serious is that? well, if you re donald trump, you know that s quite serious. in his life, it s been very serious already. it was civil action like this from the new york attorney general s office in the past that forced the shut down of trump s fake charity, he had to pay out millions of dollars in that case after the new york attorney general accused him of operating it as a fraudulent charity. it was also another civil action from the new york attorney general s office in the past that forced the shutdown of trump s fake university. the settle meant in that case required trump to pay out $25 million cash to people who had sued him, alleging that trump university was also a massive fraud scheme. that was actually the way that he started his presidency. like he got elected president, and immediately had to spend $25 million paying people off in the settlement for a big fraud case. that should have been a sign
of weeks like this really is lightning fast. now, the appeals court did say while it issued this very blunt ruling today, in a 3-0 count among those three judges, they have stayed effectively, the implementation of this ruling for 14 days to give trump the chance to appeal this to the united states supreme court. what do you think will happen there, and what will happen in terms of the timing and how the pace of this has been handled thus far. thus obviously, at the end of the road, the documents are either going to get handed over or they re not. what do you make of the potential timeline, if and when he appeals it up to the supreme court? it could be that it goes in its normal course and takes many months to shake out. the law is quite clear here, it s why we saw such strong language from the district judge and appellate court. it wouldn t surprise me to see the court decide this on a shadow docket, which is where it makes procedural decisions and decide not to take this up and j
january 6th investigation. they did pause the effect of this ruling for two weeks to give trump the opportunity to appeal this ruling up to the t supreme court if he wants to. and presumably he wants to. i think one of the things we have learned over these last five or six years with trump as a political actor is he sees the court system as a giant brake pedal on the bumper car that is his life in the public eye.onea i mean, if you re in trouble for something, you tie it up in court. if somebody wants to ask you questions about something, you don t want to answer questions, tie it up in court. if somebody wants you to answer for something you have definitely done, tie it up in court. hope it takes as long as possible so the other side runs out of patience or runs out of money or stumbles into a technicality or if you re really lucky, the time will run out on whatever the exact conflict is that s in question before the courts, the original question lh will become moot by the time any co
about how things were going to go, right? but in terms of what this might mean to trump and how he understands the seriousness here, he already has lost his charity and his university and had to pay more than $25 million out, thanks to new york attorney general s investigations in recent years. now new york s attorney general, tish james, wants trump s deposition, this time of trump s core business. and this civil investigation where she wants the deposition from him, that civil investigation is proceeding in parallel with an ongoing criminal investigation of his business. that s being carried out both by the attorney general s office and the state prosecutor in manhattan. that s the criminal prosecution that has already led to felony charges against his business itself, and his chief financial officer. so trump s about to be subpoenaed to give a deposition in the civil case that is unfolding in parallel with that criminal one.
earlier this week that his big new media venture, this thing that he s trying to launch, is already caught up in two serious financial investigations. one of them for potential insider trading around that company going public with its shares. there s an s.e.c. investigation of this new venture already under way. that s a separate thing. this inside trading is a second investigation by finra, by the financial institution regulatory authority. we learned today that the trump ice business by the new york attorney general this is an investigation potentially looking into bank fraud, tax fraud, insurance fraud, and the core properties owned by trump s real estate company, that investigation by new york s attorney general has apparently proceeded to the point that the office is looking to subpoena trump to have him testify in person less than a month from now on january 7th. now, this is a civil fraud investigation from the new york attorney general s office, how