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The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

Why Former President Trump Is Facing Multi-Million Dollar Damages

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

FOX News Radio

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4.1738 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Attorney General of NY Letitia James has declared former President Donald Trump must pay more than $350 million in damages and will be barred from doing business in New York for three years, after falsely inflating his net worth to those he did business with. Now, the attorney general is facing questions from both legal professionals and the public — as many ask how she reached this hefty decision and whether the severity of the punishment matches the crime. George Washington University Law School Professor Jonathan Turley shares the unique aspects of the case, how A.G. James arrived at these terms, and whether he believes the former President's legal defense could have done anything differently. Follow Martha on Twitter: @MarthaMacCallum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.2

Welcome to the Antold Story podcast, everybody.

0:50.9

I'm Martha McCallum, and I'm very happy to be joined by Jonathan Turley today, who is a Fox News contributor, of course.

0:52.4

You all know him really well.

0:54.3

And the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He's a nationally recognized legal scholar. He has

0:59.7

written extensively in areas from constitutional law to legal history to the Supreme Court,

1:06.0

dozens of academic journals. And Jonathan is a deep expert on all of the things that we're going to discuss.

1:12.6

So Jonathan, great to have you with us today. Thanks for joining me.

1:15.7

Thank you for having me.

1:17.2

So let's jump in a little bit on this decision by Judge Angeron, which is getting an enormous

1:24.6

amount of attention and which seems to have a lot of very unusual qualities to

1:30.7

it. You wrote a piece called pay to play. Trump faces a staggering cost for the appeal.

1:37.2

Explain your headline to us a bit, Jonathan. Well, you know, most of the focus on this case has been on

1:43.9

this rather curious New York law that doesn't require any tangible victim.

1:50.6

That is, you had the imposition of $355 or so million in fines to disgorge what Trump was accused of gaining from all of this.

2:06.3

But he actually didn't cost anyone a single dollar.

2:10.2

In fact, the banks involved, the purported victims, testified that they wanted to do more

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