From: NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump
Subject: Re: NY appeals court slaps Judge Engoron hard
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 07:07:30 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:08:33 -0400, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>On 2025-08-27 07:20, NoBody wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:48:08 -0400, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2025-08-26 07:29, NoBody wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 25 Aug 2025 05:28:53 -0700, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2025-08-25 04:29, NoBody wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 09:18:36 -0700, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 2025-08-24 07:23, NoBody wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Sat, 23 Aug 2025 11:34:06 -0700, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 2025-08-23 11:18, NoBody wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> "In New York, a court revealed that a leading citizen had cooked the
>>>>>>>>>> books by inflating questionable figures without any support in
>>>>>>>>>> reality. Moreover, his wild overvaluation was widely viewed as
>>>>>>>>>> motivated by his self-aggrandizement. The final reported figures are
>>>>>>>>>> so absurdly inflated that they were rejected in their entirety. In the
>>>>>>>>>> end, he was off by over half a billion dollars.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> That man is Judge Arthur Engoron.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> After a New York appellate court unanimously threw out Engoron's
>>>>>>>>>> absurd half-a-billion-dollar judgment and interest against President
>>>>>>>>>> Donald Trump, the irony was crushing. It was Engoron who seemed, as he
>>>>>>>>>> characterized Trump witnesses, as having "simply denied reality." It
>>>>>>>>>> made his notorious reliance on an assessment of Mar-a-Lago as worth
>>>>>>>>>> between $18 million and $27.6 million seem like good accounting.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> In the end, he could not get a single judge to preserve a single
>>>>>>>>>> dollar of that fine.
>>>>>>>>> Did they overturn the verdict?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Didn't expect that they would because it's New York. That will get
>>>>>>>> addressed in future appeals.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Your running away from the post is noted.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It was a New York appellate court that threw out the award, doofus.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Which is in......New York.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <eyeroll>
>>>>>
>>>>> Which YOU said was the reason the verdict wasn't overturned...
>>>>>
>>>>> ...so why the contradiction?
>>>>
>>>> No contradiction at all. The award was SO outrageous that even a
>>>> liberal New York appeals court couldn't not toss it. The verdict
>>>> itself falls within their level of "acceptable" corruption. Look for
>>>> that to be overturned in another court at some point.
>>>
>>> Riiiiiiiiight.
>>>
>>> How about, Trump did the things with which he was charged, which was
>>> proven beyond a reasonable doubt?
>>
>> Tell us who the victim was. Oh, and it was a civil trial not a
>> criminal trial where the standard is much lower. If you can't get the
>> basics correct, how am I supposed to take anything you write
>> seriously?
>
>The banks who lent him money at rates that they might not have if they'd
>known the true value of his assets.
The banks made money and did not and have not complained.
What's you're next guess?
>
>And before you go on and on about how they weren't injured in the end,
>let me ask you:
>
>If I take your car while you're asleep, use it for my purposes, and
>return it with a full tank of gas...
>
>...is that alright with you?
Your comparison is bizarre and invalid. To correct it, if you did
that and the state asked me if I wanted to complain and said no, then
it must have been ok with you. Of course you wouldn't have filled it
up and blamed me because the gas is low...
>
>And I was using "charged" in the generic sense. I know it was a civil
>trial, doofus.