Trump’s long list of legal entanglements is about far more than just keeping him out of the White House



Monday marked the bond deadline for Trump’s $454 million civil business fraud judgment, but right before the sand in the hourglass ran out, Trump won an appeal to have the bond reduced to $175 million, which he said he’d gladly pay in cash.

While this is certainly good news for the former president, he’s still entangled in numerous other lawsuits.

“I feel like I need a flowchart at this point of all of the different cases against Donald Trump,” sighs Sara Gonzales. “They have literally weaponized every single judicial branch system that they can to try to throw their political opponent in jail.”

According to Kyle Rittenhouse, the reason for the never-ending list of Trump trials is because “they’re scared.”

“They're just like, ‘No, no, no – we don't need Trump to come in and fix what we messed up already,” he tells Sara.

Sara agrees, adding, “That's what you have to do when you can't run on your own policy.”

“What is there? Higher gas prices, higher grocery bills – higher everything; botched withdrawal in Afghanistan, allowing over ten million unvetted strangers into the interior of the country. What do you run on other than ‘orange man bad’ at this point?” she asks.

“It's not only designed to break him ... but also, it’s an intimidation tactic to stop anyone else from running for office,” says Blaze contributor Matthew Marsden.

But there’s yet another reason they’re targeting him – and it’s perhaps the most sinister of all.

Nobody has articulated it better than Trump himself.

“In the end, they're not coming after me. They're coming after you — and I'm just standing in their way," he said last year, following the announcement of the seven indictments related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents.

“I’m sure you can speak to that, Kyle,” says Sara.

“Absolutely ... If they're willing to make up all these lies and put a former sitting president on trial, what are these Soros-funded DAs going to do to everyday people like me or you? They're going to come after us,” says Kyle.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip below.


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New York’s $355 million Trump charge just got more insane



New York’s $355 million civil fraud charge against former President Donald Trump just got worse — and the charge itself was already unprecedented.

When all is said and done, the lawsuit will end up costing Trump over $400 million.

The judge who ordered the ruling has just denied a request from Trump’s lawyers to delay formalizing his decision.

In an email to Trump’s legal team, Judge Arthur Engoron of the New York State Supreme Court wrote, “You have failed to explain, much less justify, any basis for a stay.”

“I am confident that the Appellate Division will protect your appellate rights,” he added.

Glenn Beck believes Trump is going to have to sell real estate in order to pay.

“This is so much money that he’s going to have to put up probably real estate and sell some real estate to be able to pay for this,” he says.

“You have to put that money into a bond, and then you have a bond holder holding it for you, and you have to pay them an additional fee, and then, hopefully, you win the appeal and eventually don’t have to pay it, but I mean, it’ll still cost you about 50 million,” Glenn adds.

Both Glenn and Stu Burguiere are under the impression that this is 100% a case of political persecution, and it can be proven.

“It’s actually provable,” Stu says, adding, “He’s running for the president of the United States, they’re trying to put him out of business, throw him in prison, take him off the ballots. I mean, it’s so blatantly obvious just on a surface.”


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Told not to give speech at his trial by judge, Trump does so anyway: 'I’m being persecuted by someone running for office'



The Democratic judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial in New York precluded the Republican front-runner Wednesday from delivering a formal closing argument. On Thursday, Trump defied the judge and seized the opportunity anyway, stressing his innocence and protesting his perceived persecution in a six-minute speech.

Prohibition

The trial drawing to a close this week concerns claims of conspiracy, insurance fraud, and falsifying business records brought against Trump, two of his sons, and his company. Justice Arthur Engoron ruled ahead of the trial in September that Trump was liable for fraud, having supposedly lied to banks and insurers by misstating the value of his assets.

Engoron initially indicated Wednesday that he might consider allowing Trump to speak if he would agree both to adhere to the rules attorneys are normally bound to in their closing arguments and not to criticize the plaintiffs or prosecutors in the case, reported the Associated Press.

Engoron, who suggested he was "inclined to let everyone have his or her say," specifically said Trump must stick to "relevant, material facts that are in evidence" and avoid introducing new evidence, delivering a "campaign speech," or issuing derogatory remarks aimed at the court or New York's George Soros-backed attorney general, Letitia James.

Trump's legal team suggested the parameters set out by Engoron were unfair.

Christopher Kise, Trump's attorney, stated the limitations were "fraught with ambiguities, creating the substantial likelihood for misinterpretation or unintended violation."

"You are not allowing President Trump, who has been wrongfully demeaned and belittled by an out of control, politically motivated attorney general, to speak about the things that must be spoken about," added Kise.

Engoron responded, "I won't debate this yet again. Take it or leave it."

The Democratic judge, who previously fined Trump for contempt of court, interpreted the failure of the former president's legal team to respond by deadline as a rejection of his terms.

Defiance

Closing statements were made Thursday as the case wound down. Kise asked Engoron to reconsider letting Trump speak for two or three minutes prior to the lunch break, reported CNN.

The Democratic judge once again asked Trump whether he would abide by the limits outlined Wednesday and thereby stick to the facts. Rather than give a simple answer, Trump instead gave his intended speech.

"I think this goes outside just the facts," said Trump, beginning his summative statement. "The facts are the financial statements are perfect, that there are no witnesses against us. The banks got all their money paid back. There were great loans."

"This was a political witch hunt," said Trump, suggesting further that he should receive damages.

"We have a situation where I'm an innocent man," continued Trump. "I've been persecuted by somebody running for office, and I think you have to go outside the bound."

USA Today reported that Trump referenced James in his speech as "the person in the room right now [that] hates Trump."

Engoron told Kise to "control your client."

"This is a fraud on me. What's happened here, sir, is a fraud on me," said Trump.

After several minutes, the judge interrupted Trump: "One minute, that's all I'm saying."

"Your honor, look, I did nothing wrong," continued Trump. "They should pay me for what we had to go through. What they've done to me reputationally and everything else."

The judge finally cut Trump off at 1 p.m., intimating he would have had been allotted more time had it been "done differently."

Trump later wrote on Truth Social, "The Judge cut me off in Court and would not let me explain that I was worth much more than the 4 plus $Billion (years ago) I show in the Financial Statements, which are conservatively done. Judge Engoron, curiously, cut Mar-a-Lago's VALUE by a Billion Dollars, all the way down to $18,000,000 (and other assets as well!) to try and save the A.G.'s case. What is going on here? WITCH HUNT! ELECTION INTERFERENCE!"

The Associated Press indicated that Trump skipped the state's closing arguments to hold a news conference wherein he stated, "They have no case."

The judge, who heard the case without a jury, indicated he planned to have a verdict by Jan. 31. Letitia James, who brought the lawsuit against Trump in 2022, seeks to slap Trump with $370 million in penalties and a lifetime ban on doing business in the state.

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