Trump Guilty of Civil Fraud in New York

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[shannonlawhorn]

By their own sworn testimony the Trump family poses the worst collective memory this side of an NFL retirement home.

[tubruton]

It's just hard to believe. Trump scowled, gave irrelevant speeches, even insulted the judge and his staff but he lost anyway. Sad!

[MrClickity]

"One of the greatest financial statements I have ever seen before"

WTF does that even mean?

[bipolarminddroppings]

15:46 Just stood there infront of cameras committing more fraud. If the properties are worth MORE than the court is claiming, and you made financial statements for tax purposes saying they were already UNDER the values the court is claiming, then your fraud is even LARGER.

What an idiot, he doesn't even realise what he's saying...

[patrickdix]

Gotta love the legal defense of "Well, we broke the law this time and nothing bad happened, so it's perfectly fine." Same kind of claim every drunk driver makes "I've been drinking and driving for years and never caused an accident". That doesn't matter, since the next time you could cause an issue due to breaking the law.

[curtisbme]

Stunning the amount of blatant rich-people crimes you can do and you don't go to jail, just get financial penalties at worst.

[Vulcanerd]

"You don't begin with the number you want and then manipulate the assets to reach the valuation you're looking for."
This is *exactly* the thought process that was behind him making the call to the Georgia SecState to find him 11780 votes.

[raineob]

I almost laughed out loud at the video of Trump saying his expert witness called the financial statement the “greatest ever”. My dude, only one person in the country talks like that.

[jamesrule]

As a lawyer, would you advise your client not publicly call a judge who just found you guilty "crooked" ? Asking for a drug addicted senior citizen who keeps claiming he's a billionaire after declaring bankruptcy 5 times.

[negativeproxy]

No one said "This is one of the greatest financial statements I have ever witnessed before". Every time he says something like that, he's lying. Remember when he said the doctors couldn't believe how smart he was for passing a cognitive test? The test that shows if you have basic cognitive function.

[lyndsaybrown]

Also, if you falsify your documents and an honest person does not; you would be more likely to get the loan than the honest person. Investors deserve to know who is truly more valuable.

[worldofcardboard]

"It's a victimless crime!"

Literally any prosecutor in America, "So there was a crime."

[Froggsroxx]

Just remember, to a cult all forms of consequences are just proof that they are right

[atomichippy]

If a regular citizen committed $20, 000 of fraud they'd be in prison, but since it's a corporation they get fined. No justice.

[Hawther]

IRS should be taking notes about every single person who defends this by saying "everyone cheats their financial statements"

[alonvx]

It is hilarious to me that the court officially wrote "... in what universe is..." it's like them just writing bitch pls or c'mon man be real

[ValkyrieTiara]

The thing I want to point out is that this family could sell all of their property at half market value and still see dozens, maybe hundreds of times more wealth in one go than most families see in multiple generations of lifetimes. And yet they're committing all these lies to try and get even more. Absolutely disgusting people.

[irtehmrepic]

A "perfect company" doesn't suddenly start losing money when a court-appointer overseer is appointed.

[vigilantsycamore]

You know your trial hasn't gone well for you when the court records make fun of the arguments your defense used

[thomas]

I can't believe that "everyone does it" didn't prove a good defence.