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This was in regards to the politically motivated case brought by Letitia James, the Attorney General of New York. The claim was that President Trump overvalued to a fraudulent level Mar-a-lago when he was applying for a business loan. The problems with the case, and they are many, was that there was no victim. The bank that President Trump\u2019s company dealt with stated for the record that there was no fraud. They were also repaid with interest.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve already written a bazillion words on all this of course as have many other. Many legal experts who watched the case unfold basically went \u201cWTF?\u201d The judge sitting on the case, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, was issuing rulings that literally had no basis in the law, or reality. It became obvious that he was completely corrupt and had already decided the case within minutes of calling the court into session on the first day.<\/p>\n
When Engoron announced his verdict, it was designed to make it all but impossible for President Trump to appeal it. Letitia James was already eyeing properties she was going to seize. Unfortunately for her, President Trump was able to raise the bond needed and appealed the decision.<\/p>\n When the case was heard by the appellate court, they ripped the AG\u2019s representative several new ones. Because of this, most people in the legal field expected the decision to be handed down rather quickly. Instead the court sat on it for almost a year. Finally, on August 21st<\/sup>, 2025 they published their opinion and completely vacated the $500 million dollar fine. Here are some of the details from the New York Post<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n President Trump won a huge,\u00a0symbolic victory Thursday when a New York appeals court threw out the more\u00a0than $500 million fine he owed in Attorney General Letitia\u00a0James\u2019 business fraud case.<\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n The Appellate Division, First Department, overturned the whopping $464 million judgment against Trump, 79, but upheld a finding that the real estate tycoon-turned-president engaged in fraud by exaggerating his net worth for decades. <\/b><\/p>\n That second part is very questionable and I suspect that is going to be appealed as well. What was ignored by the courts was that while President Trump\u2019s people might have said \u201cWe think this property is worth X.\u201d it was the bank that made the loan that actually determined what the value was. Yes, there would be some back and forth negotiations, but in the end, the financial institution made the final judgment on the value of the property, not President Trump.<\/p>\n But the case, stemming from a civil suit brought by James\u2019 office,\u00a0still remains in place and will now go to New York\u2019s highest court as the legal battle between the state\u2019s top lawyer and the commander in chief continues. <\/b><\/p>\n No surprise there. Letitia James is desperate now. All her plans, in fact all of the Democrats Lawfare plans against President Trump have completely blown up in their faces and now Letitia James herself may be looking at…wait for it…criminal fraud charges for lying on federal mortgage forms.<\/p>\n The reversal of the fine, besides making President Trump happy, was to, for all intents and purposes, judicially punch judge Endrogon in the face. Here are a few of those details from Fox News<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n 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.<\/a>\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n At first glance, this looks like they are talking about President Trump. However, it wasn\u2019t. Fox is referring to that TDS sufferer, Arthur Endrogon.<\/p>\n After a New York appellate court unanimously threw out Engoron’s absurd half-a-billion-dollar judgment and interest against President Donald Trump,<\/a> 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.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n When that crooked judge pulled that valuation out of his well used backside, people who know Mar-a-lago and that area were floored. You would be lucky to be able to buy a small shed for that amount and they told Engroron this repeatedly. He just ignored all the people who actually do this for a living.<\/p>\n In both the civil and criminal trials of Trump<\/a> in New York, there was a carnival atmosphere in the street outside the courthouse. It was really not derangement as much as delirium. Democrat New York Attorney General Letitia James<\/a> had injected lawfare directly into the veins of New Yorkers. Pledging in her campaign to bag Trump (without bothering to name any crime or violation), James was elected based on her recreational rather than legal appeal.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n Yet, James could not have succeeded if she had not had a judge willing to ignore reality and cook the books on the fines. She needed a partner in lawfare. She needed Engoron.\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n This has always had people wondering if there wasn\u2019t some form of behind the scenes collusion between the two. The judgment Engoron cooked up was unprecedented.<\/p>\n Judge David Friedman gave Engoron a close-up that would have made Swanson wince. He detailed how the underlying law “has never been used in the way it is being used in this case \u2013 namely, to attack successful, private, commercial transactions, negotiated at arm\u2019s length between highly sophisticated parties fully capable of monitoring and defending their own interests.”\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n He accused Engoron of participating in an effort clearly directed by James at “ending with the derailment of President Trump\u2019s political career and the destruction of his real estate business.”\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n