(The Wrongologist will not publish a Monday Wake Up Call column this week)
Last week ended with a New York judge handing Trump a crushing defeat in his civil fraud case, finding the former president liable for conspiring to manipulate his net worth and ordering him to pay a penalty of $355 million. In addition to the monetary penalty, Justice Engoron imposed a three-year ban preventing Trump from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation or other legal entity for three years.
The verdict was civil, not criminal. That means Trump hasnât yet been convicted of a crime, but he has been declared a fraud by the state of New York. Heâs settled numerous fraud trials before this one, notably the Trump University case, in which he was barred from ever running another charity in New York after he defrauded little kids with cancer.
Itâs the Democratsâ job to see that this stays in the forefront of the votersâ minds. When youâre barred from running a business in New York, how can Republicans make the case that youâre qualified to run the country? Or if youâre in debt bigly, wouldnât it be tempting to take a few bribes? Or sell a few classified documents? On to cartoons.
Trump now has some thinking to do:
OTOH, heâs proving surprisingly difficult to kill:
The Kansas City Super Bowl parade becomes just another unsafe place:
The Ukraine city, Avdiivka fell on Friday because it didnât receive ammo from the US on time:
Trump offers gift to Putin:
RIP Alexy Navalny:
I give up. What does EJC (in the wooden hammer) stand for?
Ottho, it’s “E. Jean Carroll”