Same happened after Rudy was found liable in the election workers suit.
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A New York judge has ruled that Fox Corp. must face Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion defamation suit — denying a motion to dismiss defamation claims against Fox News’ parent company.
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he former president has said he intends to appeal the jury’s award, but Nashville attorney Brian Manookian said not so fast to that.
“Let me ruin the suspense for everyone. Trump doesn’t have an appeal,” he said on Friday. “I know the talking heads on TV (who have never tried a case or appealed a jury verdict) have to mention it. Here’s why it isn’t going to fly.”
Manookian went on to say that, in order to have a meritorious case on appeal, “you have to preserve a reversible error at the trial level.”
“This is why you hire competent counsel. You need someone who actually knows the rules of evidence and procedure. Alina Habba had no clue what was occurring throughout the trial,” he added. “She not only failed to preserve any remote grounds for appeal, like a moron, she repeatedly and unintentionally waived them over and over.”
He went on to include an example of Habba bungling the potential for a reversal.
“For example, she kept saying ‘no objection’ as exhibits were entered into evidence. It appeared to me that she was saying that because she that’s something she had heard real lawyers say before,” he said Friday. "Unfortunately for Mr. Trump, what she was doing over and over was waiving his ability to appeal over those evidentiary issues. Because she is a moron who would rather play lawyer than do the research to be a lawyer."
Manookian then concluded: “There’s no appeal here. And because people have asked me in the past, no, there is no such thing as an incompetent counsel defense in civil cases. That’s for criminal matters. Take this verdict to the bank.”
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And the news gets better for Trump.
According to a report from the Daily Beast’s Roger Sollenberger, a “bombshell” footnote in documents filed by the special monitor appointed by the court in the $370 million Donald Trump financial fraud trial is raising questions about a $50 million Trump loan that may or may not exist.
That has ethics and tax experts suggesting the former president has been engaging in tax fraud.
According to the report, former federal judge Barbara Jones included a “major revelation” in the footnotes in her report on the current financial status of the Trump Organization, telling the court, "When I inquired about this loan, I was informed that there are no loan agreements that memorialize the loan, but that it was a loan that was believed to be between Donald J. Trump, individually, and Chicago Unit Acquisition for $48 million.”
She then added, "However, in recent discussions with the Trump Organization, it indicated that it has determined that this loan never existed—and thus that it would be removed from any upcoming forms submitted to the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) and would also be removed from subsequent versions of [corporate financial statements].”
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Manookian goes bang! Just hope he’s correct.
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None of this will matter one bit to Trump supporters.
Put it this way - the average tough guy, red blooded American Trump supporter should actually want to kill him if he ever dared to “grab em by the ■■■■■” to their partners. But nah, he’s a messenger from God. Similarly all his female voters, who somehow pretend that he’s not a disgusting misogynist sex predator who pays money to atone for his treatment of women.
They won’t give a stuff about his shonky finance situations. Unless they can legally make him ineligible to run, none of this really matters.
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Almost certainly true.
But he could be locked up, and that’s one way to stop him.
You get what you pay for.
In this case, Trump never pays his lawyers, so he gets screwed by his lawyer.
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Well she would rather be pretty than be smart, because you can fake being smart. Or maybe not.
A smart person can fake being stupid, a dumb person can’t fake being smart.
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But he’s a MULTI BILLIONAIRE! Why would he need money? Why would anyone donate to a person who has more money than you could imagine.
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Don’t ask such questions. DONATE NOW!
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Habba styled herself on Reese Witherspoons “Legally Blonde” movie but ended up starring in the reality show “Legally Dumb”
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Members of cults have often been prepared to die for their leader. Trump knows this. Thats why he requested that his cult members brave artic weather to vote for him in the Iowa caucus even if they froze to death in the process.
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The FDNY civil fraud trial judgement is imminent. Letitia James has asked for ~ $370M damages and Trump being banned from doing business in NY. As Trumps businesses are thought to be havily leveraged, it is expected that there will need to be a number of major property sales from his portfolio and that may include Trump Tower . The total might exceed $US500M all up and he may lose up to half his assets.
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I was referring to this:
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Too bad… so sad.
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