Monday, March 25, 2024

Courts are bending over backwards for Trump, as if he and his sons are special.

The fraudsters got tagged, for a bundle to go to New Your State because that's where the fraud was headquartered. The three, Don, Don Jr, and Eric with multiple interlocked entities did fraud over time near to half a billion dollars worth, and - an AP story carried by Seattle Times:

Court agrees to pause collection of Trump’s massive civil fraud judgment if he puts up $175M

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appeals court on Monday agreed to hold off collection of former President Donald Trump’s more than $454 million civil fraud judgment if he puts up $175 million within 10 days.

If Trump does, it will stop the clock on collection and prevent the state from seizing the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s assets while he appeals. The appeals court also halted other aspects of a trial judge’s ruling that had barred Trump and his sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., the family company’s executive vice presidents, from serving in corporate leadership for several years.

In all, the order was a significant victory for the Republican ex-president [...]

Trump, who was attending a separate hearing in his criminal hush money case in New York, hailed the ruling and said he would post a bond, securities or cash to cover the $175 million sum in the civil case. Speaking in a courthouse hallway, Trump revisited his oft-stated complaints about civil trial Judge Arthur Engoron and the penalty he imposed.

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“What he’s done is such a disservice and should never be allowed to happen again,” said Trump, who argues that the fraud case is discouraging business in New York.

James’ office, meanwhile, noted that the judgment still stands, even if collection is paused.

“Donald Trump is still facing accountability for his staggering fraud,” the office said in a statement.

[...] There's more to the AP item, but that's as fine a point to cut the excerpting as any.

And the blurb in the middle of other Trump news might be helpful to some readers, so it was left in the quote. 

BOTTOM LINE: Appeals judges, a panel, cut Trump-world slack, where one has to wonder if it was somebody else, would they get such a generous waiver of full bonding? 

You read, you guess. Special treatment or not?