This stumblebum’s court performance deserves its own thread—such a target-rich environment. It’s like: What if we took the dumbest, Duane Gish, up-is-down, groundless “riff-based” OAN/Fox News style of argumentation and tried it on a judge.
So according to her, Mazars kicking Trump the curb, washing their hands of his sleaziness, and disavowing his information . . . is EXCULPATORY
Lawyers for Trump had said on the heels of Mazars statement that it meant there was no need to continue the investigation of the company.
Engoron scoffed at that.
“To proclaim that the Mazars red-flag warning that the Trump financial statements are unreliable suddenly renders the OAG’s longstanding investigation moot is as audacious as it is preposterous,” the judge wrote.
Engoron also wrote: “The idea that an accounting firm’s announcement that no one should rely on a decade’s worth of financial statements that it issued based on numbers submitted by an entity somehow exonerates that entity and renders an investigation into its past practices moot is reminiscent of Lewis Carroll (‘When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said … it means just what I chose it to mean — neither more nor less’); George Orwell (‘War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength’); and ‘alternative facts.’”
Also, Donald Trump is a “protected class”:
Habba also argued that Trump is a member of a “protected class,” citing his exercise of political speech as president.
That legal designation is applied to groups who qualify for special protections against discrimination.
“If he was not who he is, she would not be doing this, your honor,” Habba said. “That’s what my argument is.”
But Engoron shot back, “He’s not a protected class.” LINK
