All posts tagged "Judgment"

Former President Donald Trump's civil judgments in New York are a big deal, NYU law professor Melissa Murray told MSNBC's Ari Melber on Friday — and there are knock-on effects even beyond the amount of money he has to pay.

Trump was held liable for $83.3 million in the defamation case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, and $464 million, including interest, in the civil fraud case brought by state Attorney General Letitia James.

"He owes this money," said Melber, himself an attorney. "If you talk to people casually about it, they say, oh, is he ever going to be held accountable. In civil cases, money is the only thing that you're held accountable for."...

Former president Donald Trump late Friday night railed against the civil fraud case in which he was ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars. Some saw it as a sign that he can't even afford the bond needed to appeal it.

Trump has promised to challenge the massive judgment, but legal experts suggest it will be unsuccessful, except for maybe shaving some money off the total fine.

Still, none of that has stopped Trump from lashing out at the judge and prosecutor in that case....

After Donald Trump was issued a $355 million fine in the New York Fraud case, conversations began about where the money would come from.

After complaints about Ronna Romney McDaniel's election failures, Republicans began gunning for her job and looking for alternatives. That's when Donald Trump's allies began suggesting his daughter-in-law, Lara. Now that it looks like she's going to be the likely chief, donors are wondering if Trump will try and use the national Republican Party to fund his legal bills or his fines.

NBC News' Vaughn Hillyard spoke to Chris LaCivita, who is expected to take over the RNC's operations. He conveyed that the party will not be using the funds on Trump. ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The evangelical Christian broadcaster whose much-ballyhooed Judgment Day prophecy went conspicuously unfulfilled on Saturday has a simple explanation for what went wrong -- he miscalculated.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - With no sign his forecast of Judgment Day arriving on Saturday has come true, the 89-year-old California evangelical broadcaster and former civil engineer behind the pronouncement seemed to have gone silent.

WASHINGTON — When judgment day comes -- which some US Christian fundamentalists insist will happen on Saturday -- have you thought about what you're going to do with the family dog and cat?