jrdaustin said:
eric76 said:
jrdaustin said:
eric76 said:
Ellis Wyatt said:
eric76 said:
How much of the judgment against Trump were fines? My understanding is that it was a disgorgement.
Disgorgement of what?
Apparently of what the judge considered to be unearned and unjustified profits resulting from his representations of the value of his wealth resulting in lower interest rates.
Look, the whole thing seems rather suspicious. I would be surprised if the judge didn't make some errors there. However, it is in the court system and there are rules that must be followed. It doesn't matter how much everyone whines about it, the rules of the court system govern this.
It wouldn't be very surprising if the appeals court vacated the judgment and remanded it to the lower court for a do-over. The point is that being in the court system, Trump cannot magically kick it out of there.
This case strikes me as quite possibly the weakest of the cases against Trump. I can't say that Trump isn't reaping what he has spent his entire life sowing, though.
Again, if you were truly conservative, conservative philosophy and the rule of law - Especially equal protection - would govern your thinking. You would be outraged at this judicial malfeasance.
Yet you allow your own personal hatred of a man to outweigh your judgement.
Disgorgement of profits? How in your world would it ever be possible that 1/2 of the value of a multigenerational family business with world wide holdings be considered the profit from overstatement of value on a single loan application?
Do you even realize what you're saying?
There are people every day who find it onerous to post a bond or the money in escrow to forestall seizures during an appeal. Trump is just a better known case. Other than that, the same rules that would apply to you or me in a similar case should also apply to him.
Yes, there are people who find it onerous to post bond every day. But that is not a purpose of the bond. A bond is not supposed to inflict hardship as an integral part of its design. We have a case here where we have an arbitrary judgement has no relationship to the "crime", and the resulting bond as a function of the arbitrary, excessive judgement. As far as I'm aware, the only "rules" here are that anything goes as long as it's Trump.
Was this about a single loan application? My impression is that it is about many loan applications and other statements of his wealth.
Isn't that the funny part about all of this. The allegations are that he overinflated the value of Mara Lago and other assets, and to be sure, I checked, and yes it was on more than one loan. But valuations of real estate are not hard and fast. It's a judgement call. The valuations included a disclaimer indicated that the valuations were estimates and that the information was subject to review - which was done in EVERY case.
The judge disagreed with the valuations, and then egregiously fined Trump because HIS OPINION was different as to the value. To be sure, many have come back and said the Ergeron's valuations were grossly UNDERVALUED.
But that doesn't matter to you, does it?
And I don't actually hate Trump. I don't trust him at all and wish he would just go away and behave as if he were an honest citizen. If he did that, I probably wouldn't think of him any more often than I do Obama, Bill, or Hillary. I would never vote for any of them, but I don't hate them. I just wish they would go away like I wash Trump would go away.
Annnd, we're back to the conservative thing. You don't trust him, and you'd rather see him railroaded out of the election and us have 4 more years of Biden's policies rather than suffer the narcissism of Trump coupled with good policy.
There is so much wrong with this one post, Eric. Let's break it down...
I've said it before. Trump was not my first choice either. But he's the one we have. Him, or Biden.
Your posting continues to strongly indicate that you prefer Biden. And you're willing to look beyond an obvious manipulation of our justice system in order to get him. But you do you.
You would think that people posting here would learn how to post instead of mixing their responses inside the quote with what they are responding to.
But you are right. The bond is not supposed to create a hardship, but the appeals bond is supposed to insure that if the appeals fail, the defendant has not had the opportunity to hide assets to keep from paying the plaintiff for their damages.
That said, it is up to the judicial process what happens. If we observe and learn from what they are doing, it can be educational. If we just whine about it, particularly if it is entirely based on progress, then it doesn't do anything for us.
It is up to the court system to figure it out. Too many people don't want to wait for the court system and instead just want to destroy everything. There is nothing Conservative about wanting to destroy. That is radicalism, not Conservatism.