Trump has 'ripe argument' for fighting 'outrageous' NYC civil fraud penalty, says legal expert
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Former Whitewater Deputy Independent Counsel Sol Wisenberg joined "America Reports" Tuesday to discuss the judgment against former President Trump in the New York civil fraud case. Wisenberg laid out why he believes Trump's legal team could successfully appeal the ruling, citing "real constitutional problems" with the $355 million penalty.
SOL WISENBERG: Well, I'll put it to you this way. I understand I'm not an expert on New York civil fraud law, but it seems to me there's some real constitutional problems with the $355 million judgment when there is no victim, no financial loss of any kind. I think that is, you have a ripe argument. You have an argument for a substantive due process violation. But the question is, has this been preserved at trial? That I'm not sure of, but it just seems to me to be an outrageous amount, given the judge's findings, that there's no there's no victim, no monetary victim here…
I think the bigger message is it's going to send a message to certain businesses and business owners. If you are a radical conservative or if – forget about what your politics are – if you end up offending or insulting whatever the current woke orthodoxy is, what will happen to you? Keep in mind, there was no jury here. And the judge crows about this in his opinion, Judge Engoron, he says, I don't need a jury under under New York law, but that's based on a 2011 opinion that said you don't need a jury because this is an equitable remedy. That means we're not and that monetary damages are incidental. But that isn't what happened here. The monetary damages were $355 million. So that stands that law on its head. And I think that they do have, again, a potential constitutional argument here, a very strong one, if they appropriately raised it at trial.... (Read more)
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