A New York appeals court on Monday agreed to hold off collection of former President Donald Trump’s $454 million civil fraud judgment — if he puts up $175 million within 10 days.

If he does, it will stop the clock on collection and prevent the state from seizing his assets while he appeals.

Delay. Delay. Delay.

372 points

Jesus fucking Christ I am so tired of this.

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It’s like we’re all being forced to eat out of the same shit filled trough.

Hey Tommy, you got a little corn left between your teeth.

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43 points

I want to get off Mr. Bones’ Wild Ride!

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29 points

Life is a shit sandwich. The more bread you have, the less shit you gotta eat.

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The big macs can’t catch up to him fast enough

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Miscarriage of justice. Hopefully the DA is ready with an immediate appeal.

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AOC warned against this, now Trump gets more time for his shenanigans.

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This was the appeal. Can the DA appeal the appeal?

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A couple of important details that got overlooked.

  • Don Jr. and Eric Trump do not have to put up the $5 million each that they were fined. Those collections are being paused as well.

  • The restrictions against Don Jr. and Eric Trump that would prevent them from running the business for 3 years has been lifted.

So much for that accountability. Can’t wait to hear about the entire judgement getting tossed because an appelate judge decided that the Susan Collins rule of “He learned his lesson, and he pinky swears it won’t happen again” applies.

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It’s fucking ridiculous. Anyone else would be in prison by now. This guy just gets to run out the clock because everyone in the justice system is too afraid to look biased.

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No, they’re afraid for their lives.

Districts have to beef up security when the DA makes a press briefing. Judges are receiving hundreds of death threats and have to hire their own security. Law clerks and random employees being dragged into it and threatened because trump thinks they’re an easy target. Random low level officials having their lives ruined because they were randomly targeted. This is the life of trying to hold trump to account. Government officials admitting being unwilling to vote, speak out, or take action against him out of credible threats of retribution from lone wolf meth heads.

Given the political powder keg this country is currently in, it’s not surprising that there are few judges out there willing to pull the trigger and risk having to go into hiding for their own safety versus just giving him what he wants and washing their hands of the whole thing, which seems to be the current game plan for most judges.

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I thought this is the exact reason why we keep outfitting SWAT guys with army surplus gear? Isn’t that so we can defend the country against terrorists and other violent criminals? So all that is actually exclusively for murdering unarmed people and throwing flashbang grenades in infants’ cribs, got it.

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Well then they shouldn’t be judges; no one said the job was easy.

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So who does and does not have to follow the laws is decided by religious conservatives in the country? Under threat of personal harm?

The US is a 3rd world country…

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If he has $500/M on hand, this shouldn’t be allowed.

If he DOESN’T have $500/M on hand… This still shouldn’t be allowed.

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I also predict he will COMPLAIN about this gift on truth social, saying they should have reduced it to Zero. Spitting right in the faces of those judges that just gave him the gift.

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Right before they lower it, in 10 days time, to $50M which will be due in an extra 30 days.

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Honestly, considering he stated on Truth Social that he had 500M on hand, which he was absolutely NOT going to pay his bond with, I would’ve denied his appeal on that alone.

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179 points

I fully understand how people become radicalized now.

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Yeah. NY will hold you without trial for three years on suspicion of stealing a backpack. But defraud the state of millions in taxes for years and there are zero consequences.

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One of us one of us

You wanna join a radical and poorly regulated militia?

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