Legal AF by MeidasTouch - BRILLIANT New York AG TRAPPED Trump’s MONEY and Now HE’S STUCK

Episode Date: December 23, 2023

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on one of the most important moves in all of the civil litigations involving Donald Trump when New York Attorney General Letitia James secured an early injunction against Donald Trump which has trapped him to this day. Get 20% off when you go to https://Liquid-IV.com and use code LEGALAF at checkout! Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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of a financial monitor to get into the Trump organization, to get into the Donald Trump revocable trust, to get into the inner workings of all of these LLCs and entity that Donald Trump and his revocable trust control and monitor the transfer of funds. Now, the reason New York attorney general Latisha James did that is obviously in connection with her civil fraud case. She did not want him transferring assets to other entities and wanted him to be able to fulfill a judgment in that case.

But this has now had consequences or has had consequences with all of the various other civil cases that Donald Trump is engaged in, specifically as we're looking towards January, the E. Jean Carroll defamation case against Donald Trump. This is the other defamation case. Of course, Donald Trump was found liable for defamation and sexual abuse back in May of 2023. And the first E. Jean Carroll case to go to trial, the next defamation case is set for mid January and Donald Trump is desperately trying to move that date, delay that date.

He just filed a motion with the second circuit court of appeals, which he referred to as an emergent motion for stay of mandate and stay of district court proceedings. I guess it was such an emergency that he spelled the word emergency wrong. Or his lawyers are just that incompetent. But Donald Trump is staring down what will be likely a massive verdict in this E. Jean Carroll other defamation case set for January. E. Jean Carroll has the same defamation, reputational harm experts that testified in the Rudy Giuliani case where

Giuliani was hit with a $148 million verdict. And I think we can see a verdict of similar size in January, perhaps even more, but around that range in January of 2024. I want to show you first this move that New York Attorney General, the Tisha James, made how justice or Arthur and Goran ruled, how it has been implemented to trap Donald Trump in this way, and how Donald Trump has been essentially stuck ever since because these reports prepared by the financial monitor retire judge Barbara Jones has really been able to identify where Donald Trump has tried

to engage in moving certain funds and Donald, if he's caught moving these funds, would have been held in very, very, very kind of serious trouble and her ability to monitor the retire judge ability to monitor it prevents these transfers from taking place in the kind of systemic way that Donald Trump would have done without this move. So recall that back in late September or early October, New York Attorney General Leticia James brings the civil fraud case after a few years of a special proceeding where the investigation takes place. Then she immediately seeks this preliminary injunction for an appointment of a financial monitor. You know, Donald Trump was trying to create this Trump

organization number two to kind of move around his funds and New York attorney general, attisha james went right to justice Arthur and go on on November 3rd. Here is the order that judge in Gora. Made in and judging go on back on November 3rd of 2022. I want to be clear about that. So over a year ago wrote here, the balancing of the equities tips strongly, if not completely, in favor of granting a preliminary injunction with the appointment of a financial monitor, particularly to ensure that defendants, Donald Trump and his adult kids, do not dissipate their assets or transfer them out of this jurisdiction. The Office of Attorney General seeks to enjoy defendants from transferring any material

asset to a non-party affiliate or otherwise disposing of material assets absent approval of this court. In the event that defendants believe they have a legitimate reason to do so, they may apply to this court for permission. The event that defendants believe they have a legitimate reason to do so, they may apply to this court for permission in the absence of an injunction and given defendants, Donald Trump and his adult kids demonstrated propensity to engage in persistent fraud, failure to grant such an injunction could result in extreme prejudice to the people of New York. Further, the relief sought is appropriately tailored to curbing the unlawful conduct and ensuring that funds are available for potential disgorgement at the conclusion of this case.

Notably, New York City is the epicenter of global finance. To take an example close to home, Deutsche Bank had courted in Germany, lent hundreds of millions of dollars to a New York real estate conglomerate that owns property all over the world. New Yorkers derive enormous economic and other benefits from all of the money coursing through the veins of Wall Street and real estate. Our executive legislative and judicial institutions are obliged to ensure that financial transactions are conducted truthfully, not fraudulently.

Think about those words from Justice and Goran back on November 3, 2022. Now over a year later, as that trial has concluded, we're going to wait for closing arguments to take place in early January. We'll have a final judgment issued by Judge Engor on on the issue of Discouragement probably before February or in early February. But think about his words back in November 2022. This injunction stopping Trump from transferring his assets outside of New York. Trump would have to apply if he wanted to transfer his assets. And here's the thing, when you stand up to Trump like this, when you confront Trump like this, he does indeed back down.

Yeah, he'll whine and punch down, attack the judges, Law clerk, attack the judges' wife, attack the judges' son, attack all of that. And one of the things that Donald Trump is so upset about with all of these kind of deranged and unhinged attacks is that he's trapped going back to the thesis of this video. And that really hasn't been spoken about much. He's trapped, he can't move his money around and he's staring down a massive judgment here

in the New York Attorney General Civil Fraud Case. And in the E. Jean Carroll case, and you better believe had Judge Angora not issued that order, Trump would be hiding his money all over the place. And that's one of the reasons that he is lashing out the way he is in the kind of juvenile Trumpian manner that he is. As you know, I'm a trial lawyer and when I'm not breaking down the latest legal filings the day for you on Legal AF, I'm jumping from courthouse to meeting to meeting and it can

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and others, did not assert it as an affirmative defense for over three years. So Judge Kaplan ruled Donald Trump waved the ability to assert the affirmative defense of absolute presidential immunity. The second circuit in a very scathing order affirmed federal judge Kaplan's ruling. It said, yeah, you waved it. You waited three years. You have to assert absolute presidential immunity if you want to. Just if you're confused, why Donald Trump could even potentially assert it, this new eging carol case cases the one that relates to statements Donald Trump made in 2019 when he was in office. That this case is going second because there was a lot of appeals on other issues, not this issue of absolute presidential immunity. It

was the issue of whether the government could kind of substitute in, but Trump's lawyers missed this issue of absolute presidential immunity. So tried to raise it at the last minute. The other defamation case against Trump and sexual abuse case that Trump lost in E. Jean Carroll was awarded $5 million was brought under the Adult Survivor's Act based on Donald Trump's sexual assault or in colloquial terms rape that took place back in 1996. And for Donald Trump's defamatory statements that he made in October of 2022, the new defamation case of statements Trump made in 2019. That's why you to search potentially absolute presidential immunity, whether or not it

would be allowed. But Trump failed to assert it. But here, this is Donald Trump's emergency motion now to the second circuit court of appeals, basically saying, look, this issue of absolute presidential immunity is so important. And Donald Trump cites the authority of it's such a Trumpian move where there's no depths to his to the moves that help pull and make contradictory arguments in different courts.

Trump goes, look, special counsel, Jack Smith argued to the United States Supreme Court that this issue of absolute presidential immunity is so important that the Supreme Court should hear it and grant a direct appeal for search you are in the criminal case against Donald Trump. See, if special counsel, Jack Smith thinks it's important, Donald Trump thinks it's important in the E. Jean Carroll civil defamation case. Well, in the criminal case, especially, uh, Donald Trump is arguing that the Supreme Court should not hear, surgery, or he should not hear oral argument of special counsel Jack Smith trying to bring this issue of absolute presidential immunity directly to their attention and Trump saying, take your time.

It's not that important, Supreme Court, but when it comes to the E. Jean Carroll case, Donald Trump is saying, hey, second-circacord of appeals, delay the E. Jean Carroll case by 90 days because this issue of absolute presidential immunity is so important, even Jack Smith thinks it's important. We may wanna go to the Supreme Court on this issue even though you, the second-circuit, said Trump,

waived the issue. So please give us some more time. Give us 90 days. But Donald Trump is making all of these emergency moves and where he's ultimately trapped and stuck with all of these civil judgments. It's because of the move that New York attorney general, Leticia James made back in October and the order that judge in Gorine issued November 3rd of 2022 preventing Trump from transferring assets.

So you have this financial monitor, a retired judge, Barbara Jones, who used to be a federal judge in the Southern District of Florida. There's Barbara Jones right there. And she's been issuing periodic reports and every time money's moved, you know, or they are improper controls or there's missing information. Barbara Jones, Judge Jones, retired Judge Jones would prepare a report for Judge Angora. And she's caught Donald Trump a few times trying to move money. But ultimately, she'd call Trump out and it would be flagged, but it would be raised to Judge Angora.

Judge Angora and even discuss that in his summary judgment order where he granted summary judgment for the New York Attorney General's office. But Trump's under a constant watch. The Trump organizations, all of the financials are being evaluated on basically a daily basis by Judge Barbara Jones. Oh, and Trump has to pay for Judge Barbara Jones to continue to monitor his funds and restrict him from transferring the funds while there's this injunction preventing him from moving money. So his money is trapped. He's stuck.

He's lashing out. And again, we can talk about a lot of these moves and in the various cases, but that moved by New York attorney general, the Tisha James, getting that early and quick and judge and go on granting it quickly. That's going to be one of the things that I think as we historically reflect on what I think in the future will be Donald Trump, being in the Trump organization, being completely wiped out, making sure those funds were in transferred. One of the most brilliant moves, Trump knows it. That's not being discussed really anywhere else, but that is probably what pains him the

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