Judge Sanctions Trump Lawyers Over Months Of Absurd Court Filings - Ring of Fire

The judge overseeing Donald Trump's fraud trial not only hit Trump and his business this week with his ruling, but he also slapped Donald Trump's lawyers with sanctions after months of ridiculous legal filings were made by the lawyers. The sanctions are relatively small - just $7,500 a piece to four lawyers - but the message that the judge sent in the ruling is clear: You are all living in a fantasy land. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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In addition to Judge Arthur Geron saying that Trump, his sons and his organization committed fraud and giving the company what is essentially the corporate death penalty for the state of New York. Buried in the judge's ruling was also a section that included sanctions against four of Donald Trump's lawyers for repeatedly and routinely filing frivolous motions with the court throughout the course of this looming trial. I'm gonna read you this part of this statement. This is from David Kurtz, who's the executive editor of Talking Points Memo. He posted this on social media. This is the judge's ruling calling out Trump's lawyers. There's a little bit of legalese in it, so bear with me, but here it is. Exacerbating defendants, uh, obs trappers conduct is their continued reliance on bogus arguments in papers and oral argument. In defendant's world, rent regulated apartments are worth the same as unregulated apartments.

Restricted land is worth the same as unrestricted. Land restrictions can evaporate into thin air. A disclaimer by one party casting responsibility on another party. Exonerates the other party's lies. The Attorney general of the State of New York does not have capacity to sue or standing to sue, nevermind. All those cases where the Attorney general has sued successfully under a statute expressly designed to provide that. Right? All illegal acts are untimely if they stem from one untimely act. And square footage is subjective, that the judge concludes is a fantasy world, not the real world. So the judge sanctioned Trump's lawyers, four of them. Now, it's not hefty sanctions, right? None of them are gonna lose their law license. They're not gonna face any kind of disciplinary hearings, but they do each have to pay $7,500. These are, you know, white collar criminal defense lawyers in New York City.

Um, $75, uh, $7,500 is probably close to what their hourly rates are. So they lose like an hour, maybe two hours worth of pay. So it's not a big deal. But everything that I just read, you are items that these lawyers had filed in court that, as the judge said, this is the total fantasy world. You literally tried to argue in front of me the judge that the state's Attorney general doesn't have standing to sue, that somehow the top law enforcement officer in our state isn't allowed to sue people. I, the, the Judge Ingram on here just absolutely had to have had the patience of a saint to wait until the very end to be like, all right,

Now that I'm done, here's what's gonna happen. You've been me off for months with these bogus filings and I've let it happen, but I don't have to let it happen anymore. So each of you are going to have to pay the court for wasting our time for months and months and months. So, I'm glad the judge did this. It would've been great if it had happened a long time ago, 'cause he could have done the sanctions at any point, but he waited till the end. Just to kind of add the cherry on top for this luscious justice dessert that Donald Trump and his family were served this week.