Even More Now Have Contempt For Donald Trump

Donald Trump just can't get New York Attorney General to stop doing her job, which is a bad thing for a career conman. Today he appealed the $10,000 per day contempt charges that have been laid upon him, which he'd be able to afford if only he were a billionaire... Cliff Schecter has some schadenfreude, then gives you the breakdown and the takedown.

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Folks, please find some time if you're the praying type to spare a prayer for poor Donald Trump. Donald Trump's in some trouble, he's in lots of trouble, but the trouble I speak of is in the new, in New York where the attorney general Letitia James is not taking any crap and is going hard after Donald Trump for all manner of potential corporate crimes committed by the Trump organization and individuals within which would include, you know, Trump's kids, the family, other hangers on of which Trump always has them. He's upset today because he had his lawyer who's probably like the 47th one I think the 46th was like Mike Lindell and Giuliani was somewhere in the middle there, they filed a appeal because a judge, judge Engoron, Arthur Engoron a manhattan judge, has hit Trump with a ten thousand dollar contempt charge for every day he doesn't produce documents and himself which is what attorney James, Letitia James, attorney general Letitia James has asked for which she has every right to ask for because she's the attorney general and she's investigating crimes.

Donald Trump doesn't think any of this applies to him and his lawyer Alina Habba came up with the brilliant sort of response of, we tried, I tried. We did our best. I flew down to Florida, she actually said this, I flew down to Florida and asked Donald, were there any documents you could produce? Seriously, that was like her response to the court that he shouldn't be getting charged in contempt the ten thousand dollars a day because she got on a plane and went to Florida and asked if he actually had any documents and he apparently didn't. He did produce 16 pages of what they called boilerplate. So they should just be happy he didn't pull that toilet paper off the bottom of his foot he was traipsing around Air Force One infamously that time. Just garbage stuff. Didn't have any of the information that they asked for. Habba, Trump's lawyer again complained that they should have engaged in good faith discussions before they did this. The good faith discussions come when you act in good faith yourself.

Like for example when you're subpoenaed, you show up and when people ask for documents relating to potential crimes, you hand them over. Donald Trump has never learned this, he's never been held accountable for anything and it seems like Letitia James is kicking some ass and not taking any of this and Letitia James herself pointed out that this is the tried and true Trump method, we know it. Look the guy trying to run the clock out on democracy. He's done this in lawsuits forever. He drags them on forever, the people get tired and they just sort of give up, the way he would drag on lawsuits against individuals forever and try to make them spend all their money so he didn't have to pay subcontractors, employees and others. But it's not working and so you want some positive news today, Donald Trump is still being fined ten thousand a day. He did appeal. His appeal will likely go nowhere and, you know, just another reminder that Donald Trump's still here. He's still awful. He still will break any law he can and he's still your modern Republican party.