Today I learned, as most of you did also, that Trump will have to put up the over $450 million that Engoron fined him before he can appeal. That’s a ridiculous requirement which explains why the leftist judge set the fine at such a ridiculously high amount.

Remember this is under a statute that requires no wrongdoing. No one was defrauded or harmed in any way. The lenders all got paid back on time and said they would love to do more business with Trump. Also remember that the trial was just over damages for no damage. The unprofessional joke of a judge had unilaterally found Trump guilty of fraud although there was none which makes his finding all the more laughable.

Now what dawned on me today is that this was a well thought out approach to damage trump’s presidential campaign. A normal verdict would be appealed before payment. Thus Trump could appeal and get it reversed without putting up, essentially civil bail. However now Trump has to come up with a serious amount of money just to appeal and have the money returned but too late to stop the damage done. Thus this was the perfect statute to fuck with Trump. You could find him guilty without actually proving any fraud or that anyone was damaged. And then you could just impose a huge fine to interfere with his campaign.

I personally think that the statute will be declared unconstitutional if it ever gets out of NY and to the Supremes. I don’t think you can have a legitimate law that requires no proof of anyone being defrauded or injured in anyway and then just make up a fine out of thin air. Essentially it gives the state an unfettered right to arbitrarily take any amount of money from you.

I think the verdict will be overturned in New York because the obvious repercussions are already making public officials try to differentiate Trump from anyone else because people are pointing out that you’d be crazy to conduct business in NY, given what this case demonstrates.