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Trump's lawyers better pray he doesn't skip out on paying his $1 million penalty -- here's why

During an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday afternoon, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance made a point of cautioning Donald Trump's lawyers that their client could flake out on them when it comes to him paying his part of a nearly million-dollar fine and that they won't like what comes next if he does.

Speaking with host Lindsey Reiser, the former prosecutor was asked about the former president's ongoing legal battles, including the massive fine that was just levied, and Trump subsequently dropping a suit before the same judge that targeted New York Attorney General Letitia James.

"The judge fined Trump and his lawyer Alina Habba nearly 1 million dollars for a lawsuit targeting Hillary Clinton," host Reiser prompted. "The next, day Trump dropped his lawsuit against Attorney General Letitia James that is being handled by the same judge -- it was actually mentioned by that judge -- showing a pattern of frivolous suits. You tweeted that Trump voluntarily dropped the case without prejudice, meaning Trump can re-file it, but Joyce, this is a strong rebuke."

"It is a strong rebuke and it's interesting and that initial award, that assessment of the penalty is jointly and severally held by Trump and his lawyers," Vance replied before adding, "Meaning that if there is an effort to collect it and Trump skips out, his lawyers could be on the hook for his share."

"It's certainly a significant message to the lawyers, as well as to the former president," she added. "Look, courts are like the rest of us, judges are like the rest of us and they believe their time and resources are being wasted by somebody who is behaving in an abusive fashion, and ultimately their patience is not something that can't be exhausted."

"Here the patience of the court appears to be exhausted at least in this one federal district court," she noted.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Go ahead Donald, stiff your lawyers over the million dollar fine, you are gonna need a lot of legal help moving forward and will pay for more than average for it, up front! Donald will say, "I paid you $10 million to get me off, and you are telling me I'm fucked and have no defense"! " To prepare for prison"? " To STFU or I'll be jailed upon indictment in DC"? "How dare you speak to me like that, I want my money back or I'll sue"! :lol:


Any attorney thinking about taking on Donald Trump as a client should think twice about the repercussions both professionally and financially after the former president and his lead attorney in a federal court case were hit with an almost million-dollar sanction on Friday.

Labeling a suit filed by attorney Alina Habba at Trump's request against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as "frivolous," U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks was unsparing in his ruling.

Writing Trump and his attorney have demonstrated a "pattern of abuse of the courts" that "undermines the rule of law" and "amounts to obstruction of justice," he then added, "Here, we are confronted with a lawsuit that should never have been filed, which was completely frivolous, both factually and legally, and which was brought in bad faith for an improper purpose."

According to legal experts who spoke with Bloomberg, lawyers should think long and hard if Trump approaches them because they believe he will walk away from the latest legal setback "unscathed" and unafraid to file similar lawsuits in other legal venues.

According to former federal prosecutor Kevin O’Brien, Trump could blame Habba for blowing the case before Middlebrook and leave her holding the bag for the entire fine as fellow former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance pointed out on MSNBC on Saturday afternoon.

"Trump’s conduct will not change,” O’Brien explained. “First there will be the time-consuming and frivolous appeals. Then, because the penalty was imposed ‘jointly and severally’ on both Trump and his lawyer, Ms. Habba, Trump will not pay, leaving Habba to shoulder the entire penalty on pain of keeping her law license.”

Chicago trial lawyer Shawn Collins agreed, stating the court sanctions will weigh heavier on Trump's lawyers than on him, adding it's a "hellish price to be paid” for indulging Trump's desire to base his lawsuits on “fact-free tabloid-style theories.”

Collins predicted that lawyers "will think twice about it, out of a sense of financial self-preservation, if not professionalism and decency.”
 

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Trump's lawyers better pray he doesn't skip out on paying his $1 million penalty -- here's why

During an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday afternoon, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance made a point of cautioning Donald Trump's lawyers that their client could flake out on them when it comes to him paying his part of a nearly million-dollar fine and that they won't like what comes next if he does.

Speaking with host Lindsey Reiser, the former prosecutor was asked about the former president's ongoing legal battles, including the massive fine that was just levied, and Trump subsequently dropping a suit before the same judge that targeted New York Attorney General Letitia James.

"The judge fined Trump and his lawyer Alina Habba nearly 1 million dollars for a lawsuit targeting Hillary Clinton," host Reiser prompted. "The next, day Trump dropped his lawsuit against Attorney General Letitia James that is being handled by the same judge -- it was actually mentioned by that judge -- showing a pattern of frivolous suits. You tweeted that Trump voluntarily dropped the case without prejudice, meaning Trump can re-file it, but Joyce, this is a strong rebuke."

"It is a strong rebuke and it's interesting and that initial award, that assessment of the penalty is jointly and severally held by Trump and his lawyers," Vance replied before adding, "Meaning that if there is an effort to collect it and Trump skips out, his lawyers could be on the hook for his share."

"It's certainly a significant message to the lawyers, as well as to the former president," she added. "Look, courts are like the rest of us, judges are like the rest of us and they believe their time and resources are being wasted by somebody who is behaving in an abusive fashion, and ultimately their patience is not something that can't be exhausted."

"Here the patience of the court appears to be exhausted at least in this one federal district court," she noted.
What is the payment deadline?
It’s not in here …

 
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DIY-HP-LED

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Okay next Q. Let’s assume that man ignores the sanction. What happens, and how quickly? N.b. I posted the judge’s order above, and it fails to illuminate.
All I can do is refer to the experts in the field and their opinions which I posted. If the judge fined them a million bucks, I assume the court means to collect, perhaps there will be further hearings to settle the matter. Donald will stiff the lawyers, count on it, most of the responsibility appears to rest with them as officers of the court and Donald has an out apparently, at least according to some in the legal community.
 

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Trump THREATENS Manhattan Prosecutor with NEW Lawsuit as he SPIRALS

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Michael Popok of LegalAF reports that Trump has hired pitbull celebrity litigator to go after former Manhattan special assistant district attorney Mark Pomerantz for defamation based on next month’s publication of his memoir, People v Donald Trump.
 

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Trump’s Facebook, Instagram account to be reinstated
Former President Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts will be reinstated in the coming weeks, according to the platforms’ parent company Meta.

Meta handed down a two year ban on Trump’s accounts in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, a suspension that the company called “unprecedented.”


Now it will unlock the accounts in the coming weeks, but will apply heightened penalties for future offenses of its user guidelines, according to a release from the company on Wednesday.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Trump’s Facebook, Instagram account to be reinstated
Former President Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts will be reinstated in the coming weeks, according to the platforms’ parent company Meta.

Meta handed down a two year ban on Trump’s accounts in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, a suspension that the company called “unprecedented.”


Now it will unlock the accounts in the coming weeks, but will apply heightened penalties for future offenses of its user guidelines, according to a release from the company on Wednesday.
Just in time for his indictments, it will give him a voice and platform to rip the republican party to pieces as he goes down in flames. Nothing less than the entire republican congress dying in a hail of machinegun fire on the courthouse steps will do! :lol:
 

DIY-HP-LED

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come now. That’s excessive.
Donald is excessive, even dying for him would not be enough. He will panic going down and he will pull all the levers and squeeze all the balls he can in the GOP when he is close to indictment. I dunno if the judge will cut him loose when he pleas or will jail him pending trial upon indictment, if he doesn't muzzle or jail him after he is indicted and he has social media access he will use it on the republicans and against the prosecutors. If it were in his power, there would be no debt ceiling bill passed until he had a full pardon for all crimes and a groveling apology from Biden.
 

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Trump concocts dubious score to win his own golf tournament

Alex Wagner shares reporting on Donald Trump declaring himself the winner of a tournament at his golf club despite missing the first day of play, by adding in a score he claims to have made some other time, and then patting himself on the back for having winning characteristics.

Read in MSNBC: https://apple.news/ART0txUWHQEmjNxDBIX0WHg
 

Roger A. Shrubber

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A fantasy involving machine-gun massacre most certainly is.
tell me the world wouldn't be a better place if they were all gone...if you can figure out how to make them disappear at the snap of a finger, that works just as well...the fantasy isn't HOW they're gone, it's THAT they're gone...
 
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