It's Monday, February 19th, 2024. Judicial tyranny versus actual corruption, a curious state

Supreme court ruling in Dixieland, and is the spirit of the age playing madlibs?

Next on the AM update.

Former President Donald Trump and his sons were ordered to pay $364 million over a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court on Friday.

The civil lawsuit was filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James and claimed that Trump defrauded banks and other organizations by overestimating the value of his properties in order to secure favorable bank loans and other

benefits. New York State Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engren had previously ruled in September

that Trump had indeed committed fraud and on Friday he issued his ruling on the penalty.

He said in his ruling, quote,

there is overwhelming evidence from both the interested and non-interested witnesses corroborated by documentary evidence that Buck for being truthful in the supporting data

for valuations stopped with the Trump organization, not the accountants.

Ingren Senate has 91-page ruling the president's son, Eric Trump, is liable for the amount of $4 million, and that his other son, Donald Trump Jr., is liable for the same amount of $4 million.

The ruling also forbids Trump from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation or legal entity in New York for a period of three years.

Trump's attorneys argued that the real estate valuations were very subjective and also claimed

there were no victims identified in the case.

Did Trump falsify records to inflate the valuations of his properties to secure

favorable bank loans and maybe even tax outcomes?

Maybe.

Actually, probably assuredly so.

But so does every other billionaire on the face of the planet. It doesn't mean it's the right

thing to do, but any law that's applied unevenly isn't much of a law at all. And that 300-some

million-dollar ruling is the definition of punitive. From judicial tyranny to actual corruption,

hears this from Politico yesterday. In 2017,

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