Trump's fraud defense so bad it is 'defying the very laws of physics': expert

A judge has already shredded one of Donald Trump's defenses in his upcoming New York fraud trial.

In his order finding Trump had committed bank fraud, Judge Arthur Engoron has already addressed and dismissed the former president's claims that past lies on his financial statements may be justified because the value of his properties and other assets eventually went up, reported The Daily Beast.

“He claims that if the values of the property have gone up in the years since the [statements of financial condition] were submitted, then the numbers were not inflated at that time,” Engoron wrote. “The defenses Donald Trump attempts to articulate in his sworn deposition are wholly without basis in law or fact.”

That's bad news for the former president, whose lawyers requested a bench trial, meaning Engoron alone will decide the outcome – and he has already determined Trump is a liar.

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“What he is saying is completely inconsistent with how real estate professionals talk about valuations,” said David Reiss, a Brooklyn Law School professor. “When you talk about valuations at a given time, you’re talking about what its value is at that time. It becomes more valuable in the future, but that’s its value at the time."

The former president's defense is so bad it actually violates the laws of physics, according to another expert.

“He's defying the very laws of physics,” said cosmologist Marina Cortês at the Institute for Astrophysics and Space Sciences in Portugal. “The past is different from the future. That is the most basic knowledge we have in cosmology. The arrow of time is the most fundamental property of reality.”

“Unless he wrote specifically that this property will be valued this much in the future, the statement he wrote carries four-dimensional coordinates in space that are attached to the time he made them. He cannot make statements that are continuous into the future," Cortês added. "If he had, there’s a large community of theoretical physicists who’d like to speak to him."

Cortês then applied an example from thermodynamics, saying the future cannot move into the past any more than water will turn to ice at room temperature.

“According to the second law of thermodynamics, the future does not move into the past. It’s always different from the past,” Cortês said. “It’s like Sir Arthur Eddington’s famous statement: ‘If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope. There is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.’”