The Issue: A judge’s $355 million penalty against former President Donald Trump for fraud.
This is a great example of the weaponization of our judicial system (“Dems make him martyr,” Editorial, Feb. 17).
This judgment should be reversed — but the question is, will it be? A Democratic attorney general who’d pledged to get former President Donald Trump before the trial had her case heard by a Democratic judge and got a predictably outrageous verdict.
An appeal would be heard by the Democrat-run appellate courts, including the Court of Appeals, which was structured by a Democratic Legislature that knocked out a moderate chief judge in favor of a “progressive” one. So much for the separation of powers.
Even if Trump did anything wrong, the fact that Attorney General Letitia James chose to focus on this rather than on matters that truly affect New Yorkers proves she does not live up to her obligations to her constituents.
Niles Wilkerson
Willston Park
The decision in the case against Trump has been condemned by some as “un-American.”
Sadly, politicized decisions such as this one — among other outlandish actions by public officials across the political spectrum — are now “American” and have been for decades.
Our system of government was designed by geniuses so it could be run by idiots.
Michael Brucella
Brooklyn
The iniquitous left-wing mission to destroy Trump rolls on.
Leftist New York lawmakers such as James, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and other Democrats have weaponized the rule of law in their maniacal quest to eliminate Trump. But where is the same zeal by James and Bragg to hold groups such as Black Lives Matter and Antifa accountable for their crimes — where actual victims were involved? Or the same fervor to pursue gangs of illegal immigrants who commit heinous crimes with impunity?
With their two-faced application of criminal justice, far-left Democrats drip with hypocrisy.
James McCaffrey
Yonkers
It’s great to see that Litigious — oops, I meant Letitia — James is fighting the good fight for all New Yorkers in handcuffing the “infamous” Trump for a victimless crime instead of charging violent criminals who are really victimizing the general public in New York. Finally, New Yorkers can once again sleep well at night.
And Judge Arthur Engoron, who obviously had it in for Trump in advance of his trial, also made a mockery of the criminal-justice system in New York — which I believed couldn’t get much worse.
This is election interference on a massive scale. America at large is becoming a banana republic. It’s so very sad what this country has become.
Louie Rey
Summerville, SC
Is Trump a political martyr? Hardly.
I’ve never heard of a political martyr who was found guilty of sexual abuse and defamation and then had to pay his victim $83.3 million. This, along with being found guilty of business fraud and ordered to pay a penalty of $355 million.
I imagine former President Ronald Reagan is spinning in his grave.
Trump has created his own legal problems by believing that he is above the law and untouchable. He can kiss that notion good-bye. After all, you reap what you sow.
Trump is receiving the fruits of his dishonesty and is now a detriment to the Republican Party as a whole.
Mike Rice
Wellfleet, Mass.
If any prominent Democrat did precisely what Trump did, I can guarantee that no charges would have been brought in this case or any of the others.
That tells you all you need to know. Come election day I hope the American people see through this charade — though I am not optimistic.
Pete Massaro
The Villages, Fla.
Well, that was a surprise — a liberal judge ruled against Trump.
If the public can’t see that what the Democrat-run states are doing is election interference, then there’s no hope for America.
Dan Gardner
Staten Island
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