He’s NOT gonna go thru for a jury verdict …
Civil cases are easlier for prosocutors….
Less of a hill to climb…..
New York Attorney General has Trump’s old money man Allen Howard Weisselberg, singing to the Mnhattan DA’s office….
Trump’s old lawyer, Michael Cohen, who went to jail, is available …
Trump’s business is on trial, charged criminally by the Manhattan DA’s office…….
Tish James has the goods…
And?
There is Donald Trump HIMSELF just running his mouth supply good material to use a trial….
(He called the DA a ‘Racist’ today….THAT will probably cost him a few more millions in the settlement)
Trump took the 5th Amendment hundreds of times in the face to face Q & A with the Attorney General herself….
Trump’s lawyers asked for a settlement already…
She turned him down…
Lets get this straight….
The New York Attorney General wants to put Trump & Co. out of business…
Going before jury in the end ?
Is NOT a gamble even Trump is about to take one would think…..
He’ll settle…
BUT it will be MORE on the AG’s terms and don’t bet on him being able to do business in NewyOrk for long time….
THAT IS gonna cost him millions of dollars…
And I’m not going into if the Feds decide to go after the tax money they have been scammed out of also….
And that case could be another criminal case added on the Federal docket beside’s his current ones ….
It’s not hard to see why James is taking such a hard line. She has a winning hand.
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New York Attorney General Tish James raised eyebrows when she refused last-minute settlement overtures from former President Donald Trump. Her 222-page lawsuit filed Wednesday doubles down, asking for wide-ranging penalties against Trump, including $250 million and various bans that would bar Trump and his three oldest children from selling or acquiring real estate or applying for loans in New York for five years — potentially devastating measures for a company that depends on plastering the family name on properties for profit.
It’s not hard to see why James is taking such a hard line. She has a winning hand….
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But taking the Fifth has severe consequences in this case. Unlike in a criminal case, in a civil proceeding like the suit brought by James, the jury will likely be instructed they can infer that when Trump took the Fifth, his answer would have been adverse to him. Trump’s repeated insistence that James’ politically motivated suit left him no choice will not withstand the effect of the jury inferring that Trump broke the law and has no good answer to the questions he was asked.
That essentially screws Trump and his family in this case. It is no coincidence that James put in her lawsuit that when Trump was asked whether he “had an ongoing agreement from at least 2005 to the present with Mr. Weisselberg, Mr. McConney and others to prepare the Statement of Financial Condition in a manner that included false and misleading valuation statements, Mr. Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination and refused to answer.”
In a civil case like this one, that’s the ballgame. Trump, his son Eric, and others took the Fifth hundreds of times and they can expect James and her team to throw that back in their faces to prove their case. All of the other evidence is just supporting corroboration. The testimony of Trump and his family — or lack thereof — is the centerpiece.