(11-07-2023, 12:55 AM)Infolurker Wrote: This is the interview of the year.

I am not joking. She lets it out about this corrupt judge. I bet they will gag her ASAP now under threat.

Telling the truth like this and exposing the corrupt bull crap will cause "consequences".

(11-07-2023, 02:29 AM)xuenchen Wrote: The point they are paid for is to derail Trump, nothing else matters.

(11-07-2023, 03:05 AM)Infolurker Wrote: I bet the Jury will love it....

Oh wait, that is right, no Jury.... LOL

Just a corrupt Judge and DA.

(11-07-2023, 08:14 PM)Chiefsmom Wrote: us peons don't stand a chance.

(11-07-2023, 07:08 PM)Ninurta Wrote:

(11-07-2023, 03:05 AM)Infolurker Wrote: I bet the Jury will love it....

Oh wait, that is right, no Jury.... LOL

Just a corrupt Judge and DA.

How did they sneak past a jury trial? 

(11-07-2023, 09:54 PM)ANNEE Wrote: I'm not following this in detail.

Quote:The Attorney General filed this case under a consumer protection statute that denies the right to a jury. There was never an option to choose a jury trial. It is unfortunate that a jury won’t be able to hear how absurd the merits of this case are and conclude no wrongdoing ever happened.

Quote:[b]UPDATE (Oct. 12, 2023, 8:40 a.m. ET): [/b]Judge Arthur Engoron on Wednesday clarified that Donald Trump would not have been entitled to a jury trial in his New York civil fraud case even if his attorneys had requested one.

The judge in that Manhattan case, Arthur Engoron, is the one examining the facts (and the law) in what's known as a bench trial.

The former president called it “very unfair” that he doesn’t have a jury. But Engoron noted when the trial kicked off on Monday that the former president's legal team didn’t even[b] [/b]ask for one.

Quote:"A nearby vacant lot (2.3 acres) is for sale on Zillow for $200 million," John LeFevre, a former investment banker who created the Goldman Sachs Elevator social media account, wrote alongside a screengrab of the listing. "Mar-a-Lago sits on 17 acres, with waterfront on both sides."

"The primary point is this: The lending bank is required to get a valuation from a third party to cover its LTV calculation. No one had an issue with any of this. Everyone made money...Until an activist [District Attorney] came along decades later," a reference to Letitia James, who brought the case.

Ali Zein Yousuf, a software engineer, replied: "You're right, if it was priced at the same per acre as the empty lot, it'd be [$]1.5 billion."

There are competing estimates as to the size of the estate; several publications have said it spans 17 acres, while the club's website says it is 20 acres. According to the asking price of the empty lot listing, this would in theory give the property a value of $1.47 billion to $1.72 billion, but that doesn't take into account the development potential of the empty plot or the value of the Mar-a-Lago buildings.

(11-07-2023, 10:00 PM)Snarl Wrote:

(11-07-2023, 09:54 PM)ANNEE Wrote: I'm not following this in detail.

Do ya think he's guilty?

(11-07-2023, 10:55 PM)ANNEE Wrote:

(11-07-2023, 10:00 PM)Snarl Wrote:

(11-07-2023, 09:54 PM)ANNEE Wrote: I'm not following this in detail.

Do ya think he's guilty?

I am not a fan.

But, also, I have no experience in legal matters -- so I am just following what goes on.

Quote:The $22.7 million that Mar-a-Lago took in last year is nearly 40 percent lower than its 2016 income.

And the Trump Doral golf club's $76 million in income last year is still far below its $115.9 million income Trump reported from 2016.

Quote: How much does Trump make from Mar-A-Lago? According to reports, it's taken a hit.

On Thursday, May 16, NPR reported that according to Trump's 2018 financial disclosures, the Trump Organization's Palm Beach, Florida, resort Mar-A-Lago fell nearly 10% in income last year to $22.7 million. Elite Daily reached out to the Trump Organization for confirmation and comment on the reports but did not hear back in time for publication. Trump has been known to frequent the resort for impromptu golfing trips and to spend winter holidays with first lady Melania Trump, but it looks those holidays aren't upping the club's income.

NPR reported that the Trump's South Florida Doral Resort's income increased nearly 2%, going up $1.2 million to $76 million.

Quote:Marjorie Merriweather Post was the original resident of Mar-a-Lago. She had commissioned the mansion back in the 1920s as the heiress to the Post Cereals business. She hired Marion Sims Wyeth to design the building and hired Joseph Urban to design the exterior. She spent a reported $5 million creating the mansion, which would equal roughly $160 million adjusted for 2020 inflation.

Quote: Forbes values Mar-a-Lago—admittedly one of the most difficult assets in the Trump portfolio to price—at $160 million