He’s just misunderstood

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A New York appeals court on Monday paused for 10 days a massive civil business fraud judgment against Donald Trump — and sharply reduced to $175 million the bond amount he will have to post to obtain a longer stay of that award.

The ruling came the same day that New York Attorney General Letitia James would have been allowed to start seizing the former president’s real estate assets and bank accounts to satisfy the $454 million-and-rising judgment after he failed to obtain an appeal bond.

James is prevented from doing so — for now — due to the order from the five-judge panel in Manhattan Supreme Court’s appellate division.

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In its order Monday, the appeals court stayed trial Judge Arthur Engoron’s decision that had barred Trump from serving as an officer or director of a New York company for three years, and that had barred him and the corporate defendants from applying for loans from New York lenders for the same period. The order also stayed Engoron’s judge’s ruling that had barred Trump’s sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, from serving as officers and directors of New York companies for two years.

But the appeals court panel rejected a request to block enforcement of Engoron’s order extending and enhancing the role of a financial watchdog the judge had installed to monitor the Trump Organization’s finances.

We’re doomed.

H/t Artymorty

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    Acolyte of Sagan

    It’s also been ruled that his hush-money trial will start on April 15th, and Don ain’t happy.

    They’re dying to get this thing started. The judge cannot go faster. He wants to get it started so badly,” Trump said, after New York judge Juan Merchan ruled not long ago that his hush-money trial could begin on 15 April.

    Trump then said something about how elections should not be held because of all his legal troubles.

    “It’s illegal, what they’re doing. It’s criminal what they’re doing, and it’s never been done before in this country. You can’t have an election in the middle of a political season,” Trump said.

    Not sure what he meant by that last line, but in all likelihood neither did he. And it looks as though he’s going to appeal that ruling to a higher court anyway.

    “We very much believe that starting this trial in April, or even starting this trial at any point before the election, is completely unfair to president Trump. It’s completely unfair to the American people who are evaluating who they want to be the next president,” Blanche said.

    He referred to 15 April as “not a day we should go to trial, and we’re going to continue to fight.”

    You’ve got to admire the nerve of anyone who can claim that it’s unfair to put him on trial for breaking the law, and that it’s unfair for the electorate to be able to evaluate whether they’re voting for an alleged criminal or a convicted one. I mean, we all know he’s a criminal, and we all know that a conviction or two probably won’t matter to the vast majority of Republican voters, but still, that’s a claim I certainly couldn’t make with a straight face.

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