The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 4:

• New York Judge Arthur F. Engoron found that the former president Donald Trump inflated the value of assets controlled by the Trump Organization in past financial statements. With no jury, Judge Engoron unilaterally chose to fine Trump $354 million and barred him from conducting business in New York for three years. Notably, in 2018, while campaigning to become New York Attorney General, Letitia James vowed to “sue” Trump and routinely spoke of how she would like to see him imprisoned—providing evidence to the defense’s legal argument that this civil suit is entirely political. Trump’s legal team is expected to appeal the decision. Speaking from Palm Beach, Florida, Trump told the press that “the judge is just a corrupt person.”
• Thomas Grove and Matthew Luxmoore of The Wall Street Journal write: “Alexei Navalny, a fierce anticorruption campaigner who galvanized Russia’s political opposition, died in prison, according to Russian authorities, bringing to an end a life dedicated to fighting the country’s descent into authoritarianism under President Vladimir Putin. The cause of his death was still being established, prison authorities said. He collapsed after a walk at his prison colony on Friday after which, they said, he lost consciousness and couldn’t be revived. Navalny, who was 47 and had been in jail since 2021, was serving three prison sentences amounting to more than 30 years on charges he and his supporters said were fabricated. He was detained after returning from Germany, where he was recovering from what German doctors said was poisoning with a Soviet-era nerve agent, Novichok. Navalny blamed his poisoning on the Kremlin, which denied involvement in any attempt to harm him.” You can read the full article here: https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/alexei-navalny-dead-prison-putin-critic-d58db496?mod=hp_lead_pos1
• The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board writes: “President Biden is trying to strike a contrast with Donald Trump by promising to stick by America’s European allies. Perhaps he hasn’t heard Vladimir Putin’s media organs crowing that his Administration has double-crossed Europe by halting permits for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects. ‘Now it is not Russia, but the United States that wants to bring the Germans to their knees,’ gloated the Russian newspaper Pravda after the Energy Department imposed a moratorium on permits for new LNG export projects last month. Pravda argued that Germany will eventually have to return to buying Russian gas because it will have no other choice, and it may be right.” You can read the full editorial here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-lng-exports-ban-russian-media-vladimir-putin-9d31e3a0?mod=opinion_lead_pos4