A judge who won’t be gaslit

Created
Thu, 28/09/2023 - 03:00
Updated
Thu, 28/09/2023 - 03:00
A rational person has enough of the Trump family’s nonsense It’s been a long time coming but it finally happened. Donald Trump, several of his businesses and two of his sons were found guilty of fraud for massively inflating the value of their holdings and companies. Is it possible that Trump’s pathological lying and grandiose bragging have finally caught up with him after all these years? The civil fraud case brought by New York Attorney General Leticia James was so unassailable to Justice Arthur F. Engoron that he issued a summary judgement on behalf of the state which strips control of Trump’s businesses from the family and may cost the former president as much as $250 million. The judge said that after looking at the facts and the arguments there was no need for a trial to determine that Trump had committed fraud. The ruling is what lawyers call the “corporate death penalty.” Trump’s main lawyer in the case, Alina Habba, who travels with him frequently on his campaign plane, was hired by Trump after meeting her at his Bedminister Golf Club. She was previously general counsel for a parking lot concern and was known for her representation of former Real Housewife of New Jersey Siggy Flicker, in a case against Facebook which she claimed had disabled her account for wishing Melania Trump a happy birthday. Evidently, her defense of Donald Trump’s allegedly multi-billion dollar empire wasn’t convincing to the judge who indicated that she didn’t really even bother to present one, saying that…