How Donald Trump thinks that anything is owed to him is beyond me. Regardless, he does, and so do his lawyers.
In this case, it’s a delay in enforcement of the financial penalties incurred in his NY civil fraud trial. I guess if you or I were fined $355 million, we might ask for a minute to pay it too.
But for a man like Trump — who has bragged about his immeasurable wealth for decades — it should be but a drop in the bucket.
That’s the rub, though. If he can prove he has the money to pay, then he’s going to have to cough up the $83.3 million he owes his rape victim, E. Jean Carroll, as well.
But that hasn’t stopped Trump in the slightest. From CNN:
Former President Donald Trump asked the judge overseeing the civil fraud case to delay enforcing the $355 million judgment against him for one month.
In a letter to Judge Arthur Engoron, Trump’s attorneys accuse New York Attorney General Letitia James of an “unseemly rush” to enforce the judgment by submitting a proposal for the judge to sign just days after the ruling.
Trump has 30 days from when a judgment is entered to post bond and appeal. Trump’s attorney said if the judge decides to enter the attorney general’s judgment the defendants “request the Court stay enforcement of that Judgment for thirty (30) days.”
Dear Donnie: There’s no such thing as an “unseemly rush” when it comes to paying civil penalties that almost cover the nonsense you perpetrated for decades in the Big Apple. In fact, if we roll back the calendar to the 1970s, you were already on the hook for monetary punishment as a result of you refusing to rent to Black people.
In Trump’s meager defense, his legal team did ask very nicely. This despite the fact that Trump has probably written 500 posts about Engoron calling him every nasty name in the book.
But asking nicely is nearly meaningless when it comes to answering a judgment like the one Trump faces. All of the news outlets are rounding the $354.9 million up to 355, which is fine — except that it kind of takes away from the gravity of the judgment.
One way or the other, Trump will pay.
If you want to read Trump’s letter, do so HERE [1].