New York Lawyer Common Letitia James (Photograph by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Pictures)
One other day, one other $114,553.04 in curiosity. That’s been the shade-filled message New York Lawyer Common Tish James has been spreading on social media. You’ll recall James’s workplace was profitable of their civil fraud case in opposition to Donald Trump and the Trump Group, getting an enormous monetary penalty — $450+ million — loosely outlined as a “shit ton.”
Critically, Choose Arthur Engoron actually threw the e book at ’em, partially as a result of “[t]inheritor full lack of contrition and regret borders on pathological.” And that’s one thing James took to social media to crow about.
You see, the decide added curiosity to the $355 million disgorgment, and the curiosity simply retains on rising. By Friday, the curiosity had tallied to a powerful quantity, one thing James was fast to level out.
And with every passing day, one other social media reminder of the extra $114,553.04.
And it’s rising…
These real-time reminders of the ever-increasing debt of the previous president/presidential candidate are peak 2024. And also you’ve gotta love that civil penalties aren’t one thing Trump can pardon himself out of, ought to he win the presidency once more.
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