Judge finds Donald Trump in contempt in New York legal fight

Added on April 25th, 2022 by scottyweisz | Report Post

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge found former President Donald Trump in contempt of court and set in motion $10,000 daily fines Monday for failing to adequately respond to a subpoena issued by the state’s attorney general as part of a civil investigation into his business dealings.

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Gropegrope (#189286)

1 year ago

Lock him up…!

Saborlas (#554)

1 year ago

Good luck getting him to pay. The only reason he only lost ONE billion is his refusal to pay people what he owed.

Karl Lewis (#191444) (MCS+)

Reply to Saborlas

1 year ago

“Good luck getting him to pay.”

Two points: 1) The money is *refundable* once he complies with the subpoenas, so… it’s not all that big a deal. 2) He has assets in New York… real estate, and likely, bank accounts; the courts don’t *need* cooperation from Mr. Trump; they simply take what they want.

His lawyer claims they’ll appeal, but, it’s not clear to whom they’d appeal, and, in any case, it requires no great act of prescience to know that the ruling will be upheld, if there is in fact any way to appeal it. (And it seems unlikely that a stay on those fines will be granted pending appeal… so… pointlessness….)

Destruction of his real estate business in New York in, say, a year, is not meaningfully different from destruction of the business in a week. The delay tactic is unimpressive; he’s stretched this rubber band as far as it’s going.

FullofStars (#3921)

Reply to Karl Lewis

1 year ago

I’m more concerned that he will just pass of natural causes before anything really catches up to him.

Greenman037 (#179445)

Reply to FullofStars

1 year ago

I was kinda hoping it will be by auto-erotic asphyxiation.

kangxi (#255071)

Reply to Greenman037

1 year ago

While being embarrassing and undignified (and both concepts being alien to Trump anyway) it’s far too quick. I prefer the thought of a series of strokes leading to locked-in body syndrome. Meanwhile the bankruptcy and criminal charges against his spawn leave his “business empire” bankrupt, resulting on this husk of a monster being confined to a publicly funded unmonitored care home where he languishes in damp stinking bed sheets staring at a broken TV screen 24 hours a day. His brood being themselves broke and imprisoned by this time, they have other things to worry about than him, and he is left solely in the care of a quietly efficient malicious and sadistic psychopath who had set about inveigling herself into the position of being his “carer” to ensure that the two of them can enjoy the rest of Trump’s life exploring the more outré reaches of cruelty together.