There’s something about the current environment that reminds me of animal farm. That thing about some animals being more equal than others.
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Civil actions involving Presidents are permitted to proceed (although they do presumably get some special consideration in flexible scheduling). And I suspect that it’s Trump’s supporters and contributors that are funding the interest, one way or another.
I think the amount is in an account that the state of NY can control. They keep it if he loses and he gets it back if he wins.
IIRC, it’s investing in money market instruments, so it is earning a little interest. In one case, NYS gets the interest. In the other, Trump gets the interest.
Actually, a portion of the judgment is in an account held as collateral by the surety company that wrote Trump’s appeal bond. If he wins, Trump gets the interest income.
The appellate court only required a bond be acquired for a portion of the judgment, not the full amount.
This just seems like a failure of the rule of law.
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“After the release, Trump, in a post on his Truth Social site, called Smith a “lamebrain prosecutor who was unable to get his case tried before the election”.”
I may disagree with Trump’s underlying reasoning that it was politically motivated, but there is a lot of truth to this.
Smith and Garland failed. They gave Trump the opportunity to come back politically, and this all made it impossible to prosecute his crimes. This should have been wrapped up before the 2022 election.
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The precident is also terrible.
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It’s hardly Smith’s fault that this wasn’t wrapped up by the 2022 election given when he was appointed. But yes, it is Garland’s fault.
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The whole shebang could also have been avoided by McConnell et al voting to impeach. And US v Nixon was < 3 months from start of the process to final decision, with the ruling being definitive, while US v Trump was 6.5 months, with the ruling requiring further litigation.
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Fair enough with Smith wrt 2022, but we all knew Trump was going to use the election to stall as long as possible and they let him get away with it in the end.
No sense of urgency from anyone to act. Even the second impeachment…they should have been voting long before Jan 20, 2021.
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Also the headline sucks. Saying “The admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial” isn’t saying that the jury would convict, but rather that the OSC felt that there was evidence to merit going to trial.
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This. This work should have started right after the attempt to overturn the election via force and via fake electors.
The GOP also should shoulder a lot of blame here. Most condemned the insurrection immediately, yet 147 voted not to certify the election hours later merely because they lost. Now it’s party policy: the election was stolen any time you didn’t win.
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