Donald Trump Has Been Indicted And Yes Arrested; Four Times Now And Counting. I was Right
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Trump Lawyers Want Us to Believe Key Witness Knows Nothing
Feigned Ignorance
During his bank fraud trial in New York, Donald Trump’s lawyers said ex-controller Jeff McConney wasn’t an expert on real estate values — except that was his job for Trump.
Published Oct. 12, 2023
When investigators point to spreadsheets, the defense either shrugs, appears confused, or claims vastly inflated values are mere differences of opinion.
For days, state investigators have been laying out how the Trump Organization fudged its numbers before turning the books over to its outside accountant Donald Bender at MazarsUSA. There, the firm would sign off on Trump’s personal financial statements and give them the aura of authenticity. It was McConney’s job to prepare the spreadsheets that listed properties, associated bank account totals, and estimated values.
With him on the stand, the AG’s office reviewed the way McConney gathered real estate development valuations as part of his regular job as the company controller. They repeatedly pointed out how he appeared to use omissions to trick Mazars and throw them off the scent of any impropriety.
Take, for example, Trump Park Avenue, a residential building located in an ultra high-end area east of Manhattan’s Central Park. When McConney put together the numbers for the 32-story condo building, his original spreadsheet listed all the units, along with their offering prices and market values.
But McConney admitted to intentionally deleting that last column before sending it over to Mazars—ensuring the outside firm could only see the pie-in-the-sky offering prices Trump requested, not the market values that reflected what someone would actually pay for those luxury condos.
That sleight of hand added roughly $57 million to Trump’s wealth on paper, math that McConney acknowledged in court.
Then there’s the forested estate in upstate New York called Seven Springs, a failed development project that doubles as Trump’s Bruce Wayne-esque mansion just north of Gotham. Once again, McConney played a central role in fudging the numbers by acting as if seven additional mansions had been greenlit for construction, adding a whopping $161 million to the total value.
And once again, McConney copped to those calculations on the witness stand.
“Were you operating under the assumption when doing this valuation in these two years that approvals had been obtained, all necessarily approvals had been obtained for these seven homes in Bedford?” Amer asked him.
“Looking at this now, yes,” McConney responded.
Some of the dodgy math appeared to come from Eric Trump, one of the former president’s sons, who has long served on the Trump Organization’s leadership team. McConney testified that, after a telephone conversation with the Trump company executive in 2013, another section of Seven Springs jumped in value on paper from $25 million to $101 million—even though they couldn’t actually sell the property they claimed to have.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-lawyers-want-us-to-believe-key-wit
ness-jeff-mcconney-knows-nothing
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Trust me dude. Now that Muslims are back on the table, nobody is going to give a single shit about your TDS 13 months from now.
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Quote:Middle East news from 2023: 59,259 fatalities, 1.5 million people left homeless. But you already forgot it happened. Your "Muslims are back on the table" news is just as ephemeral. Trump is a crook and Nazi running for President, so all crooks and Nazis in America remember to vote for him.
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Trust me dude. Now that Muslims are back on the table, nobody is going to give a single shit about your TDS 13 months from now.
2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Turkey%E2%80%93Syria_earthquakes
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We'll see about that. 
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The former president’s lawyers may not be trying to win his New York trial—instead, they’re dragging it out in hopes of solving his other political and legal problems.
Jose Pagliery, Published Oct. 16, 2023 4:32AM EDT
Two weeks into Donald Trump’s bank fraud trial in New York, it’s clear that the former president has no intention of actually trying to win the legal battle at this stage.
Instead, Trump’s legal team is working diligently to repurpose the trial as pretext for a future appeal—not to mention warping the proceedings into both a fundraising spectacle and an excuse to skip out on his other court dates.
For nine straight days, Trump’s defense lawyers have littered the court with legal landmines, objecting to nearly every bit of evidence submitted by New York Attorney General Letitia James and warning New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur F. Engoron that each decision he makes will be closely scrutinized by appellate judges—and likely reversed.
At one point, Engoron had to remind Trump’s legal team, “Trials are… not an opportunity to relitigate what I’ve already decided… that’s why we have appeals.”
Rolling Stone cited one source within the Trump camp who described the current kamikaze plan of trying to seize minor victories within the self-created chaos as “Fyre Festival strategies,” a reference to the poorly planned 2017 music festival in the Bahamas that ended in disaster.
The stakes are high: Trump, a self-styled business tycoon, is at real risk of losing his real estate empire. Engoron has already ordered the Trump Organization’s business licenses revoked after concluding that the Trump family and their company’s top executives vastly inflated assets for years. Come December, he could order them to pay $250 million or more.
Team Trump is still irked that they have to defend real estate deals stretching back a decade because the judge hasn’t yet explicitly drawn a stark cutoff in 2016 or so that could shrink the attorney general’s case—something an appellate court instructed him to do before the trial began.
Now, Trump’s lawyers are objecting to anything that even hints at older material, even emails presented by James’ office that make references to the distant past.
But Trump’s defense team has also adopted a comically and deliberately irritating tactic. Anticipating a massive and detailed appeal, they have been asking long-winded questions about each line in each document—and repeating each question for every year from 2011 and beyond.
The tension reached a boiling point on only the trial’s third day, when the judge repeatedly advised that defense lawyers speed things along—only to have defense lawyer Jesus Suarez agree, then ignore him anyway.
“You’re not allowed to waste time,” Engoron said. “That is what this is becoming.”
“We will attempt to streamline this as much as possible,” lead defense lawyer Christopher Kise assured.
“Doesn’t seem like that yet,” the judge shot back.
“The devil’s in the details. I’m sorry, but it is,” Kise countered.
Things then got heated, as the judge called out Trump’s team on what’s become a patently obvious delay tactic.
“This is ridiculous!” Engoron said, turning his head to the dozens of journalists in the back of the courtroom. “To the reporters: I’m pounding the bench again. This. Is. Ridiculous! There's no point in going through each line. I'm just being logical here.”
What happened next was an encapsulation of what has become the go-to Trump legal strategy at this trial. Kise, in his characteristically condescending tone toward the older and more experienced judge, misconstrued what Engoron said and demurred.
“Let me make sure I understand,” Kise began. “You’re asking us to go line by line, but just ask the same question for each line?”
“I’ve never had to negotiate how to ask questions. I think it makes a poor record, frankly,” he added, in what seemed like a direct address to the court reporter whose notes will eventually be combed through by a panel of appellate judges. “For the record, I object to
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Quote:I assume you didn't read the article. The next paragraph is
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Quote:This is pretty much the story of every Trumptard's life: to deliberately not comprehend. Other times, to actually be stupid rather than feinting it.
Similar but less intense versions of that scene repeated as the days went by, with [Trump's attorney] Kise often distorting what [Judge] Engoron was ordering, then turning around and claiming the judge’s decisions were unprecedented and unfair.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-donald-trumps-team-twisted-his-new-y
ork-bank-fraud-trial-into-a-farce
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Sham trial. Meaningless.
Why don't Democrats try to run on issues, or at the very least stop trying to actively destroy the quality of life for 90% of the country. That might be a better plan of action with only one year left.
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Trump, gets gag order.
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Quote:That 90% are fucking morons whose problems will go away only after they stop acting stupid. Government can't fix the stupidity that is ruining them. The morons either fix themselves or suffer.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Sham trial. Meaningless.
Why don't Democrats try to run on issues, or at the very least stop trying to actively destroy the quality of life for 90% of the country. That might be a better plan of action with only one year left.
Take your drinking, 6ix. That was all your fault. When you stopped, that problem went away. I suppose it is imaginable that the government could start a sobriety program for drunks and could make excessive beer drinking illegal, throwing drunk versions of 6ix into jail so that they can finally stop drinking, but in what alternate Universe can that happen? Not this one.
Suppose the problem of the 90% is that they are paid too little and, the complementary problem, they pay too much for their purchases. The 90% could form unions to force their employers to pay employees more and to charge customers less, but the 90% are too stupid to do that. In what alternate Universe will the government make it unnecessary for the 90% to form unions? It would be a universe where the government sets your wages and your prices. That universe is not this universe.
The Democrats do run on issues, things that can be changed in this universe by the government, but there are a whole slew of things the government can't fix for you. You have to fix it yourself or suffer the consequences.
The Democrats' Policies are at https://www.google.com/search?q=democrats+policies These are the only things governments can fix. Republicans promise to fix things the government cannot fix and they promise the impossible fixes will be done quickly and easily, at a low price. 6ix, you got to be one of the 90% of morons who believe Republicans' foolish promises are wise and possible for government. 6ix, your life will end early and badly if you keep believing promises that are nonsense.
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