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I don't know enough about the author of this piece, since nowadays one often has to question the motivation of the author, but this article is very well written.

Is it a concern of the author along the lines of: "yeah, it was great fun taunting MAGA and fulfilling fever dream fantasies, but now confronted with the reality of what may happen we may have taken a bridge too far"?

Or...
A warning?

Thoughts? My only thought at the moment is that we may see a huge exodus of businesses out of New York State. Although I would love to see a response more like the Mel Gibson character from 'Ransom'......

1 posted on 01/29/2024 8:40:31 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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It is more likely that President Trump will win and the judges and persecutors will be the big losers.


2 posted on 01/29/2024 8:44:01 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well those that did not make it back.)
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It’s the only big business found that was threatened with a shutdown without a showing of obvious victims and major losses.

Let this sink in.

"Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime."

What is your crime?

3 posted on 01/29/2024 8:46:00 AM PST by FatherofFive (Islam only understands Death and Pain. Give it to them. )
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Judge Anthony Wiener Pedoface is going to make his ruling in the next 1-2 days.


4 posted on 01/29/2024 8:46:07 AM PST by PGR88
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HOW many employees jobs are involved???


5 posted on 01/29/2024 8:46:31 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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If that happens every real estate investor innNew York needs to close up shop and move to a red state because once those greedy Dems figure out they can confiscate someone’s assets like this no one is safe, even big shot Dems.


6 posted on 01/29/2024 8:47:19 AM PST by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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in 1948 New York had 47 electoral votes (45 representatives and two senators.

It now has 28 electoral votes (26 representatives and two senators).

After the 2030 census, it will likely have about 20-22 electoral votes.

So let them keep this shit up. New York City is returning to the cesspool it was in the 1970’s, before people like Trump made it what it was in the 1980’s.

It’ll be a city that once was, with very tall empty buildings.


8 posted on 01/29/2024 8:48:47 AM PST by cotton1706
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Here's the ugly truth, wealth (like money) is a social construct.

While tangible assets usually make up a sizable amount of one's wealth, the social rules which allow an individual to claim them are made up by the greater society through government.

So you are only wealthy when others let you be so, meaning you have to play by the rules that those who actually run things enforce.

The cardinal sin both Trump and Musk have committed are unorthodox thought, and they are paying dearly for it.

11 posted on 01/29/2024 8:49:29 AM PST by SecondAmendment (The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ...)
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repeated misrepresentations on financial statements to lenders,

This is a lie.

12 posted on 01/29/2024 8:52:08 AM PST by Fido969
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The ruling will be designed to generate headlines. Expect the worst.


14 posted on 01/29/2024 8:53:43 AM PST by Chauncey Gardiner (Vivamus stultus ignarus mori )
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How does the court have the right to do this in a private transaction where neither side of the transaction is the plaintiff? No lender that I’m aware of has filed suit against Trump. It seems to me the prosecutor, who is known to be anti-trump and ran on that platform, has the right to say: “I don’t like you so I’m taking you to court.” In what Universe is this acceptable?


15 posted on 01/29/2024 8:55:26 AM PST by econjack
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I’m still trying to figure out exactly who was defrauded.


18 posted on 01/29/2024 9:02:25 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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Screw the far left “democrazy”, the DOJ is the greatest danger to the American people.


21 posted on 01/29/2024 9:08:29 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer ( Joe Pedo's America! The Motel 6 to the world. Joe's Border Patrol will keep the light on for you.)
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Show me the crime.

There is no crime here but that perpetrated by the judge and AG.
They should be tried, not Trump.


27 posted on 01/29/2024 9:21:01 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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I think he’s pointing out more of the big guys like Trump need to make sure they are properly representing their business books. Little guys couldn’t fight back and took the legal hits. Big guys could fight back. This now makes them vulnerable.


30 posted on 01/29/2024 9:26:34 AM PST by joesbucks (It's called love-bombing. Claiming he's saving the world. This is a cult. Just back away. )
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It’s not big businesses that should worry. Anyone who listed a house for more than it sold is guilty of fraudulently inflating the value of an asset.

I’m sure divorce settlements are littered with one party fraudulently inflating the value of assets to pry more money from the other party.

Car dealerships, pawn shops, flea markets, EBay, etc.

EC


35 posted on 01/29/2024 9:32:17 AM PST by Ex-Con777
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Not gonna happen in a million years.


41 posted on 01/29/2024 9:42:51 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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It’s the proverbial shot across the bow to anyone else thinking of running against the State. It’s their way of saying we decide who’s in the club and we decide who runs the country. Challenge that reality and this is what happens to you. Very few people can or will run against that. Good people can’t afford to have their lives and those of their families and friends destroyed like this.

If this stops Trump, fine, but it aimed at much more than just him.


44 posted on 01/29/2024 9:44:53 AM PST by redangus ( )
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Is there a guess as to the amount of the penalty the Judge Engoron will set? I am taking a guess that it will be close to a billion.


48 posted on 01/29/2024 9:48:35 AM PST by Shanty Shaker
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Trump’s case stands apart in a significant way: It’s the only big business found that was threatened with a shutdown without a showing of obvious victims and major losses.

The case brought against him is itself the only fraud involved.

51 posted on 01/29/2024 9:51:04 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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“And though the bank offered Trump lower interest rates because he had agreed to personally guarantee the loans with his own money, it’s not clear how much better the rates were because of the inflated figures. The bank never complained, and it’s unclear how much it lost, if anything. Bank officials called to testify couldn’t say for sure if Trump’s personal statement of worth had any impact on the rates.”

Actually, they did make it clear. They said it only required him to have $100 million of wealth, which they concluded from their own evaluation that he did.


72 posted on 01/29/2024 10:48:36 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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