Trump wants Americans to pay up for his crimes

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

87% : To which Trump sitting between his two lawyers at the defense table shouted back, "I would love it."
63% : As we all know the only shining accomplishment of President Trump during his four years in office was a $1.9 trillion tax gift or cut enjoyed primarily by super-wealthy individuals, mega-corporations, and multinational businesses - to the ongoing detriment of the general population -- who already had enjoyed the lowest tax rates in the corporate world.
55% : Quite the contrary, these appointments involved persons who had specialized in tax avoidance.
55% : Democratic Presidents Barack Obama (2008-2016) and Joe Biden (2020-2023) in 11 years accounted for $10.3 trillion while Republican Presidents George W. Bush (2000-2008) and Donald Trump (2016-2020) in 12 years accounted for a $10.9 trillion.
54% : Of course, Trump would.
54% : Some of these have involved the Chinese state where Trump "spent a decade unsuccessfully pursuing projects in China, operating an office there during his first run for president and forging a partnership with a major government-controlled company.
49% : "China along with Britain and Ireland are three nations that we know about where Trump maintains bank accounts.
49% : The economic orientation or philosophy of these appointments reinforced generally a "hands off" approach to regulation and taxation.
43% : In the former case, Judge Arthur Engoron bent the rules and allowed Trump "to go on a courtroom rant lasting several minutes," which had nothing whatsoever to do with either the law or the facts of the case.
42% : Head-to-head: Trump accounted for the largest deficit growth in the 21 century of $6.7 trillion in four years while Biden accounted for only $2.5 trillion in his first three years in office.
39% : Nevertheless, recall when he was asked during the 2016 campaign whether U.S. citizens should be allowed to save or invest in offshore bank accounts, Trump responded: "No, too many wealthy citizens are abusing loopholes in offshore banking laws to evade taxes.
38% : Of course, that is pure fiction or nonsense as the summary judgment has already been declared and as the final verdict will be revalidated in the next couple of days when Trump and company find themselves liable for at least $300 million.
38% : Meanwhile, the deficits accumulated by Bush II and Trump had only benefited the wealthy.
37% : On Friday, former federal judge Barbara Jones, appointed by Engoron to monitor the Trump Organization's finances, told the judge that Trump had failed to provide "information required to be submitted to me pursuant to the terms of the monitorship order and review protocol.
37% : As we have learned in some detail from the New York civil fraud trial, Trump has spent most of his dishonest life in search of money.
36% : "Engoron coddled the former president and permitted his procedural misconduct because the judge knew that after his final decision -- dismantling Trump's New York base business empire - to be rendered later this month, Trump and his attorneys would be appealing and filing an avalanche of motions mostly to delay rather than rectify justice.
36% : According to a Joint Committee on Taxation the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act between 2021 and 2031 will have increased the governmental deficit by $1 trillion.
35% : The GOP's $1.9 trillion tax break for the wealthy, signed by Trump, is perhaps the most infamous exampleAs I have argued in Indicting the 45 President, "the Racketeer-in-Chief as POTUS had established from the top down an administrative apparatus marked by placing self-interest, profiteering, and corruption above the public welfare."
35% : Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) in its January 15, 2021, report on corruption identified more than 3,700 conflicts of interest while Trump was president because of his decision while in office not to divest from his business interests.
34% : During those same pre-MAGA years Trump had been paying the IRS less than $1,000 annually.
32% : However, Judge Engoron made an exception allowing Trump and his attorney Chris Kise to speak during closing arguments.
29% : By allowing Trump to speak, Engoron figured there would be one less bogus motion to be made about how the former president had been denied his right to speak on his own behalf.
23% : Never mind that Trump in a previous lawsuit by a jury of his peers had already been found civilly liable for sexual assault as well as defamation of character to the tune of $5 million.
23% : Before doing so, the judge re-iterated what he had previously spelled out one week earlier about what Trump could or could not comment about as part of his closing arguments.
23% : Predictably, Trump totally disregarded Judge Engoron's instructions the same as he had Judge Kaplan's.
23% : Again, I do not want to get caught up in these procedural abuses by Trump and his attorneys because their claims are primarily smokescreens designed to deflect attention away from the substantive lawlessness or fraudulent behavior involved in his adversarial conflicts with the administration of justice.
22% : Instead, Trump made another political speech claiming that the New York civil trial is a 'fraud on me' and that he was "an innocent man" who claimed among other things that the New York Attorney General Letitia James "hates" him and "doesn't want me to get elected."
22% : In the case of the fraudulent business trial brought by the New York Attorney General, Trump's phony legal defense pertaining to his illegal acquisition of money or to his financial looting from both the Internal Revenue System and the US monetary system is that these lending transactions allegedly caused no injuries to the parties involved.To paraphrase Trump: nobody was injured here or there were no harms to speak of.
20% : Trump had already been warned that he could be expelled for continuing to disrupt the trial.
18% : Nevertheless, until Trump is finally criminally convicted by a jury of his peers, Trump's narrative of persecution or victimization will continue to resonate in the minds of the GOP majority rather than the 91 felony counts against him.
18% : Trump also stated to the presiding judge, "I know this is boring you.
8% : In the latter case, which ended Friday with a jury judgment that Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll over $83 million in damages, Judge Lewis Kaplan had this testy exchange with Trump.

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