Everything about the case in New York City against the Trump organization business operations is ridiculous. There are no victims. There was no fraud. All of the lenders did their own due diligence. All of the loans were paid back without issue and the statement of financial condition was factual and accurate.
Additionally, the statute being used as the predicate for the case is a consumer fraud statute, intended to protect borrowers from predatory lenders. In the four corners of this case, Trump is the borrower, and the banks were the lenders. New York is flipping the statute to claim the borrower defrauded the lenders, despite the lenders denying there was any fraud and there was no harm. The entire case is ridiculous.
In this brief video segment, Trump defense lawyer Alina Habba reviews the current status of the case. WATCH:
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Show me the man. This lawfare charade has been used on no other person.
Not since Lavrentiy Betia.
Spell check; that would be Laventri Beria, Stalin’s judge, one man jury, and executioner.
Bing Search results for Laventri Beria brings up this: “Including results for Lavrentiy Beria.”
ICYMI (like I did) the J6th protestors are being jailed for Sarbanes-Oxley Violations.
It was from the Banking Regulation Bill that they pulled out the statute about interrupting an official proceeding.
You can’t make this stuff up.
The Sarbanes-Oxley aspect of J6 is being appealed and it’s going to result in a lot of convictions being overturned; Using that law for J6 is like taking the speed limit for lake boat traffic and applying it to highway automobile traffic and claiming “they must be convicted because they were speeding”; never mind the fact that the speed limit on the lake does not apply to the highway… https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/first-cases-from-jan-6-capitol-riot-reach-us-supreme-court
Hamas supporters seem to have daily permission to disrupt Senate & House hearings, functions & take over the Rotunda. They’re expecting at least 100,000 of Hamas protesters in DC this weekend. Think the Capital Police will unlock the doors for them?
Habva claims the DOJ was at Michael Cohen’s side during his testimony. So yes, there’s no doubt the DOJ and/or Jack Smith are involved in these state prosecutions & “helping” them prosecute Trump, much like the DOJ protected Epstein so he wouldn’t expose the politicians & elites.
Both situations are sickening & making me awash in anger.
Well, not since Stalin was in power…
Others will likely disagree but I think this is Alina’s best and most effective public Pro Trump defense speech so far. Succinct and convincing.
I agree! I have done a lot of court appearances as an expert witness. I have put her name in my black book of attorneys I do not want to be questioned by–expecially on opposite side of the case. You go girl!
No disagreement here; Alina is succinct, with brevity and an excellent background of experience and knowledge. So what if she’s cute as can be?
All things being equal, it never hurts, does it!😉
It makes New Yorkers cheering James on realize they are the ones paying for, literally, a momentary cheap partisan thrill that will not benefit them in the least. They are chumps, fools. Their continued support of Letitia James compounds their stupidity.
Letitia James is highly unlikely to have acquired the office by consent of NY voters, whose legal votes for governor in that race went to MAGA Republican Lee Zeldin. That election was as fake as the polls, but Zeldin was denied RNC support and resources to contest it.
When this is over and thrown out in higher court, Trump should sue for malicious prosecution. These clowns need to be disbarred, fined and imprisoned. This can’t go unpunished.
Lititia James is not self aware enough, or intelligent enough, to be embarrassed by her ridiculous scam charges against Trump. … She is the laughing stock, of the many Trump “persecutors”.
Leticia wench is an extremely low I.Q. harridan.
What, is Trumps lawyer like 25?
Geez
40 this month.
Younger = hungrier. I’m ok with that.
Your, youthism and misogyny is showing.
Experience especially in law is invaluable
To the lawfare industry persecuting President Trump and anyone who dares work for him, what accompanies his lawyers’ experience and age is invaluable.
New York chics are very smart and aggressive.
It’s * chicks.
Even though she is chic,( well put together ) .
And calling her a “ chick “ is derogatory. It demeans her very obvious accomplishments.
It’s one step up from the Bimbo comment. She deserves much more respect.
Lighten up.
eyeroll
I believe Marcia meant it as a form of endearment. Calling a woman a chick is a light and breezy name for someone a person feels comfortable with. It’s not even close to bimbo.
JMO
Ur IQ like 25 ?
Peekaboo and Mr Burns can go F themselves, too!
On a scale of 1-10, the audio on that thing is now at 0.5.
So what!
I hope when this is all over, Trump sues the AG, the Judge, the New York Bar Association, the city and the state. He could end up owning most of the city and turn it back to a metropolis and not the sewer it is today.
Like this dream…
This case underlines the urgent need for strict rules and checks to prevent the misuse of the legal system for political aims.
A solid step towards halting this detrimental trend would be to hold prosecutors accountable for prosecutorial misconduct, ensuring they bear personal liability for overstepping legal bounds or pursuing cases with political motivations, instead of just relying on vague notions of transparency.
Sovereign immunity needs a complete overhaul. Personal accountability & liability is the only reform that’s going to stop this “picking & wacky interpretations of laws” in order to criminalize/ punish political opponents.
Alina baby…come to your Daddy !
Tell it like it is!
Habba is doing a respectable job under impossible circumstances. She’s well aware the judge is biased and has made at least half a dozen reversible errors. She’s making appropriate objections to preserve Trump’s rights for the inevitable reversal on appeal.
It just boggles my mind that no one can stop this insane injustice !
There should be a way to stop an insane Judge and AG that has crossed the line.
No one wants to including the Roberts Supreme Court
Soros must really pay well!
Don’t get me started, but NY AG James looks like an extra made up to be in the movie “Planet of the ****”. Forgive me.
James is jealous Trump can make money when she can’t make a sandwich.
She can too make a sandwich, She makes a heck of a balony one!
She’s making money. Look at her net worth and campaign funds…
The only thing she needs; is the index finger going in an ‘Air Z’!
Testify Sista!
She is not wrong!
New York State is paying for this Election Interference.
Top pic: Beauty and the BEAST!
Yeah, that popped first in my head, just before I shuddered.
…And on top of all this insanity, the judge in the case has already found trump guilty before even allowing him to stand trial….What’s happening now is just his degree of guilt?…You tell me.
Yes, degree of guilt, and the dollar amount of the penalties. The dollar/judgment, plus revocation of state business licenses, will necessitate an outside agency to lock the business accounts until all penalties are put into escrow accounts.
The face of justifiable anger, cold white anger!
After seeing how corrupt and sleazy New York City courts and judges operate it’s easy to see why Donald Trump has to use equally corrupt and sleazy Michael Cohen as his lawyer!
Agreed. Ya gotta do business in the way they do business wherever you choose to do it. Big cities are always the roughest.
Anyone notice that Letitia James has no eyebrows? They are painted on.
A pretend person, a nobody who is trying to be somebody by attacking President Trump because she knows that other Democrats will vote for her and big donors will give her money because of it.
Hair’s fake too.
I kind of admire the warts around her eyes. Eyebrows are a different issue: once they are gone, they’re gone.
Ever notice Whoopie has no eyebrows, and she has never bothered to paint any on.
Rumor has it, as a crack ho whoopie burned them off, and they don’t grow back.
Maybe the same thing happened to Letitia, …
THAT would explain a lot!
The entire case is a joke. You have two corrupt idiots, one not qualified to be attorney general and the other even less qualified to be a judge.
I don’t interpret any of the Trump legal team’s current efforts as being aimed at winning this case, because the case itself, ridiculous as you may esteem it, is already lost at this level. The judge has decided fraud occurred. This is the penalty phase, and all that is to be determined is which parties are more or less guilty, and what the penalties will be.
These lawyer pressers are PR appeals to everyone outside the case. If they are smart, they are mostly preparing for the actual appeal soon to come.
There are two very different “cases” going on.
Firstly, this IS Lawfare, which means the charges are being brought for HEADLINES, as a case being brought “In the Court of public opinion” and PDJT certainly has to fight that case, and win it.
In part, it depends on the old “lie runs around the World, before truth can get its running shoes laced up.”
So PDJT and his team must counter the false narrative the prosecutors are putting out, and RIGHT AWAY.
And they have been pretty successful at this, both PDJT, his surrogates and his lawyers, have quickly responded to the MAL Raid, the classified docs, the election interference, and this NYS case, and the Rebel alliance of alt-media has helped get out the truth, which is why PDJT’S #’s have gone up, instead of down.
Secondly, is theclegal case, and except for the Florida Judge, you are right the legal cases will not be won in the initial court, but only on appeal.
And when thats the case, you ‘fight’ the case differently, concentrating on getting every possible grounds for appeal into the record, and then filing appeals.
The Trump legal team have filed 30+ appeals or motions to higher courts, so they have been busy.
But then, this judge’s latest decision will be smacked-down on appeal. Just like so many of his other cases were. This man has a “thing” against real-estate developers, and he considers himself to be a law unto himself. He has done this several times before. But he still hasn’t lost his job yet.
He actually knows nothing about how investment works, nor how one does a property-tax appraisal of an apartment with a balcony. But, instead of seeking expert counsel for his Court (as he is legally required to do), he has baldly said on-the-record that “expert testimony is not evidence.” Even though, plainly, nothing else could be “evidence” in a case like this one.
He will, “just as he has done before,” render the “decision” that he likes. One that reflects what he thinks the law and procedure ought to be. And then, his verdict will be tossed out – again – by superiors who actually know what they are doing. After millions of taxpayer dollars have been tossed down the drain.
Trump lawyer John Eastman (accidentally) reveals 8 subpoenaed emails.
“Clarence Thomas was our only hope to stop 2020 election certification.”
according to fake news Politico
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/02/trump-lawyers-saw-justice-thomas-as-only-chance-to-stop-2020-election-certification-00064592
Given that they were discussing what they knew to be a nationwide criminal offense, such a statement is not suspicious. But they found that no court would hear them: every court (including the SCOTUS) was in on the conspiracy.
I would tell all of those courts now: “Be careful what you wish for.” 🤡
Waste of time all right.
Isn’t it amazing that there hasn’t been another civil war yet considering the way these people have treated OUR president and his family?! It’s all out in the open for all to see and yet despite writers expressing outrage our side just sits back and lets it unfold. I cannot stand democrats.
Soon, it’s our turn…..
NO MERCY!
“The Trump Companies™” are very easily the best thing that ever happened to the real estate business, in New York and elsewhere. He would buy up good properties that “needed some love” and give them that “love.” They are the landlords you want to have.
And, the next time you are traveling on business to a city that has one, I would instruct you to check in to a Trump® hotel. You will be treated like a member of the family who just happens to be royalty, and yet you will pay a very competitive price for the room and breakfast. As so many other people have done, you will do business again with that company because you want to.
(Only the late Leona Helmsley, the completely mis-named “Queen of Mean,” ever did the hospitality business so well. I’ll extend the same good advice for any of her properties, also.)
The one thing that people the most cannot stand about “Donald Trump” is that he earned his bil(!)lions … honestly. They have no idea what that word means. They look at a financial statement which vastly exceeds their own and tell themselves, “this can’t possibly be true.” But, it is. Do business with him just one time (as a customer, not a competitor) and you will know why.
Indeed. I’ve been a guest at a Trump property. The visit was exquisite.
Horace On Left. The name Felton rearranged to spell who he is really: a leftist..
The offending first comment by Horace Felton must have been removed or seriously flagged.
Good. This gal is awesome.
Damn, I really like her. She’s like Beth Dutton on Yellowstone.
More proof of just how bad the NYS justice system is. Equal Justice is DOA.
It has been, for some time. A long time ago I said that if you get justice in an American court, it was an act of God.
I never knew GAs have such dictatorial powers and there are no checks and balances to stop such in your face abuse.
What is the legal route for someone under such abuse without going bankrupt?
What is the penalty for those that abuse these powers? Political penalties really won’t do a thing.
Seems to me democracy (or the Republic) was more fragile than anyone though.
It is “sovereign immunity” that has led us to the place. When the only accountability is maybe an election, the absence of personal liability for acts of injustice & tyranny goes unchecked. Why the hell there is so much $$ going into politicians’ coffers when election campaign laws exist makes the corruption all that much worse
Kudos, Atty Habba,… Convict Ms. “Too Politically Motivated” prosecutor, James in the court of Public Opinion.
These rabid Anit-Trump judges who are tying him up in ridiculous court cases are as stupid as they are corrupt- Trump is gaining sympathy from these obviously trumped up (no pun intended) charges..and press coverage is highlighting every day how strong and activated Trump is , compared to sleepy, senile, corrupt Joe- there’s no contest. The judges should all be censored for misconduct…putting on shows to impress the Dems and inflate their own celebrity- which will surely backfire as Trump wins ALL the cases on Appeal….they don’t now who they are messing with, Trump doesn’t give up.
Lib women in general look like witches,
The process is the punishment.
Betcha Leticias IQ won’t touch 90