New York’s appellate division panel, in the latest blow to Democrat lawfare, tossed the ludicrous half-billion-dollar penalty imposed on Donald Trump in a politically spurred civil-fraud case state Attorney General Letitia James should never have been allowed to bring.
Chalk up another win for President Donald Trump over Democrats who tried to destroy him with lawfare.
On Thursday, a New York appellate court tossed the ludicrous half-billion-dollar penalty imposed on Trump in state Attorney General Letitia James’ utterly political civil-fraud case.
The ridiculously enormous fine was meant to hamstring him as he ran for president, though James and trial-court Judge Arthur Engoron pretended it was about warning others not to imitate his supposedly fraudulent actions.
Actions that harmed . . . exactly no one.
The penalty “is an excessive fine that violates the Eighth Amendment,” wrote the judges.
Their decision doesn’t void Engoron’s finding that Trump defrauded lenders and insurers by overestimating the value of his assets, though the Court of Appeals (the state’s top court) may do so.
