Does Donald Trump not get MSNBC?
The Former President said Monday morning that “all experts and analysts” agree that he did not commit the fraud for which Judge Arthur Engoron has already found him liable.
“Almost all experts and legal analysts have stated, for all to see, that the Litigation before Judge Engoron is a sham and disgrace, a dark time in New York Judicial history,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Monday. “I did nothing wrong.”
This characterization flies in the face of expert testimony presented at the now-$370 million civil trial prosecuted by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who contends Trump inflated his value to defraud lenders.
James called 27 witnesses over the 11-week trial to make her case, according to a CNN analysis. Those witnesses included an insurance underwriter who said she was misled about Trump’s financial records and an expert who estimated Trump profited around $168 million in ill-gotten gains.
Trump’s witnesses — derided by James as mere “golf buddies” — included one professor paid nearly $900,000, one who contradicted his own testimony on the stand and another who admitted he wasn’t an expert.
During the trial, legal analysts frequently took to social media to point out "dumb" blunders and "problematic" decisions and laugh about one expert's testimony on MSNBC.
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Trump's Monday comment also ignores the legal experts who argued his testimony in November bordered on a confession.
That did not stop Trump from doubling down on his claim that Mar-a-Lago was worth well above the $18 million estimated in Engoron’s ruling (and the $27 million estimated by his former tax broker during trial testimony) and accusing James and the judge of fraud.
Despite these enormous perceived hurdles, the former president ended on an optimistic note.
“Somehow it will all be corrected and fair,” Trump wrote.
