Thread: Donald Trump : Former POTUS

Originally Posted by S Landreth

• Trump ordered to pay $364 million in New York civil fraud case

Trump hit with $364 million civil fraud judgment in New York over yearslong scheme to inflate his wealth

GoFundMe page set up for Trump. LOL


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$120,228 USD raised of $355,000,000 goal

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They're going to need a little more.

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Oh dear, if only these trumpanzees knew even the Russians think they're as thick as shit.

Russian media mocks Trump supporters as “not very smart,” “rednecks,” and “primitive people” who you have to talk to with “cliches and dumb slogans.”

Russian state media laughs at Trump voters, calling them 'primitive and dumb'

• Michael Cohen suggests Trump’s mounting legal fees make him ‘thoroughly compromised’: ‘He is for sale’

Michael Cohen — who long served as former President Trump’s personal lawyer and fixer — warned Sunday of the potential risk of sending Trump back to the White House with mounting legal fees and financial liabilities.

“We need to be very careful about him as a potential president because he is for sale,” Cohen, now an outspoken critic of the former president, said in an interview on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” on Sunday.

“He needs to figure out where he is going to raise $500-plus million over a short period of time,” Cohen continued.

Cohen’s warning comes as Trump, the leading 2024 GOP presidential candidate, was found liable Friday for nearly $355 million in penalties in a civil fraud case in New York that delivered a severe blow to his family business.

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) sued Trump and his business in 2022, alleging the former president falsely altered his net worth on key financial statements to receive tax and insurance benefits. James also alleged that Trump sometimes adjusted his assets’ value to obtain more favorable loans and deals, which the state points to as evidence of fraud.

Last month, a federal jury in a different civil case ordered Trump to pay $83.3 million for defaming E. Jean Carroll, adding to the $5 million verdict in an earlier trial that found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and defaming her in separate comments.

When MSNBC host Symone Sanders-Townsend suggested Trump “is open to the highest bidder at this point because the tab keeps being run up,” floating “the Saudis, the Russians,” as options, Cohen agreed.

“Thoroughly compromised, yes,” Cohen said.

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• Trump launches gold high top sneaker line a day after $350m court ruling

Donald Trump has launched his own sneaker brand, a day after a New York judge ordered him to pay $354.9m in penalties for fraudulently overstating his net worth to dupe lenders.

“I’ve wanted to do this a long time,” the former US president said, as he unveiled what he called the first official Trump footwear at Sneaker Con in Philadelphia, a gathering that bills itself as the “The Greatest Sneaker Show on Earth.”

He was met with loud boos as well as cheers, Associated Press reported, adding that as he spoke, the smell of weed occasionally wafted through the room. Attendees skewed younger and more diverse than Trump’s usual rally crowds, the news wire wrote.

The shoes, shiny, gold high tops with an American flag detail on the back, are being sold as Never Surrender High-Tops for $399 on a new website that also sells Trump-branded Victory47 cologne and perfume for $99 a bottle. Trump would be the 47th president if elected again.

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Trump's high-top sneakers sell out hours after launch

Former President Trump's high-top sneakers sold out hours after their launch Saturday at Sneaker Con in Philadelphia.

The big picture: The shoes, called "The Never Surrender High-Top Sneaker," sell for $399. The pair, along with two low-top sneakers, and a $99 bottle of "Victory47" perfume and cologne were available for purchase on a new website.

What he's saying: "I just want to tell you, I've wanted to do this for a long time," Trump said

Saturday when unveiling the sneaker line.

• "I have some incredible people that work with me on things, and they came up with this, and this is something I've been talking about for 12 years, 13 years, and I think it's gonna be a big success," he said.

Zoom in: Only 1,000 pairs of the gold shoes were available, per the sneaker website, which described the sneakers as "Super Limited."

• At least 10 of the gold sneakers were "randomly autographed by Trump," according to the website.
• Trump also launched the "T - Red Wave" sneaker and the "POTUS 45," both priced at $199.

The products are "registered trademarks and/or trademarks of CIC Ventures LLC," per the website.

• "Trump Sneakers are not designed, manufactured, distributed or sold by Donald J. Trump, The Trump Organization or any of their respective affiliates or principals," it notes.
• "45Footwear, LLC uses the Trump name, image and likeness under a license agreement."

• $87,000 per day

In total, Trump owed another $98.6 million in interest the day Engoron issued his ruling, bringing the grand total to $453.5 million.

But that number will only continue to grow until Trump pays the penalty. Every day, interest increases the total amount Trump owes by more than $87,000.

• Judge threatens ex-Trump aide Peter Navarro with contempt in records fight

A federal judge threatened Tuesday to hold former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro in contempt of court for defying her order to return dozens — and perhaps hundreds — of presidential records to the National Archives.

“It is clear that Defendant continues to possess Presidential records that have not been produced to their rightful owner, the United States,” U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly wrote in a six-page opinion after reviewing a subset of records Navarro had argued were his personal documents and did not need to be returned to the government.

Kollar-Kotelly, an appointee of President Bill Clinton, is giving Navarro until March 21 to review 600 records to determine whether additional government files are among them — or else face a potential contempt citation. She also said she plans to refer the matter to a magistrate judge to wade through the records and make sure the government gets those to which it is entitled.

It’s the latest legal headache for Navarro, who is slated to report to federal prison within weeks for a 2023 conviction for defying a subpoena from the congressional Jan. 6 select committee. A judge earlier this month rejected Navarro’s bid to remain free while he appeals his conviction on two misdemeanor contempt of Congress charges. That judge, Amit Mehta, sentenced Navarro to a four-month prison term in January.

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• Supreme Court leaves sanctions in place against Sidney Powell and others over 2020 election suit in Michigan

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up a bid by a group of Trump-allied lawyers who faced monetary and professional sanctions in Michigan as a result of their baseless claims raised in a lawsuit that the 2020 presidential election was rife with fraud.

The one-line order from the high court rejecting the appeals brought by lawyers Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and five others leaves in place a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit that partially upheld the penalties imposed in the wake of the last presidential contest.

Powell and Wood were among a group of lawyers allied with former President Donald Trump who pushed unfounded claims about the 2020 election in courts in key battleground states. Powell famously pledged to "release the Kraken" after the 2020 election, likening the mythical sea monster to the legal challenge she was pursuing as part of an effort to overturn President Biden's win and keep Trump in power for a second term.

Powell, Wood and the five other lawyers were sanctioned in Michigan as a result of a lawsuit that attempted to reverse the state's election results. A district court ordered them to pay more than $175,000 to cover the legal fees that the city of Detroit and state incurred to defend the lawsuit. In addition to the monetary penalties, Powell, Wood and the others were referred to the bar associations in each of their states for disciplinary proceedings.

The district court said the sanctions were intended to deter future suits "designed primarily to spread the narrative that our election processes are rigged." The 6th Circuit upheld the sanctions, but lessened the amount the lawyers had to pay to over $150,000.

Beyond the sanctions in Michigan, Powell was charged in the sprawling racketeering case brought by the Fulton County District Attorney in August. She reached a plea deal with prosecutors in October and agreed to plead guilty to six misdemeanor counts.

• Donald Trump’s donor numbers falling

‘Get these folks back’: Trump’s missing donors

Donald Trump entered the 2024 election year with about 200,000 fewer donors than in the previous presidential campaign four years ago, raising questions about his fundraising machine just as legal bills eat into his war chest.

The Trump campaign and affiliated political action committees attracted roughly 516,000 donors in the second half of last year, compared with 740,000 at the same stage of his last race for the White House, according to Financial Times analysis of the latest data.

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• Aileen Cannon might get kicked off the Trump classified docs case.

The recent news about possible Russian space nukes reminds us that we live in a very insecure world. That is why perhaps none of Donald Trump’s four criminal cases is more troubling than the federal prosecution brought by special counsel Jack Smith for mishandling classified documents. Unfortunately, the judge handling the case, Aileen Cannon—a last-minute appointment rushed through in the waning days of the Trump administration—has proved herself to be by far the worst of the jurists overseeing these momentous cases. Her decisions during the investigative phase of the case strayed wildly from precedent, leading to brutal reversals by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11^th Circuit. Now Smith appears to be preparing to ask that body to overturn at least one and possibly two of her decisions. In our view, while he is there on those other issues, he should also petition them to remove her from the case.

Why do we think Smith might be headed to the court of appeals? In part because he has already sought reconsideration for the latest of Cannon’s unlawful orders. This is a step that is warranted only in rare circumstances, including when a judge has made a “clear error” that led to “manifest injustice.” In this instance, at Trump’s behest, Cannon has decided to unseal the identities of two dozen potential witnesses, along with sensitive information they provided to the government. The “clear error” Smith identifies is striking: He alleges that Cannon applied the wrong legal standard in making this decision, requiring him to make a far more stringent showing than should be needed to protect these names. In his motion for reconsideration, Smith shows that the case law—including the very cases Cannon herself cited in her order—does not establish the unreasonable hurdles she wants him to clear.

In his motion for reconsideration, Smith also argues that Cannon minimizes the risk of real-world harm and witness intimidation these individuals would face. He notes that there is a “well-documented pattern in which judges, agents, prosecutors, and witnesses involved in cases involving Trump have been subject to threats, harassment, and intimidation.” Cannon’s cavalier attitude is dangerous for the potential witnesses whose identities could be revealed. As Smith asserts in his brief, “a court’s duty is to prevent harms to the witnesses or the judicial process ‘at their inception.’ ” Cannon appears willing to abdicate that duty.

In response to Smith’s reconsideration motion, Cannon ordered Trump to respond by Friday. That will set up a dramatic ruling by Cannon: Either she reverses her position—which would be an admission that she was fundamentally mistaken about the law in a way that caused “manifest injustice”—or she leaves her ruling in place, putting individuals in jeopardy and twisting the law to help Trump. At that point, Smith may have enough ammunition to seek her reassignment from the 11^th Circuit.

Bit more in the article

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• Trump asks judge to delay enforcing the $355 million civil fraud decision for one month

Former President Donald Trump asked the judge overseeing the civil fraud case to delay enforcing the $355 million judgment against him for one month.

In a letter to Judge Arthur Engoron, Trump’s attorneys accuse New York Attorney General Letitia James of an “unseemly rush” to enforce the judgment by submitting a proposal for the judge to sign just days after the ruling.

Trump has 30 days from when a judgment is entered to post bond and appeal.

Last week, the judge ordered Trump to pay $355 million plus interest and imposed a three-year ban from acting as an officer of a New York business.

Trump’s attorney said if the judge decides to enter the attorney general’s judgment the defendants “request the Court stay enforcement of that Judgment for thirty (30) days. Given that the court-appointed monitor continues to be in place, there is no prejudice to the Attorney General in briefly staying enforcement to allow for an orderly post-Judgment process, particularly given the magnitude of Judgment.”

New York attorney general says will seize Trump assets if he can't pay fine

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• Judge confirms $5 million award to Lindell’s ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ contest winner

A federal judge has ruled that pillow magnate and election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell must pay out a $5 million prize he offered to anyone who could disprove his dispute of the 2020 election results.

U.S. District Judge John Tunheim of the District of Minnesota confirmed an arbitration award in a brief order Wednesday, ordering Lindell to pay out the $5 million plus ten months’ worth of post-judgment interest to contest winner Robert Zeidman within a month.

Zeidman, an electrical engineer, software developer and inventor, entered the “Prove Mike Wrong” challenge at Lindell’s 2021 Cyber Symposium, where Lindell offered a $5 million prize to anyone who could prove that data he claimed supported his election result denials was not genuinely from the 2020 election.

After Lindell failed to pay out in response to Zeidman’s 15-page report on the data — which found that the data did not contain any information related to the election — the engineer filed for arbitration under the contest’s rules. An arbitration panel conducted an evidentiary hearing early in 2023, and awarded Zeidman the requested $5 million in April 2023. Lindell fought Zeidman’s motion to confirm the award, leading to another nine months of litigation in Minnesota’s federal court.

“It’s going to end up in court,” Lindell said at the time. “I’m not going to pay anything ... He didn’t prove anything.”

In court, Lindell argued that the arbitration panel had acted outside the scope of its authority and modified the rules of his challenge by accepting Zeidman’s contention that genuine election data would have to be packet capture data and by placing the burden of proof on Lindell and his companies rather than on Zeidman.

Tunheim was not convinced.

Baldy trying to delay things again.

Trump files several motions to dismiss his classified documents case - ABC News

• ‘Assholes come and go’: Trump isn’t the future, Sununu says

The future of the Republican Party isn’t Donald Trump, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu said Thursday.

“It won’t be his party forever. Right? It just won’t. At some point, Donald Trump won’t be here forever,” Sununu said during POLITICO’s Governors Summit.

Sununu added that he remains “very optimistic” about America’s future.

“Let me put it a different way: Assholes come and go. But America is here to stay,” he said.

The New Hampshire governor’s comments come as Trump appears to be on a glide path to winning his party’s presidential nomination for a third time. Ahead of the South Carolina primary this Saturday, polls have Trump with a solid lead over Sununu’s preferred candidate, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.

Sununu endorsed Haley late last year, giving her a boost in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary. Though the GOP field has narrowed, Haley has been unable to defeat Trump in any state primaries so far, and is expected to fall to him again in her home state.

During the interview, Sununu, a moderate and self-described “pro-choice” Republican, also panned an Alabama Supreme Court ruling granting legal personhood to frozen embryos as “scary.” Critics say the ruling could have sweeping implications for fertility treatment in the state. At least one Alabama hospital has already stopped in vitro fertilization treatment.

• Judge denies Trump's request to delay enforcement of $355M fraud case penalties

The judge in former President Donald Trump's civil fraud case has rejected a request from the defense to delay the enforcement of the penalties in the case.

The defendants had asked Judge Arthur Engoron to delay the enforcement of the penalties by 30 days to allow for an "orderly post-judgment process."

"You have failed to explain, much less justify, any basis for a stay," Engoron wrote in an email posted Thursday to the court docket. "I am confident that the Appellate Division will protect your appellate rights.

Trump last week was ordered to pay a $354.8 million fine plus interest and was barred from leading any New York company for three years. His sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump were also fined $4 million apiece and barred for two years.

The defense's request for a delay in the penalties stemmed from a dispute about the case's judgment order, the court document that, at the end of a trial, starts the clock for the penalties in a case. Lawyers for New York Attorney General Letitia James submitted a draft judgment on Tuesday, prompting criticism from Trump's defense lawyer Clifford Robert.

^ and don't forget the 100 million in interest.....with an 87,000 dollar daily interest rate until he does put up the bond for the fine.

Originally Posted by beachbound

Not including interest, his current bill is roughly $450,000,000.


32,142,857.1 (gullible morons)
X $14.00 (MAGA Hat)
= $450,000,000


problem solved

Don't forget the other cash for the bint he sexually assaulted and defamed.

Now we'll see how rich the lying turd is.

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Ah, he’s one step ahead of us. “The blacks“ are going to bail him out on that, by buying his new sneakers.

Originally Posted by beachbound

Not including interest, his current bill is roughly $450,000,000.

Believe it’s closer to…..

Originally Posted by S Landreth

$542,000,000.00

• Trump penalties in New York fraud case formally set at more than $454m

Donald Trump’s penalties in the New York civil fraud case for manipulating the value of his properties to obtain advantageous loan and insurance rates were formally set at more than $454m on Friday.

The judgment, which includes $354m in penalties plus $100m in pre-judgement interest following the three-month, non-jury trial that concluded on 16 February, will continue to accrue interest if the former president fails to pay.

Trump has two options to meet the state’s demand: to pay the amount in full, or secure a $35m bond against his assets, which might include the Fifth Avenue Trump Tower, 40 Wall Street, his Mar-a-Lago estate, or a number of golf courses in the US.

In the finalized ruling Judge Arthur Engoron also ordered Trump’s adult sons, Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump, to each pay nearly $4.7m, and the Trump Organization’s former chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, to pay $1.1 m, all including interest.

The former president, who has repeatedly described the prosecution as a “witch-hunt”, denies all wrongdoing and has said he will appeal.

The substantial penalties ordered by Engeron have sparked a new round acrimonious comments between Trump and the New York attorney general, Letitia James, over the case.

James told ABC News on Wednesday that she is prepared to seize the former president’s assets if he is unable to cover the fine.

“If he does not have funds to pay off the judgment, then we will seek judgment enforcement mechanisms in court, and we will ask the judge to seize his assets,” James said in an interview with the network.

“We are prepared to make sure that the judgment is paid to New Yorkers, and yes, I look at 40 Wall Street each and every day,” James added.

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• Trump's Lawyers Seek to Suspend $83M Defamation Verdict, Citing 'Strong Probability' It Won't Stand

Donald Trump’s lawyers asked a New York judge Friday to suspend an $83.3 million defamation verdict against the former president, saying there was a “strong probability” that it would be reduced on appeal, if not eliminated.

The lawyers made the request in Manhattan federal court, where a civil jury in late January awarded the sum to advice columnist E. Jean Carroll after a five-day trial that focused only on damages. A judge had ordered the jury to accept the findings of another jury that last year concluded Trump sexually abused Carroll in 1996 and defamed her in 2022.

The second jury focused only on statements Trump made in 2019 while he was president in a case long delayed by appeals.

In the filing Friday, Trump's lawyers wrote that Judge Lewis A. Kaplan should suspend the execution of a judgment he issued on Feb. 8 until a month after he resolves Trump's post-trial motions, which will be filed by March 7. Otherwise, they said, he should grant a partially secured stay that would require Trump to post a bond for a fraction of the award.

The lawyers said the $65 million punitive award, atop $18.3 in compensatory damages, was “plainly excessive” because it violates the Constitution and federal common law.

“There is a strong probability that the disposition of post-trial motions will substantially reduce, if not eliminate, the amount of the judgment,” they said.

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/artic...-it-wont-stand

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• Trump moves to dismiss classified documents case

Donald Trump is asking a federal judge in Florida to throw out his criminal case for hoarding classified secrets at his Mar-a-Lago estate, offering a grab bag of arguments that the charges are legally faulty, that prosecutors have targeted him for political reasons and that the special counsel spearheading the case had no legal authority to bring it.

Trump’s lawyers filed seven motions late Thursday aimed at derailing the case, in which he is charged with willfully retaining classified information after he left office and obstructing a federal investigation into his possession of those secrets.

The motions include a contention that he’s immune from prosecution because he made the decision to send the highly sensitive documents to Mar-a-Lago while he was still president.


Trump also contends that he can’t be prosecuted because he was not impeached and convicted by Congress for the allegations now raised by special counsel Jack Smith. Congress, however, was unaware of his document trove for about a year after he left office.

In another motion, Trump says that under federal law he had total discretion to label the classified records as “personal,” removing them from the government’s possession and making them his own. And he argues that Smith’s appointment as special counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland was improper in the first place.

All of these motions — and three others filed under seal — must be decided by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, whom Trump nominated in the closing months of his presidency. Cannon set Trump’s trial for May 20, but has since delayed many pretrial deadlines, leading to a widespread belief that she will ultimately postpone the proceedings. She is slated to hold a hearing in her Fort Pierce, Florida, courtroom next week about the trial schedule that will likely determine whether the former president will face a jury there this year.

Several arguments Trump and his co-defendants leveled Thursday remain secret for now. Cannon issued an order Tuesday instructing defense attorneys to file motions under seal if they contain any information that prosecutors or the defense consider confidential. Those arguments, which Trump provided broad outlines of in a public filing Thursday night, include claims of vindictive prosecution and an attempt to quash the warrant that authorized the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022.

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• Judge schedules March 1 hearing on disqualification of Georgia DA prosecuting Trump

A Fulton County judge will hear arguments on March 1 over efforts to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis from Georgia's 2020 election interference case against former President Trump.

Why it matters: A ruling by Judge Scott McAfee to remove Willis from the case or adjust charges, as Trump and other co-defendants have sought, would have massive implications for the case — even potentially derailing it altogether.

• If McAfee eventually rules that Willis' personal relationship with lead prosecutor Nathan Wade, who she hired, created a conflict of interest, the case would be assigned to a different prosecutor.
• A new prosecutor could change the case significantly, including by adding or dropping charges, or decide to throw out the case completely. The sheer appointment would also delay proceedings likely until after the 2024 election.

The big picture: Willis testified last week and she refuted allegations that her relationship with Wade created any financial or ethics conflict.

• Surrounding the case are also questions of when their personal relationship began and how money was exchanged between them. Various reports published this week have corroborated or challenged elements of her testimony.
• Both Willis and Wade testified that their romantic relationship ended last summer.

Reality check: The allegations around Willis do not change the current facts of the case she brought against Trump.

• Black leaders, DNC blast Trump for ‘racist’ comments

Black leaders are condemning former President Trump’s recent comments about Black voters as “racist.”

Speaking at the Black Conservative Federation (BCF) annual gala in South Carolina on Friday, Trump said his legal woes have earned him the support of Black voters around the country.

“I got indicted for nothing, for something that is nothing,” Trump told the crowd. “And a lot of people said that’s why the Black people like me, because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against, and they actually viewed me as I’m being discriminated against. It’s been pretty amazing but possibly, maybe, there’s something there.”

The former president added that Black Americans also “embraced” his mugshot and that he knows Black people because they built his buildings.

His comments quickly drew outrage from The NAACP.

“The NAACP is outraged, but not surprised by yet another racist remark from the former President,” Derrick Johnson, NAACP president, told The Hill in a statement.

“Donald Trump is delusional to think that his criminality would be an attractive quality to Black voters,” he continued. “He has taken advantage of an inherently racist system, while Black Americans have been abused by it. We are not the same.”

Mondale Robinson, founder of the Black Male Voter Project, called Trump’s comments “absolutely racist” and said they will not play out well with Black men.

“This is nothing but a continuation of Donald Trump being who he has always been,” Robinson told The Hill. “Black men are not living in a silo, it’s not as if we don’t know this. We see it. The world might be fooled but that’s not moving to us.”

Trump, who is currently facing a total of 91 criminal charges across four indictments, as well as more than a half-dozen civil lawsuits, has been hoping to pull Black voter support from President Biden ahead of November’s general election.

In 2020, he won 12 percent of Black voters’ ballots, an increase from 8 percent in 2016.

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• 'My kind of petty': Prosecutor Letitia James trolls Trump with interest he's incurring

The amount Donald Trump owes for his fraudulent business practices goes up every single day, and New York Attorney General Letitia James won't let him forget that fact.

Trump forcefully fought against the allegations by James' office, which accused the former president of committing civil fraud by misrepresenting the value of his assets to get better deals on bank loans. Yet in the end, Justice Arthur Engoron found Trump, his adult sons, and his organization liable for fraud, and ordered them to pay hundreds of millions of dollars

James on Feb. 23 set social media on fire when she made a very simple post.

"$464,576,230.62," the prosecutor wrote. The number, of course, refers to the total judgment entered by Engoron after the trial ended.

But that's not all Trump will owe. That amount goes up by about $100,000 per day due to interest that's being accrued.

So, James Saturday decided her post needed an update. "+$114,553.04," she wrote, demonstrating the addition of more than $100,000 in interest that accrued since Friday.

That move by James was noticed by political onlookers, one of whom said the post was "petty."

Democratic strategist Adam Parkhomenko wrote, "Letitia James tweeting out the interest Trump is incurring is my kind of petty."

Jeff Tiedrich also chimed in:

"I am so fu---ng here for Letitia James live-tweeting the ever-increasing interest on what Donald Trump owes to the state of New York," he added Saturday.

Harry Sisson also pointed out the ongoing tally by James.

"This is too funny! New York AG Letitia James is now posting the interest that Donald Trump is incurring daily from his New York fraud trial," Sisson wrote on Saturday. "Attorney General James has held Donald Trump accountable and is letting him know!"

https://twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/s...57522395750576

Going to be a lot of tears on here from the Biden voters when Trump wins in November

Yes, because it’s the Dems that cannot accept a defeat

Six in 10 Republicans still think 2020 was illegitimate: https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...-illegitimate/

• Judge Denies Trump’s Delayed Payment Request In E. Jean Carroll Case

The New York judge who oversaw E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump rejected the former president’s request to delay paying Carroll more than $80 million in damages, according to a Sunday court filing.

$83.3 million. That’s how much Trump was ordered to pay Carroll by a New York civil jury in January after he defamed Carroll. The damages include $65 million in punitive damages and $18.3 million in compensatory damages.

The more than $80 million Trump was ordered to pay Carroll makes up just a fraction of the hundreds of millions of dollars the former president has been ordered to pay in recent months. Earlier this month, a New York judge ruled Trump and his co-defendants would have to pay $364 million for fraudulently misstating the value of Trump and his company’s assets on financial statements in order to make the former president appear more wealthy.

From the multiple cases Trump owes the state of New York more than $450 million, though it remains unclear exactly how Trump plans to pay his dues. To pay much of that he could use the roughly $400 million in liquid assets he has. Trump could also borrow against one of the 27 mortgage-free properties he owns across the country or even sell one.

Carroll accused Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman’s dressing room in the 1990s. Trump responded to that allegation by saying he’s “never met this person in my life,” the incident “never happened,” and Carroll is “not my type.” Carroll sued Trump for defamation in 2019, alleging Trump’s reaction to her allegations caused her “emotional pain and suffering at the hands of the man who raped her, as well as injury to her reputation, honor and dignity.” It took years for the case to make it to trial because of a years-long legal dispute in which Trump argued he couldn’t be sued because he made the comments while acting in his official capacity as president. Since last month’s verdict, Trump has repeatedly said he would appeal. Meanwhile in a television interview, Carroll said if Trump continues to defame on social media she may sue again.

Separately Carroll sued Trump for similar statements in 2022. The second lawsuit, which went to trial before the 2019 suit, was for both defamation and sexual assault. In May, a jury sided with Carroll and found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll, though the jury rejected her claim that Trump raped her. The jury also ordered Trump to pay Carroll $5 million in damages.