Judge Engoron Tears Donald Trump to Shreds

[YoshidaYui]

The judge ruling over Donald Trump's civil fraud trial wrote a scathing rebuttal of the former president's defense while rejecting the Republican's latest attempt to have the case decided in his favor.

Judge Arthur Engoron, who is overseeing the case in which Trump is accused by New York Attorney General Letitia James of fraudulently inflating the value of his properties and assets in financial statements, dismissed the former president's appeal for a directed ruling to clear him of any wrongdoing for the fifth time on Monday.

Engoron has already ruled that Trump committed fraud while filing financial statements for years, and is expected to decide on the size of the punishment against the former president sometime around late January or early February. Trump, the frontrunner in the GOP presidential primary, denies all wrongdoing and says the case is a politically motivated "witch hunt" that aims to stop him from winning the 2024 election.

Trump faces being banned from doing business in New York state, having his properties removed from his control, or being forced to pay a fine totaling hundreds of millions of dollars.

While rejecting Trump's argument to rule in his favor, Engorn highlighted some of the "fatal flaws" in the former president's defense, including the testimony from one of their expert witnesses in the trial, New York University Stern School of Business research professor Eli Bartov.

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[Yonnie3]

1. "a lie is still a lie."

my favorite Engoron quote so far

[Texasgal]

2. Magat Meltdown

in 3....2....1.

[JuJuChen]

3. I love this judge and how he back hand slaps Orange Lard

[Johonny]

4. Trump spent most of his defense claiming he was innocent

Because there was no fraud, when the fraud was essentially already proven in a criminal trial of his chief financial officer. The real question at hand was if he and other corporate officers were liable for this fraud. His expert witness would have served him better pointing out fraud and explaining how it didn’t relate to Trump, than pretending every fraudulent claim was a mistake or error or . . . At some point it gets laughable. Trump Jr spent his defense essentially giving the judge a class one in person snow job of the Trump assets showing he did indeed have knowledge of the fraud.