Yeah, you can't do superstitious "manifesting" this as real by saying it a lot. Maybe get a bone in your nose, I hear that works.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-drops-lawsuit-against-michael-013954728.html Trump drops lawsuit against Michael Cohen just days before former president was to be deposed
Mary Trump suggested embarrassment is at the root of Donald Trump’s abrupt departure from his civil fraud trial. “He showed up in New York voluntarily because he knew how important this fraud trial is not only to his reputation but to the core of his own beliefs about who he is,” the former president’s niece, a psychologist and author, said in her Substack newsletter on Thursday. “He left because he knew nothing he did — the pouting, the angry stares, the media hits — was working.” “That plus the humiliation of falling off the Forbes 400 were too much for him to take,” she added.
After dropping his Michael Cohen lawsuit yesterday, today Trump drops his suit against Judge Engoron. With his suit again Michael Cohen... it was understandable why Trump dropped it. Michael Cohen was looking forward to his own disposition in the suit where he planned to outline all the crimes that Trump committed --- this information could then be used by prosecutors in the criminal case. The case again Judge Engoron appears to be dropped because its intent was to delay the trial -- and the suit was unsuccessful in doing this. Trump Drops Lawsuit Against Judge Who Doomed His Company The former president’s attempt to throw a wrench in the New York AG’s case against him by suing Justice Arthur F. Engoron was a failure. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump...judge-arthur-f-engoron-who-doomed-his-company
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/06/politics/eric-trump-fraud-trial/index.html Ex-Trump Org. executive testifies that Eric Trump led him to inflate values of some properties By Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN Updated 9:41 PM EDT, Fri October 6, 2023 The former controller of the Trump Organization says that Eric Trump directed him to make certain decisions that led to the inflated valuations of several Trump properties. Jeff McConney, also a co-defendant of former President Donald Trump, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., testified Friday as the first week of the civil fraud trial came to an end. Internal Trump Org. spreadsheets shown in court Friday show notations by McConney that say Eric Trump directed McConney in phone conversations about certain property valuations that would later appear on the financial statements the judge in this case has ruled fraudulent. McConney testified that in those phone calls that Eric Trump directed him to factor certain things into the calculations that ultimately led to what the New York attorney general says are inflated valuations of properties including Seven Springs and the Trump National Golf Club Westchester. (Attorneys for Eric Trump have argued he was not aware that any phone conversations with McConney were used to formulate value assets in the financial statements for Trump properties.) The testimony came at the end of a dramatic week in New York. The former president attended the trial for three days, turning the trial into a media circus. He was also issued a gag order after making false allegations about one of Judge Arthur Engoron’s clerks. “I can tell you this trial, in all my 33 years, it’s chaos,” Trump attorney Christopher Kise said during a separate appeals court hearing Friday afternoon. Allen Weisselberg, Trump’s long-time chief financial officer who served 5 months in prison for his role in a decade-long tax fraud scheme after making a plea deal, is expected to testify when the trial resumes Tuesday. How McConney increased the value of properties During his testimony McConney testified to the methodologies that he used to compute asset valuations like Mar-A-Lago which the attorney general’s office highlighted to the court as improper. Under questioning by special counsel to the New York attorney general Andrew Amer, McConney said he calculated Mar-A-Lago’s valuation as though it could be sold as a private residence. McConney testified that he did not know at the time that Trump had deeded away his right to develop the property beyond its use as a social club in 2005. McConney also said that he and Weisselberg consciously agreed to calculate the value of apartments at Trump Park Avenue, without factoring in that the units were rent stabilized, which significantly lowers the real-estate value because they cannot be rented at market price. The former controller said that he and Weisselberg increased the value of multiple Trump golf clubs by adding what they considered the value of Trump’s name on the properties, called a brand premium. Amer produced the annual statements of financial condition that contained a note stating, “The goodwill attached to the Trump name has significant financial value that has not been reflected in the preparation of this financial statement.” McConney confirmed he was aware that disclaimer was on the annual financial statements. He also testified when valuing Trump’s Seven Springs development beginning in 2011, he included the value of seven homes not yet built at the property. He said he did this at the direction of Eric Trump, who oversaw the project. Spreadsheets shown in court show McConney’s phone conversations detailing the methodology of the Seven Springs valuation. McConney similarly included 71 unbuilt units as realized profits in the valuation for Trump’s Briarcliff, New York golf course. He did this on more than one financial statement even when the development approval of those units had been paused, he testified. Amer also rehashed McConney’s testimony from the Trump Organization criminal tax fraud trial last year when the former controller said that he committed fraud at the behest of Weisselberg because he was afraid he’d lose his job. Over defense objections, Amer reminded the judge that McConney admitted that he knew it was illegal to help Weisselberg commit fraud when he helped him not only cheat taxes but also cut a payroll check to Weisselberg’s wife so she could illegally receive social security benefits.
Team Trump Is Using ‘Fyre Festival Strategies’ in NY Fraud Case There’s no chance of actually winning on the merits. So Trump and his lawyers are hoping to score some PR points, kick up as much dirt as possible, enrage the judge, trash some of the witnesses, and turn the process into a media circus https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...-new-york-fraud-case-media-circus-1234848510/
Imagine Trump homeless and living in a cardboard box. Trump's legal shenanigans might have lost him protection from Mar-a-Lago eviction: expert https://www.rawstory.com/mar-a-lago-evict-trump/ One of the most serious potential consequences of former President Donald Trump's loss in the civil fraud suit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James could be the auctioning off of his Mar-a-Lago country club. Trump has a potential way out, if he can convince the courts that Mar-a-Lago is in fact his home and not a private club — but there will be significant obstacles to doing so, attorney Paul Golden told Newsweek. The civil suit, which alleges that Trump and his adult sons systematically lied about the valuation and even sometimes the square footage of their properties to fraudulently obtain better loan terms and other perks, is seeking $250 million in damages and a ban on Trump from doing business in New York State. As part of the summary judgment that's already declared Trump liable of fraud, Judge Arthur Engoron has revoked business licenses for Trump Organization properties and taken steps to put them under an independent monitor, although much is not yet known about how this will work in practice. New York state officials have already said it will involve liquidation and auction of much of Trump's real estate holdings. Trump's claim that Mar-a-Lago was his primary residence, which accompanied his formal change of residency from New York to Florida, was fraught with controversy from the start, with the Palm Beach Town Council having to decide whether it was even legal. "If the New York case affected one of the entities that owns the Florida property, and in response Mr. Trump claims that this constitutional provision assists him, Mr. Trump would have at least a few roadblocks," said Golden, noting that Florida has strong laws protecting people's residences from being seized. But it's not quite that simple. "Another issue is whether Mr. Trump would be considered a Florida resident who considered that property his residence. One would expect that Letitia James would claim that it cannot truly be considered a residence because it is a members-only club with guest rooms," said Golden. "If only a portion of the property would be considered his 'residence', then there are further complications." There's also the issue of whether Florida law even overrides New York law. Resolving conflicting laws between two states is often a matter for the Supreme Court; in fact it's one of the core duties of the Supreme Court laid out in the Constitution. All of this is unfolding at the same time that Trump faces four separate criminal cases, including a federal case regarding the concealment of highly classified national defense information on the premises of Mar-a-Lago.
The Trump 'haircut': yes, Deutsche Bank really used this term in reducing what Trump said he was worth https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...cing-what-trump-said-he-was-worth/ar-AA1i40cP