falsification of business records and a few other elements that go to the inherit fraud of the whole thing. andrew, trump says they re arguing financial consequences aren t permitted by new york law. europe reaction to these filings as roadmaps for cases they ll make before the judge next week. and the a.g. clearly not backing down, instead, in fact, asking for more. well, to just get you even more into the weeds, the reason this is somewhat it reminds me of what s about to happen in the e. jean carroll case and we saw in the giuliani case, liability with respect to the first cause of action has already been found, so the reason i analogize to the other two civil cases, is in the rudy giuliani case in washington, d.c., where he was a defendant, liability was found by the court for damages. in the second e. jean carroll case coming up, light has been found by the court, so we re
the attorney general s office had always said their original number, $250 million, was an estimate. now they ve gotten through all the in evidence the case, they ve laid out the building blocks why that number should be $370 million now. the big chunks of that are $168 million in lower interest rates that the trumps received as a result of what the a.g. says are untruths and these statements of financial condition because they said they were worth $2.5 billion and had $50 million in cash on hand. they got very beneficial interest rates. the attorney general s office has laid out evidence that shows they weren t entitled to that. every year as donald trump s financial position worsened in the course of the last decade, they found ways to bolster those numbers artificially. the other big pot of that is about $180 million from the sale
we have not had people turn to the question of whether or not the president was was qualified to be president at all. and that is the question, when we get to claudine gay, why is it that, once again, we have an african american woman in positions of leadership when people are upset about something she did, substantial substantively, when people have a right to be upset about, but the attack that does korean is the one about her qualifications. should she even have the job to start with? i ve said this before, i work for the vice president. i have seen how people come after kamala harris. not just because of her substance or positions on issues, but they try to take after her because they say that maybe shouldn t be there. she s not really qualify. they go after her competency. and look, she s d. a., head of the a. g., the largest the oj outside and federal doj in california. she s got other problems you can talk about. qualifications and competency are not really one of them. i thin
is going to be kicked off in some states, but then you have the general election and the secretary of state in democracy is at stake. the signing by june isn t giving people a whole lot of time. what if by june they were to decide no he could be on the ballot is already been an rnc nomination may very well have secure that by them. look at this timeline, i want you to comment on this, that december 28th when you have the main a.g. reeling trumpison eligible you have january 2nd today trump appeals. the superior court in maine has got to rule by january 17th. then, the main supreme court gets, it then possibly two scotus, then you have the primary on march 5th. this is not a window for a know it is not. i mean, look at the supreme court could very well decide
also working with john eastman, the architect of the multistep plan to overturn the election. the letter mirrored some of east man s unconstitutional theories. it would have created chaos in the states. i think that would have been disastrous for our country and constitution. wasn t that the point of the letter to create that chaos? i think so, yes. disturbed by the letter, donohue immediately responded to clark writing, quote, this would be a grave step for the department to take, and it could have tremendous constitutional, political, and social ramifications for the country. i had to make it clear to him there was no world which i and certainly the a.g. were going to sign a letter like that. rosen and donohue met with clark later that evening. i do remember at the very end saying to him what you are proposing is nothing less than having the united states justice department meddle in the outcome of an american presidential election. but, again, jeffrey clark ignored the