Far-left Judge Arthur Engoron has ordered President Donald J. Trump to pay almost $355 million dollars in the Democrat case against the former president in New York. The ruling also prohibits certain members of the Trump Organization from doing business in the Empire State. President Trump will appeal the judgment.
Trump’s sons, Don Jr. and Eric Trump, were also ordered to pay $4 million each.
New York Attorney General Letita James had pleaded with the state to order Trump to pay at least $370 million.
Speaking earlier this week, Trump lawyer Alina Habba remarked: “I don’t have high hopes; I do believe that there is some ethics left. I hope that Judge Engoron sees through this, but… I’ve been on weeks and weeks and weeks of trial in New York, and the corruption runs deep; the Trump Derangement Syndrome frankly runs even deeper.”
Judge Engoron is a Democrat donor whose “co-judge” law clerk, Allison Greenfield, has attended events endorsing AG James, a Democrat, and Joe Biden.
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Far-left Judge Arthur Engoron has ordered President Donald J. Trump to pay almost $355 million dollars in the Democrat case against the former president in New York. The ruling also prohibits certain members of the Trump Organization from doing business in the Empire State. President Trump will appeal the judgment.
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Aliba Habba, representing Donald Trump and his business empire in New York Attorney General Letitia James’s civil fraud against them, says she does not have “high hopes” as she awaits Judge Arthur Engoron’s decision expected Friday morning.
“If I could file the appeal now, I would,” Habba said on Wednesday, warning there are “no surprises coming here.”
“I don’t have high hopes; I do believe that there is some ethics left. I hope that Judge Engoron sees through this, but… I’ve been on weeks and weeks and weeks of trial in New York, and the corruption runs deep; the Trump Derangement Syndrome frankly runs even deeper,” she added.
The lawsuit threatens a $370 million financial penalty and a permanent ban from New York real estate dealings. Judge Engoron, a Democrat donor whose “co-judge” law clerk, Allison Greenfield, has attended events endorsing AG James, a Democrat, and Joe Biden.
While AG James claims Trump defrauded banks by overvaluing his assets to secure loans, some of the valuations accepted by Engoron, such as valuing Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate at just $18 million, have been heavily criticized.
Habba has also contended all loans were paid back on time, so there is no actual victim in the case.
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Habba: They can't apply law to fact. There was absolutely no laws broken. People made money.
Aliba Habba, representing Donald Trump and his business empire in New York Attorney General Letitia James's civil fraud against them, says she does not have "high hopes" as she awaits Judge Arthur Engoron's decision expected Friday morning.
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Anti-Trump columnist E. Jean Carroll appeared to confess to owning an illegal firearm and ammunition during court proceedings in New York on Wednesday. Carroll – who is demanding more cash from former President Donald J. Trump as a result of his continued denial over her sexual abuse claims – was asked by Trump lawyer Alina Habba: “You have a gun – do you have a license?”
“No,” Carroll replied, which appears to be a breach of the law of New York State, where Carroll resides. If Carroll has committed a crime, it ranks as a class E felony in the State of New York, punishable by up to four years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000.
Habba then attempted to press Carroll on her awareness of state laws, to which Judge Kaplan appeared to come to Carroll’s defense, shooting back, “Don’t even start.”
Undeterred, Habba continued her line of questioning, asking Carroll if she had bullets for the gun and if she lived in the State of New York. Carroll answered “yes” to both questions.
Judge Kaplan’s attempt to shut down Habba’s line of questioning only adds to concerns about the judge’s political bias.
Habba: You have a gun – do you have a license? Carroll: No. Habba: Are you aware that you have to have a licence- Judge Kaplan: Don't even start. Habba: Do you have bullets for the gun? Carroll: Yes. Habba: You live in this state? Carroll: Yes.
Anti-Trump columnist E. Jean Carroll appeared to confess to owning an illegal firearm and ammunition during court proceedings in New York on Wednesday. Carroll – who is demanding more cash from former President Donald J. Trump as a result of his continued denial over her sexual abuse claims – was asked by Trump lawyer Alina Habba: "You have a gun – do you have a license?"
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U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan has given former President Donald Trump the go-ahead to testify in writer E. Jean Carroll’s impending defamation suit against him.
Kaplan’s order, issued Sunday, set Trump’s testimony for Monday, January 22, and followed a filing by Trump’s attorney Alina Habba, who argued that the former president can “still offer considerable testimony in his defense.”
Habba noted that an individual seeking punitive damages in a defamation case in New York must prove libelous statements were made out of hatred or ill will and argued that Trump should be allowed to testify as to whether hatred or ill will were behind his comments that Carroll claims are defamatory. Trump expressed his intention to testify at the trial earlier this month.
This suit against Trump is the second one filed on Carroll’s behalf for defamation. Last year, a jury granted Carroll $5 million in damages for sexual abuse and defamation in a separate lawsuit against him. Carroll brought legal action against Trump after he dismissed her sexual assault claim, which allegedly occurred in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s, and described her as a deceitful “wack job.”
Trump previously requested a one-week postponement of the trial, due to start Tuesday, to attend his mother-in-law’s funeral, which Kaplan denied. Kaplan also previously ordered that Trump is not allowed to argue that he never raped Carroll, a bizarre ruling given that Trump’s denial of the allegations is at the heart of Carroll’s defamation case against him.
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U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan has given former President Donald Trump the go-ahead to testify in writer E. Jean Carroll's impending defamation suit against him.
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Alina Habba, a lawyer representing Donald Trump and advising the Save America PAC, says the 45th President has voiced concerns the Supreme Court may not rule in his favor over efforts to remove him from 2024 election ballots.
Responding to claims that Trump is concerned the court may want to look as though it is not biased in his favor, as he appointed three of its justices, Habba confirmed “that’s a concern that he’s voiced to me, he’s voiced to everybody publicly, not privately.”
“I can tell you that his concern is a valid one. You know, Republicans… get nervous, they unfortunately are sometimes shy[ing] away from being pro-Trump… they’re trying so hard to look neutral that sometimes they make the wrong call,” she said.
“I just encourage them to really look at the law and the Constitution; it’s very clean cut,” she added.
The all-Democrat-appointed Colorado Supreme Court ruled narrowly that Trump should not be allowed to appear on the state’s GOP primary ballot, alleging he is an insurrectionist and disqualified from the presidency under the 14th Amendment.
The Secretary of State for Maine, anti-Trump partisan Shenna Bellows, has also removed the 45th President from ballot in her state.
Habba says Trump has voiced concerns to her that The Supreme Court might rule against him. pic.twitter.com/JBPtCQt23w
Alina Habba, a lawyer representing Donald Trump and advising the Save America PAC, says the 45th President has voiced concerns the Supreme Court may not rule in his favor over efforts to remove him from 2024 election ballots.
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Alina Habba, former President Donald Trump’s attorney in the New York civil fraud case, announced her intentions to file for a mistrial “very soon” over the weekend while demanding New York Attorney General Letitia James to dismiss the case.
Habba explained during an interview on Fox News that, although she will file for a retrial imminently, the motion will depend on the same far-left judge, Arthur Engoron, who issued a gag order on the 45th President.
“The problem is, with all of these things, such as filing a motion for recusal, which we have done twice, is that the judge has to be the one that decides, is he going to recuse himself? Does he feel that there was a mistrial,” Habba explained.
“It’s a bench trial. We have one judge. And it’s the same judge that issued the gag order that has to make those determinations. So, at this point, I don’t have any reason to believe he shouldn’t after what we have learned, if it’s true,” she added.
Trump’s legal team is set to begin its defense on Monday in the Big Apple, where the former President faces a $250 million lawsuit brought by the city’s vengeful far-left Attorney General James.
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Alina Habba, former President Donald Trump's attorney in the New York civil fraud case, announced her intentions to file for a mistrial "very soon" over the weekend while demanding New York Attorney General Letitia James to dismiss the case.
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Tempers flared today as former President Donald Trump testified today in the civil fraud prosecution against him by New York Attorney General Letitia James. Arthur Engoron – the far-left Manhattan Supreme Court Judge overseeing the trial – lost his temper at several points, slamming his hand on a court room table while yelling at Trump defense attorney Alina Habba.
For nearly five hours, the former President of the United States faced off under cross examination against prosecutors from the New York Attorney General’s Office. Letitia James herself sat in the front row observing the proceedings. Trump pushed back against the prosecutors, questioning why the case ever moved forward when not one of his lenders claimed financial injury or harm. “We’re trying to figure out, why are you doing this,” the former President pondered in response to questioning by state attorney Kevin Wallace. “No one understands it. Well, I understand it — it’s called pol-i-tics.”
At one point, Wallace pressed Trump as to whether he had actually paid off all of his loan agreements with lenders, asking: “We’ve seen multiple loan agreements, and your signature. You paid all these off?” Trump fired back, “Yes. With cash… I think this case is a disgrace. People are leaving New York due to this kind of thing. The only complainant is you.”
The prosecution’s examination veered far afield with Trump being questioned regarding the number of homes included in the valuation of his golf course property in Aberdeen, Scotland. It was unclear what legal interests or purview the New York Attorney General’s office has with loan agreements in the United Kingdom. When Trump defended the value of his Aberdeen property as it sits in the midst of one of the most oil rich regions of Europe, Judge Engoron declared that location is “irrelevant” to the value of property.
In the most heated moment of today’s testimony, Judge Engoron demanded Trump’s defense team step in and rein in the former President’s lengthy responses: “I beseech you to control him. If you can’t, I will. I will excuse him and draw every negative inference.”
Trump attorney Alina Habba suggested the prosecution should instead ask better questions. It was at this moment that Engoron lost his cool and slammed his hand down on a table and shouts at Habba, “SIT DOWN!” Before the prosecution could continue with questioning, Trump responded to the heated exchange saying, “This is a very unfair trial.”
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Tempers flared today as former President Donald Trump testified today in the civil fraud prosecution against him by New York Attorney General Letitia James. Arthur Engoron – the far-left Manhattan Supreme Court Judge overseeing the trial – lost his temper at several points, slamming his hand on a court room table while yelling at Trump defense attorney Alina Habba.
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Former President Donald Trump has been hit with a $10,000 fine by Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron for allegedly violating a gag order the judge had issued earlier this month. Just five days ago, Judge Engoron fined the former President $5,000 for violating the court issued gag order. When to issuing the earlier fine, Engoron threatened to throw Trump in jail for any future violations.
Engoron, the Democrat judge overseeing New York Attorney General Letitia James’s $250 million fraud prosecution of Donald Trump, warned the former President regarding any possible future violations of the court’s gag order, “Don’t do it again or it will be worse.” Earlier in the day, Trump – while speaking to the press outside the courtroom – called Engoron a “…very partisan judge with a person who’s very partisan sitting alongside him, perhaps even much more partisan than he is.”
The comments prompted Engoron to summon Trump to the stand, believing that the reference to the “person who’s very partisan sitting alongside him” meant the judge’s law clerk Allison Greenfield who is, in fact, a verypartisanoperative.
The gag order prohibits the former President from making references to court staff, including Greenfield. Trump insisted he was referencing his former lawyer Michael Cohen and not Greenfield. Engoron ultimately disagreed. Reports from inside the courtroom indicate Trump abruptly left after the $10,000 fine was handed down.
Prior to Engoron’s gag order, former President Trump had fervently criticized his seemingly partisan prosecution at the hands of Letitia James. Earlier this month, Trump posted on social media prior to his initial court appearance: “I’m going to Court tomorrow morning to fight for my name and reputation against a corrupt and racist Attorney General, Letitia James, who campaigned on ‘getting Trump,’ and a Trump Hating Judge who is unfair, unhinged, and vicious in his PURSUIT of me.”
Donald Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba has repeatedly emphasized just how weak Attorney General James’s case is against the former President. Habba has also stressed that previous political statements made by James against Trump illustrate that this is a partisan prosecution.
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Former President Donald Trump has been hit with a $10,000 fine by Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron for allegedly violating a gag order the judge had issued earlier this month. Just five days ago, Judge Engoron fined the former President $5,000 for violating the court issued gag order. When to issuing the earlier fine, Engoron threatened to throw Trump in jail for any future violations.
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Donald Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba blasted partisan New York Attorney General Letitia James over her farcical claims that Trump purposefully overvalued his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida as collateral for loans used in his New York businesses.
“I think you guys need to understand something. Banks hire appraisers…. you are an individual, you go to get something appraised. You say my house is worth X. The bank doesn’t take your word for it. They hire people like that gentleman [an appraiser] to go do their own values,” Habba told the press outside the courtroom. “Now those values are going to be lower than the ones that the homeowner or the commercial real estate owner would use. It is very basic.”
If you take Trump Tower and you take the Trump name off of that building and you put Letitia James’s name on that building.
– Alina Habba, October 2023.
Habba turned her attention to James, stating: “That’s not what this case is about. It has nothing to do with this. Because the statement of financial condition was actually low. The statement of financial condition didn’t include Trump’s ‘brand’… If you take Trump Tower and you take the Trump name off of that building and you put Letitia James’s name on that building, it will not be what it is worth when Donald Trump owns it.”
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Bahahahaha hahaha. This is classic Alina Habba smacked down.
Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron previously ruled that Trump had far-over estimated the value of his Mar-a-Lago property, citing the tax assessed value as only being $18 million. Real estate experts have estimated the property to be worth between $200 million and $750 million – far above the amount decided by Judge Engoron.
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Donald Trump's lawyer Alina Habba blasted partisan New York Attorney General Letitia James over her farcical claims that Trump purposefully overvalued his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida as collateral for loans used in his New York businesses.
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Donald Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, did not fail to tick a box to request a jury trial in the New York civil fraud case despite widely circulated claims. Judge Arthur Engoron amended his comments of “nobody asked for” a jury trial on Wednesday following the false reports, arguing the claim “keeps coming up”. He explained that New York Attorney General Letitia James “clearly checked off non-jury” before the proceedings began.
“It would not have helped to make a motion, nobody forgot to check off a box,” Engoron explained, adding the punishment sought by the state of New York is an “equitable” remedy rather than a “legal” remedy.
Habba, who was forced to defend herself and the former President’s legal team amidst the false accusations, said in court following clarification, “Thank you, your honor. Press, did you hear that? I didn’t ‘forget to check the box’.”
Attorney General James is accusing Trump of corrupting his relationship with banks and insurers for over a decade by giving them financial statements that inflated his net worth. However, she likely arrived at this conclusion by deflating the estimated worth of Trump’s assets, such as his Mar-a-Lago mansion, which she claimed was worth just $18 million, despite a nearby patch of trees selling for $150 million. She is seeking $250 million in damages.
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Donald Trump's attorney, Alina Habba, did not fail to tick a box to request a jury trial in the New York civil fraud case despite widely circulated claims. Judge Arthur Engoron amended his comments of "nobody asked for" a jury trial on Wednesday following the false reports, arguing the claim "keeps coming up". He explained that New York Attorney General Letitia James "clearly checked off non-jury" before the proceedings began.
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