Trump’s New York Trial Judge Arthur Engoron - Dumb & Dumber

On 12 November 2023 the Washington Post published this Anti-Trump article mostly distorting the evidence to paint Former President Trump in the most unfavorable light but the more astute and informed reader would see through the WaPo smoke screen and come to a different conclusion about Trump’s guilt or innocence than the WaPo intended.

 

Trump defense at New York fraud trial set to counter state attorney general

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/12/trump-new-york-fraud-trial-james/

My Blog readers can read the WaPo article for themselves but here below is what my wife and I took away from it and what my wife posted in the article’s comment section. Recall, my Soldiers _Wife now has to do all our posting because The_Old_Soldier_Colonel has a lifetime WaPo commenting ban. It seems the WaPo just censors, deletes and ultimately bans Conservative commenters to avoid WaPo embarrassment from having their errors and biased coverage exposed.  I know this because that is what has happened to me.

https://old-soldier-colonel.blogspot.com/2022/04/why-comments-in-washington-post.html?m=0

^ A_Solders_Wife

What is incredible about this case is how stupid Arthur Engoron, the presiding judge, comes off when he believes Trump “pulled the wool over the eyes” of some of the most sophisticated lenders in the World including his biggest lender, Deutsche Bank, who made millions off Trump. Probably Engoron’s most ignorant ruling is to value Trump’s Mar-a-Largo property at $18 Million. The value of real estate is what a buyer is willing to pay for it but professional Florida appraisers vary in their appraisals between $400 - $600 Million, far closer to Trump’s than Engoron’s estimates.

Here are my take away passages from this article:

> “Patrick Birney … said in court that a top executive told him Trump wanted…” (hearsay anybody ?)

> “Legal analysts and other observers say the testimony has potential shortcomings, including that no employee has testified that Trump ordered the values to be manipulated except for Cohen, who previously admitted to lying under oath and has a well-documented, admitted grudge a”gainst Trump.”

> “there is also no trail of records leading directly to Trump ….”

> “Cohen conceded that in February 2019 he told Congress that Trump never actually instructed him and longtime finance chief Allen Weisselberg to doctor his annual net worth reports.…”

> Other witnesses called by James’s side declined to point a finger at Trump. Birney’s testimony largely relieved Trump executives of blame.…”

> “Trump Organization’s biggest lender, Deutsche Bank, made millions off its relationship with the Trumps. Trump’s primary banker there previously said in a deposition that she was unaware of any bad information Trump or the other family members had given to the bank, potentially undermining the idea that the statements had unfairly benefited Trump.”

> “Trump’s defense has argued that there were no victims in the case and nothing illegal occurred.… None of the banks were duped, because they did not rely on the statements to verify Trump’s worthiness as a business partner…

Another Instance of the Washington Post Censors Removing Conservative and/or Embarrassing Comments That Expose WaPo Misinformation or Fake News

 

Once again, the WaPo censors were quick to silence my wife with a 10 day suspension from commenting. 

In recent years we have been frequent WaPo commenters gleefully pointing out and correcting their numerous errors but have noticed fewer and fewer comments from Conservative readers have been showing up.  We had assumed that this lack of Conservative comments was attributable to fewer and fewer Conservative WaPo subscribers as the paper kept drifting further and further to the Left and losing readership but recently we have learned otherwise.  It seems the WaPo just censors, deletes and ultimately bans Conservative commenters to avoid WaPo embarrassment from having their errors and biased coverage exposed.  I know this because that is what has happened to my wife with temporary blocking and me with a permanent ban from commenting. For the full story of how arbitrary, capricious and unfair  the WaPo process is, see: https://old-soldier-colonel.blogspot.com/2022/04/why-comments-in-washington-post.html?m=0

Here is what garnered my wife’s latest suspension that just expired this morning (14 Nov 2023). I challenge anyone to see what is so objectionable about this comment that it offended the delicate sensitivities of the WaPo Censors: 

Both “Don the Con” Trump and “Geriatric Joe” Biden are too old and senile to be President but only a Dem fool would even believe 80+ year old “Geriatric Joe” is really running this country today. In fact, he is only a puppet with his de facto junta-presidents/Head Handlers really pulling the strings. They are Chief of Staff Jeff Zients, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Domestic Policy Advisor Neera Tanden. At least we should all Thank God it’s not “Kacklin Kamala” Harris calling the shots. If “Geriatric Joe” were to be re-elected, I can’t imagine how incoherent he will be at 86 when he would still be in office. He would make “Crazy Hoody John” Fetterman almost seem normal. Even worse, if 80+ “Geriatric Joe” were to die in office, “Kackling Kamala” would assume the office of President, now that’s a thought too scary to even imagine.

Anyone that has watched President Biden stumble through reading off a teleprompter or struggle to respond to one of the planted question he only takes has seen for themselves how diminished his mental faculties have become. When he goes off script it’s even worse. Anyone the Republicans or even the No Labels Third-Party put up will destroy him in debates and his handlers 2020 “Hidin Biden in the Basement” strategy won’t work in 2024.

A moderate No Labels slate of outgoing Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards, Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema or former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan is beginning to look very good and is probably a better choice than any of the major party losers or even sitting it out.

To demonstrate how impaired “Geriatric Joe” is, my husband has posted a compendium of his tall tales and faux pas in one tight shot group at: https://old-soldier-colonel.blogspot.com/2023/10/geriatric-joe-bidens-tall-tales.html?m=0