” Williams continued.
“I think we expect clients to provide information to be accurate.”
Is the Attorney General actually prosecuting a former president based on a “difference of opinion”? It appears so.
Earlier in the trial, Trump and two of his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, testified that no banks had been harmed by the alleged inflated valuation, and that multiple lenders had profited millions of dollars in interest on the loans. Trump also claimed that the earlier assessments took into account his name and the possibility for future development.
According to James, a radical Anti-Trump Democrat AG, Trump and his firm misrepresented records to banks and insurers. Judge Arthur Engoron has already held Trump liable for fraud in a unilateral judgment before gathering all the facts and statements of witnesses.
In the Fulton County “racketeering” case against Donald Trump led by partisan District Attorney Fani Willis, the indictment document for Trump appeared on the court’s server before the grand jury had even rendered a decision.
These are nothing but partisan show trials being prosecuted for the purposes of election interference and are being overseen by partisan operatives. These cases have nothing to do with “justice” and have everything to do with a political vendetta to “get Trump” at all costs — even at the expense of our judicial system.
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Bankers complimented Trump for making money for the bankers who were quite happy w. Trump
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EXCLUSIVE: Judge Engoron Has Had Unethical Ex-Parte Communications With Michael Cohen In Trump’s Civil Fraud Case
by Laura Loomer | Dec 4, 2023Link: https://loomered.com/2023/12/04/exc...ith-michael-cohen-in-trumps-civil-fraud-case/
Newsletter #52 of The Wheatley School Alumni Association, which is operated by Arthur Engoron, has revealed that once again, New York State Supreme Court Justice Arthur F. Engoron may have committed multiple acts of misconduct in violation of The New York State Unified Court System’s Judicial conduct, specifically Section 100.4 while overseeing President Trump’s civil fraud trial.
The Letitia Peekaboo James witch hunt officially commenced in March of 2019. The Communist New York Attorney General opened the sham proceedings by serving multiple subpoenas and discovery requests upon the Trump family, President Trump, and many others. By August 2020, The Attorney General convinced Judge Engoron to compel the Trump parties to comply with her deposition demands.
By September of 2020, Judge Engoron ordered Eric Trump to sit for a deposition no later than October 7, 2020. Eric Trump complied with Engoron’s order and was deposed on October 5, 2020.
Justice Engoron was preparing and compiling information for the latest issue of his newsletter between the dates of October 2, 2020 through November 8, 2020. During this timeframe, Justice Engoron was also actively participating in the Trump witch hunt, while simultaneously communicating with an extremely biased, and anti-Trump federal prosecutor who is also linked to a witness in the Trump case.
Issue #52 from Justice Engoron’s Wheatley Alumni Newsletter has clearly revealed an extremely troubling and highly inappropriate abuse of power and ethical violation by the New York State Supreme Court.
While Eric Trump’s court ordered deposition was taking place, Justice Engoron was colluding with fellow Wheatley Wildcat, federal prosecutor, and personal confidant Phillip Halpern. During that time, Halpern was also preparing, coordinating, and conducting multiple anti-Trump commentaries and interviews, amongst numerous left leaning national publications and mainstream media outlets. Even more disturbing, Halpern conducted an interview on or before October 26, 2020 with Attorney General Letitia James’s star witness, the recently incarcerated, and disbarred attorney Michael Cohen.
On November 8, 2020, Engoron published and released issue #52 of The Wheatley Alumni Newsletter. An extensive forensic document analysis of the subject newsletter revealed that on page 12, there is an acknowledgement of a pleasantry from Phillip Halpern, to New York State Supreme Court Justice Arthur F. Engoron.
“Art, Thanks for dropping me a line. Although I was not so brazen to believe my article in itself could make a difference, I felt it was important to add my voice to the chorus of citizens concerned about the direction of our country.”
The following was copied and pasted from page 12 of newsletter #52. Justice Engoron published the following links and notes, relative to the ongoing politically motivated commentaries and interviews that were weaponized for the sole purpose of attacking President Donald J. Trump.
Phillip Halpern: I won’t work in Attorney General William Barr’s Justice Department any longer – The San Diego Union-Tribune
Third Justice Dept. Prosecutor Publicly Denounces Barr – The New York Times
The Story Behind Phillip Halpern’s Viral U-T Piece Bashing AG William Barr – Times of San Diego
Assistant U.S. Attorney On Why He’s Leaving DOJ After More Than 30 Years : NPR
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trumps-attack-dog-how-bill-barr-weaponized-doj-to-protect/id1530639447?i=1000496060270
We must thoroughly scrutinize the time frame during Justice Engoron’s preparation for the latest issue of his beloved newsletter, between the dates of October 2, 2020 through November 8, 2020. During this timeframe, Justice Engoron was also actively engaging in the Trump witch hunt. The judge was simultaneously communicating with an extremely biased anti-Trump federal prosecutor, that was in direct contact with multiple Leftist news sources and the Attorney General’s star witness. The only objective of every single interview and commentary was to disparage the reputation and the credibility of President Donald J. Trump.
Any reasonable person would admit these relationships amongst the prosecution’s star witness and the openly biased judge are highly inappropriate. These biased actions cast a reasonable doubt on the judge’s ability to act impartially as a judge, and they detract from the dignity of judicial office.
Every single American deserves to know the contents of Judge Engoron’s ex parte communications, including all call logs with Phillip Halpern, the former radical, Leftist federal prosecutor who’s directly corresponding with the New York State Supreme Court Justice, and with the prosecution’s star witness. How can President Trump receive a fair trial in this blatantly corrupt venue? The terrible optics of this trial have totally decimated the credibility of New York State’s Supreme Court system. In addition to highly inappropriate Ex-Parte communications, and potential witness tampering, these actions may also be construed as election interference, during the 2020 and 2024 Presidential elections.
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NY AG Letitia James Admits Denying Trump Due Process: Judge Found Donald Trump Guilty ‘Before This Trial Even Began’
by Jamie WhiteDecember 17th 2023, 1:05 pm
Link: https://www.infowars.com/posts/ny-a...ld-trump-guilty-before-this-trial-even-began/
"You know what that’s called? That’s called communism. That is called an absolute judicial injustice," argues lawyer Viva Frei.
New York Attorney General Letitia James admitted that Judge Arthur Engoron had already determined Donald Trump engaged in “significant financial fraud” before the trial even began.
James has accused Trump and his executives of manipulating the value of his company’s assets to obtain more favorable loans from banks and is seeking $250 million in damages.
“Before this trial even began, the judge ruled in our favor and found that Donald Trump did engage in years of significant financial fraud,” James admitted in a video statement on Friday.
“We uncovered throughout this trial, we revealed the full extent of that fraud. We introduced extensive evidence and questioned more than two dozen witnesses.”
Canadian lawyer David Freiheit, also known as Viva Frei, laid out the implications of James’ remarks and called for her and Judge Engoron to be impeached for denying Trump’s due process rights.
“‘Before this trial even began, the judge ruled in our favor.’ You know what that’s called? That’s called communism. That is called an absolute judicial injustice. She should be impeached. The judge should be impeached. The entire [case] should be thrown out,” he said on X.
“And my goodness, anybody sitting there saying that Trump is guilty needs to have their head examined because this has been the most egregious injustice.”
“Attorney General Leticia James is corrupt as the day is long, and Judge Engron, New York nipple Judge Engron is as corrupt as the day is long. And they’ve just said it out loud for everyone to hear,” he added.
Trump likewise excoriated James and Judge Engoron on Thursday after expert witnesses testified in court that they found no evidence of fraud.
In a pre-trial decision that sparked questions about due process, Engoron declared Trump was liable for fraud in September before the civil trial even commenced and tried canceling Trump’s business certifications in New York, which was rejected by the appeals court.
Further raising questions of political bias in the court, reports emerged that Engoron’s law clerk campaigned with James at a Democrat event in 2022.
Additionally, it was revealed that Engoron’s wife went on anti-Trump tirades on social media during the trial and vowed that Trump would go to prison.
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It's Keystone Cops conspiracy against Trump--so desperate they are, funded by satanic Jew, George Soros, suckers--far, far fm Trump having done anything wrong, or fraudulent, or damaging to anyone (there's no victim)
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Here FOX News discusses the Trump NYC trial for eighth Amendment considerations regarding excessive fine
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FOX News features business man O'leary commenting on the gross judicial rip-off of Trump for nearly 1/2 BILLION FOR NOTHING--banks all got paid back, no one defrauded or lost money