The Horrible NY Ruling Against Trump and the Horrible Judge Who Issued It
American Thinker | 09/30/23 | Andrea Widburg
It was a given when a judge ruled against Donald Trump on the suit that New York State Attorney General Letitia James filed, alleging that Trump defrauded banks to obtain loans. The ruling revealed two interesting and important things about how leftists and their fellow travelers use the legal system and about the ideological corruption of leftist judges.
It goes without saying that the verdict was a joke. The claim was that Trump lied to lenders to get better loan terms. Interestingly, none of the lenders complained, and Trump paid back every penny. More than that, commercial lenders have a due diligence responsibility, meaning they’re supposed to do their own valuations before lending millions of dollars. At Trump’s level, lying is virtually impossible.
Still, it should have been a big story: A judge claims Trump committed fraud and banned him from conducting business in New York, the state where most of the properties Trump developed exist. You’d think that this would have been news fodder for days. I mean, this is the ex-president (or, for some of us, the current president) and one who, before his presidency, was New York’s biggest and most famous real estate maven. And yet, if you paid attention to the news, the coverage was de minimis.
The silence means a couple of things: First, it shows that the decision was timed to be a temporary distraction from the now-impossible-to-ignore news about Joe Biden’s selling out American interests for profit. And if anyone is wondering, what Biden did was worse than what Spiro Agnew did when he was Vice President. Agnew engaged in age-old graft. Based on all the information available, Biden literally sold his own country down the river to line his pockets.
Second, it shows that everyone understands that this verdict is, as I said, a joke. It’s a purely political hit job that has nothing to do with Trump’s business practices and everything to do with stopping his 2024 presidential run. As such, for the left, aside from being a temporary distraction from Biden’s mounting problems, it’s not useful right now on its own terms. They’re filing it away for future reference should Trump be the Republican nominee. The Vichy Republicans, the ones who align more closely with Democrats than Americans, are silent for the same reason.
And if you want evidence that the verdict is a joke, this tweet from Eric Trump perfectly encapsulates the problem:
In an attempt to destroy my father and kick him out of New York, a Judge just ruled that Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach Florida, is only worth approximate “$18 Million dollars”… Mar-a-Lago is speculated to be worth we’ll over a billion dollars making it arguably the most valuable… pic.twitter.com/b0U6J5ykWJ— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) September 26, 2023
To give you a bit of perspective, in 2008, Trump sold a much smaller property, roughly four miles away and with only one oceanfront, not two, for $100 million.
… In 2019, [Judge] Engoron had a fascinating comment about a huge battle regarding four residential towers developers wanted to build in New York’s Lower East Side. According to the developers, New York zoning rules allowed them to build the towers. According to Engoron, “You can’t just do this because the zoning allows it.”
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