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Donald Trump discussion Thread IX (threadbanned users listed in OP)

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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,575 CMod ✭✭✭✭Nody


    Judge Arthur Engoron found Trump’s adult sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, liable for a host of civil fraud counts in New York, including issuing false financial statements, falsifying business records and conspiracy.  

    He ordered them each to pay $4 million for their personal profits from the fraud. 

    In addition, Engoron fined former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg $1 million.

    Judge Arthur Engoron has ordered former President Donald Trump and his companies to pay nearly $355 million.

    Trump is expected to appeal the decision and seek a stay to halt its enforcement while his appeal is considered.

    Donald Trump’s adult sons, Eric and Donald Trump Jr., are barred from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation for two years.

    Meanwhile, the former president is barred from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation or other legal entity in the state for three years.

    Above taken from CNN. Only real surprise is that he allowed the company to keep existing but as this is a civil lawsuit he can't pardon himself from it as president but I'm guessing it will end up as a empty shell company that will go bankrupt.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,033 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    He is expected to appeal but I believe he has to post the money owed before he can do that, I've also read that on top of the fine there are interest payments from the date the fraud occurred which will add on in the region of another $100 million.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,222 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    They always say he will appeal, but has he ever won them?

    Seems a strange strategy to set out to lose his cases so that he can then appeal. Why not just win the first time?

    Because the facts are against him. Any appeals will be in technicalities.

    On this fraud trial he has been shown to have committed fraud on many occasions. And let us not forget its not the 1st time. Trump University. His charity. So before anyone claims political timing, were they political as well?

    And far from having time for appeals, he faces into the criminal trial about the hush money. Which he has already admitted to.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,751 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Does this mean all the other businesses in New York will now face the same as Trump, or was it about taking him down only. I'm guessing all the other multi million pounds companies in New York who got loans by putting their own value on assets will not be prosecuted , that this is a one off.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,222 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    Bring some semblance of evidence to the DAs office and they can pursue it.

    You do realise that Trump isn't the first or only business to be held legally accountable for fraud? Or do you actually think Trump is the only one ever.

    Still, it's a pretty poor position to be in when all you've got is to claim that others should be tried as well.

    Does that mean that you believe Trump has been properly treated under the law or that he has been mistreated? If mistreated why would you want anyoneelse to suffer the same?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭I.R.Y.E.D


    I'm sure if you or anyone else has evidence of this and that the values they stated were fraudulent, that the relevant authorities would be interested in hearing about it.

    Of course it could be that if they were fraudulently claiming values of assets for loans, that they were a lot smarter than trump was when doing so.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,751 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Come on, we all know what is going on, every democrat in a position of power is doing their bit to take him out, it's hardly a secret, it's looking like it's going to backfire this plan, as Trump seems to get more popular, I said it before, a couple more losses in courts and the White House is his , this is a big step towards it. He just needs another huge loss now, the people of America can see it for what it is, and are going to vote that way, it's sad that in 2024 the US is acting like Russia.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    After a quick Google, and trawling past the results about the Trump case, found some articles on previous cases of business fraud in New York.



    But I'm sure you already knew that Trump wasn't the first, and won't be the last. He was merely the biggest profile.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,751 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Those look like real crimes, fire insurance fraud, failing to declare income etc, Trump crime was valuing his assets, even though the banks had to do their own due diligence , before making decisions about the security of loans. Who exactly did Trump defraud of money, no one it seems in this case. In general anyone who owns property, cars, houses would value them more than an outsider would, even to this day Trump values Mar a Lago in the 100s of millions, while Judge said it was estimated at 18m - 27m. The judge said the value Trump has on it of 350m or more was indeed fraud.

    But Forbes valued it at 350m plus also. Even independent real estate agents value it at over 400m

    So yea, court is wrong, you'd not even buy the land it sits on for 18m.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭I.R.Y.E.D


    If the US was acting like Russia, he would have fallen out of a window by now



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,751 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    That rape case would not stand up in a European court, ZERO evidence, even cases with evidence are rarely won, but in Trumps case there was ZERO evidence, but he lost. It's nuts.

    The way I look at it is, if the people of America vote for Trump as president, respect the will of the people.

    In all fairness she's out there to say the least.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,751 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    I'm not a Trump fan, or a Biden fan, I have no dog in the race, so I can see between the lines, unlike most on here, who are on one side or the other, it's all one side or the other to them regardless of the craziness on both sides.

    They are trying to destroy Trump with Trump hating Judges, D.A's , as to try and get him to fail to get elected.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,222 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    Your theory is that the Democrats have infiltrated and corrupted the entire legal system of the US.

    That they have done so in such a way as that his defence counsel as at no stage being able to put up any evidence.

    This, despite Trump being in power for 4 years. During which he could have rooted out thos clear corruption. But he didn't. In fact anytime a minority group like BLM raised the possibility that the legal system was weighed against them were quickly told how everyone was treated the same under the law.

    You claim that no real laws were broken so it should have been really easy for Trumps lawyers to get the case thrown out.

    And what about his previous fraud findings. Trump University. Trumps charity. Not to mention his well documented lying. All before he even got into politics.

    But you have come to the conclusion, with no evidence more than 'I think', that this is all a vast conspiracy coming from a party that let the SCOTUS being loaded by the GOP such that cases like Roe v Wade have been overturned.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,222 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    Get him to fail to be elected? They already did that in 2020 without any of this supposed corruption.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,781 ✭✭✭Flaneur OBrien


    There was also no defence. Trump didn't take the stand. He had his opportunity to proclaim his innocence under oath and refused to take it. Why is that?

    Do you think Trump was innocent of all charges? As in him/his company didn't inflate assets to get preferable loan rates?

    Well, he's still alive, so no, the US is not acting like Russia.

    Question for you.

    Is it possible for Trump to break the law?

    Any law btw, not just high crimes or fraud.

    And of he was able to break the law, who should try him?



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    The way I look at it is, if the people of America vote for Trump as president, respect the will of the people.

    He was, and they did, so not even sure what this is supposed to allude to. You just choosing to ignore 2016? (Though Trump did lose the popular vote but that's a whole different discussion about the electoral college).

    Only one individual and his cult like movement contested a recent national election, through bogus legal challenges and a riot in DC.

    Do you believe being president confers some kind of immunity from civil or criminal prosecution?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,147 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Respect the will of the people like inciting an insurrection that led to an attack on Congress?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,751 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    What something is valued at is an opinion, no bank argued with the values, so it's comical to me, that outsiders can come in and say his properties are only worth 10's of millions, and call it fraud that Trump values them at a lot more. Show me another case like it.

    And I guess it's just some random coincidence, that all these cases just happen to come around in the build up to an election, when the issues in these cases are from many many years ago.

    The aim of the cases are purely to rinse him of all his worth, but it's looking like it could be a spectacular backfire.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,751 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Even the Supreme court called it a riot. If you look at insurrections throughout history you'll see how violent they are, it's one hell of a coincidence that every person on Jan 6th forgot their weapons while planing a insurrection, and that the front lines contained little old ladies waving flags. It was a riot with the aim of having their voice heard, of course it still was an abominable showing of patriotism.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,781 ✭✭✭Flaneur OBrien




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,222 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    The issue got got him was he valued it one way for the banks and another for taxes. You are right that valuations are subjective but he added sq footage where it didn't exist.

    He tried to argue that valuations are subjective but it fell down when a different valuation method was used for reporting.

    Why do you think he did that?

    And while you continue to claim its all political, you continue to ignore that Trump has already had fraud found against him. Most notably for Trump University and his charity. Both were before he entered politics.

    Are you claiming that the Democrats were already working on politicising Trump years ago but waiting until he had won one election and then lost another before doing anything?



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Show me another case like it.

    Google Trump University.

    This man has form in fraudulent behaviour, sometimes a thing is as simple as it looks.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,147 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    The intent was to stop the proper working of congress. Trump instigated it. And don't try and tell me they were unarmed. That nonsense has already been discredited many times. The attempts at gaslighting quite pathetic.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,716 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    Trumps response to the charges brought against him in relation to the valuations he made on his properties and presented to the banks has regularly been: well, they were given the option to examine the details of the valuations I provided them [on a buyer beware basis] and they got their money back so no one was robbed actually means that the banks had to be returned loans monies by him after they claimed his valuations were not correct.

    Why was this necessary for Trump to do if, as he claims, there was no fraud or criminal activity committed on his part against the banks in the first case. Why, if he did not break the law, did the banks get the loan-monies back?

    Trumps attachment of warning to the banks in the first place not to believe the face value he put on his properties was him bluntly saying: I'm chancing my arm here in giving you my personally made estimates, and not valuations made by a reputable person in that trade. It was a preplanned operation by Trump done with the purpose of taking monies from the banks on dodgy grounds [pun intended].

    On the issue of the Capitol Hill 06th insurrection bid by members of his fan base, no one, not even the Feds, have alleged all the people there were insurrectionists. Those whom the Feds have evaluated through evidence of being insurrectionists are the ones charged or to be charged and jailed.

    It would be acceptable that others there that day could be seen and described as persons who became involved in riotous acts as they complied with the words of Trump to go to the Capitol in an act of protest with him personally. BTW; another election promise which he broke to his most ardent followers and voters on the actual day.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,751 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    You're calling the flag poles as weapons, and what ever else they were carrying. It's hardly the same, and it's not believable that so many people all forgot their firearms on the same day they planned an insurrection. It was a case of following the herd, one followed the other, it became a mob mentality, where everyone fed off of the energy of others until it was a full blown riot.

    Of course a lot of people were arrested in the hours and days after the riot, and were indeed armed, as that's their right to carry, but I didn't see anyone at the riot using firearms.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,575 CMod ✭✭✭✭Nody


    No, that's actually what's called out in the court cases...

    But a review of the federal charges against the alleged rioters shows that they did come armed, and with a variety of weapons: stun guns, pepper spray, baseball bats and flagpoles wielded as clubs. An additional suspect also allegedly planted pipe bombs by the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican parties the night before the riot and remains at large.

    Four other people in the crowd died in the insurrection, and more than 100 police officers suffered injuries, including cracked ribs, gouged eyes and shattered spinal disks.

    Lorenzo Boyd, a former director of the Center for Advanced Policing at the University of New Haven, called attempts to downplay the deadliness of the weapons used on Jan. 6 a "false narrative."

    "There were a lot of weapons that could be lethal weapons as applied," said Boyd. In his view, the fact that the rioters were armed with a variety of weapons clearly contributed to the Capitol Police's failure to protect the building. "If you see a lot of resistance and you're being outgunned, outmanned, outpowered, you tend to kind of fall back a little bit," said Boyd.

    But I guess those don't count in your world view and all pro blue line etc. of course...

    As for no guns among them...

    congressional testimony of FBI Assistant Director Jill Sanborn, who said the bureau did not confiscate firearms from suspects that day. But FBI spokesperson Carol Cratty told NPR that Sanborn was talking only specifically about arrests by the FBI, and not other police agencies that made arrests on the day of the riot — including arrests of people allegedly carrying guns.

    Federal prosecutors say that Christopher Michael Alberts of Maryland was arrested on Capitol grounds on the evening of Jan. 6 while carrying a Taurus G2c 9 mm handgun with one round in the chamber and a full 12-round magazine. He also allegedly had an extra magazine in his pocket and was carrying a gas mask, pocket knife and first-aid kit.

    Lonnie Leroy Coffman of Alabama was also arrested that evening after law enforcement found two firearms on his person, as well as what a federal judge referred to as a "small armory" in his truck, which was parked near the Capitol. According to the court, the government found "a loaded handgun," "a loaded rifle," "a loaded shotgun," "a crossbow with bolts," "several machetes," "a stun gun" and "11 mason jars containing a flammable liquid, with a hole punched in the top of each jar." According to the government, surveillance footage showed him "in attendance at the events at the Capitol,"

    Cleveland Grover Meredith of North Carolina planned to arrive in D.C. for the Trump rallies on Jan. 6, according to federal prosecutors, but he was delayed because of car trouble. He was arrested the following day for allegedly assaulting a man in Washington, D.C., in a traffic-related incident and for making death threats against the D.C. mayor and Pelosi.

    During a search, law enforcement said they found in his possession "a Glock 19, nine millimeter pistol, a Tavor X95 assault rifle and approximately hundreds of rounds of ammunition." Citing text messages sent by Meredith, a federal prosecutor argued in court that he "relished in the carnage of January 6th."

    But yea, all civil unrest here nothing to see...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,021 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs


    There's literal Senate audio testimony of secret service spotting armed trump supporters, but you know better??

    There's Senate testimony of Trump asking to take away the MAGS, which detect weapons, and when told they wouldn't trump replied to the effect 'I know they're armed but they're not after me'.


    You're in the land of the Easter bunny and the leprechauns lad if you think the trump supporters on jan6 weren't armed



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭I.R.Y.E.D


    Actually anyone with a bit of knowledge would know that the opposite is the case.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,147 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    They had actual weapons as well. People died. Stop with the gaslighting. Nobody is fooled.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,716 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    So it continues. Re Judge Ergeron's ruling and fines levied against Trump and his sons, a gofundme account has been set up apparently to help him in paying off the fine monies. Elena Cardone started a "Stand with Trump; Fund the $355M Unjust Judgment" Go Fund Me account which has got $44,000 so far as of five hours ago.

    I googled for info on the report in case it was another fake news item set off as a publicity stunt by Trump & Co but it seems to be genuine. People in the US seem to have differing opinions about making gofundme donations to the fund: one on the basis that gofundme is notorious for banning conservative campaigns, others about funding a multibillionaire out of financial troubles.



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