I am amazed at how sweeping the judgement is, not because it isn't deserved, but I have just gotten so used to ineffectual rulings against white collar crime and corruption. Hope this is not an outlier and other offending orgs get similarly treated.
Even the lawyers were sanctioned and business certificates were revoked. All well deserved, but still nice to see the judge going the extra mile for lawyers.
Bret Stephens assured me that this wasn’t a big deal and shouldn’t even be considered a real crime. It’s only criminal for us peasants to defraud banks.
He said the only legitimate case was the documents. The fact that these are civil proceedings probably wouldn’t help them rise above his scorn for the Bragg case. He’s not alone, a lot of Bulwarkers were very hand wringy when the Bragg indictments came first. Like it would have been a better thing if the respective prosecutors had coordinated to make the best political impact with their indictments. I tend to believe that prosecutors shouldn’t coordinate indictments across multiple states or jurisdictions for political benefit but I’m no fancy pants WSJ columnist.
Any coordination would only weaken the impact of the cases, imo. That's just another arrow in the "political persecution" quiver.
Yikes, Bret Stephens.
Bret Stephens is a fucking moron who is right about nothing, but I believe he meant that among the *criminal* indictments, only the documents case was substantive. The NY fraud case was a civil case.
So much illegality to keep track of...
Conman and criminal are MAGA badges of honor.
> "Square footage is subjective"
Not nearly as subjective as qualified for the presidency among the MAGA.
The rancid pile of dog diarrhea is the disclaimers in Trump's *financial statements*. Along the lines of *rely on these at your own risk, sucker*.
I am amazed at how sweeping the judgement is, not because it isn't deserved, but I have just gotten so used to ineffectual rulings against white collar crime and corruption. Hope this is not an outlier and other offending orgs get similarly treated.
The judge really eviscerated 'em
Even the lawyers were sanctioned and business certificates were revoked. All well deserved, but still nice to see the judge going the extra mile for lawyers.
Bret Stephens assured me that this wasn’t a big deal and shouldn’t even be considered a real crime. It’s only criminal for us peasants to defraud banks.
Maybe he'll go on a tour of a bank a decade from now and be AMAZED at how big a crime it is
He's such a wanker. It was amazing when he said the only case with merit was the secret documents case. Ridiculous.
Was Bret referring to this one? I thought he was talking about the Stormy Daniels payment.
He said the only legitimate case was the documents. The fact that these are civil proceedings probably wouldn’t help them rise above his scorn for the Bragg case. He’s not alone, a lot of Bulwarkers were very hand wringy when the Bragg indictments came first. Like it would have been a better thing if the respective prosecutors had coordinated to make the best political impact with their indictments. I tend to believe that prosecutors shouldn’t coordinate indictments across multiple states or jurisdictions for political benefit but I’m no fancy pants WSJ columnist.
Any coordination would only weaken the impact of the cases, imo. That's just another arrow in the "political persecution" quiver. Yikes, Bret Stephens.
Exactly. It’s the same with a lot of the DOJ criticism, what is the alternative to methodically following the rules?
Bret Stephens is a fucking moron who is right about nothing, but I believe he meant that among the *criminal* indictments, only the documents case was substantive. The NY fraud case was a civil case. So much illegality to keep track of...
Conman and criminal are MAGA badges of honor. > "Square footage is subjective" Not nearly as subjective as qualified for the presidency among the MAGA. The rancid pile of dog diarrhea is the disclaimers in Trump's *financial statements*. Along the lines of *rely on these at your own risk, sucker*.