Category New York trying to kick Trump’s business out of the state

Feb 20 2024

Get Out of NY Before It’s Too Late


Posted originally on Feb 19, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

I Hate New York

I cannot stress enough that many businesses have been put on notice – get the hell out of NY ASAP! After Judge Engoron’s ruling, even the absurd Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul has been forced to come out because of rumblings of mass migration from NYC to Florida, where companies are welcome and there is no State Income Tax. There have been warnings that businesses are looking elsewhere and realizing that there is a MAJOR risk to doing business in New York state as a whole. Hochul has publicly been forced to try to reassure businesses that they have “nothing to worry about” after the ruling.

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It appears that Socrates has predicted the outcome of Trump’s absurd prosecutions in New York, for it elected a Yearly & Quarterly Bearish Reversal on State revenues. New York will continue to lose high-net-worth residents, resulting in rising taxes on the fools that remain. There is no rule of law left in this city. Fining Trump for “fraud” when there were no victims and whatever you claim to be worth is reviewed independently by a bank anyway. Even Deutsche Bank admitted they gave the loans based on their own evaluations. – not Trump’s.

Feb 19 2024

Trump fined $355+ Million Goldman Sachs $550 million for the Great Recession


Posted originally on Feb 18, 2024 By Martin Armstrong |  

Judge Against Trump

COMMENT: If you want justice, go to a whore house.  If you want to get screwed, go to a courthouse in N.Y.

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REPLY: That is probably very true. I guess you at least get what you pay for.

This fine imposed on Trump of $355 million, plus interest and penalties, is so outrageous it is furthering the collapse in confidence in the government, which has just become so corrupt and out of control. To put this in perspective, Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay $550 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission for the whole Mortgage-backed collapse they instigated. The billions of dollars lost by people was incalculable. It resulted in the Great Recession.

The entire world knows this NYC verdict is not just biased; it is deliberately interfering in the 2024 election. If Trump had not been running for president, none of these cases would have been brought. New York City has the most corrupt court system in the United States as well as many third world countries, and this verdict is proof of that fact.

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As I said, this verdict is so outrageous, along with the absurd jury award in the Carrol case; New York City is by no means a place to do business – EVER! The world is waking up. As I have said, when I asked a New York Lawyer why no banker ever goes to prison in NYC, his response was:

You Don’t Shit Where You Eat!

Jan 13 2024

Kevin O’Leary Explains to Stunned CNN Audience Why New York Case Against President Trump Is Nonsense


Published originally on the CTH on January 12, 2024 | Sundance

Everything about the case in New York City against the Trump Organization business operations is ridiculous.  There are no victims.  There was no fraud.  All of the lenders did their own due diligence.  All of the loans were paid back without issue, and the statement of financial condition was factual and accurate.  There were no defaults or banking interests adversely impacted. There are no victims of what the State calls “fraud.”

New York Attorney General Latisha James campaigned for office with promises to target the Trump Organization and Donald Trump himself.  This is malicious Lawfare in the extreme.  Additionally, the statute being used as the predicate for the case is a consumer fraud statute, intended to protect borrowers from predatory lenders. In the four corners of this case, Trump is the borrower, and the banks were the lenders.  New York is flipping the statute to claim the borrower defrauded the lenders, despite the lenders denying there was any fraud and there was no harm.   The entire case is ridiculous.

Appearing on CNN, O’Leary Ventures Chairman Kevin O’Leary outlines, to a perplexed Laura Coates, why Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial in New York is political nonsense. WATCH (prompted):

https://youtube.com/watch?v=80RZs9Fhz3Y%3Fstart%3D25%26feature%3Doembed

TRANSCRIPT – O’LEARY: Well, let’s leave out Trump for a minute, and let’s leave out politics, and just talk about what happens in real estate development anywhere. So, if you’re a developer and you’ve got a building on the block, anywhere in America, and it’s worth, let’s say, $500 million, and you want to build a building right beside it, you go to the bank and say, “This building is worth $500 million. I’d like to borrow a construction finance loan against this asset, and I want you to tell me it’s worth $500 million too.”

And the bank negotiates with you, and says, “Well no, we think it’s worth $400 million,” and you fight it out. You are always trying to show your assets in the brightest light with the sunshine you can possibly determine for them. You want them to be worth the very most because you’re only going to get a 40 to 50 percent loan to value, as it’s called. Then you borrow that money, in the case of a $500 million asset, maybe you get $250 million, and you build the new building with a construction finance loan. So that’s what this case is all about. 

And by the way, forget about Trump, every single real estate developer everywhere on earth does this. They always talk about their asset being worth a lot and the bank says no. That’s just the way it is. So in this case, what I’m trying to figure out, and I’m not pro or con, or I don’t care about the politics, who lost money? Nobody. The bank got paid back the construction finance loan, and a new building was built. If you’re going to sue this case and win, you’ve gotta sue every real estate developer everywhere. This is all they do. This is what they do all day long every day. So I don’t think this thing will ever survive appeal regardless of what the fine is. This doesn’t even make sense. 

Now look, I understand Trump has a lot of problems in other indictments and everything else, but if you’re a real estate developer, you’re watching this and saying, “What is this? This is ridiculous.”

Nov 17 2023

New York Appellate Judge Stops Ridiculous New York Gag Order of President Trump


Posted originally on the CTH on November 16, 2023 | Sundance 

Everything happening in/around the courtroom of Judge Engoron in New York City has been ridiculous in the extreme.

Even left leaning pundits and political commentators have begun to retreat from the fevered pace of the NY civil case because they can see the appeals court intervening.

Earlier today appellate judge David Friedman finally intervened in the insufferable gag order and put some common sense back into the case putting a stay on the lower court order.

NEW YORK (AP) — A gag order that barred Donald Trump from commenting about court personnel after he disparaged a law clerk in his New York civil fraud trial was temporarily lifted Thursday by an appellate judge who raised free speech concerns.

Judge David Friedman of the state’s intermediate appeals court issued what’s known a stay — suspending the gag order and allowing the former president to freely comment about court staff while a longer appeals process plays out.

The trial judge, Arthur Engoron, imposed the gag order on Oct. 3 after Trump made a false comment about the judge’s law clerk on social media. He later fined Trump $15,000 for violations and expanded it to his lawyers after they questioned the clerk’s prominent role in the trial.

Ruling at an emergency hearing Thursday, Friedman questioned Engoron’s authority to police Trump’s speech outside the courtroom — such as his frequent gripes about the case on social media and in comments to TV cameras in the courthouse hallway.

Friedman said that while it’s true that judges often issue gag orders, they’re mostly used in criminal cases where there’s a fear that comments about the case could influence the jury. Trump’s civil trial doesn’t have a jury.

Trump lawyer Christopher Kise said after Friedman ruled that the appellate judge “made the right decision and allowed President Trump to take full advantage of his constitutional First Amendment rights to talk about bias in his own trial, what he’s seeing and witnessing in his own trial — which, frankly, everyone needs to see.”

Another Trump attorney, Alina Habba, indicated she has no plans to advise the former president to stay quiet about the clerk. (read more)

The temporary pause in Engoron’s gag orders comes as a separate, more sweeping gag order on Trump in his criminal case in Washington, D.C. has also been lifted pending oral arguments before an appeals court scheduled for Monday.

Nov 11 2023

EP8: Trump MISTRIAL? NYC Judge Engoron and Family EXPOSED, House GOP Caves on Biden Impeachment


Posted originally on Rumble by Laura Loomer on:Nov 10, 8:21 pm EST

Nov 9 2023

Judge Arthur Engoron May Have Doomed New York City Re-Posted Nov 9, 2023 By Martin Armstrong 


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QUESTION: You have not commented on Trump’s NY case. What do you think of this case?

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ANSWER: It is a typical New York rigged trial. NOBODY ever gets a fair trial in New York. It is a cesspool of legal corruption. Judge Arthur Engoron is a national disgrace. When Trump’s lawyer Habba stood up to defend Trump, stating that the Engoron needed to “hear what he has to say.” The judge quickly scolded Habba, telling her, “I’m not here to hear what he has to say. He’s here to answer questions.”

He has already determined that everyone is guilty. This is about how much he can take from Trump and his family. They claim Trump should have paid $168 million more in interest. This is so absurd; it is just unimaginable.

In Securities Law, this applies between a professional and a member of the public. If I managed money for a major public corporation and said I wanted 50% of the profits, and they agreed, that is not fraud because, between two professionals, it is presumed they knew what they were doing.

This is not bank fraud, where the loans are paid off. The bank has its own assessors. They would have looked at the collateral listed and lent money on that and must have done their own diligence. For this case to even proceed is outrageous, for you could then scrutinize every loan ever made in New York City and claim that someone overvalued their house when they borrowed.

The ENTIRE world knows this is to interfere in the 2024 election. Both Argentina and Brazil said that a great idea and are doing the same to their opponents. As I have said, the computer is projecting massive civil unrest post-2024. It does not matter who wins the election; NEITHER side will accept the conclusion. I would NOT want to be in New York City post-election. This judge may have sealed the fate of New York City once and for all.

Any rational businessman should now avoid New York City for doing any business whatsoever.

Nov 8 2023

President Trump Attorney Alina Habba Describes the Issues Within the Courtroom in New York City as President Trump Delivered Expert Testimony


Posted originally on the CTH on November 7, 2023 | Sundance 

Alina Habba appears with Larry Kudlow to describe the events that took place within the courtroom as President Trump delivered expert testimony on real estate, property evaluations and the financial statement he signed.

As Ms. Habba notes, President Trump was delivering a masterclass in New York real estate that ran counter to the narrative created by the Lawfare group.  Judge Engoron wanted to silence President Trump during his testimony as the evidence ran counter to the effort and showed President Trump’s business acumen.   WATCH:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-wgTTx8OmtY%3Ffeature%3Doembed

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Nov 4 2023

Weirdness Abounds – New York Judge Engoron Expands Gag Order to Stop Trump Defense Attorneys from Discussing Instructions from Court Clerk


Posted originally on the CTH on November 3, 2023 | Sundance 

The judge in the New York City case against Donald Trump and the Trump organization has transparently been a little goofy.  From the first day when he posed for the cameras, to the sketchy application of legal review within the case, Judge Arthur Engoron exhibits the classic traits of being weird and unstable.

There is a pattern amid the deployment of Lawfare that deserves some background context.  Whenever Lawfare is deployed there are always background characters who are seemingly needed to keep the bizarre interpretations of Lawfare tactics on track.

We saw this play out with Debra Katzenberg, Monica McLean and David Laufman controlling Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey-Ford.  We saw it again with Mary McCord playing the role in the background of the Trump Lawfare impeachment to guide Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff.  We saw it again with Andrew Weissmann and Norm Eisen guiding Special Prosecutor Jack Smith from the backbench of Lawfare.  In each case the principal activity is guided by Lawfare ideologues who use position to influence.

In the Judge Engoron example, court clerk Allison Greenfield has been passing notes and instructions to Engoron as the case has progressed.  The activity has become so disconcerting that Trump’s lawyers have called it out in court as it happens {Breitbart Link}.  In response to the sunlight upon the visible activity, Judge Engoron has now expanded his gag order to prohibit Trump’s lawyers from drawing attention to the activity of Ms. Greenfield.

NEW YORK — The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s ongoing civil fraud trial issued another gag order on Friday — this time prohibiting all lawyers working on the trial from “from making any public statements, in or out of court, that refer to any confidential communications, in any form, between my staff and me.” (link)

The issuance of the gag order is weird because the entire dynamic of the clerk instructing the judge is weird.   The gag order is an effort by Engoron to stop people from noticing it….  Yeah, that’s exponentially weirder.

POLITICO – [Trump Attorney Chris] Kise complained about Greenfield’s habit of passing notes to Engoron during proceedings, suggesting she is improperly influencing his decisions. Engoron reacted sharply to that complaint, telling Kise, “I have an unfettered, absolute right to consult with my law clerks” and saying he wouldn’t tolerate future comments about his staff.

Kise, though, continued to argue that he needed to state objections on the record for the purposes of an eventual appeal. “If notes are being passed at certain specific times or they’re being passed in a way that might indicate some bias,” he said, “that’s a record that needs to be made contemporaneously.” (more)

As noted by Henry Rossof from inside the court today, “Judge Engoron said he will note a continuing objection to his consultation with his clerk but does not want anything more said about her… he will still consult.”

“I have an absolute, unfettered right to consult with my law clerks anywhere, anytime,” Engoron noted. “There’s no more need to make a record” [of it within the court when it occurs] he concluded.

After this series of exchanges today, Engoron then expanded his court order to forbid the Trump lawyers from telling the public about what was happening between him and his clerk in the court.

Yup, weird, sketchy and fitting right in with the pattern of how Lawfare is deployed.

These people are ideologically not stable.

Nov 4 2023

Eric Trump Speaks to Media After Testimony in New York Case Against Trump Organization


Posted originally on the CTH on November 3, 2023 | Sundance 

Everything about the case in New York City against the Trump organization business operations is ridiculous.  There are no victims.  There was no fraud.  All of the lenders did their own due diligence.  All of the loans were paid back without issue and the statement of financial condition was factual and accurate.

Additionally, the statute being used as the predicate for the case is a consumer fraud statute, intended to protect borrowers from predatory lenders. In the four corners of this case, Trump was the borrower, and the banks were the lenders.  New York is flipping the statute to claim the borrower defrauded the lenders, despite the lenders denying there was any fraud and there was no harm.   The entire case is ridiculous.

Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Ivanka Trump have been called by the state prosecution as witnesses; the transparent motive is simply to extend the anxiety upon the family of President Donald Trump.  Eric Trump talks to the media today. WATCH:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=TNFya7p7SQk%3Ffeature%3Doembed

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Nov 3 2023

Trump Attorney Alina Habba Summarizes Status of New York Case Against Trump Business Organization


Posted originally on the CTH on November 2, 2023

Everything about the case in New York City against the Trump organization business operations is ridiculous.  There are no victims.  There was no fraud.  All of the lenders did their own due diligence.  All of the loans were paid back without issue and the statement of financial condition was factual and accurate.

Additionally, the statute being used as the predicate for the case is a consumer fraud statute, intended to protect borrowers from predatory lenders. In the four corners of this case, Trump is the borrower, and the banks were the lenders.  New York is flipping the statute to claim the borrower defrauded the lenders, despite the lenders denying there was any fraud and there was no harm.   The entire case is ridiculous.

In this brief video segment, Trump defense lawyer Alina Habba reviews the current status of the case.  WATCH:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zzk0aevpWg4%3Fstart%3D22%26feature%3Doembed

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