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…