As you probably know by now, New York Attorney General Leticia James announced a lawsuit against Donald Trump:
Today, I filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump for engaging in years of financial fraud to enrich himself, his family, and the Trump Organization.
There aren't two sets of laws for people in this nation: former presidents must be held to the same standards as everyday Americans.
— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) September 21, 2022
NY AG Letitia James:
"Mr. Trump and Mr. Weisselberg invoked their Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination and they refused to answer. When asked under oath…Mr. Trump again invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege and refused to answer." pic.twitter.com/V1mKknMeSn
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 21, 2022
Townhall’s Spencer Brown points out that the lawsuit isn’t only against Donald Trump:
It’s not just the former president James is after, either. Her lawsuit also targets Trump’s three oldest children — Don Jr., Ivanka, and Eric Trump — and senior Trump organization executives.
As James outlined in a thread to farm attention and retweets from lib Twitter, her lawsuit seeks to get $250 million in civil penalties from Trump, ban the president’s entire family from doing business in the State of New York, prohibit the Trump family from buying commercial real estate for five years, and get the Department of Justice — which is already investigating the former president — to open a criminal investigation into the alleged fraud.
It’s been noted this is not a criminal action:
So not a criminal action? But, to be fair to whoever was leaking this stuff, they might have seen the word fraud and assumed they meant a criminal case
Cc @PolitiBunny @kristina_wong https://t.co/0Rt1bvOAw9
— (((Aaron Walker))) (@AaronWorthing) September 21, 2022
But if you only get your news from Washington Post “conservative blogger” Jennifer Rubin’s Twitter feed, you’d think that Trump just got perp-walked out of Mar-a-Lago and loaded into a van driven by Kamala Harris:
Espionage Act prosecution AND financial ruin? Karma, man.
— Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) September 21, 2022
She seems excited. Really excited!
Trump may face his worst nightmare: Utter financial ruin. LOSER.
— Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) September 21, 2022
Meanwhile the president Rubin cheerleads for is trying to do that to a lot of people.
without further comment pic.twitter.com/f72PcqcGze
— Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) September 21, 2022
Imagine the ketchup on the wall now… @joshgerstein asked a great question: how did financial institutions let him get away with this? THAT should trouble the entire financial community.
— Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) September 21, 2022
We don’t know how this is going to play out but the most amazing thing after all these years is that anti-Trumpers like Rubin always just assume that all claims about his and his family are true.
If they shut down the Trump family our surge in crime might be over
— Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) September 21, 2022
Yes, the Trump family are the ones shooting people in Chicago and shoving people in front of subway trains in NYC. *Eye roll*
Tish James: Got him!!
— Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) September 21, 2022
“Got him,” in a civil lawsuit kinda way.
In a civil lawsuit 🤣🤣🤣
— Bryan Ates🇺🇸 (@atesbryan63) September 21, 2022
Rubin was spotted doing her usual thing of not letting reality get in the way:
Lol, who is the loser Jen? It’s a civil suit witch hunt. This woman has admitted that she will do anything to get him and yet she couldn’t find anything criminal. It’s ridiculous that “journalists” can’t see through this insanity.
— Jill 🍁🌾🌻 (@JiSpaz8) September 21, 2022
As usual, Jennifer Rubin is wisely choosing not to get ahead of the facts 🙄 https://t.co/3PeLCYmnF6
— (((Aaron Walker))) (@AaronWorthing) September 21, 2022
She is after all the intended audience for this charade…..
— SECRET SQUIRREL (@SecritSqrl) September 21, 2022
True.
Trump really broke her brain. pic.twitter.com/CsLXwU3hNy
— Alan R. Levy (@alanesque) September 21, 2022
There is no provable crime and civil has a lower threshold for conviction. She only needs to convince a majority of people too stupid to get off jury duty, people much like yourself, that he is guilty.
— Raymond Reddington (@0ti5Driftw00d) September 21, 2022
Eventually Rubin acknowledged this is a civil suit, not that it makes her any less excited:
Since it's civil suit, James need only prove her case by a preponderance of the evidence. Trump’s decision to invoke the 5th also can be used. The suit points a dagger at the entire Trump operation, putting at risk the thing he holds most dear: his wealth.https://t.co/lnjOTHosAb
— Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) September 21, 2022
In anti-Trump Resistance-land, accusations are as good as a conviction in their minds.
A civil complaint is proof of nothing. A man once sued me for defamation for calling him a pedophile.
I won, on the issue of truth.
If you were anything but a hack you would know complaints are meaningless as evidence https://t.co/Y5oX3Qpyou
— (((Aaron Walker))) (@AaronWorthing) September 21, 2022
The only “evidence” Rubin ever needs is the accusation, but Trump’s the real threat to “rule of law” or something.
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