Welcome to the McCarthy Report, the podcast where you normally hear

Rich Lowry and Andy McCarthy discuss the latest legal and

national security issues. Rich is out this week so you're hearing me, Noah Rothman, instead.

This week we will discuss Trump's civil fraud verdicts and his upcoming criminal trials,

the Biden family in the dock, and Russian spy craft of such intrigue it rivals a Cold War novel.

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And now without further ado, I welcome to this podcast none other than its

eponymous host Andy McCarthy Andy how are you? Noah I'm doing great how are you?

Very good sir although I'm a little confused and I'm going to need you to hold my hand

through all this.

So let's start with the New York civil fraud trial, Judge Arthur Angaron last week found

Donald John Trump liable for inflating the value of his assets

and defrauding investors even though those investors seem to have been perfectly satisfied

with their loans.

Nevertheless, 355 million with interest around 450 million,

barred from doing business in New York for three years.

What are the contours of this verdict

for me and other non-lawyers who are just wrapping our hands

around this thing. Well it was expected it comes at the end of an 11-week trial and

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