Trump appeared voluntarily Monday at the courthouse. The case has high stakes for the Republican, who built his political career on his fame as a billionaire real estate ace.
  • @aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world
    81•2 years ago

    Trump’s holdings are “Mona Lisa properties” that can command top dollar, attorney Alina Habba said.

    “That is not fraud. That is real estate,” she said, accusing the attorney general’s office of “setting a very dangerous precedent for all business owners in the state of New York.”

    Oh no! Are you saying that NY landowners might have to [checks notes] pay the taxes that they owe and not defraud their lenders? How will they ever survive?

  • @monk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    59•2 years ago

    Trump denies wrongdoing. He says … that it didn’t matter what he put on his financial statements because they had a disclaimer that says they shouldn’t be trusted.

    🤯

    • worldwidewave
      27•2 years ago

      Like writing “this essay may have been plagiarized” before copying down paragraphs of Wikipedia.

      Telling us that you’re breaking the rules doesn’t make the rule breaking ok.

  • _haha_oh_wow_English
    30•2 years ago

    I like the part where he mentioned a 500 year old statute of limitations.

    Fun fact: That is more than twice as old as the country of the United States.

  • Ertebolle
    26•2 years ago

    I think the judge gives him an extremely stern last-chance warning tomorrow and if he does it again, he gets cited for contempt. Doesn’t have to be much, chuck him in a private cell in the Manhattan Detention Center for 1 night with Secret Service outside the door, but it seriously hurts the rule of law to have him able to get away with this sort of crap with no consequences.

    • Nusm
      18•2 years ago

      The sad part is that, I think this is fake, but I’m not 100% sure. 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • sebinspace
    17•2 years ago

    Tremble little lion man, you’ll never settle any of your scores

  • @mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
    7•2 years ago

    I’m so glad he’s got this ridiculous attorney for this case. If he somehow avoids prison for everything else, at least he’ll probably be losing all his NY shinies here.

  • @Knusper@feddit.de
    6•2 years ago

    I find it so weird, how this article just lists people as “Democrat”, as if everyone was dropped into a red or blue paint bucket at birth and not allowed to have political opinions beyond that.