Mary Trump is jubilant. She may be the only one happy in the family. Her uncle Donald’s legal woes seem to make her as happy as she was at the time of her defeat against Joe Biden, almost three years ago. A clinical psychologist, she had already written, in 2020, Too Much and Never Enough, an unauthorized biography of the former President of the United States in which she made her diagnosis, qualifying, among other things, her hated uncle as a narcissistic and paranoid sociopath. . All week, during the first days of the civil trial on the value of the Trump empire’s real estate assets, his vocabulary became much less medical. Last Wednesday, when her uncle left the court, under a gag order (an obligation to remain silent and not comment on the proceedings, editor’s note), Mary made a post on X (ex-Twitter) : “He’s a fucking coward!” “, adding that Donald Trump’s sullen face at the Manhattan courthouse reminds him of the episode where his father, Fred Jr., “poured a plate of mashed potatoes on his little brother’s head.” We do not know whether this little humiliation – which she did not witness – is true or exaggerated. But it illustrates the extent to which Democratic America exults when its main opponent is in difficulty.
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In any case, Donald Trump seemed really upset in front of magistrate Arthur Engoron, a single judge, a 74-year-old Democrat, originally from Queens, like him, who is presiding, all smiles, over the hearing which will be held for a few more weeks (until December, probably) at the New York Supreme Court, in Lower Manhattan, not far from Wall Street. This trial is certainly not the most important in a long series awaiting the probable Republican candidate in 2024, four of which are the result of federal charges for which Donald Trump could be sentenced to prison. But its symbolic force is not trivial. He stands on his land, in New York, in Manhattan, where, benefiting from his father’s inheritance, he has built a real empire. Or rather on his former lands, because officially, the ex-president is nothing more than a tax exile in Florida. In the heart of the Big Apple, where the most powerful media in the world, in the 1980s, idolized him, and where all the Democratic elite (to which he briefly belonged) sought his friendship, fascinated by his success, his money. And it’s really about money today. The one his old friends didn’t refuse when he was on the cover of Time. The former Republican president is suspected, along with other leaders of the Trump Organization including his two sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, of having overestimated the value of his real estate assets (from 800 million to 2.2 billion dollars per year, between 2014 and 2021), in order to benefit from advantageous loan and insurance conditions to finance its business. He risks his reputation as a good manager and a fine of 250 million dollars. Enough to make his fortune waver. “The biggest witch hunt of all time,” exclaimed Donald Trump upon arriving at the court, which he turned into a sort of political platform where, for his supporters, the politician comes to list the persecutions he would be the target at a time when polls show him not only as a clear winner in the Republican primary, but also as a winner against Joe Biden. Still progressing. A proven strategy: each new appearance in a courtroom means he breaks fundraising records from small donors, convinced, like him, that their champion is the victim of a frame-up.
Each new appearance in a courtroom breaks fundraising records in his favor
Facing him, at the origin of the civil complaint, the Attorney General of New York, Letitia James, an African-American from the Democratic Party elected in 2018, who had made Donald Trump her target during his campaign, promising to “focusing on this illegitimate president” and even announcing that “his days were numbered”. Five years later, this gives this trial the image of a vendetta. The opportunity is too good for Trump, who likes nothing more than to denounce the relentlessness of which he claims to be the victim, with his usual emphasis. On his social network Truth, he described the attorney general as “a racist […] corrupt.” On social networks, his supporters are calling for his resignation. Trump eventually returned to Florida in his private Boeing 757. Letitia James promised that “the show is over”. Even though it’s only just getting started.
2023-10-09 12:28:09
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