Trump and company’s NY Civil case penalty struck down

[martybegan]

The NY Court of Appeals (the state’s highest court) just struck down the nearly half a billion dollar fine as having been “excessive.”

I love it when a plan comes together.

NY appeals court throws out $500M penalty against Trump in Letitia James civil case

An appellate court has thrown out the nearly $500 million civil fraud penalty against former President Donald Trump in the high-profile case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

www.foxnews.com

Suck on that Letitia.

The court decision was fractured, that’s true. But the outcome is outstanding.

I frankly didn’t predict any version of justice from the NY State Court of Appeals.

It just shows you how bad the entire case was when even a NY court of raging progs couldn't justify it without looking like total idiots.

 

[BackAgain]

The similarity to the rise of the 3rd. Reich is uncanny

No. It isn’t. Because there is no actual similarity.

The Scotus is now Trump's and that was the opposition's last hope for saving their Constitution!

Instead of acting like a profane childish ckskr, why not try to stand up for the regime like an adult?

Go ask an adult to help you post intelligibly.

I stand up for the current Administration (not a “regime”) because President Trump is doing what he said he was going to do. What he is attempting lto do is what many of us had been seeking. And he is doing nothing fascist whatsoever.

If the day ever comes where you have anything to offer but empty words of partisan political bile, I’d be pleased to help try to educate you. But, so far, you are impervious to education, logic, fairness, objectivity or rationality.

 

[martybegan]

The judgement itself was upheld.

Now James will appeal to the NY Supreme Court to reinstate the penalty, or part of it. I find it impossible to believe that they will not reinstate a portion of the penalty.

The NY appeals court is the highest court in NY. try understanding things before you post them.

 

[1srelluc]

Trump should sue for lawyer's fees and a multi-million judgement for judicial maleficence.

Judicial maleficence refers to the actions of judges that are detrimental to the administration of justice. It encompasses a range of behaviors that can undermine the integrity of the judicial process and erode public trust in the legal system. These actions can include bias, conflicts of interest, and breaches of ethical standards.


https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=6c4f...aWNsZS9qdWRpY2lhbC1taXNjb25kdWN0Lmh0bWw&ntb=1

 

[Donald H]

It didn't stop him because no law prevents felons from holding federal office. Some laws are supposed to keep them off military installations, but Trump changed all that, and now they can. This thread is not about Trump breaking federal law, but state law.

Leading Civil Rights Lawyer Shows 20 Ways Trump Is Copying Hitler's Early Rhetoric and Policies | Common Dreams

The author, Burt Neuborne, is one of America’s top civil liberties lawyers, and questions whether federal government can contain Trump and GOP power grabs.

www.commondreams.org

Nobody needs to study all the 20 points on similarity. They can easily start with absorbing the basic factsk, one or two a day. Such as:

A younger Trump, according to his first wife's divorce filings, kept and studied a book translating and annotating Adolf Hitler's pre-World War II speeches in a locked bedside cabinet, Neuborne noted. The English edition of My New Order, published in 1941, also had analyses of the speeches' impact on his era's press and politics. "Ugly and appalling as they are, those speeches are masterpieces of demagogic manipulation," Neuborne says.

 

[westwall]

I'm a Canadian, so why would you think I oppose the rise of fascism in America.

Is it not an attempt to identify itself, which eliminates any confusion over why democracy could be defeated so quickly?

Who would have imagined that the US Constitution would actually facilitate the fall of democracy.

I've been saying it for months on this board. The Fanding Fouthers substituted a king with a president, but failed to provide some method of stopping a corrupt psychopath from becoming a president.

Impeachment? What the fuk were the fouthers thinking??

You're a Chinese stooge.

 

[Votto]

Court teaches Letitia James big lesson about lawfare, hands Trump a HUGE victory | Blaze Media

A New York state appeals court delivered Letitia James a major disappoint worth over $500 million to Trump.

www.theblaze.com

A Democrat New York judge ordered President Donald Trump and his sons in February to pay hundreds of millions of dollars over a lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

The civil lawsuit claimed that the president defrauded banks and other organizations by overestimating the value of his properties in order to secure favorable bank loans and other benefits. The bank denied any wrongdoing, and critics attacked the case for comically devaluing the president's iconic and profitable properties.

A New York state appeals court delivered to Trump a major boon on Thursday, noting that while the injunctive relief ordered by New York Judge Arthur Engoron "is well crafted to curb defendants' business culture, the court's disgorgement order, which directs that defendants pay nearly half a billion dollars to the State of New York, is an excessive fine that violates the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution."

Appellate Division Judge Peter Moulton called out Letitia James in his concurring opinion, writing that the "Attorney General did not carry her initial burden" of establishing an approximate total of the profits directly linked to Trumps' supposed violations.


Moulton added, "Indeed, the calculation of the disgorgement in this case was far from a reasonable approximation."

The president celebrated the ruling, writing on Truth Social:

TOTAL VICTORY in the FAKE New York State Attorney General Letitia James Case! I greatly respect the fact that the Court had the Courage to throw out this unlawful and disgraceful Decision that was hurting Business all throughout New York State. Others were afraid to do business there. The amount, including Interest and Penalties, was over $550 Million Dollars. It was a Political Witch Hunt, in a business sense, the likes of which no one has ever seen before.

Trump further characterized this instance of lawfare as a case of election interference and emphasized that Engoron was a "Political Hack" and that James is a "Corrupt and Incompetent Attorney General who only brought this Case in order to hurt me politically."

It's about damned time!

 

[Blaster]

No, they upheld the entire judgment and all nonmonetary penalties. James will appeal to have the fine or a portion of it reinstated.

The judgement will eventually be overturned and James won't get to reinstate a fine.

 

[boilermaker55]

P01135809 is still guilty of fraud, read the entire article .."A New York state appeals court on Thursday threw out a more than $500 million civil business fraud penalty.

 

[Moonglow]

Leading Civil Rights Lawyer Shows 20 Ways Trump Is Copying Hitler's Early Rhetoric and Policies | Common Dreams

The author, Burt Neuborne, is one of America’s top civil liberties lawyers, and questions whether federal government can contain Trump and GOP power grabs.

www.commondreams.org

Nobody needs to study all the 20 points on similarity. They can easily start with absorbing the basic factsk, one or two a day. Such as:

It's called the six degrees of separation.

 

[Blaster]

LOL at James.

 

[JanetTheGreat]

Good, glad to see they tossed out this BS.

 

[CrazyTrader55]

They confirmed Trump’s a fraud. Not sure if it goes bald to the lower court to refigure the penalty or what.

In what we call reality, the case was very successful, and the trump crime family will still pay a huge fine.

Next time you'll get him.

 

[DonGlock26]

“A New York state appeals court on Thursday threw out a more than $500 million civil business fraud penalty imposed on President Donald Trump and other defendants in connection with a lawsuit by state Attorney General Letitia James.“

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/21/trump-fraud-new-york-appeals.html

We warned the TDS Dems here that all their lawfare cases would not stand in the appellate courts. The Dems being investigated for mortgage fraud will not be so lucky.

 

[Dorian Mode]

A lot of neo-leftists with stage 4 TDS are going to succumb to NEBS (Neo-leftist Exploding Brain Syndrome) because of this. All their "Trump is a criminal" lawfare BS is unraveling and leaving them with nothing except more pie in the face just like the Russia Hoax BS. Moreover, Trump is free of Letitia James, but Big Tish is going to get reamed for actually doing what she accused Trump of. Karma is a real ***** slap to the face.

 

[Donald H]

It's called the six degrees of separation.

Just keep speaking out, at least until you're censored here, or it becomes too dangerous.

And at least know that your joking isn't being received as such.

Some of them are just precocious little brats like Concerned American, but some mean deadly business.

They all know that they have surrendered their beloved Constitution to Trump's regime.

 

[tyroneweaver]

what will be funny about her appeal will be to see her get slapped down again.

 

[tyroneweaver]

I hope she appeals, to watch her get slapped down again

 

[BackAgain]

P01135809 is still guilty of fraud, read the entire article .."A New York state appeals court on Thursday threw out a more than $500 million civil business fraud penalty.

It has already been noted in this thread that the verdict itself (which you’re too ignorant to know wasn’t one of “guilty,” since it wasn’t a criminal case) wasn’t tossed.

That comes later.

 

[kyzr]

Can Trump go after Letitia or the judge civilly for obvious LAWFARE?