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Court agrees to block collection of Trump's $454 million civil fraud judgment if he puts up $175M (apnews.com)

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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.

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[-] jonne@infosec.pub 102 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 46 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 40 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] go_go_gadget@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

Powerful people who run the U.S. made shitty selfish decisions for decades and then are surprised the country caught an illness like Trump.

[-] bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I agree. But saying that it happened over the course of decades kinda misses the scope of the problem by a bit.

The ability to have powerful, unaccountable people, in or outside of government that is the problem. It’s allowing these hierarchies to exist in the first place that’s the problem, and is it not the same source of the problem we had with the divine right of kings?

[-] shield_gengar@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 months ago

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

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

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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