(01-03-2024 09:37 AM)Redwingtom Wrote: Thousand+ posts in and STILL have to explain how this trial works and that there doesn't have to be a direct victim. Not to mention the fact that yes, damages may be awarded here to the State of New York as requested, in the amount of $250M.
Thousand+ posts and STILL have to explain how 'just because something is a law' doesn't mean that it is a good or just one.
Fraud, or claims of fraud with no victim make no sense to most people... even many who support this, were the 'perpetrator' not someone they didn't like to begin with.
It makes absolutely no sense that one could be sued for millions of dollars and denied the right to engage in business for a claim that quite literally impacted no decisions. NOBODY made a loan to Trump based on his claimed values. Not one person engaged in business that they wouldn't otherwise have based on this 'fraud'.
More to the point of many though... if 'this' is the actual purpose of this law... to reign in the epidemic of braggarts in New York real estate market... then it seems odd that Trump would be the seemingly first person to be caught up in this... especially many years after the actual acts. As egregious as the allegations against Trump are, it seems all but impossible that there weren't a pretty long list of
And mostly, it seems almost impossibly odd that the current AG, who was previously the 'watchdog' for the city... which it seems should have included looking out for fraud... couldn't find anything then... and then ran on the platform of finding something against Trump... and then after a few years more of looking, finally found a victimless crime to charge him with.
It would have been one thing if she had run on the platform of reigning in fraud... and Trump was perhaps the most high profile case among dozens... but to quite literally run on the platform of investigating one single individual... only to come back with a literal victimless 'crime' that has the 'penalty' of eliminating his ability to conduct business?? This is the very definition of a prosecution and a target in search of a charge.... and that is wrong, no matter how you slice it.