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Appeal This!
SteynonLine ^ | February 18, 2024 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 02/18/2024 10:00:41 AM PST by Twotone

Most coverage of Friday's verdict from a Manhattan courthouse has focused on the $350 million plus that rogue judge Arthur F Engoron has demanded Trump cough up - for a "crime" which has no known victims and no identifiable proceeds. Confiscating (with interest) close to half-a-billion dollars for no good reason is certainly unusual, even by the standards of US "justice".

But that's not what caught my eye about Arthur F Wankeron's judgment. The truly striking passage was this (page 90, just before the sign-off):

The Court hereby enjoins Donald Trump and the Trump Organization and its affiliates from applying for loans from any financial institution chartered by or registered with the New York Department of Financial Services for a period of three years.

This struck a chord with me. As many of you know, a little over a week ago, the District of Columbia Superior Court ordered me to pay one million dollars in punitive damages to climate mullah Michael E Mann. So I'm currently living the dimestore version of Trump's travails.

Nobody seemed to think the former president had much chance of winning in this particular venue. So most of the commentary had airily assumed he'd be obliged to kick it upstairs to the appellate court, where he'll surely win. Several legal scholars said the same of my own case. For my own part, I was too focused on the trial to give much attention to what came next. But one hears so much breezy chit-chat in America about appealing this and appealing that that one takes one's appellate rights for granted.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: appellatecourt; marksteyn; trump
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1 posted on 02/18/2024 10:00:41 AM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone

What we have learned is that the legal system is weaponized. I guess that we found out how far the left are willing to go. But we are not done yet.


2 posted on 02/18/2024 10:04:53 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: Twotone

Forget all this...

I want to know when will dirty fani be back on the stand? That was the best entertainment I’ve seen in years...


3 posted on 02/18/2024 10:08:28 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Twotone

https://nypost.com/2024/02/16/real-estate/kevin-oleary-slams-trump-civil-ruling-as-un-american/


4 posted on 02/18/2024 10:12:22 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Twotone

“ And, by the way, this Trump fellow is what other countries call the Leader of the Opposition: we’re talking about the guy running against the ruling party in this year’s election. The “banana republic” jibes don’t capture the scale of what’s going on here - for what ramshackle basket-case in Latin America has ever had the need to confiscate half-a-billion from its political opponent and pass it off as “justice”? We are way beyond bananas here.”


5 posted on 02/18/2024 10:13:38 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: dragnet2

She said she paid him her fair share...BS....That would have established her “price”. Now for the when...Yeh....they didn’t have sex for 2 years and suddenly...after he was hired...they did “it”.


6 posted on 02/18/2024 10:14:14 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: dragnet2

Her conduct on the stand brought her an exit interview.


7 posted on 02/18/2024 10:18:53 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: Twotone

i do find the restriction on loans in NY concerning with regard to need to post sizeable bond for appeal, although i imagine DJT has other avenues. i wonder if that is the reasoning behind opening a GoFundMe.


8 posted on 02/18/2024 10:23:32 AM PST by avital2 ("n)
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To: Twotone

“But one hears so much breezy chit-chat in America about appealing this and appealing that.....”

Especially on Free Republic. Along with let the crooks appoint our senators.


9 posted on 02/18/2024 10:24:01 AM PST by Luke21
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To: Twotone

This is where I state: “I.M.H.O.,,,I would shrug and sigh, it is at this point I would not quibble if a few overactive poor citizens were to be affected by Mom Luna and exacted some kind of something or other upon thosr engaging in what some may term as lawfare, just to even things out for a day till the next masked lawfarer rides into toen.”


10 posted on 02/18/2024 10:50:27 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: dragnet2

Yeah, we got to see how truly dumb and venal that stupid fat moron pig is on live TV. She was exactly what I expected.


11 posted on 02/18/2024 10:55:48 AM PST by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: Twotone

Interesting. But, for me, the most dangerous aspect of this case against Trump is that a candidate for the elected office of District Attorney can campaign on targeting a political opponent in a partisan district, win election and then immediately pursue that individual with charges that name no victim, win before a corrupt judge and then confiscate financial penalties directed to the state while driving him out of business. This is Orwellian in the extreme.


12 posted on 02/18/2024 11:05:49 AM PST by Rowdyone (Vigilence)
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To: Rowdyone

It’s simple Power and Money - will always destroy it’s target or the Cartels would never survive. Our Gov. now operates like a Cartel.


13 posted on 02/18/2024 11:26:52 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: caww

A cartel is an association of similar companies or businesses (or governing bodies) that have grouped together in order to prevent competition and to control.


14 posted on 02/18/2024 11:29:00 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: Twotone

‘ESSENTIAL’ FEDERAL SPENDING BILL

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The Treasury shall withhold payment of all money under current federal law to the State of New York and its political subdivisions and legislated entities and pay it instead to Donald J. Trump upon his application at any IRS office in the State of Florida until he has received $500 million.

Any payment he shall so receive shall be free of federal revenue imposition.


15 posted on 02/18/2024 11:32:34 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: avital2
...i wonder if that is the reasoning behind opening a GoFundMe.

Are you talking in general terms, or about Steyn or President Trump? Neither has such a fund so far as I know. I bought a gift certificate from Steyn, which I will keep as a souvenir, but that's as far as he has gone. Trump???

16 posted on 02/18/2024 11:35:04 AM PST by gloryblaze
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Trump - and there is already a GoFundMe - but they have a tendency to close accounts down if they are unsympathetic towards the receipient.


17 posted on 02/18/2024 11:43:37 AM PST by avital2 ("n)
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To: Luke21

There are more crooks under the direction of universal suffrage than in State legislatures. At least I can round up a posse and raise Cain at the private residence of my State Legislatures then vote them out or intimidate them to direct their vote based on why they were elected in the first place; can’t do that with drunks under the overpass that get paid to vote at homeless shelters, canvassers who fill in ballots at nursing homes of those who have Alzheimer’s, one issue voters who want to murder their unborn offspring at will, too many of them. 17th Amendment is the antithesis of an ingredient for a republican form of government (State representation).


18 posted on 02/18/2024 11:45:34 AM PST by rollo tomasi
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To: rollo tomasi

Mark makes the same incorrect claim that I have seen several others make on this site—that in order to appeal, one must first post a bond.

This simply is not true. Every one is entitled to appeal, whether you post a bond or not.

Where the bond comes into play is in addressing whether you can stay (postpone) the enforcement of the judgment while the appeal is going on. If you post a bond, you can. If you don’t post a bond, then the other side can act to enforce the judgment during the pendency of the appeal. If you win the appeal, you can get a court order requiring the plaintiff to disgorge any amounts collected.

Now, for Mark, allowing Mann to collect pending appeal may be extremely disruptive to his practice and business.

Given the unique circumstances of Mark’s case, where the punitive damages awarded are so disproportional to the actual damages (and hence so facially unconstitutional), Mark should apply (first to the trial court and then to the appellate court) for an order either eliminating, or at least substantially reducing, the amount of the bond he is required to post.


19 posted on 02/18/2024 11:56:08 AM PST by TheConservator (Either the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State!--President Donald Trump)
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To: avital2

I’ll be darned! Yes, one has been started for President Trump’s legal fees. I will keep a sharp eye out because it may well not be sanctioned by him and may be short lived.

Thank you.


20 posted on 02/18/2024 11:58:45 AM PST by gloryblaze
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