Trump Serves Up A Delusional New Take On His Massive Legal Woes

Donald Trump bizarrely and falsely instructed on Wednesday that he had come out on high in his New York civil circumstances.

“Are you thinking of potentially trying to use campaign funds to pay some of the penalties?” a reporter requested the previous president at a information convention following his assembly with Teamsters Union leaders in Washington, D.C.

“What penalties?” Trump requested.

“In the New York fraud cause and the defamation case,” the reporter replied.

“I didn’t do anything wrong,” mentioned Trump. “I mean, that’s been proven as far as I’m concerned.”

He claimed that “actually, we won in the court of appeals.”

Actually, he didn’t.

In the defamation case, jurors awarded author E. Jean Carroll an astonishing $83.3 million in damages on Friday. She had accused him of defaming her after she got here ahead in 2019 with allegations he raped her in 1996.

In a separate trial in May final yr, a jury concluded that Trump was responsible for sexually abusing, however not raping, Carroll and for defaming her. He was ordered to pay $5 million in damages. He has denied all wrongdoing and appealed that verdict; there was no end result but.

He has additionally vowed to enchantment Friday’s choice.

As for New York civil enterprise case, Trump was discovered responsible for fraud in that matter earlier than the trial started.

Following an 11-week trial, Judge Arthur Engoron is predicted to rule on six further claims together with falsifying enterprise data and insurance coverage fraud, and to rule on how a lot Trump and his co-defendants should pay, in addition to whether or not they can proceed to do enterprise in New York.

New York Attorney General Letitia James has requested for $370 million within the lawsuit.

Engoron had beforehand ordered the dissolution of Trump’s companies within the state, a choice which is on maintain pending Trump’s enchantment.