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Judge has ruled that Donald Trump committed fraud for years while building the real estate empire that catapulted him to fame and the White House.

Judge Arthur Engoron, ruling Tuesday in a civil lawsuit brought by New York’s attorney general, found that the former president and his company deceived banks, insurers and others by massively overvaluing his assets and exaggerating his net worth on paperwork used in making deals and securing financing.

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[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 141 points 1 year ago

Is he basically just a full-time legal defendant now?

[-] squiblet@kbin.social 105 points 1 year ago

His full-time job is pretending to be a martyr/savior and asking rubes for money.

[-] utopianfiat@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

I sure hope the Republican donor class is neglecting the rest of the 2024 races for the sake of trying in vain to keep Trump out of prison

[-] IDontHavePantsOn@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

You reminded me of a video news story from the early 2000s where the news station interviewed a guy, who panhandled while pretending to be a wheelchair bound homeless person in front of Walmart, as a sort of "gotcha" journalism piece. He was totally open and honest about it and was chuckling the entire time. At the end of the piece they asked "so now they we have outed you on tv, how are you going to trick people into giving you money?" He replied, "I'm just going to go over there (while pointing to adjacent stores). "And you think you will get people to give you money?" "Yeah, no one knows who I am and people forget so quickly that it won't effect me". (These aren't exact quotes.)

In a way Trump does the same thing. Everyone forgets his past actions quickly, blames the outcomes on the other party, and just moves on to different allegations he can spin. There's so much news surrounding him theres little time to actually interpret his actions, and he can just shift gears to another group of downtrodden citizens to swindle if he pisses his supporters off.

[-] orphiebaby@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I misread that as "rubles". Still works.

[-] guidedlight@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

He always was a full-time legal defendant. I’ll leave this here…

https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/trump-lawsuits/

[-] LarryTheMatador@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

About tree fiddy

Billion

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago
[-] morphballganon@mtgzone.com 16 points 1 year ago

It only counts as creating jobs if you pay your employees

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

Paid in exposure

(Legal exposure, since even his lawyers are getting prosecuted)

[-] theterrasque@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

Get with the times! Not paying employees is all the rage these days!

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