(02-22-2024, 11:43 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(02-22-2024, 11:30 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: I love that you are completely overlooking this miscarriage of justice.

I hate Trump, but I'm not sure how I feel about this verdict and penalty.  It does seem like a victimless fraud.  Is fraud against the law when there is no victim?  And would he have been charged if he wasn't Donald Trump?  Probably not.  We'll see how it holds up on appeal.  

I'm not overlooking it or celebrating it.

It's only fraud if the court values his properties at laughably low numbers. There's a house down the street in Ponte Vedra that just sold for $22 million dollars and it's not a tenth of the Lago. His numbers were fine, the bank (who didn't even use his numbers) is fine, the deals were resolved. This was nothing but the weaponization of the law against a politician. If you don't actively oppose this behavior then you are in fact endorsing it.

And he just made 4 Billion dollars selling Truth this week, he's gonna be just fine.

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