That is the question. Get ready for explosions. Alina Habba said yesterday that she planned to go ballistics today and she didn’t even know what Justice Arthur Engoron intended to fine Donald Trump. But today we found out. The $364 million fine is fairly consonant with what was anticipated. The figure going around as late as yesterday was $370 million, same ballpark.
But the surprise is that Trump wasn’t given the death penalty businesswise, only prohibited “from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation or other legal entity in New York for a period of three years.” That’s a bit surprising. It was generally thought that the Trump Organization would be barred from doing business for life.
And don’t forget, CBS News reported in October Trump was dropped from the Forbes 400 list of richest people run the world. And between this verdict and E. Jean Carroll’s $83.8 million, Donald’s broke. He probably will have to declare bankruptcy. Again. Does anybody remember this gem?
Ouch. Trump’s gonna have to go bargain shopping for groceries with Tucker over in Moscow.
Don’t forget your 10 rubles when you return your cart.
— Smirnoff and Sprite (@smirnoff_sprite) February 16, 2024
Here's the full ruling. The details are on the last couple of pages. $364M. Trump barred for 3 years, his sons for 2 years. Judge Barbara Jones will continue as monitor, and she'll help install an independent director of compliance at the Trump Org. https://t.co/enHFkHHbr5
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) February 16, 2024
Mary Trump pointed out in her newsletter yesterday that Donald went bonkers when biographer Tim O’Brien theorized that Trump was actually worth between $100 and 250 million and not $10 billion or whatever his insane claim was.
Truth Social is silent as the tomb right now. At least on this topic. As Nikki Haley pointed out today, there are still the fake polls.
But no word on Aleksei Navalny’s murder or Trump’s major fine in New York State.
Hit him with $ – check. They are appealing. He’s going to go on and on about his name being his brand. Not anymore. He’s going to steal the RNC coffers like crazy. I can’t wait to hear what he says at his rally tomorrow night in Michigan.
Looking at the facts through the hazy fog that separates Maga’s from reality and Trump from the Human Race, Trump’s obvious, “Grabbing at straws to survive, makes him tremble with fear every time He has to provide, “Under Oath comments and answers”, His memory has been tainted by His miss-understanding how little power he has now …
His Bank Drafts are questionable at best, totally worthless as he faces enormous fines we can all see as they happen in real time … His billionaire backers have somehow found him to be a risky investment, as he has demonstrated an infantile reaction to court proceedings …
The final melt down is clearly showing up as we scan the blood-red horizon in Trump’s world of incompetency and dare-say incontinency, which is demonstrated by his well-known off-putting eye-watering, odoriferous presence …
He continues to burn bridges, BUT, as the number of bridges surviving his blowtorch has been so decimated, he is stepping into that box canyon of no escape …
With simple, little well-structured statements by certain judges, that hold his very future in their hands, he can not seem to help himself from saying the things that annoy them the most … I can visualize the judges, slapping a gavel down in a rapid-fire way, saying, “That’s enough, I am remanding you to three months in prison, no outside visitors or media, just your lawyers, you will be called back to court on need-to appearances, you will appear in prison-provided garb and speak to NO ONE but the judge, jury and court lawyers …
We will ALL get a break from his moldy rhetoric and semi-fore hand signals … Trump is already done for, guilt tripping OR health collapse, a scene better for us than any other entertainment, his rant’s are becoming very arduous and vocally, next to impossible to understand, based on so many smoke and mirror statements …
I still need to hear from more experts (that I think can be trusted) but I THINK there might be a method to Engoron’s “madness.” It will be two years for Fredo 1 & Fredo 2 and three for Trump. I forget how long for Weisselberg. However, by then there very well might not be a Trump Org left. More interesting to me was the question prior to the ruling about whether the judge would rescind his earlier order pulling business licenses. He did and that’s where the method to the madness comes in. He installed an additional layer of oversight to prevent bullshit antics a clumsy Trump would try to move assets around.
Engoron probably has information we don’t that tells him Trump doesn’t have $450 million (remember the Carroll award) AND although forgotten he’s got upwards of 350 million in bank loans all coming due (I think) this spring. However much some of his properties might be worth (including Bedminster and his golf resorts in the UK) he’s cash poor. Trump can’t pay and I’m not sure even a sugar mommy like Sheldon Addelson’s widow will front him what he needs. And same for other mega rich people. Several hundred million is a LOT to piss away even for someone worth many tens of billions.
In order to appeal he’s either got to put up the case in escrow, or put up a good chunk, probably between 25-50 million himself and get someone to post bond for the rest. And THEY would want collateral. That’s where the issue of the financial oversight comes in. With Trump and his idiot kids barred from thing and also his CFO AND the business licenses unfrozen the oversight folks can start selling off assets OR putting them up as collateral. Or even Mar A Lago. And there’s not a damned thing Trump can do.
This could get all kinds of complicated and weird but it should be fun to watch!
The real hit is his brand went to hell in a handbasket! The days of him crowing its worth billions are over. Watch the cockroaches run now that the lights are on!