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Donald Trump’s lawyers rested his defense Tuesday and sought anew to immediately end the New York civil fraud trial that threatens the former president’s real estate empire. The judge said “there’s no way I’m going to grant that.”

Trump’s lawyers — thwarted in a similar bid last month — were swatted down as they asked Judge Arthur Engoron to cut the trial short and issue a verdict clearing Trump, his company and top executives of wrongdoing. The judge reiterated his feeling that state lawyers had met their legal burden for seeing the three-month trial through to its conclusion.

New York Attorney General Letitia James alleges Trump duped banks, insurers and others by inflating his wealth on financial statements used in securing loans and make deals. Engoron has already ruled on James’ top claim that Trump committed fraud.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (2 children)

FTA:

The judge said “there’s no way I’m going to grant that.”

"We're going to consider everything."
"BUT JUDGE THAT"S PREJUDICIAL TO OUR CASE!"
"That's why we're considering it. Dipshit."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Its like watching Liar Liar play out in real life.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

It's like when you are presenting random evidence in Ace Attorney because you have no fucking idea what's going on, except the judge isn't legally allowed to just throw his hands up and say "fuck it, guilty" after you fail five times

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It's ~~pre~~judicial to their case.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Are Trump’s lawyers just doing stand-up now?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Always have been.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I think it's just repeats.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

The verdict is Trump is a Fraud and a Cheat

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Trump ordered them to and they did so. That's about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can anyone enlighten a legal-dummy about what the most likely outcome is? Like what can we honestly expect to happen, not just best case scenario. I just don't see a world where this dude actually faces punishment, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Can anyone predict the future?

Anyone claiming they can shouldn't be trusted.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Well, there can't be infinite possibilities, I'm assuming? Just sort of wondering if anyone could comment on what they thought the most likely outcome might be.

Is that really asking someone to predict the future?