'He's going to clobber them': Legal expert says fraud ruling will be 'major hit' to Trump
Former President Donald Trump is going to get "clobbered" in the impending civil fraud judgment sought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, former federal prosecutor Harry Litman predicted on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" Tuesday.
This comes shortly after Trump was already ordered to fork over $83.3 million in damages in the defamation case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll — and the damages in this case could be even bigger.
"What are you going to be looking for?" asked anchor Alicia Menendez.
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"Bottom line, so ... Letitia asked for $370 million having originally had a $250 million figure," said Litman. Personally, he suspects Justice Arthur Engoron, who is presiding over the case, will be closer to $250 million than $370 million, but "right now he's going to clobber them without a doubt and already be looking forward to the appeal and trying to, you know, prevent reversal."
With regard to the monitor of the Trump Organization, Barbara Jones, Litman said that "she's just there to make sure he doesn't do any funny business while this is under adjudication, so she's not trying to find crimes, but she did find that the Trump Organization is really 250-plus different entities all in an umbrella in a trust out of Florida. But with that aside, I'm looking for Engoron — we talked about the aftermath of the E. Jean Carroll case. It'll be like that times four in terms of its impact on Trump and the kind of bond he'll have to put up to appeal."
"Both the A.G. or the State of New York doesn't get the money right away," he added. "Maybe E. Jean Carroll doesn't. But Trump has to part with it fairly soon and that is a major, major hit."
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