Judge Arthur Engoron, ruling today in a civil lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, found that Donald Trump, his sons, and The Trump Organization deceived banks, insurers and others by massively overvaluing his assets and exaggerating his net worth on paperwork used in making deals and securing loans, committing fraud for years while building his alleged “real estate empire” and ordered some of the former president’s companies removed from his control and dissolved.
Hot DAMN! I love the idea that it is UnAmerican to have one's fraud revealed. EVERYONE should be able to commit fraud in complete privacy, right? It's in the Constitution. (Oh wait, I forgot that Alito has found there IS no right to privacy in the Constitution. Oh well, next argument).
I saw that and already posted it to Facebook!! Somehow they never learned as well how not to piss off a judge with inane arguments. Could it be that trump doesn't KNOW?????
Trump has been a criminal his entire career, not to mention a pitiful businessman. He bankrupted casinos, for Pete's sake. How incompetent does a person have to be to bankrupt a casino??!!
There's a really good book: Landscape With Reptile: Rattlesnakes in an Urban World, by Thomas Palmer. It actually covers a lot of stuff, but its' more about rattlesnakes than any of the other subjects, and it's beautifully written. Rattlesnakes are interesting and impressive creatures. Among much else, there is no documentation of death by rattlesnake in Massachusetts, and the truth is, they don't want to bite. Venom is costly. And that's why the rattle evolved.
When I lived in Southern Idaho I did a lot of hiking and mountain biking in the high semi arid sagebrush country. I came across many rattlesnakes and none of them were threatening. They moved away quickly like I was the threat. I probably was.
This is very interesting and sounds like a good life to me. I wonder if the same number of rattlesnakes are present today and have not been replaced by development.
Possibly in much of Idaho there may be plenty of rattlesnakes, although not around Boise which has gone through a population explosion. In Massachusetts they may be completely gone, or there may be a few. I saw a few sitings on iNaturalist, so I'm somewhat hopeful that there are still a few. But there's very little empty space here--Massachusettss is the third most densely populated state. Idaho on the other hand... well, it's almost 50 years since I rode my bicycle through the panhandle on my way from Seattle to Boston. And Boise, in southern Idaho has boomed. But my guess is there's still plenty of wide open space there.
I lived in south central southern Idaho. Twin Falls area which has grown a lot. But there is still plenty of undeveloped land with wildlife. I have been in Oregon for almost 20 years now but my Idaho friends say the Mountain biking and hiking in the sagebrush, and trees in the higher elevations is still the same. The politics really suck there though so I have no plans to move back.
Yeah, I've read a bit about the politics in Idaho. Sounds like they can't hang onto doctors who can do abortions. Sad. I wonder if the politics are at all different in Sand Point, a town I went through on my x-country bicycle trip where the people seemed really nice back then.
Actually the hospital in Sandpoint can no longer deliver babies because they lost all of their obstetric providers because of their fear of being arrested for providing reproductive healthcare. It’s happening in other parts of Idaho too.
I envy your bike trip. If I remember correctly box turtles are now rare in Massachusetts for same reason. I lived in southwest Virginia for seventy four years and witnessed population decline in reptiles. Two years ago we moved from southwest Virginia to the Charlotte are of NC . I very much miss the black snake and the one to three box turtles I would occasionally see in our backyard.
I'm too old for another bike trip like that. I could do it, but nearly 50 years after the first one, I'd find myself slow... so I'm planning to take a car trip across the country and do a lot of hiking.
I saw two bears on that bike trip--one at the pass in the Cascades, and the other in the wilds of eastern Canada somewhere between the Soo (where I cut up into Canada) and Arnprior, which is 150 miles short of Montreal. Saw loads of garter snakes in N Dak. They'd come out and sun themselves on the road to raise their body temps (behavioral thermoregulation in the jargon) and unfortunately, a lot of them would get run over. And one green snake in N Dak.
And, yeah, box turtles are rare in Mass. I've seen two in the last 30 years, both along them same road on Cape Cod. There is a 249 acre woodland where my dog and I run, and every spring ribbon snakes emerge in the same spot, so I see them regularly, and I've seen a few garter snakes every now and then. And there are lots of turtles in Fresh Pond in Cambridge, which I see mosty sunning themselves on logs--painted turtles, possibly blandings turtles, lots of red ears (which are native of the deep south, and my long ago TA in herpetology at Berkeley is very upset by their being so invasive), maybe map turtles (also invasive), and two snapping turtles. One of them was about 15 inches. My dog found it on the other side of the chain link fence that separates the pond--which is cambridge water supply--from the pathway around the pond. She had her nose in the chain link fence, and I did not see the turtle at first because it was hidden by the spring greenery, and its color completely blended in with the ground. But then, all the sudden, I saw the prehistoric looking head and tail, and knew my dog had made a great find. Unfortunately I didn't have a camera on me. And I occasionally see garter snakes in my yard, which abuts six acres of swamp and woods.
Based only on decreased sightings from my house along the Charles River, snapping turtles may have declined in Massachusetts as well. Bunnies, on the other hand, are thriving.
You MAY have to go onto some place like AbeBooks.com to find it. Or I could put you in touch with the author who has a few boxes full. But let me know what you find and you can contact me directly if you're having trouble finding it, on holzmandc@outlook.com. (I met the author about a month ago with another rattlesnake loving friend for coffee.)
May he have to absorb the tidal wave of reflux he's caused this nation and may he balloon to the point that he blocks the sun he stares at for seven full minutes before we hear the mighty growl, recoil from the flash of light, and bask in the mushroom cloud of his beautiful--very beautiful--combustion. Wear sunglasses.
This sort of illegal conduct has been suspected and even charged in some press stories for many years., but no one ever brought the Trumpster up on the legal charges - now they have. I made a comment here I think that Trump had skated all his life, never paying the price for his illegal actions, and that now the charges were all coming in at the same time like a regimental time on target for an artillery exercise. Today, Trump got hit by 'Anzio Annie' (the biggest gun the Germans had in Italy).....
I was thinking that the "Grand Piano of Karma" got pushed off the roof of Trump Tower and has just squashed him, standing there in front of the main entrance.
💙💙💙Thanks,TC, for all your postings today.I don’t know how you do it . I imagine a Rod Serling-like journey inside your brain would be fascinating :)…Today’s posts sure give me hope as a blue dot in a red Fl sea!
you are amazing, and right. Dec 15, 1943 and he was 19 years old. I should have rememberd correctly since my bro was born in Feb 1944 and was named after him. He was a magat and I chastised him for thinking the Nazi lovers are cool. Last conversation, he said he was sick of chump. We'll see.... Thanks for correction
That would have been the battle to break the Bernhard Line, the first major German defensive position north of Salerno on the road to Rome. Fought in winter rain and snow, pretty miserable up in the mountains where they were fighting. I was just writing about it yesterday in the new book.
Thank you. I will add this to the info I have about him in my genealogy records. His ghost hung over our family in a way. My sweet Aunt Carrie never got over the loss, nor did my Mom who was close to them all their lives. So wish my husband were here to enjoy your books, he had a life long interest and was an avid reader of the history.
I went to Salerno in 1999, such a beautiful place. How war ravages our beautiful Earth.
TC, Don't forget Ivanka: it's a Trump Family Fraud aka the 'Trump Organization' coupled with the Judge's findings of "Adverse Inferences" as a result of tfg"Taking the 5th"many times in a civil case which has credibility consequences. Cred or lack thereof is evaluated by the Trier of Fact in this case the Judge who found tfg a fantatist.
For a while I was thinking there was no such thing as Truth and Justice in neoliberal America, but it was impatience and anger that provoked those goblins of doubt. Justice's long arm finally reached out, got old Donny and his progeny in a crushing embrace, and sealed their fate in the history books as the fraudsters they were born to be. Gotta love it when the rule of law prevails against lying scum such as the Trumpsters, like when Clint rides in and runs a band of miscreant assholes out of town. The Fweedumb dolts, their patsy Speaker, the loose stools on the Supreme Court, and the congressional insurrectionists (at least 139 of them) are next . . . They are all frauds who attempted to overthrow the Constitution and now they must held accountable for the mess the Goddess of Justice has to clean up . . .
Damn, it’s been illegal to call him a fraud all this time?! I’m guilty. Glad the court agrees. His blatant attempts to bamboozle with bull Schitt are called what they are, not clever business practices. No wonder other business “geniuses” don’t want the IRS to look their way. Hope that judge has security protection.
Hot DAMN! I love the idea that it is UnAmerican to have one's fraud revealed. EVERYONE should be able to commit fraud in complete privacy, right? It's in the Constitution. (Oh wait, I forgot that Alito has found there IS no right to privacy in the Constitution. Oh well, next argument).
I laughed out loud :-)
I'm here TC. That's a good read. Do you have an archive of "Flight Journal"?
That's right Susan! And, ANDY BOROWITZ reports today that former Trump University students are OUTRAGED were never taught how to DEFRAUD banks.
I saw that and already posted it to Facebook!! Somehow they never learned as well how not to piss off a judge with inane arguments. Could it be that trump doesn't KNOW?????
Another nail. Keep pounding them in.
Trump has been a criminal his entire career, not to mention a pitiful businessman. He bankrupted casinos, for Pete's sake. How incompetent does a person have to be to bankrupt a casino??!!
Very, very incompetent.
Sounds like an oxymoron
Or, just a moron...
🎶 ... or two or three! 🎶
😂😂😂
multimoron
I love it too. I just hope enough of this sort of thing falls down upon Trump to stress him out to the point where his body will give out.
Sooner rather than later!
My sentiments too!
He's in SUCH good shape.
"The healthiest man to ever run for president," he wrote for his "doctor."
His mind is in a whirlpool and organs will fail. Sharks and rattlesnakes get plenty of rest and Trump does not sleep.
There's a really good book: Landscape With Reptile: Rattlesnakes in an Urban World, by Thomas Palmer. It actually covers a lot of stuff, but its' more about rattlesnakes than any of the other subjects, and it's beautifully written. Rattlesnakes are interesting and impressive creatures. Among much else, there is no documentation of death by rattlesnake in Massachusetts, and the truth is, they don't want to bite. Venom is costly. And that's why the rattle evolved.
TMI, nah, fascinating.
Thank you David. I am a fan of rattlesnakes and a member of the Orianne Society. I will order Thomas Palmer's book.
When I lived in Southern Idaho I did a lot of hiking and mountain biking in the high semi arid sagebrush country. I came across many rattlesnakes and none of them were threatening. They moved away quickly like I was the threat. I probably was.
This is very interesting and sounds like a good life to me. I wonder if the same number of rattlesnakes are present today and have not been replaced by development.
Possibly in much of Idaho there may be plenty of rattlesnakes, although not around Boise which has gone through a population explosion. In Massachusetts they may be completely gone, or there may be a few. I saw a few sitings on iNaturalist, so I'm somewhat hopeful that there are still a few. But there's very little empty space here--Massachusettss is the third most densely populated state. Idaho on the other hand... well, it's almost 50 years since I rode my bicycle through the panhandle on my way from Seattle to Boston. And Boise, in southern Idaho has boomed. But my guess is there's still plenty of wide open space there.
I lived in south central southern Idaho. Twin Falls area which has grown a lot. But there is still plenty of undeveloped land with wildlife. I have been in Oregon for almost 20 years now but my Idaho friends say the Mountain biking and hiking in the sagebrush, and trees in the higher elevations is still the same. The politics really suck there though so I have no plans to move back.
Yeah, I've read a bit about the politics in Idaho. Sounds like they can't hang onto doctors who can do abortions. Sad. I wonder if the politics are at all different in Sand Point, a town I went through on my x-country bicycle trip where the people seemed really nice back then.
That's where the Nazis set up/
Yup. Incidentally, this is probably the most important article I've ever read in my 50-odd years of serious reading/70 years on the planet.
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2015/04/the-science-of-scarcity
Actually the hospital in Sandpoint can no longer deliver babies because they lost all of their obstetric providers because of their fear of being arrested for providing reproductive healthcare. It’s happening in other parts of Idaho too.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/20/idaho-bonner-hospital-baby-delivery-abortion-ban
I read a long article somewhere about this happening in Idaho. Crazy stuff! It was such a nice place when I was there in July 1975 on my bicycle.
I envy your bike trip. If I remember correctly box turtles are now rare in Massachusetts for same reason. I lived in southwest Virginia for seventy four years and witnessed population decline in reptiles. Two years ago we moved from southwest Virginia to the Charlotte are of NC . I very much miss the black snake and the one to three box turtles I would occasionally see in our backyard.
I'm too old for another bike trip like that. I could do it, but nearly 50 years after the first one, I'd find myself slow... so I'm planning to take a car trip across the country and do a lot of hiking.
I saw two bears on that bike trip--one at the pass in the Cascades, and the other in the wilds of eastern Canada somewhere between the Soo (where I cut up into Canada) and Arnprior, which is 150 miles short of Montreal. Saw loads of garter snakes in N Dak. They'd come out and sun themselves on the road to raise their body temps (behavioral thermoregulation in the jargon) and unfortunately, a lot of them would get run over. And one green snake in N Dak.
And, yeah, box turtles are rare in Mass. I've seen two in the last 30 years, both along them same road on Cape Cod. There is a 249 acre woodland where my dog and I run, and every spring ribbon snakes emerge in the same spot, so I see them regularly, and I've seen a few garter snakes every now and then. And there are lots of turtles in Fresh Pond in Cambridge, which I see mosty sunning themselves on logs--painted turtles, possibly blandings turtles, lots of red ears (which are native of the deep south, and my long ago TA in herpetology at Berkeley is very upset by their being so invasive), maybe map turtles (also invasive), and two snapping turtles. One of them was about 15 inches. My dog found it on the other side of the chain link fence that separates the pond--which is cambridge water supply--from the pathway around the pond. She had her nose in the chain link fence, and I did not see the turtle at first because it was hidden by the spring greenery, and its color completely blended in with the ground. But then, all the sudden, I saw the prehistoric looking head and tail, and knew my dog had made a great find. Unfortunately I didn't have a camera on me. And I occasionally see garter snakes in my yard, which abuts six acres of swamp and woods.
Based only on decreased sightings from my house along the Charles River, snapping turtles may have declined in Massachusetts as well. Bunnies, on the other hand, are thriving.
You MAY have to go onto some place like AbeBooks.com to find it. Or I could put you in touch with the author who has a few boxes full. But let me know what you find and you can contact me directly if you're having trouble finding it, on holzmandc@outlook.com. (I met the author about a month ago with another rattlesnake loving friend for coffee.)
Wow. That is impressive. I have the book ready to press the button on AbeBooks as we speak.
Turnabout fair play, he has stressed America to the breaking point. Turn it back on him.
May he have to absorb the tidal wave of reflux he's caused this nation and may he balloon to the point that he blocks the sun he stares at for seven full minutes before we hear the mighty growl, recoil from the flash of light, and bask in the mushroom cloud of his beautiful--very beautiful--combustion. Wear sunglasses.
Oh, Judith, may it happen as you describe!
Wow, I may try to live to see this. Love your vision more than I can say
I have my Ray-Bans! :-)
Preach!!
Ditto! After years and YEARS of criminality this crime family is finally getting what they have deserved for so very long.
Could the judge have done otherwise? The fraud was so obvious.
Oh yeah, why do you think he does so much judge shopping.
Fortunately he did not get his legal ethics education from the same a faux law school like Cannon in Florida!
This sort of illegal conduct has been suspected and even charged in some press stories for many years., but no one ever brought the Trumpster up on the legal charges - now they have. I made a comment here I think that Trump had skated all his life, never paying the price for his illegal actions, and that now the charges were all coming in at the same time like a regimental time on target for an artillery exercise. Today, Trump got hit by 'Anzio Annie' (the biggest gun the Germans had in Italy).....
I was thinking that the "Grand Piano of Karma" got pushed off the roof of Trump Tower and has just squashed him, standing there in front of the main entrance.
All dissonance Tom. Then a great and glorious silence: for at last the monsters mouth will be slammed shut 🎼’forever and ever!’
Soon.
What a vision
💙💙💙Thanks,TC, for all your postings today.I don’t know how you do it . I imagine a Rod Serling-like journey inside your brain would be fascinating :)…Today’s posts sure give me hope as a blue dot in a red Fl sea!
They're a nice break from invading Italy in 1943 when I set the time machine to return to 2023. :-)
Shout out to my cousin, Dalton Kenneth Harris, killed in Italy in December, 1942, 18 years old.
That would have been 1943. In December 1942 we were fighting to hang on in North Africa while we "learned to walk, then run."
you are amazing, and right. Dec 15, 1943 and he was 19 years old. I should have rememberd correctly since my bro was born in Feb 1944 and was named after him. He was a magat and I chastised him for thinking the Nazi lovers are cool. Last conversation, he said he was sick of chump. We'll see.... Thanks for correction
That would have been the battle to break the Bernhard Line, the first major German defensive position north of Salerno on the road to Rome. Fought in winter rain and snow, pretty miserable up in the mountains where they were fighting. I was just writing about it yesterday in the new book.
Thank you. I will add this to the info I have about him in my genealogy records. His ghost hung over our family in a way. My sweet Aunt Carrie never got over the loss, nor did my Mom who was close to them all their lives. So wish my husband were here to enjoy your books, he had a life long interest and was an avid reader of the history.
I went to Salerno in 1999, such a beautiful place. How war ravages our beautiful Earth.
I actually shouted YAY when I
read the judges ruling on this
today and am wearing a big
smile, TC with your Header
and follow up. 10/2 is my
birthday, so this will be a
really auspicious happy day
for me. And Kise has to pay
a $7500.00 sanction. Wonder
if Trump will reimburse him
for that. 🤣 Couldn't happen
to better bunch of lying, thieving, grifting, gaslighting,
burn it down louses.
10/2 is my birthday, too. As though even Mother Nature is celebrating this verdict, we are finally getting some great Autumn weather.
TC, Don't forget Ivanka: it's a Trump Family Fraud aka the 'Trump Organization' coupled with the Judge's findings of "Adverse Inferences" as a result of tfg"Taking the 5th"many times in a civil case which has credibility consequences. Cred or lack thereof is evaluated by the Trier of Fact in this case the Judge who found tfg a fantatist.
Perhaps the Justice Dept. will
eventually be having more chats with Ivanka and Jared.
Where are those voting machines she bought from
China? And all the clothing
line of hers Made in China.
Jared of course with his
his 2 billion Saudi investment
fund deal. Ya never know
what DoJ has cooking on
those back burners.
Still think a check of the grave of Ivana might yield better results than the Search for Al Capone’s vault.
Yes!
Modern Post-Mortem Reports (PM's) of a "Silent Witness" are often quite revealing.
Well deserved. Couldn't happen to a better set of idiots.
The burp at the end of the feast. What a gas.
I laughed out loud. :-)
For a while I was thinking there was no such thing as Truth and Justice in neoliberal America, but it was impatience and anger that provoked those goblins of doubt. Justice's long arm finally reached out, got old Donny and his progeny in a crushing embrace, and sealed their fate in the history books as the fraudsters they were born to be. Gotta love it when the rule of law prevails against lying scum such as the Trumpsters, like when Clint rides in and runs a band of miscreant assholes out of town. The Fweedumb dolts, their patsy Speaker, the loose stools on the Supreme Court, and the congressional insurrectionists (at least 139 of them) are next . . . They are all frauds who attempted to overthrow the Constitution and now they must held accountable for the mess the Goddess of Justice has to clean up . . .
Damn, it’s been illegal to call him a fraud all this time?! I’m guilty. Glad the court agrees. His blatant attempts to bamboozle with bull Schitt are called what they are, not clever business practices. No wonder other business “geniuses” don’t want the IRS to look their way. Hope that judge has security protection.
Excellent reporting…. Great News! I’m off to sleep and grateful to you for your gift:)
“Gloating is for paid subscribers” - love it!
Yeah, that throwaway sentence made me LOL